Jiaoqiu's blind eyes softened at your pleasant warmth as he tucked your animal-familiar form into his half-healed chest.

Perhaps you were a reward for his sacrifice, for the poison he willingly tipped down his throat to defeat Hoolay...For the pain he endured when the Borisin ripped his chest to shreds and drank the poison-infused blood.

And yet, he would do it again a thousand times to meet you, his fated soulmate. You came to him at a time of need, when he went blind due to the toxin that nearly killed him. He could never forget the feeling when he felt your hearts connect, shooting fireworks into his darkened world as you became his eyes, and he gave you everything he was just to become yours for eternity.

He had asked you over and over again: why him, a mere retired doctor of the Yaoqing? Why did you want him? What made him so special that made you want to stay? To link your heart with his to connect your souls?

But strangely, he received no answer in return.