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Burying my face into his hair, I felt his slight tremble. "Qing-er," he said after a long silence. "You are still young, and there are still hundreds of years ahead of you. You might believe what you say at the moment … but with time, you'll come to understand. Memories fade, and nothing in our lives is truly irreplaceable."