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how is she even allowed to do that with the covenant in place? this is not making sense to me

"The mirth and nonchalance with which he regarded me over the past weeks is completely gone; the way he looks at me burns with a rawness and desperation that catches fire in my heart."

Girl deep down you know he is the one, you want to convince yourself you want the golden good guy but you don't.

he will die for her, i'm calling it now. that is what's going to happen in this book. yu'chen will die for her so that she can win the war and get the life she wants

"I can't fathom an end to everything I feel for her, because that would be an end to life itself"

"A man living in eternal night who finally sees the sun could never hate it for leaving him in search of bluer skies. [...] I finally realize that my mother was wrong. No matter how much we try, some things in life were simply never meant to belong to us"

THE YEARNING

"so i love her, i love her with everything that i am and every piece of my soul, even as it breaks me and even as i know that it is all that i can give and nothing that she wants"

"i will wait for you. no matter how long it takes, matter how many tears you need me to catch. i will be here"

hang on, hang on, i don't like this. why is she even doing this if she doesn't want to? and why is he not stopping her?

"and I forget everything else. I forget about trying to hide how I feel about her, forget about the practiced nonchalance I've been wearing around her, that mask of ice I held in place when my heart felt like it was on fire whenever I was close to her"

"I can't change everything. But I promise you, anything and everything in my power to give you, I will. I... I hope that one day it will be enough"

My poor lover boy, he just keeps yearning for her

Him: my heart, my soul, knows who it is even before my mother reaches her and tips her chin up.

Her: For some reason, I feel safer than I can remember as his arms close around me and he lifts me once again. I know him. I know him with my heart, a deep sense of familiarity that feels engraved into my bones.

so that's it? i mean, i called it but i'm a littl underwhelmed. i feel like hao'yang was just a plot device more than a real character in the story. i can understand his unrequited love and everything but he's just there so that an'ying has someone when yu'chen is not there