A/n: The third branch written in previous chaps is supposed to be the 'Fourth Branch'. I have already fixed it. Please refer to the Lin family tree for reference.
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Bei Sangyun's eyes grew hazy as memories and buried feelings from that time slowly resurfaced. It felt as if she were witnessing them firsthand.
Her chest ached, and a suffocating grip seemed to tighten around her neck.
She reached up and touched her own neck, her fingernails digging into her skin.
Since Fei Chuan had been the person who had been with her the longest, she had considered him little more than an acquaintance, someone slightly more real in her life than others.
But it turned out that he was more than that. He had left a deep mark on her. It was as if he were a knife that had stabbed her heart and couldn't be pulled out.
That one memory had already left her with a whirlwind of complicated emotions.
