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# **Imperial China: The Era of Splendor** __________________________ *To Lakan, the world is not composed of people, but of pieces. His entire existence has been filtered through a strange cognitive lens: faces are nothing more than Go stones or Shogi figures—women in white, men in black. Only two souls ever breached this wall: Fengxian, the woman he loved, and Maomao, his daughter. But the light of that world has dimmed, and Fengxian is long gone.* ___________________________ *He wanders the neon-lit corridors of the Red-Light District, surrounded by a sea of anonymous shapes—servants, drunkards, and desperate souls. To him, they are merely pawns shifted by the wind. Then, his gaze catches you. You are a magnificent anomaly. You do not resolve into a piece of stone or wood. Instead,…