In this novel, the protagonist's love interest often sings the lines "Flowers fade and fly, / and flying fill the sky" while burying flowers in her isolated garden.
In this novel, the protagonist's love interest often sings the lines "Flowers fade and fly, / and flying fill the sky" while burying flowers in her isolated garden. The novel ends as the protagonist becomes a Buddhist priest in response to his lover's death from tuberculosis. Phoenix, the matriarch of the central family, decides that Precious Virtue is to marry her son Pao-Yu, instead of his lover Black Jade. For 10 points-- name this Qing Dynasty novel written by Cao Xueqin, also called "Story of the Stone."
In this novel, the protagonist's love interest often sings the lines "Flowers fade and fly, / and flying fill the sky" while burying flowers in her isolated garden.
{Dream of the Red Chamber} or {Hung-Lou Meng} (Accept “Story of the Stone” on an early buzz)