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    The boy took a step forward. Then another. His small voice carried across the marble floor.

    "My momma is in danger. My grandfather... he's going to hurt him. You have to save him."

    Hua Yong moved forward, closing the distance between them with that same fluid grace. He crouched down, bringing himself to eye level with the boy, and for the first time, the receptionist saw his expression crack.

    Recognition.

    Shock.

    Something that looked almost like devastation.

    "You have my eyes," Hua Yong said softly. His voice was gentle, which somehow made it more unsettling. The receptionist had heard that voice order people destroyed. She'd never heard it sound tender.

    The boy nodded, his own eyes, dark and doe-like and unmistakably identical to Hua Yong's, filling with tears he was clearly trying not to shed. "Momma said I do. He said you'd be scary but that you'd help anyway. He said you were the only one who could."

    "Who is your mother?"

    "Shen Wenlang."

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