Love Fell Silent for a Thousand Years

A lifetime of obsession, half a life adrift.

She can hold on to the endless beauty of her verdant mountains,

yet cannot escape the thousand-year prison that binds her.

A gale whips up the dust, blinding her.

Someone reads out her charges. Someone pushes her into an abyss.

Fragments of memory drift through the past, flickering in and out of view, impossible to tell from truth or lies.

He said, "A Lan, I don't want to spend another moment guarding a wisp of your lingering soul as it sleeps beneath Luqi Mountain."