Soul-Seeking Chronicles

The youth travels across rivers and lands. The other cannot help following him, sharing life and death, and refusing to leave. The youth has skin like ice and a soul like snow, his blood cold and his heart colder. Fortunately, he is no lifeless puppet. After crossing a thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers, he finally earns a smile from you. [The opening was just the author showing off. Really, this is a story about relying on lust and a little courage to snatch a life back from monsters and demons, then winning the beauty's hand in the end.]