Li Bai was a scholar in Qingping Town, nearly thirty years old, but he failed all nine exams. Li Bai was disheartened, and the ancients said: Standing at thirty, thinking that he had wasted half his life and not made an inch of achievement, he secretly hurt himself. Li Taibai drank half a catty of wine and laughed frantically: "I have worked hard and studied hard for decades with my head hanging from beams and cones, but God didn't open my eyes, pitiful! Sad! Hateful!" Li Bai looked at his shabby house again, the leftovers on the table, and his heart couldn't stop feeling desolate. Since God has not given me a place to stand, what face do I have to live in this world?

Qingping Town was next to the South China Sea, and a few miles east of the town, you could reach the seaside. Drunk Li Bai walked out of Qingping Town and soon came to the seaside. Li Bai wanted to see the sea again before he died, and once upon a time Li Bai shouted his ambition to the sea: "Sometimes I will ride the wind and waves, and I will hang straight on the cloud sails to help the sea." I didn't expect to be buried in the sea today, and good fortune will make people sad.

Li Bai walked towards the beach, and before he stepped into the water, Li Bai heard a "patter patter" sound on the ground. Following the sound, Li Bai saw a small goldfish stranded in a puddle on the shore, swinging its body vigorously, as if it wanted to break free from the puddle and jump back into the sea. Li Bai crouched down to see the goldfish crystal clear, stroked the goldfish with his hands and said, "Are you in a desperate situation like me?" The goldfish seemed to be listening to him, so it stopped moving and blinked at Li Bai. Even if Li Bai was in despair, God has the virtue of a good life, let him do another good deed before he dies. Li Bai gently lifted the little goldfish and put it into the sea, and the little goldfish looked at him and swam away.

Li Bai closed his eyes and walked into the sea. The seawater submerged Li Bai's ankles and then Li Bai's knees until a wave came and hit Li Bai at the bottom of the water. Li Bai felt his nose and eyes filled with water, and then Li Bai lost consciousness.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Bai woke up and opened his eyes to find himself on a small island with a beautiful girl beside him. Li Bai was very surprised and asked the girl who she was and where she was. The girl just said that she was a fisherman before, and then the fishing boat was overturned by the waves and washed up on the island. Yesterday, he saw Li Bai floating on the island by the sea, so he saved him. Li Bai was very grateful to the girl.

Li Bai looked out along the island, and the endless sea water was connected to the sky. It was a desperate situation, but because of the company of a beautiful girl, it became a paradise on earth. The girl happily accompanied Li Bai to recite poems against him every day, and also accompanied Li Bai to go up the tree to pick fruit and collect dew water. In the evening, the two of them lit a bonfire, lay on the beach to watch the stars and listen to the sound of the waves together. It was the happiest time of Li Bai's life. Because his parents died early and he studied hard in a cold window, no one had ever given him happiness and comfort for so many years. This time it was an unprecedented satisfaction for him.

Li Bai hoped that such carefree days would never end, but one day the girl said to Li Bai: "My father is coming to find me and go home, my father will not agree with me to be with you, I want to go far away with you, are you willing to take me with you?" Li Bai looked at the girl's sincere eyes, which gave him hope again. So the two of them cut down some trees on the island and tied them up into a raft, and struggled to paddle into the distance. I don't know how long it took, but when Li Bai and the girl were about to paddle to the shore, they could only hear the thunder on the sea behind them, and it seemed that thousands of troops were chasing from behind. A huge wave struck, and their small raft was overturned. Li Bai and the girl just poked their heads out of the water and turned into two boulders.

It turned out that the girl was the goldfish that Li Bai saved, and she was the daughter of the Sea Dragon King. Because she was grateful for Li Bai's life-saving grace, she didn't want to see Li Bai die in vain in the sea, so she saved Li Bai and turned into a human to comfort him. In the process of getting along with each other day and night, they both fell deeply in love with each other. But people have laws, and heaven has rules, and immortals and mortals cannot intermarry, so the Sea Dragon King sent immortal generals to capture them. Seeing that the two were about to go ashore and escape, they could only use spells to turn the two into boulders.

Now you can still see the two boulders on the South China Sea. People named the two boulders "Tianya" and "Cape" respectively in memory of the sincere love between Li Bai and the daughter of the Sea Dragon King.