Shortly after the extinction of the dinosaurs, she loved him, but he didn't know.\ She fed him the sweetest fruit, but he didn't know.\ She hung the most exquisite necklace made of animal bones around his neck, yet he still didn't know.\ Even when she gently nestled in his arms and fell asleep with a smile, he still didn't know.\ He wore the most beautiful animal-skin clothes in the tribe, adorned the most beautiful animal-bone necklace, and was accompanied by the most beautiful woman in the tribe, but he still didn't know it was because she loved him. He seemed to take it for granted, and taking things for granted is usually not a good thing—many things that should have been noticed go unnoticed, and many abnormal things become ordinary due to familiarity.\ So he lived ordinary days, still unaware that all this was far from ordinary.\ At that time, wars with other tribes were inevitable. The victors gained slaves and the right to survive, while the defeated were destined to lose everything. This was the law of nature.\ In one of the countless clan wars, they were defeated. Some lost their freedom, and some lost their lives.\ Usually, men lost their lives, and women lost their freedom. Because it had been this way for so long, no one thought it was unfair. Those who were less skilled naturally lost. Captured men waited to be killed, while women waited to be taken back to a cave by a man from the opposing tribe.\ She knew that in this way, it would become even more impossible for them to be together. Both she and he would become slaves of the other tribe, and slaves had no freedom.\ She had not anticipated that he might be killed.\ When she saw him fall under the opponent's knife, she cried.\ She had cried countless times for him before, but only this time in front of him, because at that moment, her heart truly shattered.\ She had cried countless times for him before, but only this time did he see it. Only at that moment did he realize that everything was extraordinary, and he finally knew that she loved him. He said in his heart, 'I owe you a tear.' But he could do nothing, because he was dead.\ The leader of the other tribe discovered that a female captive had died, reportedly because her heart was broken.\ [Second Life]\ He is a bird, and she is a fish.\ They love each other, but they cannot meet.\ He went to seek the gods—birds are always the animals closest to the gods.God said to him: Your marriage is destined for three lifetimes. This is the second lifetime. Since there is no hope in this life, you should wait until the next. Birds do not have tears, but their hearts cry.
God sighed softly: I see your heart shedding tears. I can use my magic so that you can cry, but you must remember, only one drop.
After a while, God said again: Let me tell you a way that isn't really a way. According to former gods, as long as the sea dries up, the fish in the water will turn into flying birds...
He immediately flew away. Watching his figure, God muttered to himself: "Ah, I lied again."
In the days and nights that followed, he restrained the tears of longing, constantly chanting "Don't cry, don't cry," and kept carrying stones to throw into the sea. In his heart, countless times he saw the sea dry up, she turned into a bird, and then he shed that precious drop of tears for her, saying, "I love you." But all this only appeared in his heart.
Some said he was a cuckoo, reminding everyone to sow in time;
Some said he was a Jingwei bird, filling up the sea for revenge.
They were all wrong. Because they did not know this was a love spanning three lifetimes.
Until one day, he was about to fall. Although he did not believe the sea could not be filled, he was indeed exhausted. He felt tears coming, and he struggled to hold them back, shouting hoarsely: "Don't cry! Don't cry!" He struggled and flew toward the sea one last time—he was about to collapse into the sea.
He gradually sank to the bottom. In the final moment of his life, he saw her figure, and she saw him too.
But they could not see each other's tears, because they were both in the water.
[Third Lifetime]
When she was still a fish, she swore that she would become a flying bird. So in the third lifetime, she became a flying bird.
What about him? In this lifetime, he was a little flying insect.
This time, she visited God. God said to her: This is your last lifetime of marriage, your final chance. After this lifetime, you will forget each other in the currents of the world.
God saw again that the bird's heart was shedding tears, so he said to her: In his third lifetime, you will encounter danger. At that time he will save you from fire and water wearing golden armor, and return that one drop of tears to you.
The wind carried her conversation with God to his ears. He smiled.He knew he could finally see her in this third life. That way, those words, that single tear, could be given to her.
