🌸 Chapter 2: Echoes from the past
Days passed quietly. Bai Jiu stayed in the hidden hut at the forest's edge, and Fu Sheng brought him food and water, sometimes sitting with him for hours without speaking.
One evening, while the fire burned low, Bai Jiu looked up at the starry sky.
— Fu Sheng, he said softly, as if wrestling with a heavy secret,
"I feel the past weighs on me... but I cannot see it clearly."
She looked at him gently.
— Maybe you have memories that don't want to come to light, she replied. "Or maybe we met now to discover them together."
He smiled slightly, a smile that brought comfort.
— Maybe...
Silence hung between them, full of unspoken meanings.
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That night, Fu Sheng had a disturbing dream. She saw a woman in white running through a burning forest, calling out a man's name. Then a sword, a bloody fight, and a painful separation.
She woke with her heart pounding wildly, tears in her eyes. Bai Jiu found her crying in front of the hut.
— What happened? he asked softly, sitting beside her.
— Dreams... about someone I don't know... but who seems to call me home, Fu Sheng murmured.
Bai Jiu looked at her with deep sadness.
— Sometimes, the heart knows better than the mind.
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Step by step, an invisible bond was woven, and the shadows of the past began to slowly seep into the present.