When the Years Shatter, Fate Takes Hold

She had meant to roam the world with nothing but her zither, but it ended up costing her life. Even the lofty mountains and flowing streams could not withstand the passage of time and its calamities.

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At the newly raised solitary grave, yellow earth covered a young face. Tongyue wept before the grave, so heartbroken and with such force, as if trying to pour out every feeling in her heart to the woman buried there.

Zither Maiden, are the village, the pond, and the wildflowers here like the paradise you dreamed of?

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