This is a collaboration project between several gifted individuals who only aim to answer one question: Are Meteor Garden's Daoming Si and Dong Shancai bound by a fate that will see their love through any universe?
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Title: Spilled Tea | Author: Ev ( evfabricando ) | Universe: Reverse Gender | Story Rating : MA
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Prologue
Mrs. Yu had had enough. Enough of the crying. The break ups. The underhandedness of Daoming Feng's ploys. Enough of anyone with the last name Daoming living so unhappily. But, perhaps, what she was most done with was seeing an innocent and good girl like Shancai get her life destroyed, when she was the best thing to happen to a desperately in-need of ride-or-die type of love, Ah Si.
She'd made a vow, after all, to never let Ah Si experience the same soul-stealing pain that Zhuang had experienced as a result of Daoming Feng's nefarious scheming.
So, after seeing a sopping wet Shancai tearfully chase down her taxi just moments before and declare that she loved Ah Si and had to tell someone, Yu-Sao had made up her mind.
She was going to change the fates, tilt the universe on its axis, and for once someone other than Daoming Feng would get what they want. It is only right.
"Driver, change of address. I need you to take me somewhere else first."
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I. Medicine
Dalinglingling, rang the herbal medicine shop's bell.
"Be with you in just a moment," came the voice from the back of the shop.
Yu-Sao looked around and saw that not much had changed since she last visited almost 5 years ago. Shelves were stacked high with different herbs, roots, seeds, and the occasional unexpected dried fruit. Some were in clear glass tubs, while others were in opaque brown bottles and one pineapple shaped jar marked 'Horny Goat Root' caught her eye in particular.
Mrs. Yu smiled knowingly, recalling how her herbalist friend had once whispered of its highly potent libido enhancing effects and thought to herself, "I'll be needing some of that for later, as well, for my lovelorn birds."
A few moments later a wooden beaded curtain's low-toned clacking, signaled her herbalist friend, Yang Lin's entrance. "Hello, how can I hel—" began Yang-Sao before recognizing her old friend.
"Yu-Sao!" exclaimed Yang Lin. "It's been a while, dear friend. How are you? How are Zhuang and Ah Si? I'll make us tea and you can tell me what brings you here as we catch up," continued Yang-Sao happily.
"Hello, my friend. I need your help..." said Yu-Sao, not mincing words.
Recognizing the gravity and urgency in her friend's tone, Yang-Sao rushed around her shop, closing it down for the evening. After the tea was brewed and served, Yu-Sao catalogued every dreadful act Daoming Feng had enacted upon her children, from destroying their happy relationships to arranged marriages and hunger strikes.
