The Night of the Broken Promise

The message said the girl's mother would come to pick her up a little later.

But the police brought news of her mother's death.

In 2025, Wen Qitong returned to the county town to help her father move. Her father had picked up an eight-year-old girl first. He planned to feed her, then wait for her mother to come and get her.

The girl's mother, Hao Lingyi, was found dead in the break room of the transport company where Wen's father worked. The suitcase and phone she had left there were both missing.

Twenty-four years ago, after drinking, Wen Shaoting drove into Lingyi's six-year-old brother and killed him. He served time and paid compensation. Over the years, he had also done many things to help the Hao family.

Before the murder, Lingyi had already bought a ticket to leave. Her child was waiting for her, and the ticket was still there, but she never made it to their meeting.

Kaga investigates the missing suitcase, while Wen Qitong confronts her father's past anew. Picking up the child, delivering clothes, fixing things for people: all of it had once been called caring for them.

But Lingyi had clearly been preparing to leave. Why, in the end, did she never make it out of that room?