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“Let Nezha come for us,” she said. “I’m going to burn his heart out of his chest.”

“Don’t try to speak,” Nezha murmured, and he brushed his lips against her forehead as he drove the knife deeper into her back.”

WTHHHHHHH

“You think that he’s invincible, but he is more fragile than you think. Yes, I know he’s a prick. But I also know that he’d throw himself off a cliff for you. Please stop trying to break him.”

STOPPPP

“Please,” he said. “Stay.”

“All right,” she said, and returned to his side. She took his hand in hers. “I’m right here.”

“What’s happening to me?” he murmured.”

🥺🥺🥺

“Nezha stood beneath the Griffon’s mast, arms stretched out to the tower of water as if reaching for something.

He met Rin’s gaze, and her heart skipped a beat.
His eyes were shot through with streaks of ocean blue—not the eerie cerulean gleam of Feylen’s glare, but a darker cobalt, the color of old gems.

“You too?” she whispered”

WHAT THE HELL?!

“She needed to do this because she deserved this. This was, in some horrible way that made complete sense, atonement. She knew she was monstrous. She couldn’t keep denying that. This was self-flagellation for what she’d become.”

Poor rin

“He looked pleased. Proud. And somehow, the jolt of satisfaction that gave her felt better than anything she’d smoked in months”

She craves academic validation more the literal opium fgs

“You don’t have to suffer alone, you know.” Suni gave her one of his rare, slow smiles. “You’re not the only one”

Suni is so soft and gentle 🥺🥺

“Can’t I be happy? I’ve missed you.”

They’re going to break my heart

“She couldn’t help but stare at his face while he talked. Up close his scars weren’t so unsettling, but rather oddly compelling.
She wondered if it hurt him to talk.
“What is it?” Nezha asked. He touched his cheek. “Ugly, isn’t it? I can put the mask back on, if it’s bothering you.”
“It’s not that,” she said hastily”

Poor baby