I have finished The Last Dragon of the East by Katrina Kwan.
“And the Old Matchmaker of the Moon said to the lovers, 'This red thread I bestow upon you. It may stretch and it may tangle, but it will never break. Across cycles and worlds and lifetimes, your souls are now destined,” wrote Amélie Wen Zhao, referencing the ancient East Asian legend of the Red Thread of Fate – an invisible red cord tied by the gods linking Fated Ones, soulmates destined to be together.
But destiny is never clean and, in this case, the threads are not limited to humans. Alas, there is truly almost nothing I can say that would not qualify as a major spoiler. So I will simply note that those who seek to quash the immortal love and power of Dragons, those whose give in to boundless greed and realize too late how soul-destroying it is, will always fail. It may take lifetimes and near mind-crushing heartbreaks, but those thread-bound will find and fly with each other again, finally free of a seriously mad Emperor. (Oh, and my Dragon-related instincts proved correct again.)
Fare ye well, Sai & Jyn. I would wish you a long and happy life but for the fact that it is already a forgone conclusion, so no wishing required.

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