Lost You Forever
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Last published Fri, Sep 18, 2015
Why stick with a lackluster drama when there is an amazing book to be read. When a good novel comes along it’s hard to put down, when a great novel comes it’s impossible to not want to share. Last year right around this time I read C-novelist Tong Hua‘s Da Mo Yao (Ballad of the Desert) and fell promptly in love. I had finished her Bu Bu Jing Xin (Startling with Each Step) and wanted to keep on going with her lyrical prose and DMY was just the right type of soaring fun romance novel with a dash of historical flavor. After translating DMY I dived into its sequel Yun Zhong Ge (Song of the Clouds) and found it a much harder read but ended up appreciating it so much more when I decided to translate it as well. After tackling the early Han dynasty and romanticizing certain well-known historical figures during that era, Tong Hua’s next ambitious novel endeavor takes her back to pre-history in Chinese lore. While Greek mythology of the Olympian gods and goddesses are well known in Western literature, Chinese literature also has one of its earliest written texts the Classics of the Mountains and the Seas (山海經 Shan Hai Jing) detailing Chinese mythology of gods, goddesses, demons, and mythical creatures. Tong Hua takes on the events and famous mythological figures in this text as the backdrop for her two novels Once Promised (曾許諾 Cen Shu Nuo) and its sequel Lost You Forever (長相思 Chang Xiang Si).
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Introduction
The Killing of Three Thousand Crows (Love of Thousand Years)
On the mountain balcony, Princess Di Ji stunned the world with the song《Peach Blossoms of the Eastern Wind》. After the stained glass fire, the Great Nation of Yan was no more, the matters of it's past as if a dream. Concealing her identity, Di Ji hides herself at a place where immortality is cultivated, Xiangqu Mountain, and becomes the servant Qin Chuan. But unexpectedly, old acquaintance begin to turn up one after the other. An old lover, Zuo Zichen is now entangled with Xuanzhu after losing his memories, and an elegant and distinguished Fu Jiuyun suddenly appears, purposely teasing her in every way possible. It's hard to separate his truth from lies, and difficult to accept his favour. Taking advantage of the White River Dragon King's arrival in Xiangqu Mountain, Qin Chuan steals the Master's treasures and flees. Knowing that he had been deceived, Fu Jiuyun is extremely angry, and chases after her however far she goes. After knowing her mission, and being unable to stop her, he can only use his own life to help her succeed. But she doesn't know, in order to meet her, he has kept watch for a millennium. She kept strong despite feeling otherwise, vehemently refusing him: You can have me, but never think for once you can have my heart! That man completely didn't care. He faintly smiled: I only want you, who said anything about your heart? * Takasugi Shinsaku penned: "I'd kill all the crows in the world, to sleep with you till morning tolls (1)." The novel is drawn from here. +++++++++++++++ This is not my story, just enjoying the novel and spread it to non-chinese speaker. Credit to the original writer, Shi Si Lang. Love of Thousand Years is c-drama starring Zheng Ye Cheng & Zhao Lusi, adapted from this novel. Someone actually has translated this novel in english but only up to first 3 chapters in 2016. Now I'm trying to re-do the translation. Work still in progress, I'll tiptoed to translate-edit this novel till finished *let'spray*Complete
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