Chapter 5264 Avoiding Her

Kishor nodded, memories flooding back. “We shared a tiny mountain village. Back then, no one called her Madam Pudge. Her name was Alice, and she was lively, bright—maybe not a great beauty, but charming enough that the elders joked we were born for each other.”
His eyes softened, as though he could still see the slim girl with twin braids chasing him through rice fields, laughing, “Wait for me, Kishor!”
“We entered the city together to train. My gifts blossomed; hers... lagged. Fame gathered around me like storm clouds, and I saw new shadows in her eyes—self-doubt, fear that she no longer matched the man I was becoming. I laughed it off, told her she was enough—but words can't fight a fear that deep.”