A Peach Spirit Deep in the Bamboo Grove

From the moment she entered the world, she concealed her nonhuman aura and ran wild in the human realm. She ate and drank whatever she pleased, and occasionally played tricks on people. She never expected that after one theft, one flirtation with a beauty, and one more… well, wherever she went after that, she somehow kept running into him. So what if she’d stolen his purse once, then used his money to flirt with his pretty little sweetheart? Did he really have to hold a grudge? “Hey! How long are you going to follow me?” “What do you think?” Ah! Damn that annoying man. Why are you smiling? If you keep it up, I’ll get a nosebleed, boo-hoo… “Zhu Zishen, I really regret meeting you. I hope there’s a next life… no, I hope we don’t have a next life.” He sat beneath a peach tree in full bloom in the bamboo grove, tipped back a gulp of wine, and watched a tear slowly slide from the corner of his eye. But, A Tao, I really wish we could have a next life…