He told her that the laws of heaven could not be defied. But in the end, who chose to endure an everlasting trial of love, withstand a storm of thunder for her and stay by her side, then risk everything to save her with his dying breath as he leapt into the bottomless abyss?
She told him that she had severed their ties of love. But in the end, who chose a love that would last forever, gave him everything, and wept in remorse, heartbroken yet without a single regret?
Everyone knew that she had given up half her bleeding heart for him. But no one knew that he had long engraved his love for her in his bones, fusing his sealed memories with his very soul.
That year, by the river of forgetfulness, Yan Dan walked away for eight hundred years, and he spent eight hundred years lost in longing. He thought she had stripped away every memory, unaware that her yearning had turned into reluctance to let go, making it impossible for her to part with him. Time whitened the tips of her hair and froze her eyes. The river was impossible to cross, and all that remained was a single lamp illuminating the vast, misty haze. Amid the biting cold wind, it became the only trace of love.
The everlasting trial, love unresolved, hearts unable to part, the pain of separation, the grief of parting.
Love had taken root too deeply to be torn out.
But love could overcome the trial. So Ying Yuan answered Yan Dan with the rest of his life.
Theme: The everlasting trial can be overcome, and love can find its answer.
