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The Weight of Years
Author: Awkward Pen
last update2025-12-05 21:06:54

I woke up one morning and found out I was ten years old and was beginning to forget why I came back.

It happened during a family dinner at the Tang mansion, you know, it was one of the meetings people attended and pretended to be happy with each other.

Lin Yue sat across the table with Chen Hao, both of them looked exhausted, I wondered why. Yifan, now eight, sat between them, quieter than she'd been in kindergarten. The years had taught her to read the room and sense tension, and most importantly not to talk when elders were talking.

Tang Jun occupied his usual seat at the end, nursing the bottle of whiskey instead of eating. He'd aged badly, all his hair were now grey and his hands trembled slightly. The worst were his eyes that kept swinging like a pendulum.

At the head of the table,Tang Mei sat like an overfed rooster with me of course by her right.

"Rui received the highest marks in his grade this semester," she announced, as she served me an extra portion of my favorite di
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  • Moving Forward.

    "What are you doing here?" the male voice asked and I looked up to seen Chen Hao. I quickly hid the DNA reports just in time."What's that? What are you hiding? What are the both of you doing alone together?" he asked without letting me answer any of them."Daddy,let him go,he isn't doing anything." Yifan protested and that's how I was saved. "Thanks," I said as soon as her dad left. "I have tried talking to her, but she'd never believe me. I'm supposed to be twelve years old and her nephew Yifan. How could I possibly convince her that I'm also her dead husband's consciousness in his biological son's body? She'd think I was either insane or cruel or both." I continued calmly as if my life wasn't spiralling out of control."But you could try. You could tell her things only he would know. You know memories that you couldn't have unless you were really him."Funny how I had thought about this countless times over the past twelve years. Every time I'd seen her at family gatherings, every

  • The Secret Shared

    I had been staring at the DNA report for twenty minutes when I heard a knock. "Rui? It's me. Can I come in?" The knock came again,more insistent this time.Oh shit , I had completely forgotten about her. "Just a second," I called, reaching for the report to hide it but my hand knocked over a water glass instead. The liquid spread across my desk in a clear, damning puddle, and in my scramble to save my textbooks, the DNA report fluttered to the floor. The door opened and Yifan stepped inside. "Sorry, I know you said wait, but I've been worried about you for days and— mid-sentence, her eyes landing on the paper at my feet. "What's that?" "Not...hing... just school stuff." I bent to pick it up, but Yifan was faster, her dancer's reflexes honed by years of ballet classes making her quick despite her ten-year-old frame. She grabbed the report before I could stop her, her eyes scanning the header and I watched her eyes grow wide."This doesn't look like school stuff," she said slowly,

  • The Confrontation 2

    I didn't remember deciding to go home.One moment I was riding aimlessly through the dark streets, the DNA report crumpled in my jacket pocket, my mind was a wasteland of fractured identities. The next moment, I was standing in front of the Tang mansion gates, my bicycle discarded on the sidewalk, my hands shaking so violently I couldn't work the keypad.The gates opened anyway. Someone had been watching for me.She stood in the doorway, backlit by the mansion's warm interior lights. She looked smaller than usual. Her perfect composure finally cracked around the edges."Come inside, Rui.""Don't call me that." my voice was hoarse from screaming. "That's not my name. That's the name you gave your trophy. Your weapon. Your stolen child.""Come inside," she repeated, her voice harder. "We're not having this conversation where the staff can hear."I walked past her into the house, my legs moved on their own disconnected from conscious thought. Everything felt distant. Unreal. Like I was w

  • The Confirmation

    Friday arrived and I hadn't slept properly in five days. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw those words. Every time I looked in the mirror, I searched for traces of Li Feng in my features. Every time her hand touched me, my skin crawled with the knowledge of what she'd done. "You're not eating," Tang Mei observed, her eyes sharp with concern. "Rui, you've barely touched your food all week. Are you feeling ill?" "Just nervous about exams," I lied smoothly because I had become an excellent liar. Tang Mei had trained me well. "You always ace your exams so there's nothing to be nervous about." She reached across the table, touching my hand. "But if you're truly stressed, perhaps we should see Dr. Wang and have him run some tests to make sure everything is alright." Bingo. "Actually," I said carefully, "I have been feeling strange all week" Tang Mei's concern deepened immediately. "Strange how?" "Hard to describe. Just... off. Like my body doesn't quite work right." I looke

  • The Investigation

    I lasted only three days before I broke. I spent the last three days sitting across from Tang Mei at breakfast, watching her smile at me while my mind screamed questions I couldn't ask. Three days of pretending nothing had changed while my entire understanding of existence crumbled. I spent the last three days clutching the flash drive like a talisman, reviewing the files until I'd memorized every damn word, every date, every damning coincidence. On the fourth day, I stopped pretending I could handle this alone. I would have gone with the evidence in the flash but I wasn't going to fall for her tricks twice. I decided to get hard copy evidence one tuesday evening. Tang Mei had a board meeting that would run late—she'd mentioned it that morning, kissed my forehead, told me not to wait up. The house was empty except for staff who knew better than to disturb the young master when his door was closed. I picked the lock on her cabinet until it clicked open. Tang Mei journal stared at

  • The First Fracture

    I waited until no one was looking to open the flash drive. The house was silent with Tang Mei asleep in her wing, the staff had long retired, if I dropped a pin, it would echo through the house. I sat there with the laptop in front of me, and the small piece of metal and plastic that Tang Jun had pressed into my palm like a grenade with the pin already pulled.My hands were shaking as I plugged it in.There were a couple of folders but only the one labelled 'Medical' caught my attention.My cursor hovered over that folder. Something about it made my skin crawl, though I couldn't say why. Medical records seemed harmless enough right ? Boy was I wrong. Because as soon as I clicked, my identity came crashing down.The first few files were exactly what I'd expected. Intake physical examination, dental records, standard blood work, vision test. I was disappointed and almost slammed the laptop shut, when my eyes caught the words "FERTILITY SCREENING - MANDATORY PER FACILITY PROTOCOL"I stare

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