"I was wrong. I fancied myself extraordinarily clever, but in truth, I was a fool. She loved me with her very life, yet I fussed over our social standing. To possess the memories of both Wang Shiwen and Wang Shi'uyu—was that not a blessing? To descend into the mortal realm, to become a husband and wife, was that not a blessing? To care for the household, raise the children, and live a life where we rose with the sun and rested with the dusk—was that not a blessing?"
"I was wrong! I always thought that because she spent two hundred years guarding me, I had to spend a lifetime repaying her. But what she wanted was not to be guarded; she wanted to walk hand in hand through the days we had left. I once gave her that. Though it was brief, I have no regrets."
"I was wrong. I said I would guard her for life after life, through every single reincarnation. But did she need that? Was that what she hoped for?"
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