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「 If I were to want you, to have you by my side, keeping vigil through the night until tomorrow… ♪ 」
Miss Chu sat alone in the grand dance hall of the Paramount Club, quietly watching the performance by the Singing Queen, Jiang Mengting.
She was the only person there. That, however, did not stop the show in the slightest.
The band played as though the hall were packed to the rafters. The backup dancers twirled and stepped with flawless enthusiasm. The color-changing gas lamps glowed, shifted, and shimmered, changing moods with great seriousness, as if thousands of eyes were upon them instead of just one. Every segment of the performance was done perfectly well.
Jiang Mengting sang and sang, all the while feeling unbearably awkward. Singing to a single listener in the enormous dance hall of the Paramount Club, a place meant for hundreds, felt absurd in the extreme.
She kept singing anyway.
Jiang Mengting did not dare utter a single word of complaint. She knew Miss Chu's temperament far too well. One moment, Miss Chu might smile sweetly and address her as the Singing Queen. The next moment, just as casually, she might decide to peel the skin right off her face.
When the song "I Want You" finally came to an end and the band began bustling about and preparing for the next song, Yang Yanzheng stepped up to Miss Chu's side.
Miss Chu gestured for Jiang Mengting not to stop and then left the dance hall. Now there was not a single guest left, yet Jiang Mengting still had to keep singing.
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When they reached a suite on the third floor, Miss Chu stopped and turned to Yang Yanzheng.
"Well?" she asked lightly. "Did you find anything out?"
Yang Yanzheng nodded. "Monkey Qiu has been...
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