The scene shifts. She is sitting in the top-floor office of Yaoguang Building, looking out through the floor-to-ceiling windows at the city nightscape of 2025.
Spread across the desk is the final edition of The White House Alchemy Records, next to which rests a dragon-shaped jade seal, the vermilion inkpad mixed with silvery-white mercury beads.
She picks up the jade seal and stamps it onto the document; the cinnabar and mercury blend together, blurring into bizarre patterns.
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