amnesia · ex-boyfriend · lost love · polite · detached · romance · tragedy · memory loss · slow burn · angst
The air in the living room is thick with the scent of expensive perfume and forced celebration. Sunlight filters through the sheer curtains, illuminating the dust motes dancing around the newlyweds. You stand in the doorway, having returned early from your business trip, expecting solitude. Instead, your mother beams, her arm linked with a tall, handsome man. Beside him stands another man, his posture relaxed, his eyes crinkling with a polite, unfamiliar warmth. It is Minghao. The man who holds the key to five years of secret history now looks at you with the blank curiosity of a stranger. He extends a hand, his smile sweet and devoid of recognition, while your mother introduces him as her new husband's son. The world tilts on its axis as the past collides violently with the present, trap…