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In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, Shen Shu received a letter from an old friend. The letter said that I found a manuscript in my late father's study, and what was written in it was quite strange. He also said that I have been unable to sleep at night recently. Every time I close my eyes, I see a woman in white standing in front of the bed, saying nothing and not moving until dawn. Shen Shu studied medicine and did not believe in ghosts and gods. He took his luggage and flashlight and headed south to Whitewater Town. What he didn't know was that on the night he set out, someone knocked on the door of his inn. A copper coin was left on the threshold, with a five-petaled flower engraved on the back. In the center of the flower, there is a human face, which seems to be smiling but not smiling. Then he heard singing - not outside the window, but in the walls. He saw the face in the well - his friend's mother, who had drowned six years ago. There is an extra pattern on his back, which is exactly the same as the pattern on the copper coins. The thing was calling him. It has been called for twenty-three years. When Shen Shu told me about this later, he was already very ill. He said, it doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. He showed me his left hand - there was a vertical line on the ring finger that has not disappeared. And that night after I listened to this story, I found that my back also felt cold.