_(Summary) part1 (1/2)

Above is my absolute favourite picture of Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Thousand Miles of Peach Blossom (”3L3W, 10 Peach Blossom”)! I've decided to do a full summary & review to entice my sister into the world of C-novels. I think 3L3W, 10 Peach Blossom is probably the best book to entice people since it is fully translated by with the translated by peanuts.

I will post the first part of the summary first, then the second part, and then the review. I thought I could do it in one whole entry but it's gotten much longer than I expected!

First, a spoiler-free introduction:

Bai Qian Qian is a High G.o.ddess and the current female monarch of QingQiu, one of the old respected kingdoms of the Heavenly Realms. Ye Hua is the current Crown Prince of JiuZhongTian and engaged to be married to Bai Qian Qian. Little does Bai Qian Qian knows that in her past live as mortal, she had once married Ye Hua before... the story will detail their star-crossed fate, Bai Qian Qian's five Peach Blossoms, and their final destiny.

Now, my detailed summary:

The story, except for Ye Hua's epilogue, is set out in the perspective of Bai Qian Qian/Susu (her past mortal self). I've summarised the main plot points and love story of Bai Qian Qian and Ye Hua so my review makes sense later on.

Prologue

It starts with Susu in JiuZhongTian. She is pregnant and already married to Ye Hua in the mortal world, but not officially recognised in heaven. Susu is now blind because Ye Hua has taken away her eyes. He tells her, we will get married and I will be your eyes. Susu, who has always loved Ye Hua, has turned her heart cold. Apparently, Ye Hua's concubine, Su Jin, had tricked her to go to Ju Xian stage and Su Jin had timed it such that it looked like Susu had pushed Su Jin down the Ju Xian stage - to fall down is deadly for both humans and G.o.ds - their soul and essence will be destroyed. Before Su Jin jumped down, she told Susu that Ye Hua had named Susu after the ”Su” in her name and the love between Su Jin and Ye Hua was ruined because Su Jin was ordered to be the Heavenly King (Ye Hua's grandfather's concubine). Ye Hua had arrived the moment Su Jin fell down and saved her - so she only lost her eyes. Susu had to be ”punished” for pus.h.i.+ng Su Jin and Ye Hua had taken her eyes to give Su Jin. Susu gives birth to a son for Ye Hua, Ye Hua is not around at the birth. Susu thinks Ye Hua is with Su Jin. Susu tells Nainai (her personal servant) to take care of her son, she names him A'li. She makes her way alone to the Ju Xian stage - Su Jin had told her before that if she jumps down, she will be able to return to the mortal world. Susu says goodbye to Ye Hua one last time through the golden mirror he gave her and jumps down the stage. Ye Hua cries for her to stop but she jumps down anyway.

At the end of the prologue, it is realised that Susu was the mortal self of Bai Qian Qian. It was her ”mortal” trial to become a high G.o.ddess. She returns to QingQiu and asks the powerful Immortal Zhe Yan to give her his forgetting potion so she will never remember her past life as Susu.

Chapter 1

It starts three hundred years later from the prologue. The eastern king water G.o.d was going to celebrate the one month old birthday of his son. Bai Qian Qian who hardly leaves QingQiu is going to visit this birthday party because the eastern king water G.o.d had once helped her parents. On her way to the party, she visits the Immortal Zhe Yan to get his special wine for the party. The Immortal Zhe Yan told her that the ex crown prince, the Second Prince of JiuChongTian, had came to beg for his peaches because of his pregnant wife. The Second Prince used to be engaged to Bai Qian Qian but rejected the engagement when he fell in love with Bai Qian Qian's ex-servant, Qiu Qiu, a snake sprite that she had taken care of. Due to the Second Prince's action, the Heavenly King decreed that the next Crown Prince will be Bai Qian Qian's fiance. Many many years later, the Heavenly King's grandson, Ye Hua, was announced to be the Crown Prince at his birth. Bai Qian Qian never took this seriously because to her Ye Hua, is a young punk, who is only 50,000 years old, while she is 140,000 years old.

Chapter 2

So Bai Qian Qian makes her way to the eastern king water G.o.d's palace and she meets some maids of a princess on the way and hear that the princess is going to try and attract Crown Prince Ye Hua's attention. Bai Qian Qian is non-plussed about it. She dresses simply so people won't know her real ident.i.ty. She is surprised that the palace is so dark - she doesn't realise that it was specially decorated for her arrival since her eyes are sensitive (the remnant damage from the mortal self - but she does not know this) so she usually ties a white cloth over them.

Bai Qian Qian always gets lost and is a horror with directions. She ends up in the back garden of the palace and meets a small cute round G.o.d who she calls Little Dough. She asks him what he is doing and he say he is trying to pick a coral from the pond as his dad says it is the prettiest thing in the sea. So, Bai Qian Qian lends Little Dough her fan. Little Dough just lightly fans and a strong gush of wind blows through the palace - blowing away all the seaweed specially covering the palace! Bai Qian Qian is shocked because the power of the fan flows from the power of the G.o.d, and she didn't think such a small G.o.d will have such a power.

Little Dough turns to look at Bai Qian Qian and immediately recognises her as his mother! He hugs her and cries about why she had abandoned him and his father. She hears a sound from her back, ”Su...Su...?”

Ye Hua and Bai Qian Qian meets! Bai Qian Qian tells Ye Hua he has recognised the wrong person and he looks very sad and torn. Ye Hua and Little Dough leaves the garden, after which Bai Qian Qian hilariously realises when they leave there will be no one to lead her to the palace! So, she follows after them.

Chapter 3

Just as Bai Qian Qian is following them, she meets the pregnant Qi Qi (the wife of the Second Prince). Qi Qi cries and tries to act pitiful. Bai Qian Qian can't take it and she gives Qi Qi the fan, saying that she will grant her a wish as a wedding present and she can find her with the fan when she has thought of it.

Little Dough and Ye Hua returns and sees this scene. It's really cute and Ye Hua has a soft smile on his lips as he now realises that this G.o.ddess who looks exactly like Su Su is his fiancee, Bai Qian Qian.

There's this really cute scene of Little Dough being really excited that he has found his mother again and Bai Qian Qian thinking he means she will be his future step mother, and Ye Hua promising Little Dough that Bai Qian Qian will come and live with them soon and Bai Qian Qian unable to say no because Little Dough would cry. So, Bai Qian Qian, Little Dough and Ye Hua arrive at the Banquet and the eastern king water G.o.d is angry at Bai Qian Qian for sweeping away all his seaweed (she decided to take the fall for Little Dough) until Bai Qian Qian says she has come as the representative of Immortal Zhe Yan (she refuses to admit she is Bai Qian Qian and arrive with Ye Hua). Ye Hua is holding Bai Qian Qian's hand (and refuses to let go even when Bai Qian Qian uses magic) and so Bai Qian Qian states she is a boy, naively thinking this will prevent love rumours, but this leads to people thinking Ye Hua is gay (haha).

Chapter 4

At the end of the party, Ye Hua asks Bai Qian Qian to take care of Little Dough while he settles something. When Little Dough is left alone with Bai Qian Qian, Little Dough asks her to stop the plans of the princess who wants to attract his father. Bai Qian Qian is non-plussed as usual but Little Dough starts crying that Bai Qian Qian does not love his father and him and will abandon them again. So Bai Qian Qian is forced to say that Ye Hua is her precious and in her heart and Little Dough then brings her to stop the princess' meeting with Ye Hua.