Chapter 25

Chapter 25

Before I lost consciousness, I met Huifang’s Mother’s eyes.

They were kind and gentle, like a moment of eternal stillness.

“Shanshan, it’s alright now. Be a good girl.”

It was Grandma. Only Grandma ever called me that. I reached out toward her in a flurry of emotion, but she drifted further and further away until my strength finally failed me.

When I woke up again, I was in the hospital.

I had been in a coma for eight full days.

I had multiple fractures and a brain hemorrhage. If Huifang’s Mother hadn’t appeared when she did, I would have died in silence.

As for Gu Weizhi, he was injured during the police pursuit. Driven into a corner with no way out, he turned his gun on himself and committed suicide.

Once my body had recovered enough, I went to see Huifang’s Mother. She was still mad.

She didn’t remember a single thing about what happened that night.

Her family members were even muttering to themselves in confusion. “It’s so strange. That whistle of hers was too annoying, always making a racket, so we replaced the reed inside a long time ago.”

“That’s the weird part. How did she manage to blow it?”

I froze as a shiver traveled from my fingertips to the depths of my heart. I looked at Huifang’s Mother; her eyes were clouded and vacant.

She was a completely different person from the woman I saw that night.

When I left, the sunlight outside was so brilliant it made my tears flow uncontrollably.

I think I know who came for me that night.

It was Huifang’s Mother.

And it was also her.

A night of life and death, wind and rain-it was as if an old friend had returned.

(End)