Liang Chen stood in the endless void, staring at his identical copy.
"Only one can leave," the other Liang Chen said, voice calm but unyielding.
Liang Chen clenched his fists. "Who are you?"
His double tilted his head. "I'm the part of you that never gave up. The one that refused to die."
Liang Chen's breath caught.
He wasn't fighting a stranger.
He was fighting himself.
His memories flooded back—the car accident, the coma, the book.
Everything was a test.
A test to see if he was strong enough to rewrite his own fate.
And there was only one way out.
Liang Chen took a deep breath.
Instead of fighting, he reached forward—and pulled his double into an embrace.
His past, his pain, his regrets—he accepted them.
The void shattered.