A Tale Beyond the Red Chamber: Upon the Three Lives Stone

On the Three Lives Stone, who owes whom a tear?

She was once a Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass by the banks of the Spirit River. As she withered, a stubborn stone watered her day after day with dew. The dew was stolen, taken from the bottle of the Divine Attendant Shenying and shared with her. Later, when Shenying descended to the mortal world, the stone followed her, willingly turning into a piece of jade to accompany her through a lifetime among mortals.

He was the noble young master of the Jia household, born with a piece of jade in his mouth. She was an orphan, left to live under another family’s roof after her parents died. When they first met, he told her, “I feel like I’ve met this younger sister before.” She took him for a frivolous fool, never knowing that three hundred years earlier, this silly stone had saved her life with stolen sweet dew.

In this life, she repays him with her tears. But will the final one be shed from overwhelming joy, or when she has wept herself to death?

The sweetness of the dew and the bitterness of repaying it with tears: the names carved into the Three Lives Stone have never blurred.

This is a story about finding you: forgetting you three hundred times, yet finding you all the same.