Thousands years ago, the heavenly emperor creates a place, in the human world, for the numerous homeless creatures who aim to gain immortality through cultivation and become immortals. This place was called "Taohua" or "The cherry blossom grove".

It was a vast landscape with mountains, rivers and also everywhere you were stepping the cherry blossom petals were following you.

Somewhere, in this place, he plants a special cherry blossom seed that slowly starts to sprout. While sprouting, growing as tall as a child's stature and suddenly blooming for the first time, the young tree becomes surrounded by a glowing aura. All the small peasants who were gathering in that place, were curious to know why this cherry tree is different from the others trees but no one finds out the answer. When a wise and young cultivator from the human world gets lost somehow and enters the forbidden realm of blossom and also wanders through that place for several months until, in one night, he finds a grove where a glowing cherry is planted and becomes enchanted by its beauty.

He quickly realizes that this tree is also wise and it can also cultivate on its own. This is how the word about the glowing cherry gets out and the other creatures start to understand what it really is and how important it is for Taohua.

The handsome man spends the entire night sleeping at the tree's trunk where he is safe from danger, even though only peaceful creatures are residing in the cherry blossom grove.

In the morning, when the sun washes his white like the chalk face and he wakes up, he stretches his body rising his arms toward the clear sky.

Suddenly and unexpectedly, a dry sweet voice whispers "water, I'm thirsty"!

He gets startled and thinks at the beginning that it is his hallucination but the voice whispers a second time, a third time and a fourth time.

"Water, water, I want water! It's too dry lately!"

"It's anyone around", he asks but in all the time he wandered through this place, no human face could be seen and only small animals were there.

Deep inside he knows that it isn't the voice of a human but is something more powerful than that, so he carefully tries to comfort the one who's calling him out.

"Whatever you are, can we pass by each other in peace", he tells to that voice but nothing responds.

The silence was deepened by the blowing wind and the man once again thinks that it is just his imagination but after the few minutes of peace, the voice could be heard again.

"Can you water my roots, it was extremely dry these months?"

Astonished, the man turns around and looks at the tree behind himself asking it: "you're the one who is talking to me?"

The cherry tree says "yes" and explains that the pond near dried a few months ago and since then no drop of water could reach its roots, the poor plant was in need of help because it was unable to move from that place and search a source of water on its own.

The handsome cultivator is friendly and kindhearted, so he promises to water its roots until the rainy season comes back again.

By the way, here in Taohua it was only one season all year long and the flowers never wilted because of the change of the season but instead they were degrading because of the change of the weather. He finds a river at some kilometers far from the groove and carries water in some improvised bamboo buckets. All the procedure would take almost seven years in the human world but because here in Taohua the time was passing slowly, the young cultivator only loses seven months of his life watering the cherry tree. He stops when the rainy season starts.

The tree is very grateful and as thanks for his good deed, the tree's petals pushed by the flow of "qi" energy leads him out of the groove's maze. It is a win-win situation for the both sides. They part their ways here, promising to see each other again in the future if somehow the fate pushes them on the same path.

It was not a place easy to reach by a mere human because it was always changing its form and a huge aura was surrounding Taohua, making it impossible to be detected by a normal eye.

The man returns to his own world and paints Taohua's landscapes in many various ways, while the young cherry continues to glow and its evolution is visible in the days to come. While I keep telling the story, the clock is tick-tocking in Taohua and the human realm.

100 Years later,

Taohua is on verge of extinction because of the numerous attacks of the demon clan.

Their raids in the human world were fast, deadly and bloody and the hidden settlement of the little magical creatures could not remain a secret forever. Nothing escaped the supreme demon's gaze, not even a small house fly. The demons capture the Taohua's inhabitants and make them their slaves. The beautiful landscapes of Taohua were a pile of ashes and mud that would stain your eyes if you were looking at them in that moment.

The heavenly emperor learns of the iniquities of the demon clan in the human world and Taohua and decides to send the heavenly armies to subdue the rebellious clan.

At this time, the same cultivator who intruded the sacred land by mistake and saved the cherry tree years ago has just ascended to heavens and became sn unranked immortal in the heavenly armies. The armies leave the supreme gardens in the morning and put feet in Taohua and the human realm in the evening. The journey is long but necessary.

