"It's not shameful to have loved passionately and can't forget even if you said you did. The shameful part is that I can't face my own heart, and that's my biggest issue."
"...I'm not sure what I should do."
"You taught me since I was little to live with clarity and never be self-deceptive." Gu Yuan looked at the photo on the tombstone with a gentle smile.
"Your education was right, even though you couldn't practice what you preached and spent half your life deceiving yourself..."
— Mistaking vinegar for ink, writing a lifetime of sourness on paper.
Gu Yuesheng lived most of his life in a daze. He created for himself a fantasy world, always telling Gu Yuan, "Daddy and mommy are in love, and we will love each other forever."
That statement could only be half-believed: Gu Yuesheng loved Wen Fei.
But Wen Fei would never love Gu Yuesheng.
"I have to go, I'll come see you another day." Gu Yuan slowly stood up.
