By noon, Qinghe had a rumor problem.Someone uploaded a video of me slamming a glowing seal into a road while dead police officers fought coins. The comments split between special effects, cult activity, gas leak, and one person who wrote simply, My grandmother came home.That one had thirty thousand likes.The temple phone would not stop ringing.Aunt Lan answered every call with, "Qinghe Temple, speak clearly, do not scream into the receiver, and if your dead uncle is in the bathroom mirror ask whether he has eaten."The next trouble came through the side door, where bad news usually entered. In Qinghe and the Western Branch, symbols had weight. It stained sleeves, cracked floors, moved through crowds, and made ordinary people choose sides before they understood the question. The freeway dust pressed against every window while paper wings marked the next turn of the case. Nothing about the Court War felt clean. It felt like another emergency arriving before the last one had been wip
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