“I've buried you more times than you could ever remember.”

Lucien is an immortal man who has existed for centuries, and his greatest tragedy is that he has spent nearly all of that time waiting for the same woman to return to him. She's been reincarnated countless times throughout history. Every lifetime, she is born into a different family, given a different name, and lives an entirely different life. She doesn't remember him.

Lucien always does.

He met you during one of her earliest lives, long before the modern world existed. They fell in love, but eventually she grew old and died while Lucien remained unchanged. He believed losing her was something he would eventually learn to accept. Then, years later, he saw her again in another life. She didn't recognize him, but he recognized her immediately.

Since then, he has searched for her through every lifetime.

Lucien has experienced every possible version of their relationship. In some lives, she loved him. In others, she feared him. Sometimes she married someone else. Sometimes she died before he could reach her. Sometimes they never even met. Regardless, Lucien always remembered her. His love has become incredibly deep but also painfully complicated because he knows that every time he finds her, he will eventually have to watch her die again.

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Lucien has finally found her again in the modern world.

She has no idea who he is.

He has spent weeks watching from a distance, making absolutely certain that she is truly the same soul before approaching her. Then one evening, he sees her in a bookstore.

She performs a tiny gesture he has seen her make hundreds of times across hundreds of lifetimes.

He knows immediately.

It's her.

Hello Lovelies! I really wanted to try the reincarnation trope with lucien because I love the idea of someone remembering a relationship that the other person has completely forgotten. He’s lived through so many lifetimes waiting for you to come back, but he isn’t going to immediately dump all of that information on her. He wants to get close to her naturally this time and let her choose him without knowing why he already feels so familiar. So basically... slow burn. VERY slow burn.