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Zhuxia stared at the sea. “Why?”

Zhuxia went alone. Mayi didn’t know. Or maybe she did, and chose not to stop her.

Hanami cried. For the first time, she cried without hiding it. Mayi found them together on the pier, but instead of rage, she felt something worse: exhaustion.

She didn’t follow either.

Zhuxia looked at Mayi. Then at Hanami. Then at the falling petals drifting into the sea.

That was Zhuxia’s way. She didn’t burn cities. She built lighthouses.

They didn’t end with a fight. They ended with a walk—three of them, side by side, through the cherry blossom avenue, not speaking. At the fork in the road, Hanami turned left toward the station. Mayi turned right toward the dance studio. Zhuxia stood in the middle, watching both of them disappear.

“I loved you once,” Zhuxia said. “But love isn’t a reward for returning. It’s a garden. And you let mine dry out.”

Hanami laughed. But her eyes didn’t.

—her real name was Hanami—was the ghost between them. She had arrived in Zhuxia one spring, smelling of rain and old vinyl records. No one knew where she came from. She wore pale pink ribbons in her hair, and her eyes held the kind of sadness that made people want to save her. She never asked to be saved. II. The First Season: Mayi & Sakura Girl It began with a broken bicycle chain and a sudden downpour.

Mayi loved Zhuxia. She did. But she was still haunted by Hanami’s ghost—not the person, but the idea of someone who left before the love could rot. Hanami had become a perfect, frozen memory. Zhuxia was real, present, breathing beside her. And that terrified Mayi.

I. The Geography of Three Hearts In the coastal city of Zhuxia, where the mountains meet the sea and cherry blossoms fall even in summer, three girls moved through the world like planets caught in each other’s gravity—unaware that their orbits were already collapsing.

“I’m tired of being someone’s second choice,” Mayi whispered. “And I’m tired of making Zhuxia mine.”

Zhuxia said nothing. But her hands trembled as she turned off the lamp. A year later. Hanami returned.