The Winter Knows No Frost
As the horn cut through the morning fog, I glanced at his hunched figure on the dock and stepped onto the gangway.
Out at sea, my phone lost signal. On the deck, I watched the coastline shrink, like ashes of a burned past.
At the bottom of the suitcase lay a faded photo of my mother holding me as a baby in the Swiss Alps. On the back, her elegant handwriting read, "My daughter is like morning frost, pure and steadfast, yet like the warm sun, destined to shine."
In my past life, I thought her death was fate's decree. Now her diary revealed the truth: Richard tampered with her medication to seize her fortune. Her sorrowful passing was a meticulously planned murder.