Midsummer Murder

(Taken from the author’s own summary)

Liu An’an, who had been away from her hometown in the county, returned anew, at the news of the demolition of her old house. She left the train station and called a cab to go home. Everything seemed normal. However, what happened next completely exceeded her imagination.

The female cab driver suddenly locked the car doors and said, “I want to die together with you.”

Faced with the sudden threat to her life, Liu An’an had no choice but to put everything she had into it. Who was this unknown woman? Why was she doing this? And what happened in Liu An’an’s past?

In the fierce downpour, where would the fate of these two lead them to?

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This is a baihe RPG-styled story originally posted on a forum. I sorted it out and posted it here.

A short story of just 150K Chinese characters. Genres are suspense and mystery, and it has two endings. Its old title is “Xiao Liu”.