"If I hadn't made a mistake back then... Then I would have been the one who grew up with you in the past ten years... That way... Then I wouldn't have met you so many years later than him...
If I had met you earlier... Would there have been a different ending between you and me..." He murmured, obviously it was a question, but if you listen carefully, the words are full of twists and turns.
"Does Your Highness regret it?"
"Does Shu'er hope I regret it?"
She doesn't speak.
"... If I hadn't gone my own way back then... Mingheng wouldn't have come to you... And he wouldn't have died... He wouldn't have died... He would have stood in front of you... Just like... Just like me now."
"If he can stand here properly..."
"... Shu'er... My Shu'er... Shouldn't be so sad..."
Li Ke smiled bitterly, feeling the pain in his heart that he could no longer endure. He closed his eyes, and there was always a red flame beating slightly in the dark world.
Oh, he remembered.
The first time he saw her was on a rainy day like this. The mist blurred the boundaries between heaven and earth. She was kneeling under dozens of bluestone steps in an aqua-green skirt, her figure as stubborn as a sapling. Only a red wooden hairpin of a zigui bird in his hair lit up the eyes of a man who walked alone all night like a spark of fire.
He asked himself, if he could have met her one day earlier, when he had not started yet and there was still time to save everything... Then... He asked himself, would he give up everything for her...
Probably not...
Thinking about it this way, God still cared about him and did not let him meet her one day early... Fortunately... When he met her... He could no longer stop and retreat, and it was already too late...
It's not that he hasn't regretted it, and it's not that he hasn't tried to redeem himself, but because of this, he realizes very clearly... Once the things he did start, it will be too late...
Intention: The most terrifying thing in the world is not the immediate punishment, but the loveless future. ——"Blood Guanyin"