Three Lifetimes, She Gets Drunk in His City

Five hundred years ago, she leapt into a sea of flames, giving everything she had to the obsession she held for him. Five hundred years later, in the mortal world, one glance was all it took for him to drift into her eyes like a white cloud, and she became lost in a life that had him in it. Beneath brilliant peach blossoms, he stood in flowing white robes and asked her, “If the memories you’ve forgotten hold nothing but pain, would you still want to remember them?”

Though foolish, she answered with unwavering resolve: “If those forgotten memories hold you, then even if they’re full of pain, I still want to remember them.”