Xiao Xingchen stops walking. He doesn't know that the man by his side is the liar Xue Yang. But then he's been given enough honesty along the way to throw him off the scent.

But never like this. He sounds so impossibly young and innocent in his vulnerability. He can't not have a reaction to that.

"You have stayed with me all this time." He doesn't know why. Xiao Xingchen expected him to heal and be gone, because life with the blind isn't easy. But he never did, and loyalty like that, without blood or clans is everything that Xiao Xingchen embraces. "And I will stay with you until the day you no longer want me."