That night, Qiao Yu knelt before the altar, a hollow shell of herself. Little Xiangsi knelt beside her, a loyal shadow. Sleep tugged at her eyelids, but she fought it, terrified that if she closed her eyes, her mother would slip away to join Grandma in paradise.
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Downstairs, inside the black Maybach, Bo Hanshi sat in the dark. He pulled an old phone from the glove compartment.
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