Fifteen Years After the Shattered Mirror

The timing was wrong. The rest will be available later.

Humble, devoted lover x sensitive, cautious observer

In the deep of night, nightmares plagued her, and the memory of Shen Qingyou leaving when they were young refused to fade.

Pei Yumian curled up and quietly watched the person beside her pillow. Her fingertip traced the other's outline, still as infatuated with her as she had been all those years ago.

They had been apart for fifteen years, yet the traces of their youthful, tender intimacy remained: a faded tattoo, a distorted bite mark, both fading away along with that suffocating summer.

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Everyone knew Shen Qingyou had found the moonlight she had personally abandoned fifteen years ago. Tree shadows swayed. The curtains in the room were half drawn, and candlelight flickered.

Shen Qingyou knelt on the ground, gazing greedily at the face she had yearned for day and night. With heartfelt reverence, she bowed low and kissed Pei Yumian's ankle, casting aside the last shred of her dignity.

Pei Yumian remained unmoved, as if she were looking at someone long gone.

That reckless, devoted love had died more than ten years ago, on the rainy night when she knelt and begged Shen Qingyou to elope with her.

Taking her cold hand once more, Shen Qingyou's eyes brimmed with tears. "A Mian, I'm willing to give you my life."

Theme: Keep hope for life