[Supernatural Rules + Mild Horror + The Paranormal + Criminal Investigation + Mutual Redemption]
She said her name was Xiaoyue.
Lin Lan had been blind for eight months. The moment she touched an unfamiliar skull, she saw a face: a seventeen-year-old girl with round eyes and a small mole at the corner of her mouth. Underwater, the girl stared at her, her lips opening and closing:
“Big Sis, help me...”
The case was solved, and the murderer was caught. But Xiaoyue didn't leave.
She crouched beside Lin Lan's coffee table, making the water glass tremble on its own every night. She said that on the night she drowned, someone stood outside the hair salon and watched her sink without saving her.
That person smelled of disinfectant.
When Lin Lan felt her way into the funeral home, she met Shen Ye.
He was an embalmer who couldn't speak. His hands were cold, and his eyes were so clear it seemed the world had never sullied them.
He had sewn Xiaoyue's face back together. When he pressed her forehead, she saw him too.
Now Xiaoyue wanted Lin Lan to ask him one question:
“Why didn't you save me?”
But Shen Ye looked at Lin Lan and wrote his first words:
“Can your eyes see the picture I drew?”
