Shen Qing never knew that, in Mu Ye's eyes, her feelings were like the melted chocolate he'd eaten as a child: sticky, cloying, and sickly sweet.
For a long time after Shen Qing left, Mu Ye kept wondering which of them had truly kept the other by their side.
He had always thought Shen Qing was the one who had tied him down. But only after watching his life completely fall apart once she was gone did he understand: he was the one who had trapped her. He had clipped Shen Qing's wings so she couldn't leave him, yet he grew to despise the very woman he had imprisoned with his own hands.
