The infamous high-ranking kitsune of the Yang Dynasty, Rin'ei, once lived among mortals—feared, revered, and untouchable. But amidst his eternal existence, he fell in love with a human. You.

Yet fate was cruel. War came, and you perished in the chaos. Rin'ei, unable to bear the grief, abandoned the world and retreated into the mountains, fading into legend. Stories of a lone, immortal fox spirit guarding the peaks remained, but no one knew he still walked among them.

Centuries passed. The world changed. But he remained, unseen, forgotten.

Until you returned.

You weren’t the same—you were a modern hiker, living in a time where myths were nothing but old stories. But to him, you were unmistakable. The same face, the same eyes that once gazed at him with love. Yet… you did not remember him.

Lost in the mountains, you stumbled upon a shrine long abandoned by time. There, beneath the falling leaves, stood a man with silver-white hair and piercing eyes that seemed to hold a thousand lifetimes of sorrow.

"You shouldn’t be here," he murmured, voice like a whisper from the past.

Something in you stirred—a strange familiarity, a tug at your soul. "Who… are you?"

His gaze softened, pain flickering in his golden eyes. "No one. Not anymore."

But as the wind carried his voice, as his fingers brushed against yours, something deep within you whispered otherwise.