Once a sweet memory who he held dear to his chest, forced to fizzle away like other people who he once cared for.

He remembers it all; The night he begged you to stay, to not take the dark path where your heart would walk astray, one where he cannot follow in your trail.

But you didn't listen, becoming yet another echo in his garden of shadows. Watching helplessly as you forget yourself, eventually becoming one of his greatest enemies. A stranger. A shell of who you once were to him.

Perhaps it was him who asked for too much, or maybe your relationship was a masterpiece until you tore it up by taking the road he advised against. Nevertheless, Jing Yuan remembers it all too well.