Two thousand years of obsessions, but in exchange for many missed opportunities in love.
If ultimately we have no chance to be together, so why let us meet each other in this life, a glance a million years?
In the middle of a foggy dream, one walks through whose shadow, destroys whose yearning, and buries whose current life and past life?
“Emperor (Di) and concubine (Ji) who are floating ups and downs in the dream land, what do you really want?”
“All I seek in this lifetime, is merely that he can see my shadow in his eyes.”
There is a saying that the feeling is deep but the fate is shallow. She is the one with deep feeling but her fate with Dong Hua is shallow.
There is a word called unfortunate. She is unfortunate so she met him. He is also unfortunate so he missed her.
“He is very good. Just that he and I have no fate to be together.”
“So what if the Mandate of Heaven says we are destinated to be together or not destinated to be together? As the King, I have never fear the Mandate of Heaven and also do not need any handout from the Mandate of Heaven.”
How does the Mandate of Heaven determine our predestined relationship? One person’s doubt, everyone get caught in a vortex.
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Yes, the book which everyone has been waiting for has been released on Friday. I didn't have time to read it and also do not plan to read it as I will be waiting for the audiobook and following hamster's english translation.
If I am not mistaken, the ending is a happy one but you've to suffer some angsts and Tang Qi's wordiness before reaching the end. She is following the style & structure of 3W3L10MPB by having many soy sauce (irrelevant characters and events) which are not fully developed or explained. In addition the ending is rushed so it is widely believed she'll write an epilogue later.
All in all, the reviews for the book are still pretty good. Since we've invested so much time and effort into reading the story and grow to love the characters very much, we'll definitely want to follow it thru to its very end. It'll be greatly appreciated if any kind soul who can read Chinese and is going to read it, to write us an English summary. Otherwise we'll just wait patiently for hamster's weekly translation.
Can't wait to read it. :) But I hate reading side characters that are not properly developed.
Are you going to translate more cute translation of Little Dough? :)
Hey, hey, pls read it & post a summary here:) I dun think there is anything on little dough. This is Pillow Book !!!! I read got a few new characters. I think book 2 doesn't even have much on my xiao yan:(
(previously known as serenedipity)
Thank you thank you Peanuts!!! Will check this out when I have time :) :)
Well, I sort of used google translate to muddle through the ebook without waiting for hamster's English translation or the audiobook. Using google translate, I listened to the first few chapters and then skipped all the way to the last two chapters. So...if anyone wants spoilers, let me know, but I can't guarantee that my spoilers are accurate, since I can't understand much Mandarin myself.
It is definitely happy! However, it does leave plot developments for the other books! I felt that DongHua truly redeemed himself by the end of the book <3
I think I will be too long-winded to be able to do a proper summary. But I'm translating Chapter 18 of Book 2 - which in my opinion, is the best and most romantic:
http://onesecondspring.blogspot.sg/2013/12/three-lives-three-worlds-pillow-book.html
decembi, I woke up this morning to your translation. Made my day!
What I look forward to most in Book 2 is for Dong Hua to suffer some pain(the more the merrier for me of course). But I pretty much expect it wouldn't be balanced at all with what Feng Jiu went through, but more or less is still satisfying.
Hey Chancy, glad you enjoyed it! I think some fans did not like it but I loved the ending! Dong Hua definitely got his ass kicked!
Part 2 of chapter 18 <3:
http://onesecondspring.blogspot.sg/2013/12/three-lives-three-worlds-pillow-book_5.html
Thank you very much Mel for sharing the spoilers with me. I want to share this with everyone but pls take it with a grain of salt as Mel's Mandarin is just average, lol. Decembi, maybe you can check if what Mel wrote is accurate:)
I couldn't wait around for hamster's translation any longer and used google translate to listen to parts of Book Two of Pillow Book. I didn't listen to the entire story, since google translate is so boring and monotonic to listen to. Plus, I found the dream part of Book Two really boring, so I listened to a few chapters at the beginning and then skipped to the last 2-3 chapters at the end.
Beware of spoilers! Also, beware of inaccurate spoilers, since my Mandarin skills are only so-so, and I am guessing what occurred.
