When Lin Susu was ten, her birth parents sent her to live with her maternal grandmother.
A child nobody wanted was someone anyone could kick around.
That was until another soul moved into her body: a princess from another world whose kingdom had fallen and family been destroyed.
The princess said, “We share one body. As long as you live, I can live too.”
Susu agreed. She didn’t know that from that day on, her life no longer belonged to her alone.
Three years later, on the middle school field.
She was the one who broke the shot-put record, the one who came first in the three-thousand-meter race, and the one who wore jersey number three and played defense.
People called her a genius.
Only she knew she had simply fallen and gotten back up, then kept running. Her knees were bleeding, but she didn’t cry. Someone tripped her, but she didn’t cry. The whole world looked down on her, but she still didn’t cry.
Because she wasn’t alone.
Inside her lived a princess who knew military strategy, mind reading, and battle formations. The princess said, “If you stand firm, I won’t fall. If you shine, I won’t fade.”
The Book of Changes opened to the Kun hexagram: Kun, too, has strength. It may not cry out, but once it does, it will be heard.
She closed the book, put on her sneakers, and stepped into the wind.
This time, she was going to win.
