When Lang Chi was thirteen, Su Yuan found him covered in wounds and brought him home, where he nursed him back to health.
From then on, Lang Chi never had to worry about food or clothes, and he had the chance to cultivate.
He served Su Yuan with care, so humble he didn't dare look him in the eye, afraid that one careless mistake would get him abandoned again.
In Su Yuan's eyes, A-Chi was the most thoughtful servant and a genius worth boasting about.
“Lang Chi, guess what I like watching most?”
Back then, Lang Chi didn't understand why there could be such mountains beyond the cramped city of Sufan. You could see one mountain's end, only to find one range after another stretching beyond it.
“Eagles.”
“I love watching eagles fly high, circle and dive, and soar to the highest, farthest places.”
As a young gentleman from a noble family, Su Yuan was always reserved, quietly hiding his feelings in poetry. But outside Sufan, Su Yuan was simply Su Yuan, a reckless young man ready to give everything for the one he loved.
“But real eagles don't belong in cages.”
Lang Chi was confused. “If I leave, will my master be happy?”
“A-Chi, Lang Chi, you don't need a master.”
“Will Su Yuan be happy?” Lang Chi corrected himself.
“He will.”
Su Yuan spoke softly. The emotion in his words was too heavy; he didn't want to startle the mountains.
“When Su Yuan sees the little eagle he raised spread its wings and soar freely, never looking back, his heart will be filled with joy.”
Lang Chi was still sent away.
At one hundred and thirty, Su Yuan failed to form his core for the third time, and his life was nearing its end.
He regretted never seeing the heavy snow on the streets of the mortal world, never seeing the phantom whales that crossed the sea or the secluded forest of Wolf-Return Mountain...
But he had no regrets about shattering his spiritual sea a hundred years ago, severing their bond, and setting his little eagle free.
The eagle released from its cage flew very, very far away.
A hundred years of easterly winds, flowers drifting through the air.
Then the familiar little eagle suddenly appeared above the old courtyard wall and called out: “Hey, I'm back for you!”
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