Yeah... the time we were apart wasn't actually that long, but his memories of her had still gone a bit blurry. Chen Xuan held his breath, carefully examining every detail of her. Her eyebrows, the corners of her eyes, her cheeks, her lips... all of these were quite different from what he remembered. His brain was like a high‑speed editor, automatically correcting them one by one until she overlapped perfectly with the image in his mind.
In the end, his brain reached a conclusion: she really was Lin Qing. Unless there existed in this world a twin or clone who matched her this perfectly.
He said "matched" instead of "similar" because Lin Qing clearly was no longer the same Future Warrior as before.
Her hair had turned pure black, no longer that dazzling gradient of pink, purple, and blue. Her face was dull and ashy instead of the perpetually smooth, fresh synthetic skin from before, but she now looked more like an explorer who had trekked a long, long road.
