Mo An felt that not every period of growth and every beautiful thing had someone to guide it or notice it. Most of the time, you had to walk alone in silence, struggling against life.
Yu Shen, however, thought: If being young is what keeps me from protecting you, then you are the reason I’ll work hard to grow. That way, when we meet again, we’ll have no excuse to part.
When Mo An had passed through those years and could finally face them calmly, she realized that someone had once bathed her in a brilliant, gentle light throughout that quiet, flowing stretch of time, from her youth all the way to the end of time.
After enduring the passage of time and completing his transformation, Yu Shen was certain that the girl with the quietly sorrowful eyes from his youth was someone who could never be absent from the course of his life.
We save each other, and we save ourselves, for the sake of becoming better people and embracing someone better, too.
