Ransom [Official Edition]

A debt of fifty thousand yuan is like a tightening rope, one end tied to Li Wei's mother's operating table, the other to the dead-end poverty from which Old Wang has nowhere to run.

On the day he comes to collect, Li Wei gets no money, but takes away Old Wang's six-year-old daughter, Niannian. He calls it "ransom": bring the money in three days, and she'll be returned.

In a shabby rented room, the once-fearsome debt collector has to awkwardly braid a little girl's hair and cook instant noodles. Niannian's timid dependence washes over his frostbitten heart like warm water. The hospital's payment notices, his mother's groans, Old Wang's desperate scramble for money, and the warmth of the little girl clutching his coat at night knot together into a tangle he cannot unravel.

For his daughter's sake, Old Wang takes a desperate risk. Li Wei is torn again and again between conscience and desperation, while innocent Niannian only knows to stay with this "bad uncle" and wait for her father to come get her.

As the three-day deadline draws near, is the promise beneath the clock at the train station the end of a deal, or the beginning of fate spinning out of control? When debt collides with humanity, who is the kidnapper, and who is the one being "redeemed"?