Flowers Bloom and Fade in Their Own Time

After everything that had happened, the person he was then and the person he was now were like two different people. For some reason, though, I kept remembering what he had been like when he first came to the Xie residence. Back then, he was frail and unsmiling, yet he was always right by my side, following me everywhere. I often teased him for being my little shadow, looking him in the eye and asking whether, if I got married one day, he would still follow me around like this.