A Crane Gazing at a Thousand Snowdrifts

A bodhi on the far shore, a mortal on this one, When fate brings them together, they learn the cause of what came before. Ten years of spring in her hair, ten years of dreams, Each step through cherry blossoms, another step through dust. There is a flower called the Everlasting Patience. Even the great oracle Baidu doesn't know what it looks like. I stumbled across its name once while looking up flower meanings. There were only two lines: Everlasting Patience: the bonds of love through winter, a love that gives everything. Apparently, it can also mean revenge. Young Master He probably isn't exactly a scheming male lead. Maybe a male lead who endures hardship and bides his time is a better fit. The heroine isn't “me.” My favorites are Mang and A Zhu. I love coming up with strange names, but they have to sound good when spoken aloud. I'm not very good at building an entirely imaginary setting. What I had in mind were The Tale of Genji and The Rose of the Wind, so please don't try to match the characters to real people. This story isn't shocking, has no transmigration, isn't out of this world, isn't yuri, and isn't BL (A Zhu doesn't count, does she...) I just want to tell a serious, tragic story. All right, it's a tragedy through and through.