1314: A Thousand Peonies Bloom
Curses

Once upon a time, there lived a pair of human children who were in love. The woman is a descendant of nobility, while the man is a common warrior of the kingdom.

Although she was a noble, she was a martial arts and swordsman. He learned to ride the sword on the grounds that women should also be able to take care of themselves when in danger.

One day the woman met her lover by the river. Knowing his daughter was in love with ordinary people, the father of the woman was angry, and decided to match her daughter so as not to connect with her lover again.

The woman who knows her matchmaking also refuses hard because she does not want to marry someone she does not love. But his father insisted. He threatened that if his daughter refused to be betrothed, her lover would be wiped off the face of the earth.

The woman must be very sad about this. Although she was forced to finally agree to her marriage. He also wrote a letter addressed to his beloved, in his letter he told of his betrothal made by his father, and he agreed it because if he refused then his lover would be finished by his father.

Therefore, he broke off the relationship with his lover and hoped that although he could not be together as a life partner, but at least still be able to be a friend. Although he knew, that each heart must feel the wound.

Of course after reading the contents of the letter the man also felt crumpled and chaotic, he knew that the woman he loved did this for his sake. But he also had no choice, as he had a family to look after. At last he could only let go, and pray for the happiness of his beloved.

The woman was betrothed to a young man who was the son of the regional ruler. Actually the young man had fallen in love with the woman, but as it is known that the woman had no feelings for him.

Until the wedding day arrives, all the rituals go smoothly and they are lawfully husband and wife. When in the bridal room, the woman cried as hard as she could and suddenly her husband entered.

"Why are you crying? Are you afraid of me?” ask the husband.

The woman replied to her husband by saying, “I only... I just wasn't ready to do it. If you want to have a successor, then I'll let you know that I'm not ready for it.”

Hearing his wife's answer, the husband was surprised, and finally he understood by calming his wife with gentleness waiting until his wife was ready.

The day had changed to the moon, and his wife still gave the same answer, which made the husband grow furious and tried to force his wife.

“Why ... Why do you always reject me? Why?!!” ask the husband in a loud tone while holding tightly to his wife's arms.

“Can't you love me? Now I am your husband,” he said again.

With a flat face she told her husband, ”There used to be a person I loved, and now I still can't forget it.”

Hearing his wife's answer certainly made the husband angry, until finally with a heavy heart he decided to lock his wife. Hoping that his wife would change and start loving him after being locked up.

During the confinement, the wife made embroidery as an expression of her heart which she would later give to her husband. He embroidered on a red scarf with a picture of a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond.

For nearly six months, her husband had locked her up, but she felt nothing had changed. Seeing this situation, he was already impatient. Finally he decided to find out who the man his wife loved and took him in front of the wife at that time.

“This is the man you love?”

“You ... how can?” His wife stammered as if she could not believe that her husband knew her ex-lover.

“Now I give you two choices. I kill your lover and we live as we always do, or you want to drink this cursed ice liver poison and let your lover go.”

“Ice liver poison is a poison for the liver. Whoever drinks it, then he will not be able to feel the warmth of love. If he falls in love, he will feel tremendous pain and eventually die. There will be no love for him, even for the next life,” explained the husband.

“I will..”

“Do not drink the poison!!! Just let me die!" ex-lover's ex-wife shouted.

The words of the ex-lover of the wife made the husband go up black, and immediately slashed his sword towards his ex-lover until he was on the verge of death..

“Nakk.!” shouted the wife.

His feet felt weak. She fell, creeping into the body of her ex-lover who is now covered in blood as a result of being cut down by her husband.

But her husband still doubted his wife's sincerity. He said, “You still have feelings for him. If I can't have you, then no one can. And I'll do things like you're watching right now.”

The sobs of the wife were unstoppable.

“I gave you all my heart, but this is what I received? Can't you fall in love with me too? This world is really unfair,” continued the husband.

Then his wife put the lifeless body of her ex-boyfriend on the floor and said, “Then I will drink this poison,” said the wife while taking a cup containing poison liver ice and immediately drink it.

“You..”.

The poison reacted immediately. The wife's body fell to the floor. Her husband instantly dropped his sword and grabbed his wife's body.

“Why are you doing this?”

The husband panicked to see his wife lying down after drinking the poison.

“You love me with all your heart, but I hurt you. We both suffer because of the people we love. I take this poison as a punishment upon myself for causing you to get hurt and spill blood on each other.”

Not feeling tears dripping on the husband's face, he cried seeing his wife suffering from pain from drinking the poison of the ice liver that he had cursed.

The seasons also changed, his wife's condition worsened but the husband still faithfully took care of her with love and warmth even though he already knew that his wife might not be able to fall in love anymore, unless the curse can be broken.

Until the wife was near her death, she said goodbye to her husband.

She grabbed her husband's face and said, “Thank you for loving me with all your heart, taking care of me when I'm sick, and for protecting me even if I can't love you. Ughhhh... I hope I can atone for my guilt in the next life. If we were meant to be together, fate would bring us back together."

She also gave her embroidery as a thank you to her husband.

The wife vomited blood and finally breathed her last breath. Her husband could only cry over the passing of the wife he loved. There is a sense of regret because as a husband he does not trust his wife.

As a tribute to his wife, he built a resting place called “Taman Anming” which means garden of peace.

The place is planted with various flowers such as Apricots, Lilies, and Chrysanthemums. In addition, also made Koi pond and lotus, it is a beautiful view in that place. Around the navel of the wife specifically he also planted the seeds of Peony as much as 1000 pieces. However, before the flower grew, the husband fell ill and later died. His body was buried next to his wife's belly button.

In his will, the curse on his wife's reincarnation could be broken if that person could make the 1000 Peony Flowers that his wife had buried bloom.

The way to make it bloom is to travel back in time and do good there. The condition was to look for the book that reacted with the goose jade and travel the story of the book.

Although it has been over the centuries, peony flowers that grow in the tomb were never reduced in number, either withered, plucked people, or even died. Uniquely each tree only raises one flower that still has not bloomed. This flower will bloom all if the curse has been successfully broken.

***

Lin Shuwan is a 21-year-old girl. Living in modern times he lives like a normal person. It's just that he can't feel love.

How could?

For he is a cursed man who cannot feel love and all this will come to an end if he succeeds in making the peonies in the Garden of Peace bloom.

That reason was what made him go on a rescue mission into the past, and become a Special Knight.

Now, 999 flowers have successfully bloomed. Only one more floret. And, this was his last mission in order to escape the curse.