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Tactile Response
My fingertips are the judges of this city. By touching the exterior wall of the hospital, I can "hear" the architect's ambition to heal patients; by touching the pillars of the library, I can "read" the designer's awe for knowledge. This is the unspeakable secret of me, skyline planner Jiang You. I used this gift to guard the poetry of the city's outline, until the plan I approved with my own hands destroyed its most beautiful line, and also destroyed my life. That ugly gap in the skyline is my
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Way to Survive
All industries in this world have "rules". Those who fish for corpses have rules for fishing out corpses, and those who chase corpses have rules for driving corpses away. The paper maker's rules are: the paper figures cannot be dotted with eyes, the widow's paper cannot be tied in red, and the person who died suddenly must be replaced. Rules are not made by humans, but are ways of survival that countless generations have figured out on the verge of life and death. Jiang You is the last genera
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