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Chapter 13- Village Integration

Author: AuroraDreamer
last update publish date: 2026-03-18 13:11:53
Avelin POV

I first noticed it on a Tuesday morning, almost by accident, when I wasn’t trying to feel anything at all. That’s how I tend to notice most things about Shen, by observing him sideways, without meaning to, when I wasn’t bracing myself for emotion. Old Chen had been complaining about Mei Lin for three weeks. The boat was nearly forty years old, and its stubbornness was legendary. It had been repaired too many times by too many hands, each fix adding to its complexity. It took patience,
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