The love stories I've watched

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Here's a summary of the love stories of TV series “The Chinese Paladin III” for sharing~.

The love that transcends three lifetimes

He was a mortal man who studied Taoism all his lives. She was the descendant of a great goddess. Their paths were never meant to cross, but it did.

In his first life, they fell in love. For her, he decided to return to laity, against the disapprovals of his masters. For him, she decided to be selfish and choose to focus all her love on him instead of her duty-bound love for the world. But the Heavens disapproved of their union, and they were forced to commit suicide.

He died, but her immortality refused to have her killed and she survived. Despaired and anguished, she numbed her pain by sinking into indulgence. She decided to wait for him. A hundred years thus passed.

In his second life, he was the master of a Taoist temple. He was devoted to his path, until he met her. He fell hard in love, and decided to abandon all he had known for his entire life in order to marry her. The public who resented her for stealing and corrupting the master they loved and respected did not bless the marriage.

But she still remembers the pain of the loss. She wept for his first life in her sleep, and in his ignorance he thought she loved another. The marriage was in shambles in no time, and she fled her madly jealous husband to her homeland. She ended up an important political captive for the civil war in her homeland, and was about to be executed when he appeared to save her. He was killed in the attempt, and in his dying breath asked who the other man was.

He died before receiving an answer. She never got the chance to tell him it was he and only he all along, and that she was pregnant with their child. She survived alone yet again, and gave birth to the child who inherited her immortality, rendering her a mortal. In order to wait and love him again, she decided to sustain her immortality by putting her child in a time-freeze. She waited for another hundred years.

In his third life, he was a promising Taoist student who would surely be on his way to immortality if distractions were out of his way. As fate would have it, they met, and he fell in love. He remembered his past lives, and they shadowed him, grieving him as it did to her. He wanted to continue following his original path, but what he desired more was her happiness. She held tightly to him, but their happiness was short-lived.

She realised the folly of her selfishness and decided to finally let go, for his good. He became the master and attained the Way, holding her memories dear to his heart. Her child was released from the time-freeze, and she continued to love him… until her dying breath.


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The one-sided love

He was the lord of the Demon Realm, unparalleled in strength. She was the descendant of a great goddess, harbouring the pain of a love that transcended three lifetimes.

His first meeting with her was less than cordial. He wanted to kill the Taoist that stood in his way and she protected the Taoist who was the third life of her love. She was not his match, but impressed by her bravery he leaves.

When they met for the second time, it was again for the same reason. Her doggedness once again left an imprint on him.

His only purpose in life was to find someone who could match his strength… or beat him. After millenniums, he received the best fight in his lifetime, which although he lost left him contented. But the content did not last long, for all meaning in his life had escaped him.

Then she appeared again, and from him stole his immortal heart, the most daring theft ever.

He pined for her day and night, but she loved not him. He watched her in secret, wishing only for her safety.

When she learnt to let go, he decided to do the same. He would be happy and contented so long she is safe and well. That is all he wants…

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The Song

He was a mortal man gifted with heavenly vocals but cursed with ugliness. She was a beautiful fairy of the Heavens.

He would sing by the beach every morning, and the seashells would be filled with his songs. Everyone in his village loved to hear him sing, and his songs were what they wanted to hear before they pass from the world.

His songs reached even the Heavens, and she would collect his seashells on a daily basis. She fell in love with the man behind the voice, and left the Heavens to seek him.

She saw him, and asked if he knew the singer. He refused to acknowledge his identity, fearing to see her disappointment if she were to find out the singer was deformingly ugly.

She stayed on in the village just to catch a glimpse of the singer. He avoided her to his best ability, but leaves a seashell on her doorstep every morning. They fell deeper in love, but he eluded her all the time.

He grew to hate the face that prevented him from approaching her. He hated it so much, that he made a wish under a full moon, a ritual that would summon the lord of the Demon Realm who would then broker a contract with the summoner.

The Demon Lord appeared and he wished for a beautiful face. In return, he was to give away his voice and serve the Demon Lord for five hundred years. The contract was sealed, and he finally gained the confidence to face the beautiful fairy.

