the voice echoed softly, almost accusing."But why do I still feel like two people inside the same body?"12Please respect copyright.PENANAw0IRzKbgkX
The silence that followed was thick, stretched between timelines. Zhang Huan-An—no, Yu Yong-An—stood before the mirror, unsure who exactly was speaking. Himself? A remnant? Or the ghost of a choice never made?12Please respect copyright.PENANAFieB17QU2H
"I remember your memories," he whispered, fingertips brushing against the cold glass."But they don't belong to me. Not really."12Please respect copyright.PENANAyx9shk189N
From within, a reply surfaced—not spoken aloud, but felt like an echo threading through his veins.12Please respect copyright.PENANA1CfOl2m9lb
"Then whose life did you live during those 281 days?"12Please respect copyright.PENANAJpQDgcfkIt
He didn't answer.12Please respect copyright.PENANAX8s5a6xKkg
His reflection stared back at him—not quite right. The posture was his, the scars too. But the eyes? The eyes held a weight he had never known until that dreamlike season where time broke apart and remade itself.12Please respect copyright.PENANA6mlQfVPVDb
"Do you remember the rooftop? The rain?"the voice inside pressed."That was my fear. My ending. And now it's become yours."12Please respect copyright.PENANANFD4gLRnXn
He turned away. The room behind him was dim, dust suspended in unmoving air. Nothing had shifted since he woke—yet everything had changed.12Please respect copyright.PENANAhks5KGKnmI
"They said integration would bring peace," he muttered."But this… this feels like exile. I can't go back. I can't move forward."12Please respect copyright.PENANASO7xh7LQ84
"Then choose."12Please respect copyright.PENANAskzLHqMUHw
The whisper again. No longer from within—but from just behind. He didn't turn. He knew nothing would be there. And yet—12Please respect copyright.PENANAqeuhKcGJKO
"Choose who you want to remain."12Please respect copyright.PENANAOCwIhvVCPe
He clenched his fists. The names—Zhang Huan-An, Yu Yong-An—lay heavy on his chest like layered truths. Too real to discard. Too overlapping to claim.12Please respect copyright.PENANAbsRG5ZIAYG
"What if I don't want to be either?"he asked the air, voice hoarse.12Please respect copyright.PENANAANSmtHl0Sj
"Then become what only you can be—""The memory that survives the collapse."12Please respect copyright.PENANAVFZWMqMlwA
The mirror cracked.12Please respect copyright.PENANA1fc8FPTSMi
Not from pressure, not from sound.12Please respect copyright.PENANA8uxducD768
From time.12Please respect copyright.PENANAEYHcAqIR2p
And as the fracture split his reflection in two, he realized:12Please respect copyright.PENANAy1urO7ZOQd
They had never truly been separate.And now, they could never truly merge.They would simply continue—12Please respect copyright.PENANADRnTkQP5g1
Layered.12Please respect copyright.PENANAiZ91eLgeC2
Fragmented.12Please respect copyright.PENANALHSsfkasYk
Echoing.12Please respect copyright.PENANAnjsZmiJiVI
"Reflections That Do Not Return"12Please respect copyright.PENANAGGgNZTATnz
When the mirror shattered, time fractured with it.12Please respect copyright.PENANAZE0ec5bRCY
The cracks radiated outward like webbing, each fissure revealing a version of himself—some younger, others older, some cold and unfeeling, others brimming with unshed tears.12Please respect copyright.PENANApmhW8ZDNgr
"Are these… all me?"12Please respect copyright.PENANApiw0h58tHz
His voice wavered in the still air, unsure whether he was questioning the mirror—or the fractured soul it reflected.12Please respect copyright.PENANACy8S9uewly
A shard broke loose, falling to the floor with a soft chime. Yet the reflection it cast wasn't of the room he stood in—it was of time:Friday's dusk. Tuesday's echo. The moment the cross appeared. The final turn of her silhouette.12Please respect copyright.PENANAKHJbAJXmjM
"You're not choosing an identity,"said a voice—feminine, calm, not quite Yang An-Ting, not quite Li An-Qing, but holding the gentleness of both."You're choosing which version of yourself will survive."12Please respect copyright.PENANApXI6n9Qetd
He gazed down at the scattered fragments.Each one led to a future that could never return to the beginning.12Please respect copyright.PENANAibvyyTpvaK
"And if I choose nothing?" he asked, barely audible.12Please respect copyright.PENANAuhsMEbq8e4
