[White Snake] A Daoist and the Green Snake

Reader's Guide: The story of Qing She and Zhang Yutang. It may have a bad ending.

Read at your own risk!

Setting: The world of The Legend of the New White Snake

Blurb:

Yuan, a cultivator of the Dao, learned through divination that he was destined for a romantic encounter in the mortal world. He traveled everywhere with a handbell, practicing medicine and cultivating the Dao. Before long, he found a little dragon in the waters of Suzhou.

The little dragon stuck close to Yuan out of gratitude for saving his life, and Yuan treated him like a friend. One day, Yuan was gravely injured while saving the little dragon from danger, and so he reincarnated into the mortal world. From then on, the Green Snake stayed by Yuan's side, protecting him in secret after he had been reborn as Zhang Yutang.

Unfortunately, fate had other plans. The calamity of the waters flooding Jinshan Temple came to pass. Back when he was only a little green snake, the White Snake had saved him. To repay her kindness, he borrowed her powers and unleashed a flood that drowned Qiantang County, killing countless people and bringing disaster upon himself.

With no one to back him, the Green Snake was struck by a great calamity. Fortunately, Yuan risked his life to save him, and he survived, clinging to life in this world.

Theme: Even the will of Heaven can be defied.