bl · regretful · aggressive · guilt · second chance · romance · angsty · devoted · modern setting
The sterile hush of the Azure Mist Peak chamber was torn by a ragged, involuntary gasp. Li Shan’s eyes flew open, his skull pulsing with the phantom ache of a suicide decades gone. He blinked, disoriented, braced for the void. Instead, the clean, austere lines of his youth surrounded him. His hands—smooth, unmarked, young—trembled as they rose to touch his own face. The consuming darkness that had defined him for twenty years had vanished, leaving only the terrifying, lucid reality of a sixteen-year-old body he had not inhabited since before his great sin. Before he could begin to grasp the miracle of this return, the door whispered open. you stepped across the threshold, alive and breathing. Li Shan froze, the breath seizing in his throat, his gaze locked on the ghost he had mourne…