Chapter One: Twin Showers

A new white wish appeared. 【I hope my husband survives surgery.】 “He will,” Jianwei said softly. “Call your family. I'll wait with you.” The words flared, then broke into white sparks. For one heartbeat, every sound in the square receded. The woman released her. Gratitude became confusion. “Young lady, who are you?” When her son arrived, she told him that guards had noticed the fraud. The person who had waited beside her for twenty minutes vanished from the story. Tang Guo lowered her camera. “Jianwei? Why are you so pale?” “She forgot me.” “She's in shock. But you're going viral. We passed a hundred thousand viewers—” Tang Guo stopped the replay. In it, the fraudster wrestled with an invisible figure. The canvas bag moved by itself.