Heavenly Promise

Author: Wei Qiuxing
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: After Yao Lan finished speaking, she turned and left. She decided to bring Lin Xiuxiu to her small home. But when she called Lin Xiuxiu, Lin Xiuxiu was already gone from the lobby. Yao Lan ran into the restroom, but Lin Xiuxiu wasn’t there. She ran to the service desk, where they said they hadn’t seen her. She grew a bit frantic and ran to the entrance to ask a waiter standing there. The waiter said he thought a woman had run out earlier. Yao Lan asked where she went. The waiter said, “Outside on the street.”
Female reporter Yao Lan from the Yanyang Daily, while helping a young entrepreneur named Lu Zhenqiang who was investing in the city, was searching for her long-lost sister when she discovered her brother Yao Lu, now a figure in the underworld, had repeatedly raped Lu Zhenqiang’s sister, Lin Xiuxiu. When the police cracked the case and identified Yao Lan as the killer of her own father, they also uncovered the fact that Lu Zhenqiang, Lin Xiuxiu, Yao Lan, and Yao Lu were all half-siblings. Yanyang is not usually rainy, but September in Yanyang is known for frequent heavy rains and thunderstorms. It seems the sky is settling its debt of accumulated rain for the entire year in this month alone. Last night, a thunderstorm raged, drenching the city in rain, and now in the morning, a dark cloud gathers in the distance, ready to unleash more storms. Lightning snakes across the horizon, and the faint rumble of thunder echoes in the air.