The Wife Who Returned from the River

The Wife Who Returned from the River Plot:

Drowning in debt, Chen Mo cruelly pushed his wife Lin Wan into the old river behind the village, hoping to fake an "accidental drowning" for insurance money. But the next morning, Lin Wan returned home soaked, holding a bowl of hot porridge, and smiled: "I fell into the river last night and was saved." Chen Mo’s hair stood on end—he’d watched Lin Wan sink, so why was she alive? Even more eerie, Lin Wan seemed "possessed": she talked to the river at night, hid dead fish under Chen Mo’s pillow, and when he tried to kill her again, she suddenly turned, her eyes welling with river water, and sneered: "When you pushed me, your heartbeat was 78—very fast." It wasn’t until Chen Mo found out the "savior" was Lin Wan’s twin sister (who’d jumped into the river six months earlier) that Lin Wan pulled out her sister’s suicide note: "I die for you, you live for me, and make that man pay." Lin Wan had known Chen Mo’s plot all along—she’d used her sister’s body to set a trap, returning to break Chen Mo down with fear…