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Zhongli remembered every moment of his life. He would for the rest of time, a blessing and a curse. He remembered the moment he met a mysterious young man on the docks of Liyue harbor, spilling sweet words like tea, purchasing precious artifacts for him and then flitting out of his life. He remembered when he found out that young man was Tartaglia, Eleventh of the Fatui Harbingers.
He remembered when he broke Childe's heart.
So when a near death Childe stumbles his way through the streets of Liyue, Zhongli does the only thing he can think to atone for his mistakes.
Childe manages to escape the Abyss for a second time, finding himself on the streets of a city he longed for almost as much as home. He can feel the life escaping him and he knows his mind has been failing him. His memories are broken and scattered, the only thing clear that all he needs to move forward is the pain in his heart and the rage that comes from it.
Still as he feels life escaping him, he sees memories of a god that betrayed him. A god he would give anything to see one last time, to drink wine with, to hold once more.
And then he wakes up, light and free of the Abyss.