Mists of the Immortal Path
Chapter 250

"Gold-flecked Letter Paper": A Lifetime Undone

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A word to the graceful maiden among the flowers:

Your radiant beauty shone, your eyes clear and bright.

A frail gourd leaf could scarcely bear you across to wedded bliss.

Deliverance need not come aboard compassion's ferry.

-Guan Pingchao

Xing Yan's poem of admonition to Lady Rui; see Volume Three, Chapter Seven.

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