Orchids on the Shore

Written by someone hopeless at writing blurbs... A tribute to a classic.

I have never regretted saving you. I have only regretted loving you. May we never meet again in our next lives; and if we do, may we not know each other.

I thought you hated me completely. If you couldn't bear to see her and me die, how could you let yourself die before me?

I was wrong. From beginning to end, I had been longing for a love that was never mine.

I was wrong. All along, I never dared admit that the two people I loved were the girl who saved me and Song Ning. I never dared admit that you were the only one I loved.

I would trade three lifetimes of tribulation for one chance to begin again with you. You once said, "How could I let you have your way?" Whether I go mad or fall into demonic corruption, even if morality and propriety have kept you from loving me, I'll drag you down with me.

But after three lifetimes, Song Ning is no longer the Song Ning she once was. So what? I, Shen An, don't care.

Using the framework of The End of a Floating Life, this is an imagined love story that never came to pass.