Chapter 1: The Strange Red Cheongsam 1. Mysterious Letter
Guangzhou has been raining heavily recently, with the weather drizzling all day and night, just as the chilly spring weather arrived. 26-year-old Wu Yu hurriedly walked home from his workplace. There were few pedestrians on the street, and there were few cars. Wu Yu's workplace was not far from the house he and his girlfriend Li Yunyun rented, so he didn't need to take a taxi to work every day, and this rainy day was no exception.
Although the rain fell on his hair and body, it still could not interrupt his thoughts. He felt that what happened today was very strange. He actually received a letter from his colleague Su Wei two years ago - Su Wei had died in Wuzhen, Jiangnan two years ago. But the handwriting on the envelope was clearly Su Wei's, although it was a little blurry, Wu Yu recognized it at once. The letter was a piece of old yellowed letter paper, and it clearly stated that Wu Yu was asked to go to Wuzhen, but the envelope did not mention what it was about. Wu Yu and his colleagues at the unit believed that the letter was written a long time ago. If it was really written in the past, then who sent it? The more he thought about it, the weirder it seemed.
He was thinking about this matter so much that he forgot that he was crossing the road. Suddenly, he saw a series of dazzling beams of light, which made him unable to see anything but a whiteness. Then he heard a long car brake sound, and he felt that the car had hit him exactly, sending him flying several meters away. He was knocked to the ground, but he did not faint. He slowly felt pain all over his body, and blood slowly flowed down his head. He reached out to touch it, and it was sticky like pig blood. He was so scared that he almost screamed.
He tried hard to stand up, but it seemed like something was pulling him from behind. He turned around in surprise, and when he saw that person, he was almost frightened to faint, but he still took a few steps back in panic.
"Wu Yu, what's wrong? It's me." The man said faintly and smiled, and there was something extremely strange in his smile.
"Haven't you already--" Wu Yu said fearfully.
"Yes, I came back to find you, to cross the Yin-Yang Road with you. Come on, let's go." He said as he stepped forward to pull Wu Yu. Wu Yu was so scared that he trembled and shouted, "No, no——"
"Wu Yu, Wu Yu——" Wu Yu seemed to hear Li Yunyun's voice, and hurriedly opened his eyes in surprise. In front of him was a dim yellow, which was the street light. When he looked closely, yes, it was indeed Li Yunyun. He was confused, why did he see Su Wei just now? Wu Yu slowly came back to his senses at this time, and found that Li Yunyun was holding him and squatting on the road. He couldn't remember what was going on for a while, and looked at her with a confused face and said: "Yunyun, what happened just now?"
Yunyun looked very panicked: "I saw it was raining outside, so I brought you an umbrella, but I didn't expect you to be almost hit by a car and fainted on the road."
Wu Yu slowly regained consciousness and was helped to stand up by Yunyun. He said, "I just saw Su Wei."
When Yunyun heard this, she was so surprised that she let go of Wu Yu's hand, shivering all over, and murmured, "I received a letter from Su Wei today."
Wu Yu almost stopped breathing when he heard this and said in shock, "What did the letter say?"
"It was almost a blank piece of paper. It only said: No. 109, Minxin Road, Wuzhen, Zhejiang. It didn't say anything else. I found it very strange. Didn't Su Wei..." Yunyun took out an envelope from her bag. When he saw the handwriting on the cover, he recognized it as Su Wei's handwriting, and felt that things were getting even weirder.
As they walked towards their rented house, they felt deeply uneasy. At this moment, they all had this thought in their mind: how could a dead person write to them? The only possibility was that Su Wei was still alive, but if he was alive, why did the media report that he was dead two years ago?
At this time, Su Wei's letter made them restless all night. Every time they closed their eyes, they had nightmares about Su Wei.
Wu Yu did not draw the curtains. He seemed unusually calm, looking at the tall buildings outside the window slowly turning white. He suddenly turned his head, his eyes dark and his face haggard as he looked at Yunyun, whose face was yellow, and said, "It seems we have to go to Wuzhen to find out the truth of the matter, otherwise we will all continue to suffer from insomnia."
Yunyun nodded without saying anything.
