After pondering for a moment, Youying slowly began to tell the story.
Once upon a time in a certain city, there were two great families with a deep, ancestral feud, often engaging in armed conflicts. Yet, by a twist of fate, the eldest young master and the eldest young lady of the two households fell in love at first sight during a grand ball. Despite the bitter hatred between their families—which made their romance fraught with peril—they secretly married.
Cruel fate, however, played a bitter joke on them. The heroine's cousin killed the hero's friend, and in an act of vengeance, the hero killed the heroine's cousin, resulting in his exile. Forced into an unwanted marriage with another, the heroine despairingly drank a potion that induced a death-like trance.
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