[The King's Avatar] My Tenth Year with Him

[Zhang Xinjie Arc]

“Jingmo.”

She turned around.

Zhang Xinjie stood at the intersection across the street, where they had just parted. The flashing green pedestrian light turned red. Cars streamed between them, and the air currents lifted the loose strands of hair by her ears before everything settled back into stillness.

The dusk was soft.

She saw him give the faintest smile and say, “Goodbye.”

Even later, Xu Jingmo would still think back to that evening from time to time.

If only she had said something to him then.

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An old draft I’d forgotten I had in a document. I dug it up recently because I’m getting a new computer.

It was originally a Zhang Xinjie short story,

but coming up with titles is such a pain, so I’m putting the other short stories together in one collection too. (Updated 2024.8.22)

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