Original Suspense Novel: 《ℬ𝓁𝒾𝓏𝓏𝒶𝓇𝒹 ℳ𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓇》 EP45

You just discovered you've forgotten eighteen years of your life. Your memories are being reconstructed, and three different versions of your 'past' are battling it out in your head. You can't make decisions alone." "So what?" "So I'm going down with you." Lin Jing walked up to him, close enough to see the fire flickering in her pupils. "You've forgotten one thing, Chen Mo. That negotiation three years ago – the woman who claimed to be your 'sister' – I looked into her." Chen Mo's heartbeat skipped a beat. "What did you say?" "I looked into it. She's not your sister. But she is from Fog Valley." Lin Jing's tone was calm, but something glinted in her eyes. "She's two years younger than you, the last child to move out of Fog Valley village. She was killed during that negotiation, not because the perpetrators wanted to kill her – but because she wanted to die." Chen Mo felt a tightness in his chest. "She wanted to die?" "She wrote a letter before she died, sent to my lab. By the time I received it, your negotiation had been over for three days." Lin Jing pulled a folded piece of paper from a crevice in her notebook, its yellowed edges showing the passage of time. "I didn't give it to you then because you had already broken down once. But you should see it now." Chen Mo took the paper, his fingers a little stiff. He unfolded it. The handwriting was that of a young woman, neat and delicate, but every stroke was pressed down hard: "Mr. Chen Mo: I am the hostage taken by the perpetrators you were negotiating with today. You don't know me, but I know you. When we were young in Fog Valley, we used to under the banyan tree together (To be continued)