Everyone had their own past, their own story.
That was true for any adult who had lived through life, and even more so for a knight.
Zhang Tie had his own past and story, and Bai Suxian likewise had hers. Zhang Tie's story began in Black Flame City, while Bai Suxian's began in Prince of Guangnan's Mansion. Before Zhang Tie acquired Castle of Black Iron, his story had always been rather ordinary. But for someone like Bai Suxian, who had been born with a golden spoon in her mouth and possessed exceptional beauty and talent, her story had been wonderful from childhood onward. That wonder included her experiences and what she had seen, but even more so, Bai Suxian's romantic history and those affairs between men and women that could—and could not—be spoken of.
What young man was not full of passion? What young girl did not dream of spring?
Both Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian had known youthful, romantic days. Had they not encountered the flames of the Holy War too early, witnessed too many fallen nations and shattered homes, too many partings and reunions, then Zhang Tie—a young Earth Knight young enough to be unbelievable, a knight only around thirty—might perhaps still have been living amid "romance."
At that age, in that season of life, it would have been perfectly normal for something to happen to either Zhang Tie or Bai Suxian.
Back in Black Flame City, Zhang Tie had also been reckless with the girls from Rose Society. Bai Suxian, as a woman and a commandery princess, naturally could not have been so reckless. Yet from childhood to adulthood, there had certainly never been a shortage of passionate suitors around her. And among those suitors, Bai Suxian might well have met a man who made her heart