What does it look like to love someone? Is it throwing yourself headlong toward them, or doing whatever it takes to keep them? Can affection, which fades with time, also grow stronger as time goes by, building up and compounding in a world of increasing entropy until it becomes a promise to love only one person for a lifetime? In Gu Wuyan’s world, he was clearly the one who was cherished at first. So why did everything change in the end? Perhaps, as people say, even the most passionate love cannot withstand the erosion of time. All that remains for the two of them is a guilt they cannot bear to let go of. Maybe that’s what people mean when they say the favored have nothing to fear, while those who fall in love can only swallow their pride…
