Old Film, New Fire

But the next morning the street office changed the story, saying the warehouse would no longer be used for public purposes and that demolition and rebuilding should be applied for. After that, the plot got folded into the pre-development integration project. The paperwork went up layer by layer, and a lot of things were rewritten into something else." Xu Zhixia felt the heat around her chest tighten until it hurt. At last she understood why Lu Chen had never wanted to touch demolition, old debts, or property records. She understood why he had stayed in this money-losing cinema and refused to move. For him, this was not just a cinema. It was a late night watch over someone who had never been properly remembered. "Why didn't you ever tell me?"