Ask the world what is love ?? That calls for two to unite in life or death??
Ha, what these two renegades of
the pugilist world shared is quite a mystery called LOVE. Hmm. . .
This has got to be one of the most beautiful love stories I had ever come
across!! I am tempted to analyse this . .
For
the start, what they have is not a simple "handsome-guy-meets-pretty-girl-and-falls-in-love
" love story, but one full of hardship and trials. That's what sets
it apart from the love shared by Guo Jing & Huang Rong, who had it easy
when one compares their love story with this dynamic duo. (in fact, I think
their love pales in comparison!) Neither is their love like what the Wu
brothers had for Guo Fu:blind, selfish, posessive love.
Their love is pure and true, untainted by the fact that Xiao Long Nu is
no longer chaste after she's been violated by Yin Zhi Ping, or that Yang
Guo has become a one-armed `handicap'. Their suffering had only increased
the capacity of their love for each other. She who can `marry' another she
despised so as to obtain the antidote for his Love Blossom Poison, ready
to kill herself as soon as that is accomplished ; He who would rather bear
the excruciating pain of the poisoning rather than to give up his feelings
for her.
This is the love of two people who were once very much alone: Xiao Long
Nu in the old tomb and Yang Guo having only a turtle for his friend. But
having found companionship in each other, to be able to mutually care and
shower concern on each other, they can no longer picture life without the
other. Life now grows around the other person, and they find that life can't
continue when one of them is dead. The fact that each of them is important
to each other, is the foundation of their undying love.
It all may have begun when Xiao Long Nu saved young Yang Guo from the
clutches of Quanzhen Sect. She cared for Yang Guo and uncomplainingly provided
to his growing up needs as a loving sister might. To Yang Guo, she took
up the maternal role he lacked in his life.
But what may have been maternal love before, saw a transition when Yang
Guo grew into his teenage years. He grew to love his beautiful mentor as
a young man might a lady; To protect her always and even if it meant that
he must die to do so. ( heh heh, seriously guys, how many of U would be
willing to die so that your mother will live ? Think about it )
Yet their love has not matured simply because they are left alone, meeting
no other people in their lives, hence had a kind of "Limited Choice"
, but their love had to face up to discrimination thrown from the entire
pugilist world, attacked by the merciless hands of time. More over, Yang
Guo has many fair maidens who are willing to lay their lives on the line
for his own, Gongsun Lue is one of them. Not to mention the cousins Cheng
Ying and Lu WuShuang who wasted their youth waiting for him to have a change
of heart as he waited for Xiao Long Nu for an entire 16 years. But he remains
steadfast to this love, enduring the acute loneliness for the 16 years to
pass and the day to meet his love to come.
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