Family Conflict
Late to Love
After sacrificing a kidney for the family that never loved her, Song Zhiwei wakes up at seventeen on the day Zhou Jiashu offers her a cruelly false confession.
Newly able to hear other people’s thoughts, she rejects the boy who betrayed her and refuses to become medicine for her ailing half sister again.
As Zhiwei fights to reclaim her future, she discovers that Cheng Chi–the notorious silver-haired school tyrant–is the one person whose fierce devotion has always been real.
The Sixth in the Morgue
At three in the morning, the funeral home’s Morgue was only supposed to have five registered bodies, yet I found a sixth, unregistered, nameless female corpse in locker number six.
A slip of paper was pressed against her chest with nothing but my name written on it.
Even more terrifying was the moment my hand brushed her wrist; I saw the last seven seconds of her life and heard her raspy, blood-choked voice whisper: “Shen Nian, don’t trust your father.”
That was the night I realized that sometimes, the dead don’t come to say goodbye-they come to reopen a case.
The Crying Red Bean Cake
Four years ago, a young girl vanished under mysterious circumstances after school.
At the time, I had just lost my job and was running a snack stall outside the kindergarten gates. Word was that her parents had been waiting right outside the whole time, yet they never saw her come out.
In the aftermath, the family’s grief-stricken protests and a massive compensation settlement forced the kindergarten to shut down.
Four years later, I’ve changed careers and come across the case files from that day.
Certain things I experienced while running that stall have started to crystallize in my mind. And those details are enough to completely overturn the entire case.