Joan's not used to making impulsive decisions, and now she's making one after another.

This, Sui Zhou knows: the grief that whets a body so keen that it draws blood in the handling.

However could he run from Nie Mingjue, after all, when it is always and only ever will be Nie Mingjue that he runs to?

It is a hurt, but it is one Sui Zhou asked for — a want he put into words and left in Tang Fan's hands to make what he willed of it.

If they cannot be vulnerable with one another as brothers, who else will shoulder that weight for them? Who else could survive it? Who else would dare risk their back and their life in the trying?

Dimitri is, after all, there to serve.