Taoyao

When she met him, he was a dying black beast. She fed him sweet-scented osmanthus cake and watched the sunset with him. After he left, she stood there and waited for three years. Later she learned that this was not the first time, nor the last. Deep in the peach forest, there is a monument without words. Buried under the monument is a silver ring and a letter that was never sent. There are only two words in the letter: Wait for me. But she can no longer remember who she is. Who has been waiting for her for a hundred and one lifetimes?