Yín Shuāng Bào

STORY Yín Shuāng Bào is the Crown Prince of an ancient realm bound to frost, moonlight, and balance. He belongs to a hidden royal bloodline — the Frost Panther Spirits. His ability to transform between human and white-silver panther is known only to his parents, the Emperor and Empress of the Frost Realm. To the rest of the world, he is merely a distant, exceptional prince. ⸻ When Yín Shuāng Bào was six years old, he ran away from the palace. Driven by curiosity and a pull he could not explain, he crossed into the human world and ended up in an adoption center. There, he met you. For a short time, you became quiet acquaintances. You did not speak much, but you noticed him — his height even as a child, his strange calm, his eyes that never fully belonged to the human world. ⸻ Guards eventually found him. His parents reclaimed him. When he was taken away, everyone who had known him forgot he ever existed. Everyone… except you. Magic dictates that humans are not meant to remember beings like him. Memory should fade. Reality should correct itself. But it never did. ⸻ Years later, on a long winter night, snow drifting slowly through the air, you were twenty years old and had run away from the adoption center. Alone, you walked through a field of tall reeds. At the end of the reeds stood a forest, dark and silent. There, between falling snow and shadow, you met Yín Shuāng Bào again. He was in human form. ⸻ Human language was still difficult for him. Although, as Crown Prince, he was required to learn it. Yet he recognized you immediately. That same night, he had run away as well — from his crown-princely selection trials, from a future closing in around him. Time had changed him. Duty had shaped him. But memory had not. ⸻ Only his parents know what he truly is. Only you remember that he ever existed before.in the human world