Love often stirred hearts and enchanted souls.
Countless men and women dreamed of meeting the right person, walking together through every phase of life.
As ancient marriage vows once said: "Like the phoenix and the dragon in harmony, may our hearts be forever united, growing old together, and sharing life and death."
Yet, in this world, some fates left the vows unbroken, but the messages undelivered.
Some people spent their entire lives lamenting the regrets of missed opportunities.
And so, one ferried across the God Blood River, with wedding robe growing old over millennia.
Another, lost in solitude, fell into madness, hiding their inner bitterness with laughter and curses, becoming a sword-wielding little person.
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Immortal couples were ultimately a minority.
The vast majority of love was struggling bitterly in the vortex.
