Su Su and Ye Hua: Our Own Fairytale

Part 1

Zhe Yan woke up to see a lady lying unconscious outside, her clothes and body covered with fresh bleeding wounds.

He got up for a closer look. It was Xiao Wu, whom they'd been looking for for 300 years!

He hurried outside to try and heal her, only to use his magic and realised that her eyes had been dug out, too.

He closed his eyes and muttered some strange words. Her wounds began to heal, and her new eyes began to open.

Zhe Yan hurried to her side and lifted her up. "Xiao Wu," he said urgently. "Where have you been these 300 years? Your brothers and parents have been looking for you! Even I have searched, but you could not be found."

"I was that mortal you met in the Celestial Palace." She said, her eyes red, her gaze distant.

"You were that mortal Crown Prince Ye Hua fell for?" Zhe Yan said incredulously. "No wonder I smelt the peach blossom scent off you."

"Zhe Yan, I need a favour."

"Ask away."

"I want some amnesia potion."

"What?" Zhe Yan was shocked. "You want to forget that love?"

"Zhe Yan, did you wonder why I hadn't any eyes?"

"It did cross my mind." Was the reply.

"He dug them out. He said he couldn't protect me and that it was his fault. He did that and gave my eyes to Su Jin."

Zhe Yan was astonished. He'd heard how much Ye Hua loved that mortal, yet he'd dug out her eyes?

"What about your son? Are you going to forget him too?" Zhe Yan asked after a long silence.

"I cannot bring myself to remember it all. Zhe Yan, he let me down too much. I don't want to remember him anymore."

Zhe Yan thought, Her heart is hurting so much. Maybe it will be good for her to forget all that. But she has a political marriage arrangement with him. She will have to meet him again. Never mind. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

So he agreed to give her some amnesia potion.

As she sat with the steaming bowl in front of her, Zhe Yan saw tears come streaming down her cheeks. He thought of an idea, and stopped her before she picked up the bowl.

"Xiao Wu, don't drink it yet. I need you to meet someone. Maybe he can mend your broken heart."

"Mend my heart? Zhe Yan, this potion can do it." She raised the bowl to her lips, but Zhe Yan made it disappear.

"Zhe Yan!" She cried. "Give me that potion! You promised!"

"Meet that person first. If, after you meet him, you still want to drink the amnesia potion, I won't stop you. But meet that person first."

He cloud jumped to the Nine Heavens without waiting for her reply.

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Ye Hua was still unconscious. His wounds from the jump off Zhuxian Terrace had already healed, though. But his sorrow for Su Su caused his body to instinctively keep asleep.

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Zhe Yan walked into his chambers and looked at him, then used a little magic to see why he hadn't come to.

He found out that with so much longing for Su Su, his body just could not handle the pain of losing her, so it couldn't begin to function, much less enable him to wake up.

He used some more power to invoke speech into the magic flowing into Ye Hua, whispering that Zhe Yan had some news and that his body had to make him wake if he wanted to hear it.

With a gasp, Ye Hua woke, his forehead beaded with sweat. Zhe Yan had succeeded in giving his body temporarily sufficient energy to stay conscious until he had enough energy to stop relying on Zhe Yan's magic.

He looked up and saw Zhe Yan there.

"High God Zhe Yan." He croaked. Then he looked around wildly. "Su Su... Su Su!"

Zhe Yan put up a hand to stop him right there. "Su Su has already jumped down Zhuxian Terrace. But I have some news, so listen."

Ye Hua's eyes turned red and he clutched at his sheets. "She told me...A-Li. Where is he?"

"I suppose he's in the care of your parents." Zhe Yan waved off his remark airily.

"Su Su..." Ye Hua began to cry openly, not caring that a high god was watching him.

Zhe Yan couldn't take his whining any more. "She's alive!" He snapped. "She didn't die. She simply regained her position."

Ye Hua blinked. "What position?"

Zhe Yan raised an eyebrow incredulously. "As High God Bai Qian, of course. My guess is that her being a mortal was simply a heavenly trial. A relationship trial, to be exact. And you happened to be the one who was in her relationship trial."

Ye Hua made to get out of bed, ready to cloud jump to her side, but Zhe Yan pushed him back.

"Don't you dare think about cloud jumping," Zhe Yan warned. "You have not regained your strength, and mine can only last until you have enough of your own. I saved your life, but if you try anything risky I don't dare promise that I can save it a second time! Now listen."

Ye Hua listened, desperate for anything that might lead him to the woman he loved.

"She asked me for my amnesia potion," Zhe Yan admitted. "I agreed to let her drink it, but I told her to wait till she met someone that might be able to mend her heart. She can wait, but I'm not sure if she wants to see you."

Ye Hua's heart skipped a beat. Zhe Yan was going to bring him to Su Su?

"High God Zhe Yan, are you really going to bring me to see her?"

Again the high god nodded. "I can, but I don't know if she will see you."

Ye Hua tried to keep his breathing under control. There it was. A chance.