In the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Lina was born in a small farming village. Her early years were spent working (read: playing) in the fields alongside other peasants of the village. While they were not among the gentry, her parents had always hoped their only child would be able to one day live a more enjoyable life, so ensured she would receive the best education they could provide. As a girl, she was taught in the home, but this did not stop her. She learned everything she could, as if she would one day take the civil service examination.
As it were, this would never happen. Fate smiled upon Lina. When she reached marriage age for her time, there were no suitable suitors for her to be arranged with. This suited Lina perfectly well, at least for a year or two. On a journey to one of the more populated cities, Lina caught the eyes and heart of a young lordling, with whom she was in a delightful debate. Even though she had no knowledge of who this man was, she could not help but remember him as she returned to the life of a working girl. Nor could the young lord forget the girl who bested him in a debate. After the mid-autumn festival, it just so happened that the young lord was passing through the village Lina lived in. After several queries, the young man received the information he wanted most- her name, and whether she was arranged for someone else. While such a union between a lord and a farming girl was unheard of, Heaven willed it into existence.
The following spring, Lina was sent to the city to live with her new husband, and transitioning from a life in a farming village to a life in a palace was all but daunting. However, by her husband's side, she was quick to learn and adapt. Seeing her penchant for knowledge, her husband hired the best teachers around, not just for the arts of literature, calligraphy, religion mathematics and debate, but also in the form of martial and mystical arts. It was the young lord's desire that they would, together, reach immortality one day.
It was here that fate intervened once again in Lina's life. While she enjoyed her newfound education opportunities, Lina's martial shifu-Lวoshฤซ (teacher) caught her heart. For Lina, things required time and patience. Her teacher had a cold exterior, but was internally passionately warm. It took Lina some time to break the icy barrier of her teacher, and to earn the love, affection, and respect from her teacher. In time, there would no longer be a teacher-student dynamic, but one of equal partnership. Time passed, and Lina shared her time with her husband and the teacher she loved.
Unfortunately, in this first life, not all went according to one's desires, and there was no cultivating to immortality. However, fate could not be stopped. Upon reincarnating, all of them would somehow meet again in each new life. Sometimes they remembered memories from their previous life, other times they did not, but no matter what, with each and every new life, the desire to find one another could not be ignored, as if each one were a point on a compass calling to meet in direct center.
In the modern world, Lina is living her best life, but now she is beginning to remember events from her past lives. Will she remember who or what she truly is? What will she do with this new knowledge?
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