Still | A Citrus Fan-Fiction

When Mei chose the arranged marriage, she thought she was protecting her future-her dream, her family's legacy, but Yuzu's world begins to crumble. Mei chose duty over love, pushing Yuzu away to walk the path her family set for her. Mei convinces herself she must follow her dream of running the academy, even if it means burying her heart, while Yuzu is left questioning if she was ever part of Mei's dream at all.

And then the message arrived.

For Yuzu.

From someone unknown. Someone no one around her seemed to know. From someone Yuzu couldn't place, yet felt disturbingly close.

That someone had pulled her away.

Not long after, Yuzu disappeared. She left without explanation, leaving only a farewell to her mother, leaving everyone else-including Mei-in grief and confusion. Everything changed. No one knew where she went, or why. Mei buried her sorrow in silence, while Yuzu's absence became a wound that never healed.

Mei buried her grief in duty, convincing herself that Yuzu was gone forever.

But fate is cruel, and time refuses to hide the inevitable.

What happens when their paths cross again?

But the girl who returned was no longer the Yuzu that Mei once knew-the bubbly, warm, outspoken girl who carried light into every room-is gone. Different. Very different. In her place is someone colder and distant. A woman carrying secrets Mei cannot begin to unravel.

Mei still feels the pull of her heart, but how do you reach for someone who has built walls around everything you once held? And for Yuzu, who has finally learned to protect herself.

Every step forward pulls Mei deeper into a mystery she never knew existed-a mystery tied to Yuzu's disappearance, and to the reason she was forced to change.