“A god fallen... a ghost risen”
“A young man with whom he feels an instant connection”
and married hualian on the front cover!!! 😭
“darling of the heavens” and they're young boys with bright eyes who were too pure at heart and never experienced the cruelty of the world til one day their whole life suddenly fell apart and they were driven into despair only to have those they held dear leave them one by one.
but at the end of the day, he fell in love with that person, who never gave up on him, and would keep offering his love for eternity.
thinking about this hualian parallel where hua cheng gently held the umbrella over the one who had offered it to him 800 years ago in the same manner, but now he got to hold his hand too 🥺
crying because the fact that the little white flowers offered by hong hong'er and the red umbrella xie lian gave to him are within his shards of memories, means just how important xie lian thought of his meeting with that boy in the temple, who cried that he wouldn't forget him.