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Dao Lang's "Flower Fairy" narrates a love story even more heartrending than that of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai":
During the Song Dynasty in Hangzhou, there lived a rich young lady of extraordinary beauty who secretly pledged eternal love with a poor scholar. Upon learning of their affection, the young lady's father was consumed by fury and ordered the scholar's clandestine assassination. The scholar's brown robe was stained crimson by his blood. Overwhelmed by inconsolable grief, the young lady took her own life by hanging herself with a yellow sash .
Yan Wang, the judge of the afterlife, took pity on these enamored lovers, allowing them to retain their memories and be reborn in Hangzhou, with the hope of rekindling their connection. Unexpectedly, during the process of reincarnation, an accident occurred , resulting in their rebirth in different eras of Hangzhou. The scholar was reborn in the eastern Qiantang County (Hangzhou of the Han Dynasty), while the young lady was reborn in the northern Lin'an Prefecture (Hangzhou of the Southern Song Dynasty).
Realizing the error, they attempted further reincarnations, yet the young lady found herself mistakenly reborn in Quan Ting (Hangzhou during Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty). She went through successive rebirths and was born in Hangcheng (Hangzhou during the Wuyue Kingdom), while the scholar was born in Yuhang (Hangzhou during the Xia Dynasty). Though born in the same vicinity, they remained separated by countless centuries, forever unable to reunite...
Ultimately, the devoted young woman decided to break the cycle of reincarnation. She chose to transform herself into the sand beneath the cart tracks, patiently awaiting the wheels of the scholar's journeys to pass over her. In that moment, she would consider it their reunion, their embrace...