He has grown weary of the feuds of the martial world, but how can hands stained with blood ever be washed clean?
It is true: once you enter the martial world, you have no control over your fate.
Even if you never wield a sword again, the people of the martial world will not leave you alone. Fame, fortune, gold, and silk are temptations that move the heart.
Their chance encounter feels like it was destined by fate. Some people need only one glance to stay with you for a lifetime.
They say scholars have no sense of loyalty, yet scholars are full of passion too. Does being well matched in status and wealth really matter so much?
A person's life is like the waves of the sea, sometimes rising, sometimes falling, but never still.
People are always dissatisfied with who they are, forced to choose between two paths at crucial moments.
Perhaps life is meant to be lived through. Even the darkest hours will pass, and tomorrow will always bring a new dawn.
Wherever there are people, there is a martial world.
We have never been far from it!
