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65: Zhan Watches This on Live TV

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He had no warning.

Not a text. Not a note on cream cardstock. Not the two-even-raps at the door that had become, over months, the sound of Huo Yan deciding to be somewhere. Nothing. Huo Yan had walked into the press conference at eleven AM and Zhan had watched from the back of the room and had understood, by thirty-eight minutes in, that something additional was coming the quality of Huo Yan setting down his notes had the specific finality of someone concluding the prepared material and moving
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