[Wandering sailor x fallen young master]
Ten years ago, Yu Qianfan was Xu Sui's “attendant boy.”
The mixed-race young master was beautiful, arrogant, and willful, like an expensive cat with a glossy, silky coat.
When they meet again ten years later, Yu Qianfan is stunned to find that Xu Sui no longer shines.
Now he is an “outcast” in everyone's eyes, despised by his family and gossiped about by the townsfolk, confined to a monastery. By day, he speaks of compassion and universal love, but night after night he gets blackout drunk, curled up in filthy alleys, mumbling through bleary eyes as he begs for forgiveness.
Yu Qianfan should be happy to see him brought low.
Because ten years ago, Xu Sui told a lie.
That lie cost Yu Qianfan his mother. He was driven out of town and has been drifting at sea ever since.
“Serves him right,” Yu Qianfan sometimes thinks.
But another voice asks:
“Could his sins have something to do with me? After all, he risked never getting into heaven just to love me.”
Through the disheveled, alcoholic, despondent Xu Sui, Yu Qianfan always sees the boy from ten years ago: radiant, tearful, and attached to him more than anyone else.
Protecting and cherishing him has long since become second nature.
When the grown-up Xu Sui is mocked and humiliated, made a pawn in power struggles, and driven into a corner, the grown-up Yu Qianfan still says, just as helplessly as ever:
“Come with me.”
“Where to?”
“The sea is vast. There has to be somewhere we can go.”
[Happy ending!]
Love is sin, love is redemption. "If I had planted a cherry tree the year we were separated, there would have been ten crops of cherries by now." Although it is still being serialized, but it is really pushed, Xu Sui has been getting angry in a clumsy way [laughing] and even cursed Yu Qianfan and said "I wish you good weather next Wednesday" because he is afraid that Yu Qianfan will have an accident 🥺 (and I don't think he can use irony based on his Chinese skills)