Ink Feathers, Words of Love

Synopsis:

The first time he asked what love was, his dark eyes echoed the deep black of his clothes. The hint of confusion in his gaze gave him an indescribable allure.

“To willingly give up everything for someone, that is love.”

So he abandoned most of the hundred-year legacy of the martial world and followed her to the imperial capital to help his romantic rival.

The second time he asked what love was, the bright red at the corner of his lips stung her eyes. The faint hope in his dark eyes suddenly softened her heart.

“Knowing he will die, yet staying by his side and refusing to leave, wishing only to spend one more day with him. That is love.”

So he kept her imprisoned at his side, deceiving himself that she stayed because she loved him.

The third time he asked what love was, the long sword in his hand rested against her throat, his expression unfathomable.

“Choosing to hurt yourself rather than him, that is love.”

So in the end, that sword pierced his own chest.

The last time he asked what love was, there was no hiding the pallor of her cheeks. Blood poured out, soaking his white robes. As his consciousness faded, he struggled to ask for an answer.

She did not answer. She only bent down and kissed his cool lips.

“What is love?” Bai Yuqing murmured, holding his cold body.

He spent his whole life searching for an answer, never realizing that his life itself had already given the best one.

“This is love.”

A debate and a search for the meaning of love between a somewhat domineering, alluring man and a clever, perceptive woman troubled by love.

Only at the very end did she realize that she, not he, was the one who truly did not understand love.

The man, alluring and mysterious as the star Yinghuo, was beyond her understanding, yet she could not escape the fate of being ensnared by him.

Yinghuo guarding the heart constellation, an omen of great misfortune.

Yet though she poured out her life's efforts, she could not protect the heart she had wounded until it lay shattered.

“If there is another life, I will kiss you the moment we first meet and tell you...”

“This is love.”

Seek love, guard your heart, do not grieve. I am here.