The Faded Paradox

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The Faded Paradox

Chapter One Hong Zhu had not slept in three days, and the smell of wet wool and stale tobacco hung in the longtang like a physical weight against his skin. He was thirty-four years old, a man who had spent the last decade of his life scrubbing grease from the pots of a boarding school that now stood empty, its strike fund spent down to the last copper coin in his pocket. The rain hammered...

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