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    "But it's true, isn't it?" the boy croaks, just above a whisper, as if he never intended to utter them past his trembling lips in the first place. "You don't love me, you could never love me. Not in the way that I want. Not in the way you love him."

    The man's eyes widen. His breath catches in his throat. Not because of the confession, no—he knew this would come some day, he's practically always known—but because of the way the boy looks in his frustrated, shattered state; a mirror image of his past.

    He sees himself, in those golden, rubbed-red eyes, glossy with tears. In those swollen lips, picked and bitten raw.

    And he decides that Yanqing deserves so much more than he ever had.

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