Walking Beside You

[Content notes]

1. Slow-burn romance: The first 65 chapters focus on mutual attraction, with the relationship progressing officially much later. Expect plenty of everyday interactions and groundwork in their comradeship forged through life-and-death battles.

2. The leads have traumatic backgrounds: Both have painful pasts involving the destruction of their clans and family persecution. Their psychological scars and healing process run throughout the story.

3. Battle injuries: The leads suffer serious injuries multiple times, including damaged meridians and burned limbs. There are detailed depictions of treatment and rehabilitation.

4. Supporting characters and villains: There are family power struggles and betrayals. Some villains, such as Meng Hanche, are not clearly punished by the end.

5. Ability limitations: The receiving lead temporarily loses his core supernatural ability due to severe injuries, and his recovery takes a long time. He is not at the peak of his power throughout the story.

6. Conspiracy plot resolution: The final boss, Gray Crow, is never brought to justice, and some mysteries are left unresolved. The story focuses more on the leads' relationship and their everyday life together.

Deep in a secret realm, where spiritual plants wither and tainted energy spreads, a young man wielding the power of warm sunlight meets a guardian whose memories lie frozen in ice.

Fu Xingwei enters Zone Seven carrying the last seeds of warm-sun grass from his hometown. His smile blazes like sunlight, but his palm conceals an unspeakable loss. Meng Songyuan has guarded the spirit garden alone for years. His gaze is as cold as ice, and beneath the old injury to his right arm lies a past of being cast out by his family. Their paths should never have crossed, yet one misty morning, they meet. One offers a warm spirit-mushroom pie; the other replies with a curt, "Get lost."

But the secret realm won't let anyone go it alone. When a strange blight spreads across stone-moss vines, when the training ground's alarm shatters the silence, and when an ominous hum comes from a device deep in the dark rift valley, they are forced to stand side by side. At the edge of life and death, the powers of warm sunlight and cold wood resonate for the first time. Gold light and icy blue weave together into a purifying net, and with it, the first threads of trust.

He gradually discovers the gentle cracks hidden deep within that iceberg. The other slowly learns that sunlight shouldn't be used only to light one's own path. On nights spent bandaging each other's wounds, at dawn as they share stories of home, and beneath the moonlight where moon-shadow orchids bloom, a bond deeper than partnership quietly takes root.

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