Together Through the Clear Autumn

[Please add my upcoming novel next door, The Villain Thinks Things Aren't So Simple [Quick Transmigration], to your want-to-read list~]

Shen Xubai had three things no one was allowed to mention.

First, the man he had once loved. Second, the long saber displayed prominently in the main hall. Third, the shocking, winding scar across his back.

These memories were like his scales, and no one dared touch them.

Then, three years later, on a night of swirling snow, Xu Qingjian stood at the entrance to his residence, holding a sick child of just over two years old in his arms.

Xu Qingjian's nose was red with cold as he carefully patted the little boy bundled in his cloak.

The child clung tightly to Xu Qingjian's clothes, frightened yet unusually well-behaved as he called to Shen Xubai, “Papa, Daddy...”

[Men can marry men and have children in this setting]

Theme: Keep trying and things will get better