South Ink, North Qi

When they first met, she wore simple clothes and pale ink, with only a faint warmth about her. “If you died, it would be such a waste of that stunning face.” When they met again, he was love-struck and consumed by passion, ready to overturn the world just to stay by her side. “I live freely and have never coveted power. All I have ever wanted is you.” Her secret was impossible to guess, and the gulf fate had set between them was impossible to cross. “Even if I defy Heaven and throw the world into chaos, I will never leave you.”