Chapter 704: The Girl Seeking a Beautiful Ending

The Girl Seeking a Beautiful Ending

February 11: The Girl Seeking a Beautiful Ending

That Daiyu, though young in age, her speech and bearing are not vulgar. She is truly a young lady from a respectable family, born a noble's embryo, and having received guidance from a renowned teacher like Yucun, she has been educated and immersed in Zhongguo's classical culture, possessing the temperament and sensitivity of a poet.

She is simply like a proud princess descending into the mortal world. Look, at such a young age she already understands the hardships of human life, the treachery of officialdom; she deeply grasps the secret of living in the world: "One must be careful step by step, attentive at all times, not say an extra word, not take an extra step."

But, seeing this proud, self-important princess, what more often comes to mind is the concrete meaning of the phrase "beauty often bears a thin fate".

She came into this world seemingly to endure the ordeal of "three hundred and sixty days a year, wind blades and frost swords pressing upon her"; her beautiful aspiration of "I wish that today I could grow two wings and fly with the flowers to the end of the heavens" can only be the fantasy of "flower in the mirror, moon in the water" a daydream; regarding this, she has also doubted and questioned herself, even the heavens: "At the end of the heavens, where is the fragrant hill?"

Is the end of that day the Peach Blossom Spring?

If, one day, I truly reached "the end of the heavens", would I "suddenly encounter a peach blossom forest", seeing the beautiful scenery of "mist shrouding mixed trees, fragrant grass lush and beautiful, fallen petals scattered in profusion"?

No, absolutely not! In the night, the traveler, the proud princess, the end of that day, in the days you keep turning back, you can only see a lone star shining at the edge of the sky; as for the Peach Blossom Spring, it is merely a beautiful scene that a poet occasionally sketches on a whim. Girl, you must never take it seriously!

Daiyu, this little girl, also seems to have sensed the elusiveness and difficulty of finding the Peach Blossom Spring, the filth and grime of the mortal world. She wishes to keep her purity in the vat of defilement, she vows: "My nature is pure; I come pure and go pure, do not let filth mire me into ditches."

"Do not let filth mire me into ditches"? Girl, is that possible?

This world, since you have come, will not let you return pure and clean!

Daiyu answered stubbornly: "Heh, on the vague little path of the dream, I want to seek love in the vagueness; with all my life's effort, I will seek that "beautiful ending".................."