Wang Yuan:

If nothing else, this letter should be in your hands. You can see this letter, which means that your mother and I are no longer alive. Wang Yuan, I'm sorry, as parents, we have been derelict in our duties, and we have not been able to stay by your side since you were born.

To be honest, I can't give some details of this in my letter, because I don't know if this letter will actually reach you twenty years from now, and it has not been seen by anyone else. But I'll let you know in other ways, maybe you'll already know by the time you read this letter.

Your mother and I are going to Yan Shengshan tonight to do something, and for us, this time we have to go, so we will hand you over to Li Fangzheng, and if something happens to us, he will raise you to adulthood. Li Fang was my best friend in this village, and I had planned to give him the letter along with the contents of the box after I finished writing, but I was afraid that it would affect him, so I planned to quietly find other trustworthy people to help me with this.

After reading this letter, don't inquire into the cause of our death, because even we don't know what will happen to us. After four years of inquiry, and with the help of a series of coincidences, your mother and I discovered this thousand-year-old secret, and we have to leave for this matter, and everything in Yan Shengshan should calm down for a while.

Wang Yuan, many of the things you are experiencing now are arranged by me before leaving, and you may also be aware of some unusual coincidences around you, these things are like pieces of fragments, and eventually they will be pieced together into the truth of the facts, from now on you have to think about all the unusual things you have experienced, and when you really understand the truth, you will have a judgment on whether to go our way.

Finally, you have to remember one sentence, don't take things for granted in this world, don't believe them easily.

We're running out of time and we're leaving.

Wang Chengqiu

July 10, 1984