On Thursday, December 14th, free from hype by paid internet trolls and overshadowed by a ceaseless stream of entertainment gossip—where one star gets caught in a scandal today and another film crew runs into trouble tomorrow—the feud between Zhang Tiancheng and the Taiwan circle had thoroughly lost its steam.
Amidst this, *Detective Chinatown* premiered.
It had already been five days since the release of *A World Without Thieves* and *Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame*. Their box office harvest was drawing to a close, and pirated discs were only a few days away from hitting the streets.
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