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limonnayasloechka15 июля 2025 г.Growing up in the palace as the ten-year-old son of a consort among rival half brothers had taught him a lesson: Pride wasn’t just his armor. It was everything he had.
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“I was actually thinking about how good you look in white. And when the transmuted robes will vanish off our bodies. Should be anytime now, am I right?”
Zhen raised an eyebrow. “Are you such a sweet-talker to all the boys you take to bed?”
“Only the ones that help me fake my death and thwart my evil half brother.”
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“Do you believe that two people are meant to find each other and be together and nothing in the world can keep them apart?”
Xian smiled. “Zhī jǐ, you mean?”
“I’ve heard of that,” Zhen said. “But I’m not sure what it means.”
“It’s a little hard to define,” Xian replied. “It’s someone who knows everything about you, maybe even knows you better than you know yourself, and who will stand by you no matter how dark or ugly you feel inside. You’ll get mad at each other sometimes, but you can imagine spending the rest of eternity with this person, because you know the two of you will never get tired of each other . . . or stop loving each other.”
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“Do you believe in destiny?” Zhen asked.
“I believe destiny is an excuse people give not to fight for what they really want in life,” Xian replied.
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I fell in love with the one responsible for prolonging your suffering for seven years, Xian couldn’t say. And I still can’t bring myself to hate him.
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Xian wished everything were so simple. That Zhen was just an ordinary boy he had met in Changle and fallen in love with, someone he could bring back to the palace and introduce to his mother as his beloved. Instead, Zhen was imprisoned under Leifeng Pagoda, and his mother would never meet him or know his name.
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Zhen was a snake, and Xian was a snake hunter. There was no way anything between them could end well.
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Один мудрец когда-то сказал мне, почему в каждой половинке символа инь-ян есть крошечная точка противоположного цвета, – произнес он. – Это напоминание о том, что в любом решении нужно хоть немного думать о благе другого. Только тогда все сложится гармонично.
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"Someone wise once told me why each half of the yin-yang circle has a small dot of the opposite color," he said. "It means that in every choice, we have to consider the good of the other person in some small way. Only then will things turn out well."
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Snakes didn’t mate for life, but he envied creatures that did, like wolves and cranes. He didn’t crave different partners. He wished for only one who could find a place in his heart—and who held a place for him in his. Even as a human, his attraction to other boys was always vague, remote. But when Xu gave him the fruit and their fingers touched . . . the unexpected rush of warmth that went through him was entirely new and exhilarating.
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