Mr. Xu, Are You Safe?

An'an, our bond was brief. Why, then, did we love so deeply?, Xu Nuoping

That little girl hadn't even grown all her baby teeth, yet she'd run after him, sweetly asking to be picked up... In the blink of an eye, she'd blossomed into a graceful young woman. How many days and nights had he spent missing her? He kept his feelings buried, telling himself again and again that she deserved someone better to care for her, not a man who couldn't even give her a proper place by his side.

He'd once naively believed that if two people truly loved each other, nothing could stand in their way. In his youth, he'd even impulsively wanted to run away with her. But he had buried that delusion before it could take root.

If he really had done that... he wouldn't have been able to face her older sister, would he? She'd surely regret saving him, wishing she'd let him starve to death in that alley, in that dim corner where he'd faced death alone.

That little girl shouldn't have to endure the world's scorn. She belonged up in the sky, shining like her own little sun, not dragged down into the dirt by him.

As the light slowly faded and darkness swallowed the world, at last, that man went mad...

He spun a web so intricate that nothing was left to chance. In the end, he greedily trapped the sun...