Wukong, I’ve Fallen in Love with Lin Daiyu

He is the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, who once wreaked havoc in the Celestial Palace, and became the Victorious Fighting Buddha after escorting the scriptures west.

She is a Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass growing beside the Spirit River, destined to descend to the mortal world to repay a debt in tears, then die when her tears run dry.

On the night he became a Buddha, Wukong heard a woman crying on Spirit Mountain. Her sobs were harder to bear than his five hundred years beneath Five Elements Mountain. Following the sound, he entered her dream and plunged into the Land of Illusion, where he saw a young woman carrying a flower hoe, weeping as she buried fallen blossoms. Her fate was clearly written in the Book of Destiny: once she had repaid her debt in tears, she would die.

Wukong flung the Book of Destiny aside. "Back then, I accepted my fate because I had a circlet around my head. Now it's gone. If anyone dares make a young girl accept her fate, they'll have to answer to my staff first."

The immortals said he was crazy. Was it worth changing the Book of Destiny, damaging his Buddha nature, and fighting Heaven for a mortal woman?

He said, "Whether it's worth it isn't for me to decide. You have to ask her."

On the day Daiyu buried the flowers, she heard the stone at her neck speak.

From then on, an invisible guardian appeared in the Red Chamber. She read poetry, and he listened. She shed tears, and he caught them. When someone plotted against her, he went to "reason with" them in the middle of the night.

What Lin Daiyu didn't know was that every time her fate was changed, the golden light on that stone faded a little more.

When the light was gone, the stone would truly be nothing more than a stone.