Half a month later, at Peach Blossom Glade. Ten-Day Rest, sunny. White clouds veiled the sun, and a gentle breeze drifted in.
Yi QianQian had brought Ning Zhiqi along. Liu Qingyan had invited Li Hanyu and Zhu Yushan, Wang Xiaowan had brought Old Master Wang, and Old Man Liu's family had also come together for once. Peach Blossom Manor buzzed with voices, lively beyond measure.
Shen Ying cast a spell and set up the stage. With a wave of her hand, the stage transformed into a garden, its floral fragrance curling through the air as butterflies danced. A young girl in colorful robes drifted in and began to dance.
Hu Cainiang—playing—Yang Yuhuan Shen Ying—playing—Emperor Tang Ming Bi Xinyu—playing—Gao Lishi Lin Jing'er—playing—Li Bai
Bai Ting'er—playing—Li Guinian Tao Rui—playing—An Lushan Tao Zhen—playing—Guo Ziyi Hua Yixing—playing—Yang Guozhong...
This time, Liu Qingyan did not take the stage. She merely sat with Lu Zheng among the audience and watched.
The stage lay shrouded in Illusion Technique, changing from the Yang family residence into a lavish imperial palace, then from the palace into pristine mountains and rivers, and then from those mountains and rivers into a military command tent and a battlefield scarred by countless wars.
Scene after scene unfolded, structured around Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Regret," with the plot turns of "The Palace of Eternal Life." It told of Yang Yuhuan's talent and growth, her meeting and falling in love with Emperor Tang Ming, their happy days in the palace, the upheaval of rebellion, her death at Mawei, and finally the Emperor sending Extraordinary far and wide, through Heaven and earth, to seek Yang Yuhuan. In the end, the two met in a dream and renewed their former bond.
Like "Butterfly Lovers," the ending of "Song of Everlasting Regret" offered no certain escape from