The voice echoed softly, almost like an interrogation.15Please respect copyright.PENANAgInfUr41x8
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"But then why… do I still feel like two people trapped in the same body?"15Please respect copyright.PENANAVk1qewA3Hj
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A heavy silence followed, stretched and suspended between timelines.15Please respect copyright.PENANA1rxc73VZ90
Zhang Huan-An—no, perhaps it was Yu Yong-An—stood before the mirror, unable to tell who had spoken.15Please respect copyright.PENANA0o7HiFxica
Was it himself? A residue?15Please respect copyright.PENANABLkBVJ5GwW
Or a ghost never chosen?15Please respect copyright.PENANAA7s73RTFni
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"I remember your memories," he whispered, fingertips grazing the cold mirror.15Please respect copyright.PENANAFrvfxv7ulF
"But they… don't belong to me. Not entirely."15Please respect copyright.PENANAEcHONlj6Ra
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From deep within, a voice emerged—not in words, but like a pulse echoing through his veins.15Please respect copyright.PENANAJnfo4eKL0h
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"Then tell me—whose life did you live during those 281 days?"15Please respect copyright.PENANANam27IXbzO
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He gave no answer.15Please respect copyright.PENANAw6JaQj2voB
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The reflection stared back at him—almost identical, yet not quite.15Please respect copyright.PENANAweoactrLH4
The posture was his, the scars too.15Please respect copyright.PENANAlwQSWaOMom
But the eyes… they carried a weight he had never known.15Please respect copyright.PENANAMiLRdpyZki
As if from a season of dreams, shattered and reassembled deep within time.15Please respect copyright.PENANA0hC47rxqeJ
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"Do you remember the rooftop? That rain?"15Please respect copyright.PENANAdqTDeEDT61
The voice pressed closer.15Please respect copyright.PENANA3793adGV5b
"That was my fear. My ending. And now, it's become yours."15Please respect copyright.PENANATmcFW65cOi
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He turned away.15Please respect copyright.PENANAiI056sUMhB
Behind him, the room lay dim and still, the air thick with undisturbed dust.15Please respect copyright.PENANAQUnCYwHaXP
Since his awakening, nothing here had changed—yet the world was no longer the same.15Please respect copyright.PENANAkxVK36HqlN
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"They say fusion brings peace," he murmured.15Please respect copyright.PENANABbqNeP131N
"But this feels more like exile. I can't go back… and I can't move forward."15Please respect copyright.PENANAx93QDOq9nJ
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"Then—choose."15Please respect copyright.PENANA6b6W136zAJ
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The voice returned. This time, not from within—but behind him.15Please respect copyright.PENANAeNeC2ynyiA
He didn't look back.15Please respect copyright.PENANAaFwhF9xcw8
He knew nothing would be there.15Please respect copyright.PENANAagasKDhZrb
And yet, he heard it.15Please respect copyright.PENANAZgACtBxtb2
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"Choose which one of you will remain."15Please respect copyright.PENANAMeRU6V5jjZ
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He clenched his fists.15Please respect copyright.PENANAzHQfCSAq3V
"Zhang Huan-An" and "Yu Yong-An"—names layered like truths,15Please respect copyright.PENANA5IFdiE4IUQ
Too real to abandon,15Please respect copyright.PENANAmUjE2KaQIx
Too entangled to claim.15Please respect copyright.PENANAzJUjfOOTO7
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"What if I don't want to be either?"15Please respect copyright.PENANAHqFmqF4iWK
He asked the air, voice hoarse.15Please respect copyright.PENANAYCfKExCwQL
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"Then become—15Please respect copyright.PENANAqSSPCzB621
the memory that survived the collapse."15Please respect copyright.PENANAg46Y97npaV
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The mirror cracked.15Please respect copyright.PENANAOMe1Ok3w63
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Not from pressure.15Please respect copyright.PENANA5dMMeJENrG
Not from sound.15Please respect copyright.PENANAWyGvROkrFR
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But from time.15Please respect copyright.PENANAoAQspDy2nA
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As the fissure split the reflection in two, he finally understood:15Please respect copyright.PENANATjtbqOEW10
They had never truly been separate.15Please respect copyright.PENANAZjKjKRLiRY
And now, they could never fully merge.15Please respect copyright.PENANALFlqhUjfOZ
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They could only—15Please respect copyright.PENANAkMwvLVPMCf
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Overlay.15Please respect copyright.PENANABmROAg1PSv
Fracture.15Please respect copyright.PENANAJMrHpcTZuw
Echo.15Please respect copyright.PENANATRUX0DnWCO
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Reflections That Do Not Return15Please respect copyright.PENANARg8vsPFA4y
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When the mirror shattered, time broke with it.15Please respect copyright.PENANAQXFJGsUmWS
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Cracks spread like a spider's web, and within each one—15Please respect copyright.PENANAprPMyw2pSN
A different version of himself emerged:15Please respect copyright.PENANAO1VypRGLqQ
Some young, some aged.15Please respect copyright.PENANAqPEQDwHerj
