Life Is but a Drunken Dream

He was the disgraced top scorer of the palace examination, notorious for carousing in the pleasure quarters.

He was a disciple of Hundred Flowers Valley, cool and taciturn, sent north in search of medicine.

Two paths that should never have crossed collided outside a tavern.

Shen Daoyun said, "Young Master Sujiu, you certainly are handsome and distinguished."

Sujiu thought: This man is too dangerous. I should stay away.

But Shen Daoyun was like the wind. He was everywhere:

At the assassinations, among the corpses, and behind the schemes to frame others.

Time and again, Sujiu turned away, only to turn around and ride after him again.

He couldn't tell whether he was chasing the truth or that man.

Until one day, Shen Daoyun tilted his head and looked at him, a smile in his fox-like eyes.

"Young Master Sujiu, you keep following me. Could it be... that you can't bear to leave me?"

Sujiu was silent for a long time.

"...Yes."

Theme: When husband and husband work as one, their strength can split gold.