You promised your life to another man. I am no more like him than a caterpillar is a butterfly. You don't need to feel obligated to me.

[ for how can jing yuan still see him as the same man? yingxing had been a boisterous, exuberant creature, haughty and proud, always grinning and preening like a peacock, laughing easily. he loved with his full heart, loved so much that it ruined him, when he could not hold back his desire for vengeance.

he has blood on his hands, and in truth.. he does not regret it. he would kill that man again and again if he could, for what he did to her.

but prison - prison changed him, rewrote him from the ground up. he no longer laughs or grins, his body is scarred, his spirit broken. he cannot even stand to hear the name, to associate himself with the man he was before. ]

You're in love with a ghost. If you stay with me, you'll only be hurt.