The Wistful Crossroads

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Chapter One "Item 44: Powder, red, unclassified. Weight: two taels. Origin: Unknown. Custodian: Li Guodong." The ledger entry sat on the desk, the ink still wet and heavy under the weight of the quill, a small dark anchor in a sea of dry paper. Li Guodong stared at the line, his eyes burning from the strain of reading by the guttering oil lamp, the air in the counting room heavy with damp paper...

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