The heavenly soldiers take the demons by surprise and secretly attack Taohua, freeing almost half of the place. A batch of soldiers led by a tall, slender, white haired guy with purple eyes and dressed in a greyish blue attire, pursued the last groups of demons and caught them burning the only untouched corner of Taohua, the Cherry blossom grove. Our tree was still intact because it was protected by a glowing shield but its powers were gradually decreasing under the fire's flames.

These damn demons are finally captured and sealed in a nine tower pagoda, a magical instrument of sealing powerful nefarious beings.

The white haired guy puts out the fire in the Cherry Grove and when he turns to leave, a weak voice calls out to him.

"It's you! It's you again, the handsome cultivator from the human world! Why are you here now? You got lost again?", asked the cherry tree.

"You can speak?", astonished exclames the young immortal.

"Of course I can speak, you were here years ago and got startled by my voice! Don't tell me that you're getting scared again even this time? You're a soldier, how can you get startled by a woman's voice?", continues the tree.

"So you have a gender, Miss? You look more like a ghost soul trapped inside a wood trunk to me!", laughs the handsome man.

"Don't be rude mister! I'm indeed indebted to you for saving me twice but this doesn't mean that you have the right to offend me!"

"I'm sorry! I wasn't intending to offend you Miss but you look like a tree and don't have a human shape yet."

"One day I will have one and I will prove you that you were wrong in saying the words you said before!"

"I apologise again if I insulted you by saying that but I was just being sincere. I'm really sorry."

When he turns to leave, the tree calls out to him again.

"Hey wait! Last time I paid you back for your help by leading the way out for you.This time I must also repay your actions."

"Miss, this is the first time I set foot in Taohua! I have not been here before and about the events from today, you can consider that I just did my duty and that's enough. No need to repay me! Farewell!"

"Wait! You really don't remember me?

You really don't remember this place and the night we spent together under the moon's light?"

"I swear I have never met you before! This is the first time. I'm not lying."

"But I am sure is you! You have the same facial features and besides that your "qi" is the same as that person's. I can never forget his smell, you wear the same fragrance. Only your hair and eyes have different colours but in rest everything is identical. Maybe your hair turned white due aging and the eyes lost their hue, your hair was black back then!"

"Look, Miss, I'm as young as ever! I just ascended to immortality and I am one of the youngest immortals from the Heavenly realm. Even though I have no high rank in this moment, I am still an immortal and I don't look like a grandpa at all, so please mind your manners. Saying I'm aging is a bit too much!"

"You've just ascended to immortality?"

"Yes."

"Then that's it! That's why you don't remember your previous life and of course our meeting! You've lost your memories from the past!"

"Really?"

"Yes!"

"Miss, I really must go. My comrades are waiting for me. There are still many demons in the human realm that must be subdued. I don't have time to chat with you anymore. Please take care of yourself!"

"Wait!"

"What now?"

"What's your name?"

"I am, Feng Lu Xin! "Feng\=like the wind".

"The new path of the wind.", says the cherry tree.

"Something like that!", replies the young immortal.

"Please take this fruit, it can increase your cultivation!", and the tree lowers down a branch to give him access to the glowing fruit.

"You really don't have to give me a gift for my help, I was sent here at the order of the heavenly emperor. This is my duty, to protect everyone in this place."

"I know but I insist to repay your kindness, just take it!"

Feng Lu Xin takes the huge beautiful red cherry, puts it in a silk sacket, bows twice in front of the tree and hurriedly runs to catch up with his fellow soldiers.

After he leaves, the tree whispers: "That is my heart, don't lose it!"

Under the starry sky, the last battle between the heavenly armies and the hordes of demons is settled with the evil's defeat.This battle takes place in the human world and the demon emperor is sealed in the "Sea of black void",while the few remaining demons run away and hide in hard to access locations so that their pursuers can't reach them too soon.

The three realms ( Heavenly, Human and Netherworld) return to normal and the peace falls upon them for a long time. After this calamity passes, the heavenly armies return to the Heavenly realm and go back to their usual routine. Feng Lu Xin manages to rank up and obtains his own mountain as reward for his merits in the war against the demons.

