Chapter Three: The Seller

Ji smiled bitterly. “I just remembered Lin Sui's ribs are too salty. I don't want even that annoyance to belong to a corporation.” The certificate copy stalled at ninety-seven percent, demanding an administrator biometric key. Cheng noticed that each social post had added a buyer watermark. Posts were public proof; viewers were witness nodes. “Make the account public.” “It will expose every memory you have left,” Ji said. “It will also stop them changing the ledger in secret.” Ji opened Nanqiao417. Cheng posted the certificate with one sentence: Who is selling me? Xu shared it through her journalist account. Views leapt from hundreds to thousands. Every screen became a temporary witness node. The download completed.