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The Lonely Soul in the Gray Mirror
When the lights turn on, twelve strangers wake up on a cold metal round table, their hands and feet tied, and their memories a mystery. Who are they? They are teachers, drivers, store clerks, workers... They are the most ordinary living beings around you and me. But they are also liars, killers, and thieves - "lonely souls" who hide behind their daily masks and practice a creed of absolute self-interest. There are no judges here, just a death drama set by an anonymous "director". The only rule
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Book of Embers
In the late autumn of 1946, the Wing Tai Pawn Shop in Hong Kong was burned down. Cheng Yanqiu, who returned from studying abroad, faced his father's charred corpse and ruins. He found half a broken account book among the ashes, and uncovered a shocking transaction that transcended life and death—— What is pawned here is never gold and silver, but "shame, conscience, and even living names." The remaining pages of the account book point to the three pawnbrokers like a curse: Bai Feng, who lost
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