Ask Not About the Years of This Fleeting Life

This story is set in a fictional world. If it's not to your taste, please be gentle.

[Sun Ge] A young man's love is like sparks borne on the wind, its blazing light like a wildfire sweeping through the night.

My young man, I love you, but I love myself more.

[Si Zhong]

When it came to loving you, I was a fool who blinded himself. But this dream hurt too much. After waking from it, I had nothing left to hold on to, trapped within it and lost in its depths.

But the blood and tears of my entire family weigh too heavily. I am Si Zhong, and my surname is Si.

[Si Zhong] x [Sun Ge] (prequel to The General Was No Boy)

(This story has no fixed protagonist; everyone has their own storyline. The protagonist's name is only needed for Jianwen's purposes. Most of the story is told from Si Zhong's perspective.) (Don't pressure me. I don't do well with pressure.)