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After Lu Dongbin had healed from his injuries, he calculated the matter and saw that Fei Changfang and his wife were unharmed. Only then did he stop worrying.

Together, he and Peony Fairy watched people set floating lanterns on the river to mourn the dead, and they could not help but feel deeply moved.

There was so much beautiful, sincere feeling in the mortal world—why had they never noticed it before?

Peony Fairy realized that Lu Dongbin truly differed from Emperor Donghua now. Likewise, he was different from Ling Qing.

In her view, compared with Emperor Donghua, Ling Qing was already more willing to speak of love, yet his attitude toward it had remained unchanged.

He still regarded it as baggage on the path to immortality.

Yet Lu Dongbin had actually begun to envy those who drank themselves senseless because they missed their dead wives.

"Love—whether man or woman, all are trapped by it, driven to heartbreak by it, and marked by it to the bone," Lu Dongbin said with feeling.

"The countless hardships of the mortal world have claimed the lives of thousands upon thousands, leaving people to suffer the agony of life and death, of parting and separation.

"If there truly is a calamity between Heaven and earth, would the dead number merely thousands upon thousands?

"And would the suffering be only a hundredfold or a thousandfold greater?"

After all, he was Emperor Donghua reincarnated—the Emperor Donghua who had willingly endured the torment of reincarnation to save all living beings.

Before, perhaps he had merely seen the devotion between Fei Changfang and his wife and become tangled up in small love.

But upon seeing so many common people suffering the pain of separation, he transformed that small love into great love.

Within his heart, the thought of ending