Southern Archives: The White Moonlight Rescue Plan

[One woman, two men + redemption + adapted from the TV series + tomb-raiding mystery] (There will be OOC!)

The east wind rose in the small tower overnight, and the wandering swordsman returned to his home in Xianyang.

Zhang Hailou and Zhang Haixia had handled plenty of cases.

The Evil God of Nanyang, the Salt Lake Murders, the Duskgrass Curse: they’d seen every kind of strange thing.

But never anything like this.

They met a girl who’d rather starve than give up begging.

When they asked her name, she said, “Xiaobai.”

When they asked where she came from, she said, “I don’t remember.”

When they asked about her family, she said, “I don’t remember.”

When they asked why she’d risked her life to save them, she said, “Do you believe in fate?”

Later, they found themselves with a little shadow following them around.

She wasn’t very bright and was clumsy at everything, but she could eat three bowls of rice in one sitting.

Zhang Hailou privately told Zhang Haixia, “There’s something off about this girl.”

Zhang Haixia didn’t answer.

But he didn’t send her away either.

The day they saw Duskgrass bloom again, gunshots rang out, and Xiaobai stepped in front of him.

Watching her pull the medicine out of his mouth, Zhang Haixia asked her once more:

“Who are you, really?”

Xiaobai brushed the dust from her hands and grinned.

“Your true love.”

At the very end, Zhang Hailou asked, “What if one day you have to go back?”

Xiaobai clutched the straps of her backpack and gazed at Zhang Haixia in the distance, his profile bent over a file. She thought for a long time.

Then she said:

“Funny enough, I don’t have much to hold on to in that world either.”