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I looked at Zhuo Yue. He nodded at me and squeezed my hand, telling me not to be afraid. He would stay with me.

I nodded.

On the way out we checked out, and Zhuo Yue told me that the director's body had been taken to the police station, and that it had been dismembered, and that his main torso had been marked with a knife: Debts to pay for death.

Without question