Sea of Tears

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[Artist who lost her sight due to illness & high school history teacher]

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Five years after Fu Yanche abruptly broke up with her, Shen Qingshu finally saw her again.

They met at the hospital.

Fu Yanche was sick and blind. The frail young woman lay in a hospital bed, unable to see Shen Qingshu's face again.

The person who had once made Shen Qingshu hate her for loving her was right before her eyes. All the furious curses she had rehearsed over those five years caught in her throat.

She stood by the bed. As the second hand of the clock ticked around, a colorless, invisible tear slipped down her cheek and fell to the floor. Looking at the woman, now so frail and gaunt, Shen Qingshu found that despite all the resentment she had once felt, only one gentle sentence came out when she spoke:

"It's been a long time."

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"Will we have to wait long for the first snow of the new year?"

How long would it be before she could touch the flower reflected in the mirror again?

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Shen Qingshu's hatred was a high wall around a small courtyard, while her love was ivy growing at its foot. As time passed, the ivy would eventually climb over the wall and stain it with colors all its own.

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Reader's Guide: [Both leads are each other's first and only]

Content warnings: [Switch, older top more often] [Shifting perspectives]

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Theme: Cherish the present.