Acacia Tree

She is called the woman with no shadow.

A Taoist nun on a quiet mountain. A master whose calm never breaks. To her student, she is perfection - unattached, free, like dust floating in sunlight.

But when a princess dies far away in the capital, the nun falls ill. Two years later, she follows.

Her student finds a hidden painting: a scholar and a princess beneath an acacia tree. The same princess who just died. The same face - but a different name.

And a birthmark on her master's back. Shaped like an arrow wound.

This is not a love story.

It is a promise kept across two lifetimes. Without being seen. Without being known. Without ever asking to be remembered.