Mu Sui is not one person.
He is two people.
Or rather, it is an identity.
And one of them, who is also him — the person he has always loved is not Jiang Xinyu, it wasn't before, it isn't now, and it never will be in the future.
He loves Xiang Silei.
Or perhaps love is a better word to describe it.
Speaking of which, meeting Xiang Silei was just a joke that he and the other individual within his identity played, a small bet.
He won, and got to know Xiang Silei.
Maybe... he shouldn't have won in the first place.
It's clear, their tastes are different: he likes Xiang Silei, but as Mr. Shen going to the Yixiu Pavilion, he set his sights on the then-unknown Jiang Xinyu.
Cold, pure, and an outsider in that world.
The two had conflicts.
They both knew it was impossible to marry her and bring her home through the entrance of the Mu Family Mansion.
Both planned to secretly redeem her and bring her back, and hide her — but then the question arose, who should they bring home?
