Chapter 17: Chapter 17: The First One

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One looks for answers through a camera lens; the other captures the world in sound. Photographer Jin Feixun has always trusted pictures as proof that someone was real, until she meets Yan Chuxian at an old cinema slated for demolition, and the two slowly drift into each other's lives. Then Jin Feixun notices Yan Chuxian fading from her photos. Her name drops out of records, memories of her dissolve, and even people who knew her begin forgetting. All evidence insists Yan Chuxian never existed. But Jin Feixun saw her, heard her, remembers every word and every moment by her side. So she starts hunting for a woman the world says was never there. Waiting at the end of that search are a disappearance seventeen years old, a photograph that shouldn't exist, and a date fast approaching. Some people vanish by dying; others vanish by being forgotten. Which is Yan Chuxian? Only at the very end does Jin Feixun realize she was never just searching for a missing person, but for the last name that could prove she herself was ever real.

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