#worldendfortune

Childe died, and everything happened just like what he said. Celestia decided to wipe out all the existences of Teyvat, Zhongli miraclely survived and continued to live in a world that has nothing but sand and ashes.

There weren't any spiritual power left in him as everything was erased so ZL just simply exist, and wait for millions years in despair. Its foolish to think that a human like Childe, got him in this situation but sometimes ZL can't help but blame Childe.

And then he eventually give up on waiting, on seeking for a new form of life on the planet and slumped down , hoping for the sand and ashes to covered him, as he gradually turned into a bare rock.

That's when a miracle happens and he found his mind wandered through time and spaces. His mind took him to have a glimpse of himself in multiple universes, and in every of them, no matter what, theres always Childe. It's as If they were destined to meet and fall in love with each other, but is this a blessing or a shackle when hes suffering this much because of their love? What's the meaning of all those years in solitude when his Childe is already dead?

Then he finally see the image of a boy, a young Snezhnaya boy wandering in the darkness talking to an unknown figure.

"Wh- where am I?" The young boy asked.

" You are at the void,... the end of eternity." The figure in the shadow answered.

" But why?? Am I... am I dead?" The boy asked frantically."

"... you were supposed to survive but its appear that you are a bit more unfortunate than the other you. So that's why you end up here, waiting to be turned into nothingness."

" what, what about you, are you going to be turned into nothingness too?"

" no, I have always been here, watching the universe moving, I... don't leave. "

" like a fish in a tank?"

The figure then stopped to say the boy is surprisingly apathetic to his situation. The boy scratched his head and laugh, saying that he already see himself end up dying .

" But I... really wanted to live."

Then the boy noticed that he and the figure in the shadow... look somewhat similar. Then he suddenly came up with an idea, he couldn't leave but the other perhaps could? He tried to convince the figure to leave in his stead, with his body.

" what's in it for me? I don't find the reason to leave this place."

" Y- You are going to live the life I am going to have, have the love I am going to received and the love I'm about to give! So please!...There's someone out there might still waiting for me to love them."

The boy keeps on insisting until the figure finally gave in, then they lay down a promise.

"Are you...immortal?" The boy asked when he was lifted up by the unknown person, they need to get on with it quick because his soul is abt to vanish.

" I supposed I am." The unknown answered.

" That's great... I have always dreamed of an eternal love, give that to them for me." Then everything turned pitch black. The unknown took the boy's body, then its as if he had turned one with the body, unable to remember anything of his past self, only with the boy's memory he lived on. Just like the promise they had, his life was a filled with love and adventures.

But he eventually meets the end of his fate, at the final moments he remembered everything, the boy, the promise, the void. Is this the end? he doesn't want to go back, he doesn't want to give up this life yet, there's still that eternal love he was promised.

So he looked at the man who's holding him tight in his arm, his beloved and thought, with you... I-

He coughed out the blood, forced out the words, and he said:

" I curse you for all the eternity-..."

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“ I want to love you for all eternity, be my loved one and no one else’s. I will make you an exception.

So when your time is ended, come find me.”

Is what he wanted to say, but the words doesn’t come out anymore. And his conscious faded away, back to the void.

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Zhongli continue to tell the mysterious voice from the void about what happened, how after that he followed the flow of time and come here.

“It’s true that I was supposed to perish on the day of the Celestial cleanse, as you can see I show up here with the appearance that I have that day, which is quite fortunate I would say… And that’s my story, what about you?”

Zhongli took a step closer to the mysterious one floating the the void and asked.

“What are you doing out here all by yourself? “

And the mysterious creatures emerged from the darkness in a figure of a beautiful young man. He stay quiet for a while then speak up.

“Are you here to blame me?”

Zhongli was surprised, but he soon put on a tender smile with a glimpse of sadness.

“ I did, it’s easier to blame you. But on that day when you laid the curse, I was the one to give in. I thought it was because of something I did that make you said that, and I was so stubborn to except the fact that everything was gone in just a blink, vanished, like it was never existed.

So that’s why I stayed, to hold on, endures all the millions of years in solitude when I should have let go, to come and… find you.” He goes on.

“ And the truth is, in all those years I had spent alone, there weren’t a day that I stopped loving you. Seeing you here like this, I’m overwhelmed with happiness. But…”

Zhongli moves towards the young man, lift a hand to caress his face but there were no touch.

“ I’m not here. It’s only my will that travel beyond the void, reach you here at the end of eternity. I’m still there, waiting in despair.”

Zhongli body started to turn transparent as he carry on.

“ To you whom only ever knows of solitude,

I hope you could let me love you.”