Chapter Five: The Love Backup Plan

Xinghe called the fifth song “Return Ticket.” He refused to release it and performed it only once that night. Yet at six in the morning, the complete recording appeared on every platform, posted by the official Luminous World Tour account. It received ten million plays in ten minutes. Zhou sent a message: You thought a song couldn't spread unless you uploaded it? The world is hungrier to forget than you understand. Then Wanzhao's phone rang. The call came from the Haicheng Municipal Archive. “Dr. Lin, we've found the duty recording from the night of the Saint Grace fire,” the archivist said. “It contains Xu Yuechuan's voice—and a man admitting that he locked the music-room door.”