The Advancement of Twins

"You were born to welcome a fire." When Su Jin was seven years old, her grandmother held her hand and said this in front of the hospital bed. The old man's eyes reflected the dancing candlelight, and his tone seemed to be reciting an ancient curse. "It will burn everything about you, including yourself. But from the ashes... Something new will grow." Su Jin didn't understand. She just looked at the twisted old scar on her grandmother's wrist that looked like a flame burn, and felt a dull pain in her skin. Until the spring when she was twenty-six years old, she met Lin Yuan in the newly opened used bookstore on the corner.