Whydunit Stories

It was the fall of 2023 when I got the call about a case that was destined to become infamous. A young woman had killed her own adoptive father-the man who had saved her life. Stabbed him seventeen times. And she was sticking to one story: it was a crime of passion. Was her adoptive father the hero the world admired, or was he a monster who had defiled his own daughter? Or was there another secret, buried even deeper? All the answers were hidden in a painting. A painting titled The Miner's Lamp. Author's Note: I post a new chapter almost every single day!

A Psychological Thriller - - - She woke up in a life she didn't recognize - a husband she didn't remember marrying, a daughter she didn't remember having, and a sister who said everything was fine.Su Mian lost fifteen months to a drug she didn't know she was taking.Her sister made the soup. Her sister found the husband. Her sister brought the child. Every detail of her new life was arranged - the bowl with the chipped rim, the sofa with the skipped stitch, the husband who draws incomplete circles, the little girl who draws doors.But Su Mian is an editor. She finds errors for a living. And something about her "recovery" doesn't read right.A coin engraved with three words: Don't drink the soup. A notebook that says: Don't trust any of them. A child's crayon drawing of four people - one without a face. A prescription signed in someone else's handwriting. A sixth-floor apartment directly above hers.As fragments of memory break through the drug's hold, Su Mian begins to piece together the truth: her sister hasn't been protecting her. She's been managing her - with the precision of a nurse, the logic of a project manager, and the love of someone who believes control is the same as care.Now Su Mian must do the one thing she's never been able to do.Trust herself. - - - You think waking up means being awake.But some waking is just another way of sleeping.