That was a face familiar beyond measure.
She had just parted from it moments ago, with the worry, struggle, and pain in his eyes vivid in her mind.
The process of traversing time and space seemed prolonged, but in reality, it was but a fleeting instant.
In the brief inversion of moments, she saw this face once again.
Still as elegant and handsome as ever, dignified like jade.
Yet, compared to the maturity and gentleness in her memory, the man before her seemed so isolated and indifferent.
The wind and snow surrounded his being, but they fell short in comparison to the eternal ice in his eyes, which was far more daunting.
He was like a solitary moon suspended in the dark night sky, clearly close yet separated by a distance of thousands of miles, seemingly ungraspable for a lifetime.
