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If Only You Were Mine

Summary:

Basically, I'm doing the "100 reasons I love you, and 1 reason I can't have you" trend with Xie Lian and Hua Cheng (San Lang) because I'm bored.

Chapter 1: Your Highness, I am forever your most devoted believer. {Hua Cheng (San Lang) POV}

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1. I love the way you smile even when the world gives you no reason to.

2. I love that you still believe people can be good.

3. I love your kindness.

4. I love your stubbornness.

5. I love the way you never abandon anyone.

6. I love your laugh.

7. I love your patience.

8. I love your courage.

9. I love your compassion.

10. I love your gentleness.

11. I love your strength.

12. I love your determination.

13. I love your humility.

14. I love your honesty.

15. I love your warmth.

16. I love your voice.

17. I love the way you say my name.

18. I love your hands.

19. I love your eyes.

20. I love your heart.

21. I love that you never stopped trying.

22. I love that suffering never made you cruel.

23. I love the way you comfort strangers.

24. I love the way animals trust you.

25. I love the way children smile around you.

26. I love your terrible luck.

27. I love your ridiculous ideas.

28. I love your determination to fix broken things.

29. I love your endless hope.

30. I love your endless mercy.

31. I love the crown prince you once were.

32. I love the scrap collector you became.

33. I love the god everyone forgot.

34. I love the man I never could.

35. I love your scars.

36. I love your flaws.

37. I love your dreams.

38. I love your fears.

39. I love your faith.

40. I love your humanity.

41. I love the way you protect people.

42. I love the way you forgive people.

43. I love the way you see beauty everywhere.

44. I love your resilience.

45. I love your sincerity.

46. I love your optimism.

47. I love your gentleness toward me.

48. I love your curiosity.

49. I love your awkwardness.

50. I love your kindness to ghosts.

51. I love the way you never looked away.

52. I love the way you listened.

53. I love the way you understood.

54. I love the way you treated me like a person.

55. I love the way you never feared me.

56. I love the way you reached out your hand.

57. I love the way you remembered everyone.

58. I love the way you carried pain quietly.

59. I love the way you endured.

60. I love the way you survived.

61. I love every story about you.

62. I love every memory of you.

63. I love every version of you.

64. I love your past.

65. I love your present.

66. I love the future I dream of with you.

67. I love your compassion for enemies.

68. I love your loyalty.

69. I love your sincerity.

70. I love your heart of gold.

71. I love the prince.

72. I love the god.

73. I love the exile.

74. I love the wanderer.

75. I love the survivor.

76. I love the legend.

77. I love the man beneath it all.

78. I love the person nobody truly understood.

79. I love your strength when you think you're weak.

80. I love your softness when others expect hardness.

81. I love your endless second chances.

82. I love your forgiveness.

83. I love your hope.

84. I love your dreams.

85. I love your stubborn heart.

86. I love your devotion to others.

87. I love the way you look at the stars.

88. I love the way you carry the moonlight.

89. I love the way you speak of ordinary things.

90. I love the way you make eternity feel short.

91. I love every prayer you answered.

92. I love every tear you hid.

93. I love every sacrifice you made.

94. I love every impossible choice you endured.

95. I love every step that led you to me.

96. I love every moment beside you.

97. I love every lifetime I waited.

98. I love every reason I stayed.

99. I love you beyond words.

100. I love you beyond death.

But there's one reason I can't have you.

Because you're everything sacred in this world, and I have spent eight hundred years believing that someone like me—a ghost born from hatred, violence, and obsession—could only worship you from afar.

And if loving you means you remain happy, safe, and free...

Then I would rather be your most devoted believer than the man standing at your side.