She was happy that she finally got to meet the man of her dreams, and they spent a blissful morning together, though he could not speak to her as he no longer had the same voice.

As she slept peacefully on the beach, the Demon Lord appeared to demand the man to start payment for the contract. She awoke and saw him taken away by the Demon Lord.

He cried out to her, pleading her to wait for him, promising that he would return after five hundred years. The Demon Lord mocked at what he had given away all for a half-day.

He failed to return after five hundred years, as the Demon Lord did not release him as promised. She waited and waited… until all hopes dried out and she turned into a statue, sinking into the ocean.

Hope returned when the Demon Lord finally fell in love, and saw his servant’s pain. He was allowed to see her, but she refused to respond to him as she could not see and would only recognise him with the voice he had given away so long ago.

The Demon Lord dismissed the contract. He became the ugly man he once was, but his voice and freedom was also returned to him. He sang to her, and she turned to flesh once again, accepting him for who and what he was.

The submarine volcano erupted, and they passed out of the world in bliss.

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Millenniums of yearning
He was the strongest general in Heaven. She was a fairy assigned to the task of caring for the celestial tree.

He guards the gateway where the entrances of Heaven and the Demon Realm meet each other, to prevent demons from invading the Celestial Courts. She guards and cares for the celestial tree that bears fruit every millennium.

He had no friends, for all in Heaven were envious and fearful of his battle prowess. She had friends, but was alone in her duty.

Loneliness brought them together, and feelings blossomed.

But invincibility brought him a torment that none could understand. Except for the Demon Lord, who was himself unbeatable.

One was a celestial general, the other a demon lord. They should have been mortal enemies, but they found mutual gratification in their secret sparrings in which for the first times could only conclude in draws. At last they found their match.

Yet it was not to be. The attraction of the exciting bouts led to negligence of duty, and he was arrested and charged by the Jade Emperor, ruler of the Heavens. He was casted down to the mortal realm to suffer the pains of mortality as punishment… and she was alone once again.

She was used to waiting and being forgotten and alone, but that could not stop her tears and yearnings. Her sorrow nourished the celestial tree, and it bore two fruits instead of the usual one.

One she handed over to the Courts, the other she kept in secret. Entrusting the holy fruit with her hopes and dreams, she sent it down to the mortal realm… hoping it could find its way to him… to accompany him so he would no longer be lonely, and in hopes he could remember her through it.

For her deceit, she was punished by having her physical body destroyed, and her soul turned to millions of flowers and grasses to nourish the earth.

It is said, when one walks close to the flowers and grasses and puts the ear to them, they would whisper their names in unity….

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A thousand years of longing
He was the first reincarnation of a banished celestial general. She was his beloved younger sister.

They were born of the same father and mother, and were royal heirs to a kingdom plagued with wars. Theirs was a close family unit, and the siblings had a happy and carefree childhood. Alas that was to be lost as they grew older and had to shoulder the responsibility of adulthood.

The queen passed away and the king became ill and feeble with age and distress. He was forced to go to war, and she had to readjust to a life without him by her side most of the times.

He was brave and peerless in battle, but years of wars had ravaged the kingdom, and its fall was a matter of time. To save his people and family, he decided to forge a forbidden magic sword that would grant him immense powers to destroy his enemies.

He held on to hope and belief, only to be crushed at the end when told the completion of the sword required what he cherished most. She would do anything for him, only if he would ask. He pushes her away.

All was doomed. But he wishes that at least she would be safe and happy.

He was finally brought down in battle. In sorrow she jumps into the furnace to complete what he could but chose not to.

She became one with the sword, which without its master, wrecked havoc in the mortal realm. Taoist swordsmen captured the sword and imprisoned it in a magical tower used to lock evil.

A thousand years she was locked in the tower alongside the sword. Fear wrecked her and she had shed endless tears, but she never stopped believing.... Believing she would meet him once more, and they would never separate again.

To be continued...