Su Qiao hesitated for a moment. "Because you once told me that you would come find me and asked me to wait for you."
"..." Had he said that?
Kaitles recalled his long life, somewhat at a loss.
Su Qiao raised an eyebrow. "You don't believe me?"
"No, I just... I just haven't thought of when we might have met."
Kaitles had never doubted anything she said.
Although, throughout his long search, Kaitles had not found a single moment in which their paths had crossed.
He was also confident that even if they had merely brushed past each other, he would never have overlooked her.
"We haven't met in this lifetime. You searched in the wrong era."
As she spoke, Su Qiao reached back and took his hand, a trace of apology in her expression. "I'm sorry. I came too late."
Su Qiao had never expected that, for the sake of a promise, this man would spend so long searching for someone who might not even have existed.
Even after several thousand years had passed, he still had not given up.
And she had even been wary of him before this.
Su Qiao's initiative made Kaitles somewhat agitated.
He set the wooden box in his hand on the grass, then reached out and pulled her into his arms.
"No! The fact that you appeared is already the best gift you could have given me."
What he feared most was searching every corner of the world and waiting for thousands of years, only to end up with nothing.
In truth, he was afraid too.
He was afraid that one day he would grow tired of these days of aimless searching and ultimately end his long, meaningless life for good.
Su Qiao hesitated for a moment, but still reached out and wrapped