Cherry Hair Tie

I joined the mystery club to uncover the truth behind a cold case from five years ago. But I discovered that the club president, Shen Mo, had numbered everyone's secrets in his notebook. His childhood friend, Su Qing, gave him a cherry hair tie with a strange set of numbers engraved on the inside—17.10.15. That was the date the cellar surveillance was deleted. It was also the date the real murderer transferred 470,000 yuan as hush money to Su Qing before committing suicide. And it was the date my father's blueprints secretly modified the ventilation system. I gathered all the evidence, hoping to expose this woman's true face together with Shen Mo. But he calmly picked up the voice recorder and interrupted me—like filing away a case that needed isolation: "Lin Wan, you're just emotionally unstable." That's when I realized. In this game called "Sudden Reasoning," no one intended to find the truth. They had long chosen to stand at the end of this avalanche of lies.