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Chapter 96: The Alchemy of Grief (Part 1)
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2025-12-31 07:35:53[The Alchemy of Grief]
The Swiss Alps were a wall of jagged white and bruising blue, a landscape so silent it felt like the edge of the world. Inside the Clinic Verite, the air was pressurized, filtered, and stripped of any scent that might trigger a memory. It was a laboratory for the broken, but for the man in Room 404, it was a chrysalis.
Jian sat motionless. He no longer screamed. He no longer claimed to be Jinyan Lu. The primal rage that had consumed him in the Romanian courtroom had been distilled into something far more dangerous: a cold, crystalline patience. He looked at his hands—the hands that lacked the Lu marker, the hands that had been his undoing.
The door hissed open. Annie walked in, her footsteps silent on the linoleum. She looked at the man
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"Mama?" Grace’s voice was small, but it carried that bell-like clarity. Her eyes opened—they were sapphire again, but they were filled with a terrifying wisdom. "The man in the clock is hungry. He wants to eat the minutes of our lives."Jinyan turned to Panni, his expression one of desperate resolve. "We have no choice. If we stay, he kills everyone to get to us. If we go to this 'New World,' we fight him on his own ground.""I'm not going anywhere with you as my 'protector' after what you did today," Panni said, her voice cold and sharp. "If we go, we go as partners in a Contract of Necessity. No more 'Sweet Love.' No more lies. You are my guard, Jinyan. Nothing more."The words cut Jinyan deeper than any iron staff could. He flinched, his obsidian eyes shimmering with an unspeakable pain, but he nodded. "If that is the price to keep you and Grace alive, I will pay it. I will be your shield. I will be your shadow. I will never ask for your heart again."A low, subterranean roar shook
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