Ascending Towards the Sun

Chapter Seventeen The headless corpse

Romantic, romantic. But I know for sure that the Gusu Lan Sect's Library Pavilion wouldn't hold books that say such things. SiZhui, be honest. Tell us what book you were reading and who gave it to you. Teased Hua Ying

Lan SiZhui blushed and sneaked a glance at Lan Zhan, worried that he'd be punished.

Is the Damsel beautiful? Or else why would so many people come? Asked Lan Jingyi

Seeing that Lan Zhan had no intentions of scolding him, Lan SiZhui secretly let out a sigh of relief. Only then did he smile.

She probably was. After all, she crystallized from such pleasant things and was such a romantic spirit. But nobody had ever seen the Damsel's face. Because of how even if someone did not know how to compose poetry, it was more than easy for them to memorize a few poems, most people had received the Damsel's flowers. Even when there came the rare person who recited wrong, they would not get to meet her since they were knocked out immediately. However... one person was the exception. Said Lan Sizhui

Who? Asked Mo Xuanyu

The YiLing patriarch, Wei WuXian. Said Lan Sizhui

Why's it him again? Can't we talk about something else? Asked Hua Ying

Be quiet! What did Wei WuXian do? He was such a big villain, what did he do, this time? Did he snatch the Damsel away and take her outside? Asked Lan Jingyi as they ignored Hua Ying

Well, no. But, in order to see the Damsel's face, he went out of his way to come to Tanzhou all the way from Yunmeng. Whenever he came to the garden, he would recite the poetry wrong on purpose so that the Damsel became angered, hit him with flowers, and threw him out. When he woke up, he would crawl back inside and continue to recite incorrectly. After this repeated for more than twenty times, he finally saw the Damsel's face. After this, he would go about everywhere praising how beautiful she looked. However, the Damsel was rather irritated as well. She did not show up for quite a while. Whenever he came, she would pound him with a rain of flowers. The scene was truly more wondrous than any wonders. Said Lan Sizhui

Wei WuXian was such an annoying person! Laughed Lan Jinyi, was he really that bored?

How was it boring? Who hasn't done a couple of such things when they were young? Speaking of it, why do people even know about something like this? And it's even seriously recorded in a book. That's boring as well, if you ask me. Anyway, the truth of that story is, the damsel of blossoms wasn't a spirit she was a sprite that fell in love with the poet's garden and with his poetry, when he passed, she stayed and thus the event started. What Wei Ying did was true what he didn't know that his boasting caught the attention of Wen Chao who had the garden destroyed for he believed the Yin iron was here, the sprite left returning to her home, the flowers falling wasn't because she was irritated more like when she got over her anger because he finally stood in front of the town and recited a poem, he made himself to praise her divine beauty and made a fool of himself doing it he did it every year. She rewarded him with a sky of petals stated Hua Ying

And how do you know of this mother? Asked Mo Xuanyu

Because she is a dear friend of mine and my sister's replied Hua Ying

You mean you actually know her? asked Lan Sizhui

Yes, the damsel's name is Tung Mei, and she is a damsel by age, but she looks forever like a maiden. Replied Hua Ying

That time when Hua Ying came, he decided to trick Tung Mei first before he revealed himself and he enjoyed every moment of it until he recited his poetry, and she recognized him. Then every year after that she would rain down flowers just for him