Perched on a Branch

Song Yi was a lone bird, cast out into the woods. She was content with her peaceful, carefree life and had no desire to return to her old home.

But someone was set on dragging her into the whirlpool, come what may. And someone else crossed countless mountains and rivers, searching until their shoes wore thin.

She wondered how anyone could be so unreasonable.

But that person put aside his usual arrogance and said, full of grievance, "Without you, I'd be all alone in the cage."

Across long roads and endless starry skies, Song Yi finally understood how a heart could fall.

When they parted, Zhao Lin remembered her promise to return. But he waited and waited, only for her to drift farther and farther away, until no letters came at all.

If the mountain will not come to me, then I will go to the mountain.

He had made it impossible for her to live as she pleased, doing whatever she wanted. So he would spend the rest of his life making it up to her.

She searched among all the cold branches, refusing to settle, because she had once seen the vast ocean.

An alternate ancient-world road-trip story, a sister-and-younger-brother romance and adventure. Please don't take it too seriously.