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    Summary

    Keng was raised to believe that feeling too much is fatal.
    That love is a neurological risk.
    That control is the only way to survive.

    So when Namping — his childhood friend, his soulmate, the one person his body has never learned to forget — comes back into his life, everything begins to fail.

    A touch burns.
    A kiss awakens something ancient.
    And what Keng calls illness is, in truth, the slow collapse of a bond violently denied.

    As Namping fades between fever and paint, and a past curse resurfaces beneath modern science, Keng is forced to face the question he has avoided his entire life:

    Is survival worth choosing, if it means letting your soulmate die?

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