A few months ago.
"I am not Alix."
Ren Luoyang and Ren Cuifen looked at her, stumped. They were at the hospital to meet their daughter who had woken up after a six month long coma. They had expected a teary reunion with her, not a cold, unfeeling expression from her who was looking at them as if they were strangers.
There was no warmth in those eyes and neither recognition.
Ren Cuifen was confused. "We don't understand dear…"
She took a few long moments because she understood their confusion. She also predicted their future reaction.
"It means that only this body belongs to your daughter. The soul inside it is somebody else's. I am not Ren Alix. I just look like her. I am a different person."
They didn't believe her. It wasn't that difficult, considering Alix's personality changes just before her accident. They surmised that the fall somehow affected something in her brain.
Did she develop that…what we call split personality?