This partition was set up to resemble a mourning hall, with an unsealed coffin placed right in the center. On the wall facing the head of the coffin hung a large, black-and-white character for "mourning," flanked by wreaths and paper effigies sent by other acquaintances in the city.
Add to this the pale, bloodless corpse of the person lying inside the coffin.
Despite it being summer, the mourning hall felt inexplicably chilling.
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