"Then you'll remain trapped here—in this fracture—until the next cycle calls you back."12Please respect copyright.PENANAGtidCFApVs
Silence again.12Please respect copyright.PENANAAAXrpIADyy
And then, softly, he said:12Please respect copyright.PENANASRVb8K9417
"I don't want to wake again—Not if waking means forgetting her."12Please respect copyright.PENANARLWcixzuuz
The mirror flickered.12Please respect copyright.PENANASvI2qjhnxB
A memory surfaced, replaying on its own:"You won't remember what I said. But you'll remember that it turned dark… and I didn't leave."12Please respect copyright.PENANAjLGRoHMdRu
It was her voice—Li An-Qing.12Please respect copyright.PENANAKpdwNFqeDW
It was the eternity hidden within Friday.12Please respect copyright.PENANA0ICr37dIU6
No more ticking clocks.No more voices.Only the sound of breath—and something deeper, like the echo of his own heartbeat splintering through time.12Please respect copyright.PENANA4CY63jMFFd
A crack ran across the floor, slow but certain, as if time itself was fracturing.One wrong step—and he would fall into a past that no longer wanted him.12Please respect copyright.PENANANAncTmpqnF
He knelt, picking up the fallen shard.In its surface, memory stirred—not his, but sharp enough to cut.12Please respect copyright.PENANAU4Om8YDMqp
"He said he'd come back… He promised me."12Please respect copyright.PENANAxWSKSB3kBu
It was Yang An-Ting's voice—young, certain, heartbreakingly full of hope.12Please respect copyright.PENANAFUEyhQjYSq
Another fragment reflected Li An-Qing, standing at the edge of an abandoned railway.A timestamp flickered in her eyes:2025.2.19 // 28:0112Please respect copyright.PENANAfISPSPC6Qf
She whispered,12Please respect copyright.PENANArW4Bz5AmA3
"Memory isn't for forgetting. It's for choosing."12Please respect copyright.PENANAXglf6Ml3xo
Something inside him pulled—gently at first, then with force.A sorrowful gravity.12Please respect copyright.PENANAOn9timzh6T
The kind that lived in her voice,in her silence,in every name lost to time.12Please respect copyright.PENANAAiOvEIEG3r
"Then how do I choose?" he asked—not to the mirror, but to everything.12Please respect copyright.PENANAvxMp7vfrPz
"Choice," the voice answered from beyond the glass,"isn't an answer. It's a cost."12Please respect copyright.PENANA7ZSi2v8IVn
He opened his eyes.The fracture was pushing him toward a precipice—an end written long ago but never read aloud.12Please respect copyright.PENANAciaEjg9xHL
"You've remembered too much," the voice murmured,"and forgotten more than you know.So now, only one question remains—Who will you stay for?"12Please respect copyright.PENANALhFS8Dmavo
12Please respect copyright.PENANACANvgBAbJ0
"You've always remembered,"Yang An-Ting's voice was gentle, but unwavering."You just didn't want to admit it."12Please respect copyright.PENANAuBezsIF8Dp
"And you've never let go,"Li An-Qing's voice followed, soft and clear, like light after rain."Because deep down, you knew—it wasn't yours to end."12Please respect copyright.PENANAVGfe2T0vx9
He stood between the mirror and the rift,Behind him, the remnants of the past.Before him, an exit with no name.12Please respect copyright.PENANA1fZ5LAY4zY
"If I can't be him, and I can't remain only myself… then what's left?"12Please respect copyright.PENANA1P3WAhXOYx
"Memory,"they said together.12Please respect copyright.PENANAmDWMmBRPFT
Not a name.Not an identity.But something heavier—something that could pierce through time itself.12Please respect copyright.PENANARkHfikOHOB
If names could be forgotten, then let them fade.If identities could collapse, then stop defining them.12Please respect copyright.PENANAtLsidsvSnc
"You don't need a name,"Yang An-Ting whispered."You've already remembered us.""You just need to keep walking,"Li An-Qing followed,"Not for anyone. Not even for yourself."12Please respect copyright.PENANAKJVfHvBqWS
The rift began to close—not as an end, but as a quiet reconfiguration.The shattered timelines wove into each other, forming a new path—one that required no right or wrong, no labels, no return.12Please respect copyright.PENANA6p3nYfg4hm
It was the third route.12Please respect copyright.PENANAVUhVfR28hb
Not back.Not in circles.But—12Please respect copyright.PENANAjyChdUlY9l
Toward a future unnamed.
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Fragmented Unity — A Dialogue Beneath Time
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