In this life, they searched for each other.
Left, right, constantly choosing.
More than once, they flew along the same path, but at different times.
More than once, just as they were about to meet, they chose opposite directions and missed each other.
They chased each other, repeating each other's routes countless times, missing each other countless times.
The sky was truly vast.
One winter day, the wind told him she was flying toward him and told him to wait here. He was overjoyed, afraid of missing her, nestled against a pine tree, looking around, and found that sometimes the sunlight was so brilliant. In these two lives, it was the first time he had time to notice this. The sun noticed something else: he was dying! No flying insect could survive the winter. He couldn't wait for her. He began to feel he was about to die. He hated, hated that the insect's lifespan was too short; He hated that the bird in his past life couldn't swim; He hated himself for only realizing she loved him so late. He was dying, but it couldn't, because this was the last life of their marriage. So what about the Golden Armor Cloth? What about that tear? Could God have lied again? She was flying over, but his life was rapidly slipping away. Seeing all this, the pine tree he nestled against cried. The pine tree's tears were a drop of resin, which enveloped him tightly, preventing his life from fading away, thus preserving his last bit of vitality. But at the same time, he lost the freedom to move. This was the last life. No one could just watch them miss out again. She flew over, he called out, but he couldn't speak; the resin had already solidified. She saw something golden, so dazzling. But she missed it, because in her heart, no matter how dazzling it was, it was not as important as him.
In their final life, they missed each other just like that.
When she collapsed exhausted, the sun cried, so the sky became cloudy; The wind cried, so it rained.
[Afterwards]
Time rushes forward recklessly, and reincarnation continues as usual.The millennium of reincarnation turned pine resin into amber, and he lived on in his third life relying on that last bit of vitality. As long as the amber remained intact, he would continue living in the third life, watching over that destined relationship.
After countless cycles of reincarnation, she became a woman once more. But she had long forgotten that bond spanning three lifetimes; she had another beloved, and they were happily together.
One day, her boyfriend saw this piece of amber and bought it to make a necklace for her. She hung it around her neck.
It was the first time they could be so close like that again, but he could no longer speak, and she had long since forgotten.
Watching her happily living with her boyfriend, sometimes he felt jealous, sometimes happy, but more often filled with regret—if he had understood earlier, he and she could have been living happily together much sooner. He cried countless times, but he had no tears left.
One day, her office caught fire, and she was on the top floor.
She desperately tried to escape, but the fire was intense, and beneath her was a sea of flames.
The fire god roared: I will devour another life!
She could not hear it because she was the last target—she was no longer an ancient being.
But he heard it; he was still alive in his third life.
At that moment, he suddenly remembered the god's words from a thousand years ago: “In his third life, you will face danger. At that time, he will rescue you from fire and water in golden armor and return to you a drop of tears.”
So that's it!
While running, she felt the necklace around her neck suddenly break, but she had no time to notice; she had to get out, her boyfriend was still waiting for her.
She didn't know that, in the sea of fire behind her, the amber had melted, and from the amber rose a bubble—that was the tear he had shed for her before the pine resin hardened, released by the fire god after a thousand years.
No need to ask about his fate—even without the fire, his life force would have vanished when the amber broke.
The fire god devoured the last life and stopped behind her.
She ran out of the fire and rushed into her boyfriend's arms, crying. People said it was a miracle that she survived the fire.
Her boyfriend held her, crying, and shouted loudly, “I love you."Everyone around her clearly heard it, but no one heard the dying words of that tiny creature from a thousand years ago in the sea of fire, which were also 'I love you!'\ God looked at everything from the sky, 'In his third lifetime, you will encounter danger, at that time he will wear golden armor and save you from fire and water, and then return to you a single tear.' The words he spoke a thousand years ago echoed in his own ears.\ God cried.\ She and her boyfriend had always been very happy, but she didn't know that it was because God had cried for her.\ [The End]\ Reincarnation continues, life goes on.\ The only thing that will not continue is that forgotten fate of three lifetimes and three worlds...