The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

Chapter One "Property seized. Inventory pending." The notice was yellowed, the ink bleeding into the paper like a bruise. Guomin Li held it in his hand, the edges sharp against his palm. He was thirty years old, a scholar in a requisitioned boarding house in Jiangnan, where the salt marshes turned silver at dusk. The winter was brutal. He needed to finish the forbidden text by moonrise to pay...

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