Above the firmament, the snow, like goose feathers, fluttered about.
It landed on Shadow and Qing Chen's hair and shoulders.
Qing Chen felt very fortunate.
Even though life in the Outer World was hard, he still felt fortunate.
Uncle Li Dong, Li Xiurui, Shadow.
Although the three of them had different styles of doing things, they all tried in their own ways to help him understand the world.
And taught him how to coexist with it.
Someone gave him the Taboo and the farthest path of cultivation in the human world.
Someone stood on the precipice of a verdant mountain facing the sunrise, telling him what the most precious thing in life truly was.
Someone took practical actions to help him win people's hearts, determined to elevate him to the most powerful position in the Federation.