Cold wind swept plane-tree leaves against the windows along the corridors of Mingde High School. The noisy ten-minute break between classes was filled with voices as groups of students gathered to chat, laugh, chase one another, and horse around.
But standing in the middle of the crowd, Lin Wei felt nothing but an icy chill running through her.
She snapped her eyes open and gasped for breath. Cold sweat instantly soaked the back of her school uniform.
The suffocating pressure of river water still lingered in her ears, and the darkness of her fatal fall had yet to fade from her eyes.
She had clearly jumped into the river and died.
She had died on that winter night when she was eighteen, with nothing to her name and everyone cursing her.
