Prologue: Remains
A chilling cold that seeped into her bones and froze her soul was her first and last memory of this world.
Five-year-old Di'an Kui huddled deep within the mangled wreckage of a car, his silver-gray hair plastered to his forehead with half-dried blood. Outside, there was a muffled commotion: sirens, voices, the piercing sound of metal being torn apart. But all of this was separated by a thick layer of frosted glass called fear.
Then, a deeper chill descended—not from the outside, but from the eyes peering through the shattered car window. Those were familiar eyes, now only a frozen resolve remained after weighing the pros and cons. Their gazes met briefly, and then, as if erasing a mistake, the owner of those eyes vanished swiftly into the chaotic background.
They were abandoned.
Before her consciousness sank into darkness, she heard the deafening crash of fire extinguishers breaking down the door, like the tolling of a judgment bell. She didn't know where she was being dragged, only that the being named "Dian Kui," along with everything she knew, had been buried by her own parents in this steel graveyard.
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