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Alas, to yearn for someone is among the most debilitating of afflictions.
It manifests as an insatiable longing: the urge to breathe in honor of another, to revere every conversation as though it were divine, to murmur their name beneath moonlight if only to memorize the shape of it on your tongue.
It is to press a hand against one’s chest and know the rhythm beneath is sustained by their existence alone, beating every syllable of their name in slurred, dreamlike speech. Drunk on a feeling wine could never deliver, an ecstasy forever grasped at with unbound ravenous palms.
It is both a joy and a torment. A wound that never heals. A fire that never fades.
Hua Cheng, the revered knight and unofficial ruler of Xianle, suffers from this very affliction, and seeks no cure.
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Or, an alternate universe where Xianle stands, Xie Lian has still been missing for centuries, and Hua Cheng is ruling a kingdom while searching for him.