Fengjiu, injured by her quest to obtain the Saha fruit, woke up in Aranya's dream with retrograde memory loss. She could not remember anything about her friendship with Xiao Yan, her time in Fanyin Valley, and her quest to steal the Saha fruit. In addition, she could not remember that Donghua had switched out the Saha fruit with a basket of peaches as the prize. Relieved the she could not remember that he had switched out the Saha fruit, Donghua saw this as a reprieve. Now that he realized he was in love with her, he did not wish for Fengjiu to be angry with him. When FJ questioned where they were and why DH was beside her, he lied to her and told her that they were already married and that Xiao Yan had once again trapped them inside the Wicked Lotus Sphere. FJ asked DH why she would suddenly forgive him for mistreating her when she was his pet fox. She reasoned that she would not have so easily agreed to marry him. DH explained that he had knelt in front of her and begged for her forgiveness and so she had agreed. FJ retorted that he must have done something else besides kneeling or else she would not have forgiven him. DH asked what it would take for her to forgive him. FJ answered that if he split his heart in half and gave one half to her, then she would finally forgive him.
And here comes the unclear part, since I couldn't understand Mandarin very well....
Apparently, FJ's soul needed to recuperate elsewhere while her body healed. (I'm not sure I understood this correctly.) So somehow, FJ's soul ended up in Aranya's body, and she ended up playing Aranya's role in the dream. DH took the place of Aranya's husband, deliberately not telling FJ that he was really DH. I think DH still had silver hair as Aranya's husband and clearly still looked like himself. Don't ask me why FJ didn't recognize him as DH but instead believed he was Aranya's husband, because that part of the story was really confusing for me. Anyway, FJ started falling in love with Aranya's husband (who was really DH, but she didn't know). The story dragged on and on with FJ and DH trapped in the dream state, complete with two wicked and annoying sisters and another hot and handsome fellow, whom DH was jealous of because he believed FJ preferred the other guy. I am not sure of the details because I just couldn't understand the language that well. I got so frustrated by the dream tangent that the story had taken that I simply skipped to the end.
I will stop here, unless you want ending spoilers. Let's just say I cried buckets at the end, and I am still sobbing when I think of the ending.
I hesitate to evaluate this book, since I have not read the entire story, so I feel that judging it by the few chapters I have read so far is unfair. However, from the few chapters I have gleaned, I am sorely disappointed, especially since I feel that Book One was so much more enjoyable. First, the digression into Aranya's dream was totally unnecessary. Tang7 should have gotten FJ and DH out of that dream state in no more than 2-3 chapters and continued on with the current, non-dream story. Instead, the dream state took up at least two thirds of Book Two! It was superfluous and merely filler material. Second, I expected Ye Qingti to play a bigger role in fighting for FJ's affections, given all the hints Tang7 kept dropping in Book One (FJ treasuring the citrine bracelet he gave her, FJ risking her life to get the Saha fruit to revive him, etc). Instead, once he officially entered into the story, he was like an afterthought. Eh... Thumbs up for Book One, and thumbs down for Book Two so far, except for the ending chapters, which were moving enough to make me cry buckets.
Also....more spoiler ahead....more spoiler ahead...do not read if you don't want a big spoiler....
A big thumbs UP for the adorable Bai Gun Gun, whose appearance toward the end brightened up the entire story. His hair was just as silver as his papa's, and he was just as adorable as his cousin Ah Li. :D My heart sobbed when little Gun Gun questioned FJ about his papa, wondering why all his friends had papas, but he didn't.
Hey peanuts, your spoilers are accurate! I agree that when I first read the Aranya's Dream part I was a bit impatient and wanted the story to get to the good part - Dijun and Feng Jiu awakening and figuring out their love story! But, the ending of the Aranya's Dream part and the explanation of how it fits into Dijun and Feng Jiu's story is brilliant! Because without Aranya's Dream, Dijun and Feng Jiu could never be together and how the ruined destiny of Aranya and Chen (something, can't recall his name now lol) created Dijun and Feng Jiu's fate.
I loved the ending <3 I hope she writes an epilogue.