Honestly, I felt the man beside me right now was more likely to be Dan Yuseong than the one in Anhui. I didn't know how much the man in Anhui overlapped with Dan Yuseong, but I doubted it was more than the one in front of me. A past betrayed by a woman, traces of Huashan martial arts, and a shattered dantian. Add in the fact that he'd trained in the mountains for ten years, and it even explained why I hadn't found him until now. No matter how sharp Huashan's eyes were, they couldn't scour every uninhabited mountain in the vast Central Plains.
'…I'd rather it not be him.'
But in my heart, I hoped he wasn't Dan Yuseong. I'd rather the man in Anhui be him. At least then, I wouldn't have committed the outrageous sin of harboring feelings for someone I'd need to atone to for life.
"…Take the lead. As promised, I'll follow wherever you want to go."
