Legend of Madam White Snake 2006 - Episode 1

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June 26, 2009 - Chinese Drama

Cast:
Bai Su Zhen (White Snake) – Liu Tao
Xiao Qing (Green Snake) – Chen Zi Han (a.k.a Chen Sha Sha)
Xu Xian – Pan Yue Ming
Fa Hai – Liu Xiao Feng
Lian Qiao – Liu Xi Yuan
Ba Liang – Xie Ning

Synopsis:
Based on the famous Chinese legend, “Bai She Zhuan” is a story that focuses on the love between a mortal man and a snake spirit.

Bai Su Zhen is a thousand-year-old white snake spirit whose goal is to become an immortal. Seeing Bai’s earnest and determined attitude, the Goddess of Mercy (Guan Yin) has agreed to help her. Following the Goddess’s advice, Bai rescues Xiao Qing, a five-hundred-year-old green snake spirit, and the two become almost like sisters.

Their quest for immortality leads them to Half Step More (Ban Bu Duo), a place that exists in between the mortal world and the spirit world. There, they meet two humans who had accidentally stumbled into Half Step More: Xu Xian, a nerdy, weak, but caring young man, and his saber-wielding friend Ba Liang.

Events involving a journey into the spirit world and back: a battle with a monk who’s convinced that all spirits are evil, and the snakes risking their lives for the humans and likewise firmly seals their friendship, even overturning the humans’ prejudice against spirits. In the process, Xu Xian falls in love with Bai Su Zhen, and she unknowingly starts to like him as well.

However, Half Step More is no place for those two, and Bai is determined to send them back to the mortal world. The journey back requires that they pass through an area where hammers knock away their memories of Half Step More. Xu Xian does not want to go because he does not want to forget Bai Su Zhen, but she will not allow him to stay. Because she has started liking him, she does, however, tell him that as long as he doesn’t look back, the hammers cannot hit him. Unfortunately, just as he is about to cross back into the mortal world, the monk Fa Hai tricks him into turning back by disguising himself as Bai Su Zhen. Xu Xian then forgets everything, including his love for Bai.

The Goddess of Mercy once again appears before Bai Su Zhen and Xiao Qing, and she tells them that in order to become immortal, they must collect eight real drops of tears from the mortal world. And so, the two snakes find their way to the mortal world and coincidentally end up in the same town as Xu Xian. They meet again on a rainy day when Xu Xian ends up Bai’s boat on its passage across Xi Hu (West Lake). Bai Su Zhen is sad to see that he has forgotten about her while he falls in love with her once again.

As they continue to run into each other on the streets, Bai Su Zhen realizes that she has fallen in love with Xu Xian, and he decides to propose to her. However, since she believes that becoming immortal is still more important, Bai tries her best to repress her feelings but to no avail. Eventually, she gives in and agrees to marry him. She then promises the Goddess of Mercy that once she fulfills Xu Xian’s two greatest wishes (one, to be a famous doctor and two, to marry an awesome wife) she will pull herself away and continue with her quest for immortality.

As they settle happily into married life, the forces around them continue to try to pull them apart. From the evil monk Fa Hai to Lian Qiao (a girl who likes Xu Xian and believes that Bai is an evil snake spirit) to even heaven itself, all signs attempt to point out that their love is forbidden, that it is against heaven for a spirit to be with a human.

Bai She Zhuan is the story of how their love overcame these obstacles, and how it transcended even the laws of heaven.