A Lifetime of Mine for Ten Years of Your Innocence

(Part Two. If anything is confusing, we recommend reading Part One first!)

The bronze gate opened. Zhang Qiling stepped out of Changbai Mountain, his memories reduced to ashes. Only one name remained engraved in the depths of his soul: Wu Xie.

Beside the Xiling Seal Society in Hangzhou, the sunlight at Wushan Residence was still warm.

Wu Xie woke from a long dream.

He didn't know that he had once held a copper coin in his mouth to keep his body from decaying.

He didn't know that someone had shattered time and reincarnation for his sake, and was now making his way from the edge of the world, covered in snow and wind, with nothing left in his heart.

"Xiao Ge?"

"Wu Xie."

He recognized him, but had forgotten everything. All he remembered was that he had to protect him, guided by what little instinct remained and his shattered soul.

From then on, revisiting familiar places became the cure that stirred his memories, while new mysteries opened the next chapter of their fate.

The Seven-Aperture Soul-Locking Coffin in the Seven-Star Lu Palace, the symbiotic inscription in the corpse cave of western Hunan, the mirrored twins in the labyrinth of Guangxi... The "Observers" lurked in the shadows, the Nine Clans were plunged into turmoil once more, and the remnants of the Wang family followed like shadows.

Everything pointed to the true price behind the "Ultimate"...

"Wu Xie, wait for me for ten years."

"I'll bring you back to life, no matter what."

"If time ran backward and we could start over... would you still choose me?"

"Mm."

"Why?"

"Because you're Wu Xie."

"Xiao Ge, tell me... did I die once before?"

I'll trade my whole life for ten years of your innocence.

Then I'll spend every decade I have left by your side, all the way to the end of time.