So Far Away, Yet I Journey for You

From Yuanshui to Cangzhou, we stood by each other through life and death.

Song Zhao, if you insist on going, I'll be the shield in front of you in battle, and the mud beneath your feet on the way home.

Water Ghost Arc

"I waited for him for three years and loved him for nearly four hundred. In a moment, an old lover's heart can change, and yet people say it is easy for an old lover's heart to change. When it comes to love, there's truly no making sense of it."

"Perhaps the one meant for you is still on the road. The journey may be long, but the day they arrive will come."

"You're right, but I'm afraid I can't wait that long."

Enchantress Arc

"The grass on the plains withers and flourishes year after year. I thought she was waiting for me to grow up, waiting for me to become strong. Only later did I learn that she saw me as something lowly, like grass, and that I had never once entered her eyes."

"I could endure being beaten and cursed day and night, panting in a cave like a dog. I could endure her walking past me with her head held high, without sparing me even a look of pity. I could even endure every kind of suffering in this world, and die with my soul scattered."

"I want you to enter my memories and see whether she ever loved me."

Twin Brothers Arc

"I used to think I had no home. When I was born, strange signs appeared in the heavens, and my mother died in childbirth. Everyone despised me. I was like a rat crossing the street, daring only to hide in dark corners and steal filthy slops to eat."

"But after enduring all that hardship, I found my benefactor. He gave me a home and a new life, and raised me into a fine man who would bleed but never cry. Whenever I heard a noise at night, I used to wake in fright. This family made all the long nights that followed feel safe."

"Then one day, I took the knife he had given me and ended his life with my own hands."

Theme: A love that is both passionate and heartbreaking.