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    the alluring scent of roses often distract others from its thorns. one may hiss when they cut themselves whenever picking blooms, but is the rose wrong for trying to keep its flowers from being mercilessly plucked to suffer a fate of death?

    jin guangyao raises his thorns, piercing those deserving it. the one rose he protects? the chance of reviving his mother, even if it means strangling the yiling patiarch, or colluding with the dextrous hands of qishan.

    yet the rose bush grows new flowers. his hands could only suffer enough cuts from the thorns, and as he bruises the buds of his entanglements with lan xichen and nie mingjue, a sickening perfume wafts through the breeze as the mistakes continue to haunt him.

    was it correct in the first place to grow thorns?

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