higher than my rainclouds (слэш)

He was fourteen when it all got to be too much.
Fourteen, and still unmarked.
Not everyone had a soulmate, of course. He told himself that a lot, trying to rationalize away his pain. And even of those who did, and who were fortunate enough to find them, it wasn’t always romantic. Sometimes your soulmate didn’t match your physical desires, and stayed platonic. Sometimes you met your soulmate too late, when you had already made commitments to another.
There were a lot of ancient dramas about that sort of situation.
Still, Jiang Cheng had no scars that weren’t his own.
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Soulmates share scars. For a long time, Jiang Cheng believes he is alone, until he is not.