[A melodramatic, fluffy little romance set in the world of traditional theater]
Mu Chao has loved watching plays since she was little. She enjoys every kind of story, from those about scholars and beauties to those about peddlers and common folk. But her favorite is the play about immortals she once stumbled upon as a child in a mountain ravine.
A Chao doesn't know what the author of that play looks like. All she knows is that their name is Qing Ruo.
"Qing Ruo... Qing Ruo..."
A Chao thinks she must be mad. Otherwise, how could she fall in love with someone she has never met, carried away by a play?
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Her neighbor, an older brother figure to her, is a renowned playwright in the capital. A Chao sneaks a look at the play he keeps hidden away and finds that its style is exactly like Qing Ruo's.
A Chao wonders: Could he be Qing Ruo?
She becomes even more attentive to him.
But while he enjoys her kindness, she discovers that he is already betrothed to someone in the capital.
"Someone like him could never be Qing Ruo!"
Fuming, A Chao leaves her hometown with a broken heart and sets off on her travels.
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During an unexpected disaster, she is knocked by a flash flood into a desolate green wilderness.
She wakes with a wounded leg and tears in her eyes. Just then, a pair of fair hands parts the vines. The person before her has white hair and jade-green eyes, an ethereal, immortal bearing, and looks down at her. Her heart flutters.
A Chao thinks excitedly: He must be the kind mountain god who rescued her!
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