In the end, the man couldn't bring himself to break that final barrier.
He hesitated, feeling that she was still too young, despite the fact that girls in this world often married at sixteen.
From her eyes, she was ready, mature enough in body and mind.
But he couldn't commit what he saw as a sin, and so they parted once again, leaving both their hearts in pain.
Years passed, and one day, a demon appeared—a force so powerful that it took everything from him.
His first love, the master, the sect—everything was destroyed before his eyes.
He was crushed to the ground, powerless to stop the destruction.
In the end, he died filled with regret, haunted by the choices he had made and the paths he hadn't taken.