32 parts Ongoing Charlotte Austin lived for twenty-six quiet, beautiful, and slowly crumbling years.
Diagnosed with a rare, untreatable genetic disorder, her life was an hourglass turned too soon-and no one could stop the sand from running out.
Until Dr. Engfa Waraha walked into her hospital room.
Burn-scarred. Brilliant. Autistic. A medical genius trained in silence and observation, not small talk.
Engfa had studied every genetic sequence in Charlotte's chart, every failed trial, every desperate cure.
"I read everything," she said, voice flat but eyes on fire. "There's no way to save you."
"You're giving up?" Charlotte whispered.
"No."
"I-I want to marry you."
Charlotte died weeks later.
But the story didn't end there.
She woke up in the summer of her college graduation-five years before her diagnosis.
And across the street was Dr. Engfa Waraha, not yet famous, not yet broken.
Just a girl with shy eyes, scars on her cheek, and a mind too big for the world.
And again, she said:
"I want to marry you."
This time, Charlotte says:
"Okay."
A tale of medicine, miracles, memory-and the love that rewrites fate.