"Bai Yini, I don't want anything. I only want you."
"Bai Yini, you can't push me away. Without you, I can't get through this."
"Bai Yini, I'm different from them, and yet I'm the same. I want you just as much as they do."
And so, after Sang Chilaoliu's relentless pursuit, the aloof and tender immortal above became his little fox, his alone.
"Chu Qiaosang, I want a child. Will you give me one?"
"Chu Qiaosang, there are many people by my side. I can't put you first in everything. Does that hurt you?"
"Chu Qiaosang, I've never stumbled in my life. Will you give me a chance?"
Their feelings need no words, but even the rare moments they share are enough to take one's breath away.
"As long as I'm here, no one can touch her. Not even those above us. If one Chu family isn't enough to make them restrain themselves, then I'll use the whole nation to keep them in line. They will remember this: if I, Chu Qiaosang, want something, there is nothing I can't do!"
She is the goddess he will protect at any cost.
"So many things were decided when I was born. I can't refuse them, but I don't resent them either. I don't want much. All these years, there's only ever been him."
He is the one she knows she shouldn't want, yet can't resist loving.
