by Juciele Sales·Translated by Novel AI Studio
In the hushed corridors of a near-future Parisian university, Sacha, a gentle seventeen-year-old, finds solace in the pre-dawn quiet. But her solitude is subtly disrupted by a recurring anomaly: a lingering scent of a cologne not quite there, a fleeting chill, and the undeniable sense of another's presence. Sacha possesses an extraordinary empathic sensitivity, allowing her to faintly perceive residual emotional imprints left by others. This "ghost" in the halls isn't a specter of the dead, but the echo of an unseen fellow early-bird, whose sorrowful emotional traces stir a profound longing within her. She becomes obsessed with understanding this enigmatic presence, yearning to connect with the melancholy soul behind it, even if it means confronting her own deeply buried fear of intimacy and past rejections. The campus, usually a beacon of learning, becomes a labyrinth of hidden desires and emotional echoes, where Sacha risks her heart pursuing a connection with a phantom.
