When Feng Jue, Gu Jin and the rest rushed to the orphanage, they saw ruins.
Director Liang had been shot and was lying there on his last breath.
The children were locked in the school building.
But they searched the entire orphanage and couldn't find Gu Yang.
In the end, their gazes landed on the ruins.
Sirens wailed in the distance as police cars, ambulances, and fire engines arrived.
Feng Jue didn't seem to notice. He knelt on the ground, his trembling hands pulling away pieces of rubble, now slick with his own blood from shards of glass. He had searched day and night, yet she was nowhere to be found.
Rain poured, shrouding the world in darkness. Kneeling in the ruins, his eyes red-rimmed, he looked up—his gaze void of all light.
"Sister!"
Feng Jue jolted awake, sitting up in bed.
Outside the window, rain beat down, and lightning streaked across the sky, casting shadows over his worn expression as thunder rumbled above.
