Seventeen Waiting

Seven years ago, Lin Xiaohe, the only daughter of criminal policeman Lu Cheng, mysteriously disappeared outside his home. Three days later, her body was found in an abandoned chemical factory in the east of the city. Her body was covered with seventeen unexplained geometric scars. The murderer is still at large. Seven years later, Lu Cheng resigned from the police force and opened a grocery store in a small town, relying on alcohol to numb his memory. That rainy night, a soaked girl pushed open his door. Wearing the same pajamas she wore when her daughter disappeared seven years ago, she said in the exact same voice: "Dad, I'm so cold." Lu Cheng knew that his daughter was dead. But what sent shivers down his spine even more - the moment the girl raised her head, she revealed details of the crime scene that only he and the murderer knew. "That uncle is behind you," the girl pointed to the darkness behind Lu Cheng, "He asked me to tell you - the game has just begun." When Lu Cheng chased her out, the girl disappeared, leaving only a line of newly engraved words on the pine pillar of the newsstand: "Dad, have you forgotten me?" The next day, he received a note: "Tonight, chemical plant. Come alone." Is this a trap or a reunion? Lu Cheng didn't know. But he must go. Because the geometric pattern drawn on the lower right corner of the note—circles within triangles within circles—had been burned into his daughter's dermis seven years ago.