Huo Qi opened his eyes, guilt and complexity filling their depths. He said to Wu Fan, "I have wronged you. I can't just watch as Miss Duan waits for hundreds of years, only to end up with her soul scattered and destroyed."
"In fact, our relationship in the past life was in name only. I once wanted to marry Miss Duan across the boundary of life and death, but nobody approved. I even tried to follow her in death and, after my family saved me, our relationship, which should have been recognized, became despised because of my extreme suicide attempts.
They family's disapproval and coercion, the rot of the era, and the inescapable rules of survival made it impossible for me to shamefully seek death again. My heart belonged to someone I couldn't have; I only wished to bury it deep and long for her day and night.
