Jian Yu Chose the Empty Space (edit) (log)

Jian Yu reaches for his locked phone and stops with his fingers still in the air. The seal on the case is still whole, but the name inside feels farther away than any enemy he has ever tracked. He has spent so long jumping from one assignment to the next that he no longer trusts his own memories, yet his body still reacts the moment Lu Shiyan steps into a room. She is the one person who kept pace with him at school, watched him for three years, and never said what she knew. When a corporate case drags him into public roles he never wanted, Jian starts to want one thing that is not part of any mission: a place beside her that he can keep.