Golden Terrace, Vol. 1 Quotes

“One look at you interfered with the rest of my life.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“Call me that again, and I may just give up the darkness and turn towards the light for you.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“I'm really sorry for having interfered with the rest of your life." Fu Shen leaned back, relaxed ... Magnanimously, he said, "Come on, you can interfere back now”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“Youthful friendships were as transient as morning dew. When the sun rose, they would disappear. Just like people in the end would all change into something different from what they had been.
It was just that some people still showed the outlines of their past selves, while some people's faces had changed altogether.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“Fu Shen rather impatiently said, ...His Honor the Imperial Investigator, coveting my beauty, has abducted me by force and is keeping me locked up in his manor, not permitting me to leave. So for now if anyone else wants to see me, say that I'm staying at Yan Manor to convalesce. "...

Lord Yan had been struck so hard by the unjust accusation falling out of the sky that he was seeing stars.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“If you insist on making me speak directly, then all right. In fact, I didn't want to wheedle you with something like 'You're better-looking than them,' because I thought it would be an offense to even discuss those people in the same breath as you. In my heart, you are above all others. There is no one to compare with you.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“A broken mirror couldn't be put back together, spilled water couldn't be unspilled. Betrayal and deception were laid on the stage in their most direct attitudes. [...]
The iron-hearted Feilong Guard had at last torn off his immovable mask, for the first time in his life exposing his ambitions and desires beneath the bright light of day.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“Though Fu Shen had to stay in a wheelchair, he was still one of the thorny weapons of the mortal world, not to be offended lightly.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“His Majesty fears you, the ministers suspect you, the ignorant masses only follow the trend. Now that you're like this, who still thinks of you? You yourself hardly have a place to shelter, yet you still have room in your heart to embrace the nation? Don't you think thats ridiculous, General Fu?”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“Xiao Xun suddenly gained some insight into why Yan Xiaohan's reputation was so bad - it was said that every time he argued with Fu Shen, whether he won or lost, the word in the capital would be "The court's dog has been abusing a loyal and upright man again".”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“In Great Zhou, the nobles looked down on scholars, the scholars looked down on ordinary civil officials, the civil officials looked down on military officials, and what all of them looked down on were palace eunuchs.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“Call me that again, and I may just give up the darkness and turn towards the light for you”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“Many things, while one was hung up on them, were as huge as the sky Once one had gotten past them, though, the realization came that there wasn’t all that much to them.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“In this world, hot blood would cool, lofty ideals would be lost, heroes and cowards would at last both be interred in the earth. Praise and scorn would all turn to nothingness. There was no sense in demanding things of others, so he had never cared about other people.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“Relationships between people were so delicate and unfathomable. It was easy to become an acquaintance, but it took affinity to become friends.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“p.115 "Therefore [...] I'm not on your side, I'm only on the side most advantageous to me, nothing more than that" He was a piece in this game, and he was also the third player.
He could be used by one side, charge the enemy lines, and he could also flip over the whole game board at a single disagreement.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1

“...a person who could leave a battlefield in one piece falling into an ambush like this was like a duck inexplicably drowning to death in a bucket of water.”
― Cang Wu Bin Bai, Golden Terrace, Vol. 1