Chapter Five: Folding a City into the Set

Every city screen listed what the films had consumed: designs by uncredited artists, performances cut from extras, scenes stolen from writers—and Xu Zhou's unused footage. Wonder became anger. Likes were withdrawn by the million, and silver Resonance reversed direction. 【Original authority reclaimed.】 【Mechanical Compilation upgraded. One inviolable base rule may be assigned to a mid-tier creation.】 Gu Yan wrote a rule into the Folding Set: every character entering must display the name they had before deletion. Names appeared on the faceless workers' foreheads. The smallest figure in front raised his head. His face remained blank, but his name read XU ZHOU.