You're Not Her

Chunye also died in the year Chen Su hated her most.

Only after she passed away did she discover that the world she lived in was nothing more than a fictional world in a book, where the characters' fates had been set in stone from the moment the author put pen to paper.

She and he were nothing but ants, struggling in vain to escape the destinies already laid out for them.

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Ten years after her death, Chunye discovered that her spirit could freely wander the world of the living.

She returned to the home they had lived in ten years earlier. Everything inside remained as it had been, and the traces of their life together seemed untouched by the passage of time.

The only difference was that Chen Su now had a new partner.

And that person had a face exactly like hers.

·One day, the refrigerator lost power. The snowman they'd made that winter melted, and a diamond ring lay quietly in the puddle of clear water.

You said I didn't love you enough.

I suppose I just didn't know how to show my love.

Only later did I realize how often people in this world say things they don't mean, or are forced to do things against their will.

Reading guide:

First-person narration

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