the voice echoed softly, almost accusing."But why do I still feel like two people inside the same body?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9KGOw7KVQD
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?36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavilidwqJZ
"I remember your memories," he whispered, fingertips brushing against the cold glass."But they don't belong to me. Not really."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrXGEZTJLq
From within, a reply surfaced—not spoken aloud, but felt like an echo threading through his veins.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJMc72LGqg
"Then whose life did you live during those 281 days?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwbnrnBZ69A
He didn't answer.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlUTpuqg0L
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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVfh4dxOAIO
"Do you remember the rooftop? The rain?"the voice inside pressed."That was my fear. My ending. And now it's become yours."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTkdzsoa09
He turned away. The room behind him was dim, dust suspended in unmoving air. Nothing had shifted since he woke—yet everything had changed.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFwuVLhAQv
"They said integration would bring peace," he muttered."But this… this feels like exile. I can't go back. I can't move forward."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSoCrh08x9D
"Then choose."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhM5yLy1S3D
The whisper again. No longer from within—but from just behind. He didn't turn. He knew nothing would be there. And yet—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCn9NOAKeLy
"Choose who you want to remain."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoiWm7GbLSl
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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8V5NftyPy
"What if I don't want to be either?"he asked the air, voice hoarse.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZQFDVfIF9
"Then become what only you can be—""The memory that survives the collapse."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmS1JIeox2m
The mirror cracked.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB3en5RMHg4
Not from pressure, not from sound.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPIfeaHrPJ
From time.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHzqFpvqqzp
And as the fracture split his reflection in two, he realized:36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMtl5L0MbZ
They had never truly been separate.And now, they could never truly merge.They would simply continue—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EYwMk3VYA
Layered.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcD95kStdcV
Fragmented.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8ncKqIv6T
Echoing.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcTgvP8KQc
"Reflections That Do Not Return"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1AAByj5LRG
When the mirror shattered, time fractured with it.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjKtM2cic7
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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqJquZvNM6
"Are these… all me?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMyGjsGJHO
His voice wavered in the still air, unsure whether he was questioning the mirror—or the fractured soul it reflected.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDppLAWcP4d
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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYICsYRnvpp
"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."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjKXGavWjW
He gazed down at the scattered fragments.Each one led to a future that could never return to the beginning.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAn4DQhrXwK
"And if I choose nothing?" he asked, barely audible.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDn7NCqgLP
"Then you'll remain trapped here—in this fracture—until the next cycle calls you back."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNTq8u7MLU
Silence again.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2sO36dnHcO
And then, softly, he said:36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFp8hFBmiDG
"I don't want to wake again—Not if waking means forgetting her."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CgTL6Mhch
The mirror flickered.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwRvLXtHnI
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."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczZLryg9tQ
It was her voice—Li An-Qing.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFk59T7q0kO
It was the eternity hidden within Friday.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxyWnBOor3
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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VQ1ttBWHl
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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2KvQmWEek
He knelt, picking up the fallen shard.In its surface, memory stirred—not his, but sharp enough to cut.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTlsJYw773
"He said he'd come back… He promised me."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbRvcsSQee
It was Yang An-Ting's voice—young, certain, heartbreakingly full of hope.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzUWua1guH
Another fragment reflected Li An-Qing, standing at the edge of an abandoned railway.A timestamp flickered in her eyes:2025.2.19 // 28:0136Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBD09a7iK3
She whispered,36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvfk2Z4rfH
"Memory isn't for forgetting. It's for choosing."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2epSBZVv3w
Something inside him pulled—gently at first, then with force.A sorrowful gravity.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFZG0QT2ve
The kind that lived in her voice,in her silence,in every name lost to time.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TdDJwikv4
"Then how do I choose?" he asked—not to the mirror, but to everything.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pGmXCLecA
"Choice," the voice answered from beyond the glass,"isn't an answer. It's a cost."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OSGjRcD4e
He opened his eyes.The fracture was pushing him toward a precipice—an end written long ago but never read aloud.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIJOv3vfB0
"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?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKgGHOq4oz
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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."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjXUARqPZs
"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."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xEIa4EkPg
He stood between the mirror and the rift,Behind him, the remnants of the past.Before him, an exit with no name.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY5jPeltkTG
"If I can't be him, and I can't remain only myself… then what's left?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyps5CN8ajo
"Memory,"they said together.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6Dj8Yue2T
Not a name.Not an identity.But something heavier—something that could pierce through time itself.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfM3kaMlRWx
If names could be forgotten, then let them fade.If identities could collapse, then stop defining them.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsk5KN4HePF
"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."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MQSkfUXAj
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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUI3DaT2MLj
It was the third route.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFYTj3ReMPW
Not back.Not in circles.But—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVZuZiM7RK
Toward a future unnamed.
Penana
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