the voice echoed softly, almost accusing."But why do I still feel like two people inside the same body?"15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwG0WyGfka
The silence that followed was thick, stretched between timelines. Zhang Huan-An—no, Yu Yong-An—stood before the mirror, unsure who exactly was speaking. Himself? A remnant? Or the ghost of a choice never made?15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdx1IJxVlA
"I remember your memories," he whispered, fingertips brushing against the cold glass."But they don't belong to me. Not really."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwmSeZcmXT
From within, a reply surfaced—not spoken aloud, but felt like an echo threading through his veins.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgCBPpSJhB
"Then whose life did you live during those 281 days?"15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86RZqzFJFu
He didn't answer.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulzbByg2Ed
His reflection stared back at him—not quite right. The posture was his, the scars too. But the eyes? The eyes held a weight he had never known until that dreamlike season where time broke apart and remade itself.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EgXZXT2J5
"Do you remember the rooftop? The rain?"the voice inside pressed."That was my fear. My ending. And now it's become yours."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YmghWGrGL
He turned away. The room behind him was dim, dust suspended in unmoving air. Nothing had shifted since he woke—yet everything had changed.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBwHUuKKLad
"They said integration would bring peace," he muttered."But this… this feels like exile. I can't go back. I can't move forward."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCpufrnzFU
"Then choose."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3YYb31fedd
The whisper again. No longer from within—but from just behind. He didn't turn. He knew nothing would be there. And yet—15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUUh0ZRpKw
"Choose who you want to remain."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmCuXAvaPh
He clenched his fists. The names—Zhang Huan-An, Yu Yong-An—lay heavy on his chest like layered truths. Too real to discard. Too overlapping to claim.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRv0em3mEuH
"What if I don't want to be either?"he asked the air, voice hoarse.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡziRK52g1hc
"Then become what only you can be—""The memory that survives the collapse."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vc3Cj7Gi4
The mirror cracked.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47JlljluL1
Not from pressure, not from sound.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zCNB9XIjb
From time.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjOZCaFEhCJ
And as the fracture split his reflection in two, he realized:15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNElTKhcHme
They had never truly been separate.And now, they could never truly merge.They would simply continue—15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40YuRPTN52
Layered.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTCpfEEICaJ
Fragmented.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEG75wZc2X
Echoing.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjaLWKHLdms
"Reflections That Do Not Return"15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcaMg42eLA
When the mirror shattered, time fractured with it.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44GTGOxPik
The cracks radiated outward like webbing, each fissure revealing a version of himself—some younger, others older, some cold and unfeeling, others brimming with unshed tears.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lCJeUsJdS
"Are these… all me?"15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQltwz6lhc
His voice wavered in the still air, unsure whether he was questioning the mirror—or the fractured soul it reflected.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UQSoVzdlE
A shard broke loose, falling to the floor with a soft chime. Yet the reflection it cast wasn't of the room he stood in—it was of time:Friday's dusk. Tuesday's echo. The moment the cross appeared. The final turn of her silhouette.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqWNnUoLCr
"You're not choosing an identity,"said a voice—feminine, calm, not quite Yang An-Ting, not quite Li An-Qing, but holding the gentleness of both."You're choosing which version of yourself will survive."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOnidv9b7G
He gazed down at the scattered fragments.Each one led to a future that could never return to the beginning.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVqEa76usc
"And if I choose nothing?" he asked, barely audible.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNpgiyCrqB
"Then you'll remain trapped here—in this fracture—until the next cycle calls you back."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgDXEjVRNC
Silence again.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7PGdIEggsk
And then, softly, he said:15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJIzn8Rshl
"I don't want to wake again—Not if waking means forgetting her."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWo0e9IW4b
The mirror flickered.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6qkEikRax
A memory surfaced, replaying on its own:"You won't remember what I said. But you'll remember that it turned dark… and I didn't leave."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6WjmaNwta
It was her voice—Li An-Qing.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmMbhC9G1K
It was the eternity hidden within Friday.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxAd1Ql3e1
No more ticking clocks.No more voices.Only the sound of breath—and something deeper, like the echo of his own heartbeat splintering through time.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nyaIBiGEz
A crack ran across the floor, slow but certain, as if time itself was fracturing.One wrong step—and he would fall into a past that no longer wanted him.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCpDdGIzsx
He knelt, picking up the fallen shard.In its surface, memory stirred—not his, but sharp enough to cut.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUd54uIbRNI
"He said he'd come back… He promised me."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIG9gM0ICa
It was Yang An-Ting's voice—young, certain, heartbreakingly full of hope.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7NULQuby0
Another fragment reflected Li An-Qing, standing at the edge of an abandoned railway.A timestamp flickered in her eyes:2025.2.19 // 28:0115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bh73uyzgM
She whispered,15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL7fzDR4Fr0
"Memory isn't for forgetting. It's for choosing."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhuVL7B0IK
Something inside him pulled—gently at first, then with force.A sorrowful gravity.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMj4smjqJv4
The kind that lived in her voice,in her silence,in every name lost to time.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvBelEU0sa
"Then how do I choose?" he asked—not to the mirror, but to everything.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdMRHhzqUl
"Choice," the voice answered from beyond the glass,"isn't an answer. It's a cost."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxMcQVNRRg
He opened his eyes.The fracture was pushing him toward a precipice—an end written long ago but never read aloud.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF307sYBqPb
"You've remembered too much," the voice murmured,"and forgotten more than you know.So now, only one question remains—Who will you stay for?"15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4LhoGiS6V
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"You've always remembered,"Yang An-Ting's voice was gentle, but unwavering."You just didn't want to admit it."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYenUhOKdvO
"And you've never let go,"Li An-Qing's voice followed, soft and clear, like light after rain."Because deep down, you knew—it wasn't yours to end."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3NuNdTgWI
He stood between the mirror and the rift,Behind him, the remnants of the past.Before him, an exit with no name.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5PLA621yG
"If I can't be him, and I can't remain only myself… then what's left?"15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPv2OL7UXL
"Memory,"they said together.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLPT6s5fQD
Not a name.Not an identity.But something heavier—something that could pierce through time itself.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCgoYkJKmL
If names could be forgotten, then let them fade.If identities could collapse, then stop defining them.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KDc5MCBGH
"You don't need a name,"Yang An-Ting whispered."You've already remembered us.""You just need to keep walking,"Li An-Qing followed,"Not for anyone. Not even for yourself."15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEiJRHLccQA
The rift began to close—not as an end, but as a quiet reconfiguration.The shattered timelines wove into each other, forming a new path—one that required no right or wrong, no labels, no return.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGny82odq5W
It was the third route.15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNNUnQtb89
Not back.Not in circles.But—15Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUU43vyZML
Toward a future unnamed.
Penana
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