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Chapter 3 - Volume 3 -The Forbidden Painting: The One Who Redrew Herself

Chapter 1 – The One With Another Name Inside Her Own Body

Opening scene – a sealed memory space.Liu Ly fell into a place with no horizon.She didn't fall with gravity—She fell because memory was pulling her backward…toward a future she never reached.

The word "Vô" carved on her chest still bled warmly.It didn't fade.It didn't hurt.Only black ink began to rise around the wound—forming a circle of forbidden marks.

New Realm Unlocked: "Heart-Paint – Reversed Selfscape"The deepest layer of the Dream Realm.It only opens when a Painter rewrites herself with blood instead of ink.

Here lived every version of Liu Ly that was ever drawn wrong.

The one who smiled falsely.The one who killed without knowing why.A child erased before she ever had time to grow.

Dialogue: Liu Ly vs Herself

Liu Ly (looking at the version before her—short-haired, dressed in white, smiling softly):"Who are you?"

Reflected Self:"The Liu Ly you drew…when you tried to forgive someone who didn't deserve it.""You tore me apart.But I still live—inside you."

Liu Ly:"I don't need a weak version of me."

Reflected Self:"No. You don't need a version that… forgives."

Action – The Internal Battle Begins

Liu Ly pulled her brush.Blood rose from her chest, filling the tip.

She drew a circular sigil in midair—Three rings nested inside each other, one crack through the middle.

Skill: Heart Paint – Fractured Shadow Realm(Locks the reflection inside a flawed sketch to destroy it permanently)

The reflected self charged.Still smiling.No brush—But every touch stabbed a memory into Liu Ly's mind.

Emotion – Fever of Reversed Memory

Each strike hit her with a broken memory:– A first touch.– Eyes watching her sleep.– A promise… she couldn't remember the words to.

"You tried to hold on to someone once…So you redrew yourself… as someone gentle."

Liu Ly screamed—Drew one final line across the sky—and the reflection shattered,still smiling.

"One day, you'll draw me again…with the eyes of someone who once loved you."

Chapter 2 – A Face That Never Existed in Memory

Liu Ly woke in the Gallery of Nameless Scrolls.

No sky.No ground.Just floating portraits—no frame, no title, no time.

Each one: a faceless figure blurred by loss.

She walked between them.With every step, ink stuck to her robe—heavy, like carrying someone she never remembered.

New Character: The Faceless One

A man stood suspended in air.Light blue robes. Calm voice.

"You still don't remember me.""This time… I won't blame you.But may I… remain here?"

Liu Ly:"Who are you?"

He didn't answer.Instead, he held out a torn paper—On it: a line in her handwriting:

"If one day I draw you wrong,Please forgive the hand that once trembled from loving you."

Rising Tension – Fractured Memory

She didn't remember.But the words tore something inside her chest.

Her hand moved on its own—She tried to draw his face.

She couldn't.

She drew his hair.His neck.His robes—

But the eyes… blurred.The smile… burned the paper.

Skill: Memory-Recoil Ink

Skill Activated: Heart Paint – Rejection Stroke(When trying to sketch a forbidden memory, the brush turns against the artist)

Her own painting clawed her hand open.

Blood splattered.He stepped forward—Held her hand gently.

"Don't force yourself to remember me through blood.If you need…I'll stay here, faceless."

World Expansion – The Gallery of Nameless Scrolls

This was where all those she had once loved,but later erased, remained.

They didn't blame.They didn't speak.They just waited—for someone to remember their names.

Ending Line

Liu Ly (gripping her brush, eyes empty):"If I once loved someone…but can't even remember his face—Am I still the person who loved him?"

Faceless One (turning away):"Maybe… that's why I'm still here."

Chapter 3 – The Sealed Box of Memory

Liu Ly entered a stone chamber, hidden deep within the Gallery of Nameless Scrolls.At its center sat a crimson ink box, engraved with a warning:

"Do not open—if you still love what's inside."

She opened it anyway.

Inside: not ink—but fragments of paintings, torn into shreds.

Each piece:a kiss,a held hand,a smile caught mid-laugh…

A voice echoed through the shadows:

"You cut them yourself—because you believed the more you loved,the more precise your blade would be."

Chapter 4 – The One Who Came Late to a Finished Painting

Tử La stepped forward.Once Liu Ly's peer.Now her rival in a place where names were forgotten.

She stood under the floating scrolls.

"Why didn't you draw me beside him?""You knew I loved him."

Liu Ly:

"Because I didn't even know who I loved.""So I drew everyone… only halfway."

They clashed—paint against paint.

Tử La's technique:"Soul Echo – Severed Love Unspoken"Turns every unreturned emotion into a real cut.

A strike split Liu Ly's chest—No blood spilled.Only ink.

Chapter 5 – The One Never Given a Name in Any Journal

In a desert made of blank scrolls,Liu Ly found a silent boy.

He didn't speak.He simply pointed at his wrist—where one word had been etched:

"Lưu."

She didn't know him.But her heartbeat—skipped.

He showed her a torn page:A single sketch.A hand, reaching from whiteness.Grasping hers.

Liu Ly (voice shaking):"You were the one I promised never to name.Because the moment I write your name…you'll disappear?"

He nodded.

Chapter 6 – Redrawing a Name with a Tremble

She painted his name.In blood.

The paper vibrated—then caught fire.

He faded.

But before he vanished,he smiled once,and pointed upward:

"Even once…I was truly drawn."

Liu Ly knelt.Hands soaked in blood.Eyes dry.Because memory had no tears left.

Chapter 7 – The Door That Opens Backward

She found a door.Not one that opened into the future—but one that erased everything she had drawn.

Above it, a single inscription:

"Enter here to return to the moment before you drew anyone."

She stepped through.

And the world erased itself:

No Trạm Vô Ngôn.No Tử La.No battles.No pain.

Only a child.Alone in a blank room.Clutching a brush.Sketching a person made of dirt.

"Did I draw this world…because I feared being alone?"

Chapter 8 – The One Living in Your Shadow

Trạm Vô Ngôn appeared.Not the real one—just a trembling memory of him.

He knelt before her:

"You painted me so no one else could ever touch you.""But you drew me…as someone who always leaves."

Liu Ly:

"I didn't want to keep someone by painting them.""I wanted to keep them…in real memory."

"And I failed."

Chapter 9 – Scene-Paint: Self-Destruction

She painted one final canvas—A massive one—Containing every name,every face,every regret she had ever erased.

"This is the last time.""I will not draw anyone again.""I will redraw… myself."

Skill: Final Paint – Collapse the Defined SelfCreate a new identity.Erase all previous drawings.

The Dream Realm shattered.Pages split.Space bent.Memories bled.She disappeared.

Chapter 10 – I Will Be Drawn in the Eyes of Another

In the last remaining blankness,Trạm Vô Ngôn appeared.The real one.

He stood amid ashes,looking at her.No sorrow.No anger.

"Will you redraw yourself again?"

Liu Ly:

"No.""This time…I want to see myself through someonewho once failed to draw me."

They stood.No brush.No scroll.No names.

Only two eyes,trembling with the weight of memory,in a world that no longer needed paper.

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