"yet those beautiful eyes seemed to exchange treacherous whispers with the yearning smouldering inside him, causing it to grow into a blaze that threatened to devour all reason and lodge itself in the depths of his being."
"I shall but wait for peace to grace the nation, then repay him with my life."
i already made a thread about this statement a long time ago but i feel like it is not sufficient so here we are again at the point where the lines of shiyu's devotion to his country vs his love blurs