Our Longing Ends in Two Places

Thanks to Miss Amo for the cover! P.S. This is a bonus fanfiction chapter, but it can be read on its own. Thank you for your support. The bright moon of his hometown, the moso bamboo on the hills, the babbling stream: all had faded into pale moonlit shadows in his heart, recalled alone in the stillness of the late night. Sometimes he would think of the little girl next door, Ayue. She would blush and call him Brother Qi. But the days of his youth were long gone. All that beauty, before it could even blossom, had been buried beneath the bleak dirge of a fallen nation and a shattered home. That day, as he was leaving, Ayue asked him with a bright smile if he wanted to have yangchun noodles from their hometown for dinner. Zhiyuan was already eight, and had pleaded with him to teach him how to ride a horse when he came back. He smiled and nodded to them one by one. He kept smiling and smiling, but there were no tears. He still remembered promising to protect her and Zhiyuan and keep them safe for the rest of their lives. In the end, he had broken his promise. Theme: