The eternal moment they had shared, he realized, had ended in the blink of an eye . The pa.s.sionate love that once bonded them together now tasted only of betrayal . A thousand sails unfurled and became exhausted to the wind; the waning moon was as if a hook in the sky; in this life, I, still, am protecting you .

As they patrolled the Northern territories, a thousand miles away the South became usurped . Together the soldiers marched along the beautiful Southern rivers, alike in their struggles of life and death, knowing that their lives would be met with both disaster and joy . At that time, those two brothers, born of the same mother, should have never loved the same person . When their camaraderie, hidden under their b.l.o.o.d.y paths, turned into conspiracies; when yesterday’s affection turned into mutual antagonism; when the blooming water lily on a snowy mountain turned into a bewitching red poppy; when, layer by layer, he pushed away the heavy mists of history…

As they patrolled the Northern territories, a thousand miles away the South became usurped . Together the soldiers marched along the beautiful Southern rivers, alike in their struggles of life and death, knowing that their lives would be met with both disaster and joy . At that time, those two brothers, born of the same mother, should have never loved the same person . When their camaraderie, hidden under their b.l.o.o.d.y paths, turned into conspiracies; when yesterday’s affection turned into mutual antagonism; when the blooming water lily on a snowy mountain turned into a bewitching red poppy; when, layer by layer, he pushed away the heavy mists of history…

At that time he could see the fates that would befall all others, though his own was unclear . Although he could redeem all the world, his own destiny was irreversible .

At that time he could see the fates that would befall all others, though his own was unclear . Although he could redeem all the world, his own destiny was irreversible .

The country was as if a painting, the chaotic world an eternal song . He silently walked past his birth nation, the secular world, the dynastic clans, love, his family, the past, rebirth . By the time he decided to finally look back, he found the world in chaos, glory and atrocity mixed together .

In his one thousand, six-hundred and forty years of memory, as he treaded past a thousand years of time, a constant promise echoed in his ears:

The country was as if a painting, the chaotic world an eternal song . He silently walked past his birth nation, the secular world, the dynastic clans, love, his family, the past, rebirth . By the time he decided to finally look back, he found the world in chaos, glory and atrocity mixed together .

In his one thousand, six-hundred and forty years of memory, as he treaded past a thousand years of time, a constant promise echoed in his ears:

“I will wait at at the banks of the Fei River for your return . ”