Seeking Light on a Rainy Night

All escapes in this world are, in essence, a race against time. Cassia Whitmore knew this all too well. So as she led her daughter Shen Zhiyi through the rainy night of this unfamiliar city, every step was a calculation of the pursuit speed of the darkness behind them. Her life savings had been left behind in that luxurious but cold mansion, and all she had gotten in return was the shabby suitcase in her daughter's hands. There were no pursuers behind her, but she could hear the chill seeping from the cracks in her bones. It wasn't until the young man's headlights sliced through the rain curtain that she realized—sometimes, the arrival of salvation is more unsettling than the chase.