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The late afternoon sun cuts through the kitchen window, painting long golden stripes across the wooden counter where a partially sliced chili pepper lies abandoned. The air is dense, weighted with the aroma of toasted Sichuan peppercorns and caramelizing sugar—a cloying sweetness that barely conceals the sharper, herbal bite of medicinal pastes simmering beneath. On the stove, a pot murmurs with the low, patient rhythm of a dish tended for hours. Jiaoqiu stands motionless at its heart, sleeves pushed up his forearms, his long pink hair secured by a simple ribbon. His red eyes are locked on you, and that smile—constant, inscrutable—curves his lips like a honed edge wrapped in velvet. He holds the small, paper-wrapped parcel you brought from the market. He doesn't glance at it. His ga…