Some cold and distant, others brimming with unshed tears.15Please respect copyright.PENANAO1gQQIUccW
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"Are these… all me?"15Please respect copyright.PENANAjFtva17V2o
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His voice trembled in the still air—was he asking the mirror,15Please respect copyright.PENANAvgRsRxlpSa
Or questioning the soul splintered before him?15Please respect copyright.PENANAA8Dr2jQWbF
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A shard fell, its chime like a soft wind bell.15Please respect copyright.PENANAuH5NUJ2KDt
But it reflected not the room—15Please respect copyright.PENANAyh6a2QiPTU
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It reflected time:15Please respect copyright.PENANAhSORu4QhF8
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A Friday dusk,15Please respect copyright.PENANAJaLyChG1N3
A Tuesday's echo,15Please respect copyright.PENANAsuCkGXAxlC
The moment the cross appeared,15Please respect copyright.PENANAwMDMkqoExy
And the last turn of her figure.15Please respect copyright.PENANAUYk0LgxDQQ
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"You didn't choose an identity,"15Please respect copyright.PENANABim2QUuu2n
A voice spoke—gentle, calm.15Please respect copyright.PENANAKifqLkBScH
Neither Yang An-Ting nor Li An-Qing,15Please respect copyright.PENANAKx7BH3cVji
And yet, it held the luminous tenderness of both.15Please respect copyright.PENANAHolIfGZjTE
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"You chose the version of yourself—15Please respect copyright.PENANAIGKoCXShhP
that could survive."15Please respect copyright.PENANA882iTxuEtJ
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He stared at the fragments.15Please respect copyright.PENANAnhVojGQVmE
Each one, a future with no return.15Please respect copyright.PENANAB1QijR6MgW
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"And what if… I choose nothing?"15Please respect copyright.PENANAw7Rh7GEjAQ
He asked, barely audible.15Please respect copyright.PENANAuwbRT5g56S
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"Then you'll be trapped—15Please respect copyright.PENANA01QizzAKP7
within this fracture,15Please respect copyright.PENANAVC9L6geoDU
until the next cycle calls you back."15Please respect copyright.PENANA4bmJVHLRft
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Silence again.15Please respect copyright.PENANAGWU4Lopb7P
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Then he whispered:15Please respect copyright.PENANAqGQLDObA0v
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"I don't want to wake up again…15Please respect copyright.PENANAFaa2wJBdlk
if waking means forgetting her."15Please respect copyright.PENANAxqrqVRKr24
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The mirror flickered.15Please respect copyright.PENANAHyeBz6LYoi
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Memories surfaced, playing on their own—15Please respect copyright.PENANA32pz86omcZ
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"You'll forget what I said,"15Please respect copyright.PENANAD08VNl46nW
"But you'll remember the sky had dimmed…15Please respect copyright.PENANA7xZCo521Jd
and that I never left."15Please respect copyright.PENANA0X79ccsGBN
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It was her voice—Li An-Qing.15Please respect copyright.PENANA7EJjAKl1N9
The eternity hidden within Friday.15Please respect copyright.PENANAEAgScqr68R
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No ticking clock,15Please respect copyright.PENANAsnnuCyfGKO
No urgency.15Please respect copyright.PENANAe7zT2ZWd0p
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Only breath—15Please respect copyright.PENANA76NUmRXONw
And something deeper still:15Please respect copyright.PENANAaR3dIa0LcM
The echo of his own heartbeat,15Please respect copyright.PENANACQAYNIVhRz
splintering across time.15Please respect copyright.PENANAlijKxLeiTS
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A single crack stretched across the floor,15Please respect copyright.PENANAjln07GwjVX
As if time itself could no longer bear its own weight.15Please respect copyright.PENANAeznLb8bvEu
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One wrong step,15Please respect copyright.PENANA6Bfk9onkQn
And he'd fall into a past that no longer welcomed him.15Please respect copyright.PENANAeV4rpamDLm
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He knelt and picked up a shard.15Please respect copyright.PENANAmdd4s0zIK1
Its surface stirred memory—15Please respect copyright.PENANAv3vUwC1V21
Not his own, but sharp enough to wound.15Please respect copyright.PENANAc7HlmQFlbc
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"He said he'd come back… He promised."15Please respect copyright.PENANAjgMom67eSI
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It was Yang An-Ting's voice—15Please respect copyright.PENANAizvmEmZjsl
Young, certain, full of hope.15Please respect copyright.PENANAjfTg7ma9vK
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Another shard revealed Li An-Qing,15Please respect copyright.PENANAuyEG8zr0tN
Standing at the end of an abandoned railway.15Please respect copyright.PENANAJyEcttUAqu
In her eyes, a timestamp flickered:15Please respect copyright.PENANAsKQKKhLXN4
2025.2.19 // 28:0115Please respect copyright.PENANALNL0eRO2Ey
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She whispered—15Please respect copyright.PENANAq9dBai9xUv
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"Memory isn't meant for forgetting.15Please respect copyright.PENANAbeMwmEClWg
It's meant—for choosing."15Please respect copyright.PENANAKtxkSjFGZd
