Chapter Five: The Unawarded Trophy

The streaming platform immediately purchased The Empty Room; its advance was exactly eight hundred thousand. Gao chased her onto the skybridge. Shen Yan heard a bolt scream before the walkway plate snapped and pulled Tang Li back. Guards saved Gao as well. No one fell. The charred trophy turned gold and dissolved into Shen Yan's eyes. Its settlement was Borrowed Frame: by touching imaging equipment, he could borrow one frame it would capture within the next thirty seconds, three times per day. The watch moved his death to October 29, 2025. Eight days gone. Tang Li returned his eighty thousand with another twenty thousand in thanks.