The Golden Downtown
Guodong Chen’s hand hovered over the ledger, the jade seal warm and slick in his grip, its surface worn smooth by generations of inspectors who had held it with the same desperate, administrative hunger. He was thirty-two, a senior inspector in the Imperial Audit Bureau, and the promotion to Chief Auditor waited only for his signature, a final stroke to secure his berth on the generation ship...
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