The year a wildfire swallowed Cheng Ye, Lin Yuan's world burned to ashes along with him. Three years passed. He learned to keep silent and not look back. Then, on a rainy night, the doorbell rang. Outside stood someone who should have been dead, with pale skin and pupil-less eyes, yet he called Lin Yuan by name.
Cheng Ye had come back, but he was no longer human.
Unexplained phenomena began appearing across the city: shadows moving on their own, the dead smiling on surveillance footage, and entire streets of people suffering collective amnesia. Lin Yuan discovered that all the strange occurrences avoided him because Cheng Ye was devouring the darkness in his place.
But Cheng Ye was disappearing. Each time he protected Lin Yuan, his body grew a little more transparent.
When Lin Yuan entered the Gray Zone and saw, among fragments of time, Cheng Ye repeatedly running back into the fire just to retrieve the earbuds Lin Yuan had dropped, he finally understood: this return was a miracle, an obsession defying the laws of the universe.
He took that cold hand. “This time, I’ll take you home.”
Some kinds of love cannot be severed, not even by death.
Similar to The Summer When the Light Dies, it's very well written.
AI. Some of them are pretty good [Send Hearts] [Send Hearts] [Send Hearts] Tomato-type themes are quite rare.