"Who are you all…?" Zixin questioned.
Jun stiffened and so did Jin. He slowly shut his eyes, feeling crushed and defeated. The thing that he most feared happened.
Serena and Jianyu blinked at him in confusion. "Zixin, what do you mean? It's us. Your family."
Zixin's brows tiredly furrowed. "Zi…Zixin? Is that my name?"
Coming to a certain chilly realization, everybody froze. Serena's breath stuck in her throat, and she asked with terror striking deep in her heart, "You d-don't remember us?"
Zixin threw another glance at everybody and tried to recall any faces that might know. But his memories all felt to him blank like a white clean slate. He started to panic and forced himself to remember anything about himself, but even the name Zixin didn't ring a bell.
"I…" he was breathless. "I don't know. I don't know anybody here. What is going on?"