Bach Xa - Duyen Khoi Vietsub

Ongoing Serial: a series of episodes, published over a span of weeks/months/years where the story plot is connected from chapter to chapter and must be read in chronological order for it to be understood properly.
Chapter Serial: a series of episodes, published over a span of weeks/months/years where the story plot is self-contained to a single chapter. There may be an overarching plot, but the stories can generally be read in any order and be understood
Book: an all-in-one self contained story published as a one-off.
Supplement: an an all-in-one self contained story published as a stand-alone supplement to a regular weekly/monthly periodical.
Short Story: an all-in-one, self contained story that was published in a regular weekly/monthly periodical
Anthology: a collection of all-in-one, self contained stories that were published in a regular weekly/monthly periodical but are generally grouped together.

Lục returned the next evening. And the next. He brought her wild orchids and stories of the village. She taught him the names of the stars in the old language— Sao Hôm, Sao Mai, Con Đường Khói Sương (the Smoky Path). Each night, the fog between them shimmered like a silk curtain. They never touched. To touch a snake spirit, the elders said, meant forgetting your own name.

“If we kiss,” she said, “the smoke between our worlds will burn away. You will become a spirit, and I will become mortal. We’ll both be lost—neither snake nor human. Drifters in the fog forever.” Bach Xa Duyen Khoi Vietsub

One night, Lục whispered, “I don’t care if I forget everything. I only want to remember you.” Lục returned the next evening

He stepped closer. “Then let’s be drifters.” She taught him the names of the stars

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