Chapter Three: The Woman in the Pursuit Car

Su Wan struck his car again. Lu Xiao did not evade her. He let her push him against the guardrail, lowered his window while they ran door to door, and shouted, “Which side in the rain?” She raised a pistol. “You edited our first travel video seventeen times because you hated the shot where I fell into the sea!” The bullet grazed his ear. “The coffee you left when you vanished had no sugar. We'd fought, and you said you were done remembering things for me.” Her gun trembled. At kilometer five, Shen Mo deployed six driverless pursuit cars from the ramps. Lu Xiao saw every vehicle's blue afterimage three seconds ahead, yet no path allowed both him and Su Wan to live. Unless he performed an action the screenplay had never described.