<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> SONG OF THE YOUXIA</span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="" data-mce-style=""><div dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div style="" data-mce-style=""><div dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div style="" data-mce-style=""><div dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><blockquote style="" data-mce-style=""><div id="x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div id="x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div id="x_x_x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="" data-mce-style=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I looked for your face in the mirror at the bottom of the Sunset Pool. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the Hall of the Immortals, I called out your name.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The five planets swept the earth on my behalf, looking for you.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sun and moon pierced my gloom, but only momentarily.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The fragile orchids could not bear my despair, and so they died.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Butterflies? They fluttered and dropped from the gloomy pines.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And so, I dared not enter the Forbidden City. The palace empty. Its stone forever cold and hard.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Without you, I was nothing. Without you, I was a young man who dared not cry the heaven-borne tears that filled me. Without you, I was an old man who could not die.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My hair white. My face haggard.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was a useless, empty, tranced being from many years of roaming, searching, searching for you in vain.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But one night, in a dream, you came to me. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You found me.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You said what I have always known but would not believe.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"You are the Youxia," you said, "condemned to be a wandering knight always."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">" I am the Empress," you said. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You continued.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"The search for love is loveless. The search for meaning is meaningless." </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"But what matters, and what matters only, is that we have found our way here to the spirit-realm."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"The spirit-realm."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We lie together in an abandoned pagoda under an eclipse. A white tiger crouches near us. Music rises to the dark sky. Fragrance from throats of jasmine fills the spring mist." </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We are young again," you said, and then was silent.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="" data-mce-style=""><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">I answered. </span></span></div><div style="" data-mce-style=""><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span></span></div><div style="" data-mce-style=""><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">"I roll up the mat from my bed, Empress. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I leave the world of fools now, never to return." </span></div><div style="" data-mce-style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span></div><div style="" data-mce-style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I am without shape or shadow. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am your lover in the </span><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spirit</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">-realm. Only that man."</span></div><div style="" data-mce-style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span></div><div style="" data-mce-style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I bend my bow.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></p><div id="x_x_x_Signature" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><style style="display:none;" data-mce-style="display: none;"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --></style></div></body></html>