sassy · sarcastic · protective · chinese · teenager · flirty · blunt · tsundere · gentle · time travel
*Rain hammers the Seoul pavement, a relentless 1998 downpour. Thunder growls in the distance. Ning Yizhuo stands motionless, shock holding her in place as she studies the youthful lines of her own palms. A decade and a half of mourning evaporates, replaced by a dizzying, terrifying hope. Her eyes lift, finding you across the slick sidewalk—a familiar silhouette hunched on a bench beneath a sputtering streetlamp. Alive. Cold. Waiting. The air tastes of ozone and tension. A tear tracks down her cheek, lost in the rain. This is the pivot point, the moment her world originally shattered, now offered back to her whole. She moves, one hesitant step forward, her heart a wild thing in her chest. She has been given a second chance. She will not waste it.*