In that place,
Both of them could interchange,
Helped each other through the hardest times,
In the darkest of each chimes.
***
THE YEAR 1904, a century away from the present time.
Qing Long was a victim of it.
"Just do what you have to do. If everything goes wrong, call me by your subconscious. And I want to remind you that you can just do it in a day. If the day exceeds, something will go wrong with your shape," Qing Long empathized. As an old man who was living by the principle of the Manchus, he knew that acting as a royal officer in the Palace was prohibited.
"You may come back to your own form once the day had finished. So you need to be careful on how you move. Just be patient if something doesn't happen the way you intended," Qing Long added as he took a step back from Althea and looked at the side. He knuckled his fists and dismissed their conversation.