Traces of Time: There Is No Dawn in Convenience Stores

At three o'clock in the morning, dark red ice oozed from the convenience store's freezer, and the date on Lin Xiaoman's mobile phone jumped crazily between 2013 and 2023. The expired potato chips on the shelves are printed with the smiling faces of actresses who have long since retired from the industry. In the surveillance video, a woman in a wine-red dress steps on the tiles with her bare feet, and the dripping water from the tips of her hair condenses into spiderweb-like ice marks. When the siren sounds, all abnormalities will disappear with the noise of snowflakes. The rainy night when his father disappeared ten years ago became a nightmare haunting Lin Xiaoman. She found a ginkgo leaf earring engraved with "LY" at the drain of the cold storage, which was the abbreviation of her father's name. Every day at four o'clock in the morning, the ice wall would reflect her in her junior high school uniform. What's even weirder was the 2013 limited edition chocolate on the promotion rack. The packaging date actually coincided with the day her father disappeared. Lu Ji, who calls himself the "time gatekeeper", appears quietly. This pale and thin man can predict the cycle of bleeding in the freezer, but he is secretive when it comes to the crescent birthmark on her left shoulder. When the yellowed crime report records were unearthed from the bottom of the shelf, the truth began to peel off the hideous shell - witnesses said they had seen Lin Guodong, covered in blood, carrying an unconscious girl into the cold storage, and the birthmark under the girl's collarbone in the surveillance screenshots perfectly overlapped with hers. The convenience store was plunged into a time and space rampage on a rainy night. Lin Xiaoman finally saw clearly the bloody dawn ten years ago: when the kidnapper's blade split the rain curtain, the moment her father stuffed her into the cold storage, the time rift tore her life in half. She survived and was forever trapped between 2013 and 2023, while her other self turned into a ghost in red, tapping the barrier of time and space with blood filled with ice every night.