Chapter Three: The Same Wish

They rolled under the gate. Behind them, the dark wishes struck the bars like hundreds of hands. Across the street, a giant screen showed Tang Guo beginning a new livestream. She had received an anonymous tip and planned to investigate a clinic that manipulated patient records. Every few comments, the same black profile appeared: Make Lin Jianwei disappear. Zhou's phone lit by itself. An invitation from Wishing Pool opened. WELCOME BACK, WISHER ZERO. THE TWIN SHOWERS WILL CROSS AGAIN ON THE TWELFTH NIGHT. COMPLETE YOUR UNFINISHED WISH BEFORE THEN. Jianwei looked up. No meteors crossed the sky, but enormous black words stretched over the city—visible only to her. 【I hope all suffering had never happened.】