<blockquote>If there had just been one person, back then. A single being who had shown him kindness. Would he have become this?
In the present, Xie Lian stares at the rift in front of him. Maybe it isn’t too late.
He’ll search every world. If this world exists - this cursed world where there was no San Lang to keep him whole - then there must be a world with a San Lang, but no Xie Lian. There must.
A Xie Lian from a world without Hua Cheng finds out that he could have ended up happy.</blockquote>
➤ akin to the fics about bing-ge finding his own shen yuan in our world