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Chapter 51 - 白月光 (Bái yuèguāng) - White moonlight

'The Unattainable in the Heart — Love's Eternal Echo'

There exists a love that cannot be lived in this world. It might be a person, a feeling, or a dream of union so perfect it feels destined, yet life denies it. This love becomes a quiet keepsake in the soul, carried forward even as life moves into other arms and other vows. This beloved is more than a memory. They become the living embodiment of the ideal love everyone longs for: the absolute understanding, the flawless harmony, the promise that seems almost within reach but never touches reality.

In this way, the one we cannot have merges completely with the love that cannot be. They become the same hauntingly beautiful fiction: the imprint of perfection against which all real and present love is gently, and sadly, measured. To love another while holding this ideal in your heart is to live with a sweet and silent sorrow. It is to know that the truest love you have ever felt remains both a precious gift and a lingering ghost, forever out in the world where you cannot reach it, yet forever dwelling within you where you cannot forget it.

Or in another words:

Sometimes the person you carry in your heart long after parting is not just a lost love, but the eternal echo of love's perfect ideal. They are a dream you cherish, one you can never meet, even in the embrace of someone new.

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