A City of Allure

How many times have I drifted through life, how many dreams have I dreamed? I want to forget, but can't, and can only dwell on it alone.

Pour a cup of wine, get drunk once.

You only get one life. How many things can you remember for the rest of it? I don't know. But there are many things he wants to forget, and only one he simply can't: the taste of Zhuyeqing...

"I drink Zhuyeqing not because I like it. I'm trying to find a taste I had once before. I've drunk plenty of wine, but I can never find that taste again."

The innocence of his youth was torn apart by someone's own hands. How can a lost heart ever learn to trust again?

"What gives you the right to ask me to trust you again? Who do you think you are, He Yunxiao?!"

Once bitten by a snake, you fear a rope for ten years. With a heart grown thorns, how could he ever dare to give it away?

"I've long since stopped wanting to think about love. Now that I've found those brothers, all I want is to take them back to Horqin."

A lifetime of splendor, and so many sorrows; by the time the song of parting ends, the beloved is gone.

The song of longing ends, and longing shatters.

The ending has to be HE. The babies are there for comic relief. Look up at the sky. To learn what happened before, read Book One, The Battle General.

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