This mountain is located right near "Taohua" and guards the "Heavenly Gates" of the immortals, thus his new appointment is to guard the gates.

It is rumoured that "Taohua" is a place through which you can access the Heavenly realm, that's why the gates must be guarded against uninvited visitors. The young immortal takes his duty seriously and guards the heavenly gates day after day that it becomes something known throughout the realm and all the immortals know him as "Feng Lu Xin, the guardian of the Heavenly Gates..."

One day, while guardian the entrance, he becomes very hungry that almost faints and has nothing to eat upon himself, but suddenly he finds a silk sacket thrown somewhere in a small pocket of the coat. When he opens it, he sees a red glowing cherry inside and eats it without thinking from where he has it. His whole body then starts to emit a golden aura and he enters a state of cultivation succeeding to ascend a higher level.

In that moment, somewhere in a different place of the Heavenly realm, more precisely on the "Mount of Red Threads", in the "Book of marriage ", two new characters appear and a new chapter is opened. The "Red Thread" Immortal, Lao Bai, notices this sudden change of fate and hurries to check the "marriage trees" from the back cliff.

He reaches the garden on the top of his dominion and checks every red thread from all the branches of the trees. Lao Bai, impatiently makes circles around the last tree until he finally reaches a glowing red thread on the top of it. He checks that wire many times and confirms that is a red thread from their "Marriage mansion" but who could have tied it on this tree remains a mystery in the old man's white head because this tree isn't like the others and no one else besides him can do it.

"Wait a minute! Something's wrong here! I never tied this thread but these characters just appeared in the "Book of marriage"! Can it be tied by fate? This thing never happened and it may bring a calamity upon the three realms. What should I do, should I inform the heavenly emperor or not? Who the hell tied such a thick knot?"

The small old man walks through the garden forward and back, brushing his white beard ( that is tied at the top with a red ribbon) with his right hand. His white and red attire is blown by the wind while he walks around and he looks like a lovely ghost wandering on the earth.

"Will the heavenly emperor blame me for my carelessness and punish me? No way!!! I'm too old to bear a punishment at my age!!! The heavy thunderstorm will kill me! Well, maybe not kill me but it will definitely frie me! What to do? What to do? Why is this happening?"

He circles the garden for a while until a small white rabbit appears and speaks: "Shifu, shifu, what's wrong? Why did you suddenly run in the garden? (The little creature notices the special red thread hanging in the tree behind his master.) Ohhh! We have a new happy marriage! Yayyyyy!"

"Happy? Maybe in your dreams boy! This may actually bring destruction upon our world! It's a cursed destiny! Cursed!", complains Lao Bai.

"It is eally cursed? Maybe you are exaggerating, shifu! Let's wait and see what happens! It may not be something bad in the end!",...comforts him the adorable apprentice.

"You're right little Ti-Ao! It may not be something bad!"

After seeing that the Red Thread Immortal calms down, the little rabbit fairy Ti-Ao transforms into a smiling young boy dressed in white clothes.

"Ti-Ao, you forgot to hide your ears!, tells him the old man."

"Sorry, shifu!!! I always forget that they're a part of me when I transform my body! I'll be more careful next time!"

"Let's check out who the two lovers are!", says Lao Bai to his little fairy.

They both exit the cliff and descend toward the mansion where many fairies of different ages are doing their daily chores.

"Greetings Red Thread Immortal! Greetings Red Thread Immortal!",everyone greets Lao Bai while they pass by him and he replies with a warm smile and silent laughter to all of them.

The old man and the boy enter the mansion and walk forward until they reach a library where many books and scrolls are displayed on the shelves or floating in the air.

The boy reads loudly the title of one of them: "The book of marriage"!

Lao Bai opens it and starts scrolling through it until he finds the new chapter and reads loudly the only phrase that's on it: "Feng Lu Xin appears in front of Ying Hua and the love thread is tied by fate....."

"This is it!, exclaims the Red Thread Immortal. Go immediately and find Feng Lu Xin!"

"Yes, shifu!", replies the the little fairy!