Here's some mp3s.

The butterfly lovers
Rain
(The background midis you're hearing is from here. This is the original song.) It's Chinese instrumental sort of song, from " ÏÉ ½£ Ææ ÏÀ ´«", a Chinese rpg computer game that i used to play. It's a really nice game, with nice characters, plot featuring love triangles, tragedy, sacrifice and hope. Oh, and how could i not mention the music? It plays in the background throughout most of the game, changing songs whenever something new happens.

About this particular song:
Since most people probably won't be able to play this game,esp. if you don't read Chinese, i suppose it wouldn't hurt to spill the beans on this particular scene in the game this song comes from.

The story of the song:
      Sometime in ancient China, there was a scholar who was passing by a bush when he saw a butterfly trapped in the web of a spider. It was a beautiful yellow butterfly, and looked small and helpless as it tried vainly to struggle free.
      Touched, the scholar decided to free the butterfly. But as he released the butterfly, the spider suddenly came out and stung him on the hand. It hurt slightly, but he was too happy that he had freed the butterfly that he did not pay it much mind.
      When he went home, his condition worsened day by day, and though his family called for many doctors(his family was rich), none could cure him nor lessen his pain at all. He simply lay in bed all day, unable to walk.
      One day, a young girl came to his family, claiming she alone could cure him.
With little hope, they let her try to treat him. His condition rapidly improved when he drank the herbs she had picked for him. Soon, he could speak with his family, and get out of bed to walk about.
     The scholar's family was ecstatic, and as soon as he was well enough.promptly had them married,
     However, he was never fully recovered, and always felt dreamy, his thoughts incoherent. A strange smell perpetually permeated his room, such that all those who smelt it felt drowsy. His family grew suspicious of this girl, accusing her of
always being out for long periods of time, though she said it was to pick herbs for him. They thought she was an evil spirit, and gradually managed to convince him likewise.

     Finally, a priest was called in to exorcise this spirit, for the girl was truly a spirit, but contrary to their belief, she was a benign one. As he summoned the spirits of the elementals, the girl came out of the room, showing herself to be a butterfly spirit, for there were two large, delicate wings of a butterfly on her back. Unable to defeat the priest, she fled away on gossamer wings into the forest.
     By the time the priest found her again, in a clearing among the trees, she was locked in a terrible fight with a giant black spider spirit.
     It turned out that the girl, the butterfly spirit, had made a Faustian deal with the black spider spirit, that if she supplied this black spider spirit with the scholar's life-energy for some time, the spider spirit would finally give the antidote to her sting to the scholar, curing him once and forever.
    Yet it was all a sham. As soon as the black spider spirit gained enough life-energy, she would use her magical powers against the Butterfly. The Butterfly originally had 1000years of meditation, so that she could change into a human at will, and was more powerful than the Spider, who only had 500years of meditation. However, with all the life energy, the Spider was soon alot more powerful than the butterfly spirit. Furthermore, there was no cure to the spider's sting.
    The butterfly spirit was about to get eaten by the spider when the priest came. He managed to kill the Spider, but the butterfly spirit was still very sad, for there was no cure for her lover, and she knew he could not live for more than a year.
The scholar lay motionless on the ground, seemingly dead.(the spider spirit had brought him there, probably to eat him)
     Then, the butterfly spirit decided to sacrifice herself for him. She gave him one last kiss, in which all her 1000 years of mediation and magical powers went to him, though they could, at most, give him 10 more years of mortal life.
      The scholar awoke, just in time to see a small yellow butterfly fluttering around him. It circled him twice, then disappeared into the bushes.
      At the bequest of the butterfly spirit, the priest never told the scholar about her, and the scholar never knew. He still believed, right to his death, that that "evil spirit" that tried to poison him, was finally exorcised.

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