[No CP] [Revenge] [With Knife] [Cyberpunk Style]
It rained heavily and lightning pierced the night sky. Ning Wei stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. The 28th-floor apartment had a panoramic view of the city, but it couldn't illuminate the haze that had accumulated for five years in her eyes. The voice on the other end of the phone was mechanical and cold: "Ms. Ning, your father's brake system has been tampered with."
His fingers unconsciously stroked his own reflection on the window - with her neat short hair and sharp eyes, she was completely different from the girl with long hair reaching her waist and a smile like a flower five years ago.
The piercing alarm on her mobile phone brought her back to reality - 23:47, a routine reminder from her mother's nursing home. On the screen was the last family photo from five years ago, with her father holding her and her mother's shoulders, and three happy smiling faces. The next day, the news that the president of Ning Group's car fell off a cliff dominated the headlines of all financial pages. What followed was the exposure of the company's huge losses, asset freezes, and creditors' visits...
Ning Wei walked to the hidden safe behind the mural in the bedroom and unlocked it with her fingerprint. In the evidence bag that had been sealed for five years, there was a USB flash drive, a notebook, and the jade pendant that my father always said "can keep you safe." She put the pendant on her neck, and the cold touch felt like her father's last hug.
"The game has begun, Lin Shicheng." She whispered to the city in the heavy rain, her eyes igniting the first flame in five years.
