Once upon a time, there was a kingdom called the Blue Mountain Kingdom whose king had a courtesan whose job it was to sing for the king.
Not only was she beautiful, she was also his favorite and was thus forbidden from having a love relationship with anyone for as long as she served the king.
One day, she suffered a tragic death in her family and, just like that, she stopped singing. It was as if her world had come to an end and she no longer had any reason to go on living.
The king was most understanding, of course, as was expected of one as noble as he, but when it went on, this silence of hers, for longer than he could bear, he ordered an investigation into the cause of her distress.
When it was learnt that his favorite courtesan was pining for the love of her life whose death brought about this song-silent behavior of hers, as if her heart had been broken beyond repair and she was in mourning forever, the king flew into a rage and, out of blind jealousy, ordered her to be thrown off the cliffs to her death.
When it was learnt afterwards, although it was too late for the unfortunate courtesan by then, that the love of her life was a cat, not whom he mistakenly thought was one of his subjects, the king ordered three days of mourning to be observed throughout the kingdom in honor of a wrongly-condemned courtesan who died a wrongful death on account of a stupid cat.
This is a true account and may be found in The Annals Of The Blue Mountain Kingdom, Volume One, among other ancient texts found in the Quingjing Dynasty Collection found in the Royal Archives of the Blue Mountain Palace rumored to be somewhere beyond the shores of the furthest ocean where wars and conflicts were unheard of.
