Even though I was unwilling to admit we had taken the wrong ashes.
As the child's mother, Du Yuwei could not possibly mistake someone else for her own child.
Besides, another shadow had appeared in the room, the shadow of an adult man, confirming that it was not Du Yuwei's child.
My heart sank to rock bottom. After risking our lives, all our efforts had come to nothing.
While I stood there in a daze, the shadow began to move. Like dough being stretched, its head extended all the way to the door.
In the blink of an eye, the shadow vanished, running straight out of the room.
Without thinking or hesitating, I immediately pulled open the door and chased after it.
I chased it downstairs, out of the residential complex, and along an entire street. Finally, at an intersection, the shadow actually took the form of a man with his back to me.
"Who are you?"
I hurriedly stopped and demanded an answer.
Just then, he turned around and looked at me calmly.
It was an unfamiliar face, middle-aged and scholarly-looking. I did not know why, but the first time I saw him, I inexplicably felt a sense of warmth toward him.
I did not know why I felt that way. I kept feeling that I knew him.
But after searching my memories of everyone I had ever met, I still could not remember who he was.
Besides, this man was already dead. He was a ghost now.
While I stood there in a daze, the man vanished again, as though he had never appeared.
I stood there for a long time, racking my brains, but I could not figure out why someone else had been buried in that grave.
If we had gotten it wrong from the start,