"First comes heartbreak, then regret, then a happy ending."
Jiang Shihuai said softly, "I'm a mendicant, yet I can't beg fate to grant me the one bond I want." He paused, then turned to Gu Lanan with a smile. "It can't be helped. I just love you so much."
Across three lifetimes, he whispered in the other's ear, "Master, I love you." But as soon as the words left his lips, they scattered on the wind.
"In those hidden corners no one knew about, he used to watch me so carefully. I knew all along. But how could I be any different?"
"Lanan, let's get married," he said.
Theme: The blue trumpet vine has found its Shihuai bird. It loves nothing in the world but you.
