#藕饼 #Oubing #Nezha #AoBing One more historical Oubing, this one a 2008 short story from a Taiwanese author. Only the summery for this was found, the whole story hasn't turned up yet so it's going to be missing a lot of flavour. https://www.bilibili.com/video... https://www.bilibili.com/video... Nezha fell in love with the beautiful child of the Loong King and the two children agreed to elope to the desolate far north to avoid having to come clear to the parents from both sides. Unexpectedly during the escape from the Loong Palace they were discovered by the guards. Nezha engaged in combat with them. With his divine might he easily defeated them, but during the fight he was too heavy handed and when he shattered the axe like arm of a mutton crab guard and sent it flying straight into his lover’s ribs. The Loong Prince vomited up blood and died on the spot. Nezha was heart broken. He took out the broken rib, pinned it in his hair and returned the to the Li Residence in a daze. Naturally the Loong King was not going to let this go down quietly. His child was dead and his corpse was not even complete. He busted into Li Jing’s home and demanded an explanation. Li Jing and his wife, having never seen the prince before were terrified and did not know what to say when faced with the bloody body of the little loong. Nezha stepped forward and drew the knife from his father’s waist and said it was his doing and he will take responsibility for it. In front of his dead lover he first sliced off his hands and feet, then he scraped off the skin and flesh of his body and chopped off the bones one by one. At the end, with his face covered in blood and a tuff of hair on his head still with the white jade like loong bone through it, Nezha said “I will never see this sky again” and dug out his right eyeball. He then said “this sorrowful land, I don’t want to see it every again either” and dug out his left eyeball. As he did so he collapsed softly. Li Jing and his wife had already fainted at this scene but the Loong King was still not satisfied. Seeing that the body still had this son’s bone pinned through its hair he went over and twisted Nezha’s head off. And so Nezha’s soul returned to the water, and only the mother of water could hold all the pain and regret. So fierce was Nezha’s feeling that it stained a large area of the ocean red. Nezha and the Loong Prince’s souls did not meet after death, and the red ocean faded back to blue after a thousand years as Yue Lao said even he did not have a red thread that could remember the love between a loong and a man.