Daylight Knows Not the Depths of Night

The setting includes some original worldbuilding, with three planets.

Lu Huiyin is a stubborn man. It took him ten years to figure out one thing.

When a boy falls for someone in his youth, that's fine, but he shouldn't be childish. He shouldn't bully a girl, pick fights with her, or let his pride get in the way just to get her attention.

Take himself, for example. If he'd handled his feelings with conviction and maturity back then, chosen to help her improve her grades and tell her how he felt, would things have ended with them going their separate ways, with one waiting after another?

Instead, it became an obsession. He guarded the envelope she had left behind, filled with secrets, and made himself an island, unable to form close bonds with anyone else.

Later, they met again in a sea of people.

Lu Huiyin wasn't the one who stayed by her side as she grew and helped her through hardship. But later, he was the one who fought to win her over, knew when to advance and when to retreat, and stood firmly by her side.

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Poverty is a sin.

Even overwhelming love falls silent.

Beauty is a sin.

To admire someone with force is a transgression, too.

Rumors have killed many people before. One more would make no difference.

Do you believe that?

When you hear it,

I've never feared a stranger's knife-sharp gaze.

I've never feared living in rags after a life of luxury.

If you want to break me,

take away my innocence and my free spirit,

take away my dignity and my shackles,

take away the last of my pretense,

then let me make my mistakes without shame, let go, and live at ease.

What are you afraid of? You say you've always loved me.

Theme: Only courage lets you become yourself.