The freezing rainwater slammed onto her face, making Lin Wanwan shiver as she snapped completely awake.
She scrambled to pull her raincoat out from the seat storage.
Her fingers were trembling slightly from nervousness, and she only managed to tie the raincoat strings after several attempts.
By the time she finished putting on the raincoat, the heavy drops of rain had already connected into sheets, splashing fine spray as they hit the ground.
Looking at this fiercely approaching night rain, Lin Wanwan wasn’t in a hurry to go home at this moment.
She had never been a careless or insensitive person.
The situation in front of her was clearly off.
She quickly recalled the contents of the email.
According to the email’s narrative, she was supposed to encounter an elderly person who had fallen on her way home.
Given her personality, encountering such a thing meant a high probability she would step up to help.
However, the result of helping was being framed by the elderly person and their family, who even went to her company to cause a scene, making her lose her job.
Although all of this sounded a bit too ridiculous, it now made her hesitate.
If information like the time and sender on the email could be hacker tricks, then… could this sudden heavy rain right before her eyes also be a coincidence?
One coincidence was a coincidence, but consecutive coincidences were enough to give someone a chill down their spine upon deeper thought.
After thinking for only a brief moment, Lin Wanwan made up her mind.
Better to believe it exists than to disbelieve it!
Without a shred of hesitation, Lin Wanwan got on her electric scooter, turned the vehicle around, and rode toward the shopping mall she had just passed.
Parking the scooter in the open-air parking lot, she opened her umbrella and ran into the mall.
Pulling out her phone, Lin Wanwan called a DiDi premier car to take her home.
Her logic was simple: since the accident occurred while riding, then by simply not riding, the problem would be solved at its root.
As for what would happen to that potentially fallen elderly person?
That wasn’t for Lin Wanwan to consider.
In her eyes, having fewer ungrateful people who bite the hand that feeds them would actually help cleanse the social environment as a whole.
Arriving home and pushing open the door, the entryway motion sensor light turned on. Lin Wanwan exhaustedly took off her rain-soaked clothes.
20 minutes later, the bathroom door was pushed open.
Before the steam in the bathroom had fully dissipated, Lin Wanwan wiped her damp hair and walked to her desk.
She pressed the power button on her computer, then sat on her newly bought ergonomic chair.
The contents of that bizarre email from during the day were still spinning in her mind.
The moment the screen lit up, she immediately opened QQ Mail.
The login page finished loading, and the familiar inbox interface popped up.
Lin Wanwan swiftly opened the list of read emails.
However, when she clearly saw the contents of the read list, an expression of astonishment instantly appeared on her face.
It was gone!
The email marked [Time Mailbox] was gone.
“Could it be that I accidentally deleted it?”
Lin Wanwan hurriedly opened the trash folder.
Nothing!
That eye-catching [Time Mailbox] email from this morning had actually disappeared without a trace.
“How could…”
Lin Wanwan murmured to herself, her fingers rapidly tapping on the keyboard.
The next second, the search bar popped up a prompt:
“No matching results found”
She slumped in her chair, staring blankly at the empty search page.
This morning, she had clearly opened the email with her own hands and carefully read the send time and content. How could it just vanish into thin air?
Could it really be that she was too tired from working overtime and had hallucinated?
Outside the window, the rain continued to pitter-patter down. It wasn’t until two or three in the morning that Lin Wanwan fell asleep in a daze.
When the alarm rang the next day, she dragged herself up with dark circles under her eyes.
Remembering that her electric scooter was still parked in the mall parking lot, she simply opened her ride-hailing app.
Since it was still fairly early, Lin Wanwan didn’t choose a premier car this time, opting for a DiDi carpool instead.
The ride arrived quickly, and Lin Wanwan opened the car door and sat in the front passenger seat.
Just as the car pulled out of the residential complex, the driver accepted a carpool order.
Two minutes later, the car pulled up to a neighboring residential complex and picked up two fairly handsome young men.
The back door shut with a “bang,” and the two young men had just settled in.
The guy wearing a white T-shirt pulled out his phone, and after a moment, sighed to his companion beside him:
“Did you check our company’s small group chat?”
“Someone in the group said something happened over on Junma Road.”
“Something happened? What happened??”
The other guy wearing a black hoodie asked while pulling out his own phone.
A moment later, the black hoodie shook his head:
“Who would dare to meddle in this!! Didn’t someone help an elderly person and get scammed a while back?”
…
Listening to their conversation, Lin Wanwan, who was originally feeling drowsy, instantly snapped to alertness.
The Junma Road they just mentioned was her mandatory route home from work every day.
In just an instant, Lin Wanwan connected it to the contents of the email.
The next moment, a layer of cold sweat broke out on her back, and her palms turned sticky.
Suppressing the panic in her heart, she turned slightly toward them, her voice carrying a barely noticeable tremor:
“Excuse me… is the Junma Road you mentioned the one next to Wanda Plaza?”
Seeing the girl in the front passenger seat taking the initiative to start a conversation, and seeing that she was a fair-featured girl, the guy in the white T-shirt immediately put down his phone and flashed what he thought was a sunny smile:
“Yeah, that’s the one! You know about it too?”
“I… I pass through there every day after work.”
“You guys just said something happened over there, what exactly happened?”
Lin Wanwan’s heart beat faster and faster.
The guy in the white T-shirt gently shook his head, his tone full of emotional sighing:
“What else could it be? Just an old lady who fell on the roadside.”
“Some say she was lying there since last night, but no one dared to call the police or help, so she was only found by a sanitation worker this morning.”
Lin Wanwan’s pupils contracted sharply.
Heavy rain, Junma Road, an elderly person falling—every single detail fit seamlessly with that vanished email, making the hairs on the back of her neck stand up one by one.
It wasn’t a hallucination!!!
That vanished email was real!!!
The elderly person falling was also real!!
“Then… what happened after? Was the old lady rescued?”
Lin Wanwan felt her heart rate accelerating faster and faster, to the point where she could faintly hear the thumping sound of her heartbeat.
“Not sure, looks like she was taken to the hospital!”
“My colleague just snapped a photo and left quickly for fear of getting into trouble.”
…
Amidst the conversation, the car quickly arrived at Lin Wanwan’s company building. After thanking them repeatedly, she hurriedly pushed the door open and stepped out.
The morning breeze blew against her face with post-rain coolness, yet it failed to settle her chaotic thoughts even a bit.
Taking the elevator, Lin Wanwan walked into the company absentmindedly.
“Little Lin? Are you sick?”
“Why do you look so pale??”
Her colleague, Sister Li, reached out and touched her arm, her eyes full of concern.
Lin Wanwan snapped back to reality, hastily forcing a strained smile and shaking her head:
“I’m fine, Sister Li, I just didn’t sleep well last night.”
After brushing Sister Li off with a few polite remarks, Lin Wanwan walked quickly to her workstation and sat down.
If she hadn’t temporarily changed her route yesterday because of that email, would she have encountered that fallen elderly person on Junma Road?
Given her past disposition, she definitely would have stepped forward to help without hesitation. When that time came, would what awaited her be just as written in the email?
Framed by the family, losing her job, and even potentially facing massive compensation?
Amidst her wild thoughts, Lin Wanwan subconsciously turned on the computer.
Looking at the suddenly bright computer screen, her gaze involuntarily landed on the QQ Mail icon on the desktop.
After a moment of hesitation, Lin Wanwan clicked open QQ Mail.
A few seconds later, QQ Mail finished loading.
The next moment, her pupils shrank violently.
[Time Mailbox: You have a letter from September 16, 2025]