Cultivating Immortality, Starting from Childhood Sweethearts

“At last night’s banquet, during the flower game between the envoys of the two kingdoms, not a single envoy from our Wu Kingdom won. Throughout the feast, the people of Qi were immensely pleased, while our Wu envoys sat in silence, their faces darkened with shame.

Seeing the situation take a dire turn, Mr. Xiao proposed composing poems using the names of those present as inspiration.

But who could have known? In poetry and prose, not one of our Wu Kingdom’s scholars could best the Qi Kingdom.

At that moment, the son of the Fifth Madam of the Xu household—Xu Ming—stepped forward.

‘Having endured the bitterness of partings across the world,

Returning now to see the fallen flowers scattered thus.

Beneath the blooms, we gaze in speechless sorrow,

While the spring outside the green window fades with the sky.

I’ll tell my longing under the lamp at night: