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Fifth

Chapter 9 · free to read

Evaluation three. On the stage, through the monitors, with the lights on. Four weeks to the showcase.

Two hours. She counted the breath points four hundred times and did not once look at the seats.

It did not crack. It had not cracked in eleven days, and this was the first time it had not cracked in front of anyone who was writing a number down.

Sheet four. Fifth. The line under the fifth name is the line Director Han draws herself, every four weeks, with a ruler.

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