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Something within him stirred—15Please respect copyright.PENANATw29KosQ74
First gentle,15Please respect copyright.PENANAwOklWGEh1b
Then forceful,15Please respect copyright.PENANARPdaxTF7od
Almost irresistible.15Please respect copyright.PENANA99Cv4MRvS3
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A pull born of her voice,15Please respect copyright.PENANAICowT5TIyC
Of her silence,15Please respect copyright.PENANABkOrduSOQP
Of every name forgotten by time.15Please respect copyright.PENANA5AWvxm6f0e
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"Then… how do I choose?"15Please respect copyright.PENANAhDfaV3hosU
He asked not the mirror now,15Please respect copyright.PENANAZEFFU50fEl
But the entire world.15Please respect copyright.PENANA6a0PdiFLxe
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"Choice," the voice replied through the glass,15Please respect copyright.PENANAeaAqCWLATT
"was never the answer—15Please respect copyright.PENANAGxkdkJJc7h
only the cost."15Please respect copyright.PENANAeZLr9n0ZNH
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He opened his eyes.15Please respect copyright.PENANAVvczOsrzbZ
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The fractures now pushed him toward an edge—15Please respect copyright.PENANAaIwVz52uH9
An ending already written,15Please respect copyright.PENANA6uuDBTjcYs
Yet never spoken.15Please respect copyright.PENANAcBlMW7Lxax
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You Remember Too Much15Please respect copyright.PENANADZpYHgMMwE
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"You remember too much," the voice murmured,15Please respect copyright.PENANApvLpFejevs
"And you've forgotten even more than you realize.15Please respect copyright.PENANAsatilYyZUc
So now, only one question remains:15Please respect copyright.PENANApzFc10SCe0
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Who will you remain for?"15Please respect copyright.PENANAFNLoikPjkD
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"You've always remembered,"15Please respect copyright.PENANAGFfTKzTxc9
Yang An-Ting's voice, soft yet unwavering.15Please respect copyright.PENANAcmY15BJSTE
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"You just didn't want to admit it."15Please respect copyright.PENANAwTIEQ9OY6T
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"And you've never truly let go,"15Please respect copyright.PENANAG763nFr3gw
Li An-Qing's voice followed,15Please respect copyright.PENANANnMNA0NvdA
Like light after the rain.15Please respect copyright.PENANAmQbpWNDLyM
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"Because you know—15Please respect copyright.PENANAAs1ac8LfpH
this was never yours to end."15Please respect copyright.PENANAC0WUAvEKab
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He stood between the mirror and the fracture.15Please respect copyright.PENANAcoTXW2a0JB
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Behind him—wreckage of the past.15Please respect copyright.PENANA20K4D8Of5q
Before him—a nameless exit.15Please respect copyright.PENANAq8yOfMM4zE
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"If I can't become him…15Please respect copyright.PENANAB423648EhR
and I can't just be myself…15Please respect copyright.PENANAJT3t4D4363
what is left of me?"15Please respect copyright.PENANAsQIkSHry6t
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"Memory," they said in unison.15Please respect copyright.PENANAPWVEwVSIYX
15Please respect copyright.PENANAiNZme9bYb2
Not names.15Please respect copyright.PENANA7cfk3bVuPr
Not roles.15Please respect copyright.PENANAvqBoKvp3B9
But something heavier—15Please respect copyright.PENANAjJ6FjaaAZl
A will strong enough to pierce time.15Please respect copyright.PENANAcKFsxPW6kD
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If names fade, let them.15Please respect copyright.PENANAPzTkq52mW5
If roles collapse, stop defining them.15Please respect copyright.PENANAjvO6wfGFS0
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"You don't need a name,"15Please respect copyright.PENANAJm7E1WkYRx
Yang An-Ting whispered.15Please respect copyright.PENANACGB67Sq4MH
"Because now—you remember us."15Please respect copyright.PENANAQMu0gG4aNU
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"You only need to keep walking,"15Please respect copyright.PENANAcoyC4539sM
Li An-Qing said next.15Please respect copyright.PENANAD8PIAt8If5
"Not for anyone. Not even for yourself."15Please respect copyright.PENANA6gzV3aj5Os
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The fractures began to close—15Please respect copyright.PENANABby1oZVXIO
Not as an end,15Please respect copyright.PENANA5flWRcRgss
But as a silent reformation.15Please respect copyright.PENANAyv9My9tgym
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Shattered timelines intertwined,15Please respect copyright.PENANAbVuG446eEa
Forming a new path—15Please respect copyright.PENANArn9Ye2ocwe
Free of judgment,15Please respect copyright.PENANA8L2OncHNl1
Free of labels,15Please respect copyright.PENANAvuEdZQGJ80
Free of the need to look back.15Please respect copyright.PENANABq4UllPjmk
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It was—15Please respect copyright.PENANAjTBBAo3IbD
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The third way.15Please respect copyright.PENANA0djR87LtQ1
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Not return.15Please respect copyright.PENANAQJU9oYHbp2
Not repetition.15Please respect copyright.PENANAzuJ5j11Eet
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But—15Please respect copyright.PENANAWYkFVR8m76
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A future with no name.