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    “Finish the story,” Phainon prompts, and it comes out kind of quiet, kind of weird.

    “He fell in love with a warrior in Okhema,” Mydei tells him, sliding a hand under his pillow. “They were equals in just about everything, and that’s… significant to a Kremnoan. He died sacrificing himself to buy that warrior time to save the city.”

    “That sounds like something a hero would do to me.”

    “Maybe,” Mydei grumbles. “A real hero wouldn’t leave the one he loves to fight alone.”
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    On a trip to see his sick sister, Phainon realizes a few things. Foremost of these: through it all, Mydei has never once left his side.

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    “No,” Lu Guang murmurs. He stares at his hands, and all he sees when he closes his eyes is his palms covered in blood. Cheng Xiaoshi’s slick fingers weakly gripping his own. In this timeline, there is no blood. Nothing has happened that should, and everything has happened that shouldn’t. “It isn’t that,” he finishes.

    Silence. An inhale. “Isn’t it?” Cheng Xiaoshi asks. A moment passes. “I told you I loved you, and I’ve never seen you look so sad.”

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    19 Jan 2026

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    Cheng Xiaoshi spends the next several minutes just staring at the photograph, his finger running gently down the curve of Lu Guang's sunlit features. His mother's voice sounds from the back of his head.

    The photograph is a window into the photographer's soul. Look, baobei, what does this photo tell you about the person who took it? What emotions do they feel?

    Attraction. Longing. Desire. It might as well be written in Sharpie over Lu Guang's face, big bold characters in Cheng Xiaoshi's handwriting.

    Fuck. He really has been blind.

    Over the course of a year, Cheng Xiaoshi learns to see what's been right in front of him this entire time. (Or, familiarity as a love language.)

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    13 Jan 2026

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    The rustle of fabric, the sound of a sigh. Something warm is draped around Phainon’s shoulders. A blood-red, shiny coat. The inside is terribly soft, and that smell—Mydei’s smell—clings to it too. “At least wear a jacket if you’re going to be stubborn,” he says, and he’s still standing there when Phainon turns his head to look. He’s left in a tight black t-shirt, arms bare and folded against the chill, ruffled but pretending not to be.

    Phainon’s chest hurts. “What about you?” he asks.

    “I’m fine,” Mydei says.

    “You’re shivering.”
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    Phainon loses his parents, gains a cat and a boyfriend, and not much changes at all.

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    who knew your no. 1 fan was your hot neighbour all along?

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    14 Nov 2025