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The Bloody First Lie
Words: 3089 · Source Novel:: Death on the Blue Express
Confronting Guo in the bandit stronghold at Mount Baodugu, Arthur is forced to relive the death of his own beloved sister, who was killed years earlier by a spurned suitor using the same poetic style. He realizes with horror that Guo was that suitor, and that Guo's entire crusade began with a murder disguised as a love affair—a bloody lie that twisted his mind. Their final standoff is interrupted by the government's treacherous ambush on Sun Meiyao's men.
The Amnesty Trap
Words: 3051 · Source Novel:: Death on the Blue Express
As the Beiyang government grants amnesty to bandit chief Sun Meiyao to resolve the diplomatic crisis, Arthur discovers that Sun's former lieutenant, a literate and bitter man named Guo Zhendong, fits the killer's profile. Guo had once been a schoolmaster whose wife deserted him for a foreign merchant. Arthur learns that Guo sees the chaos of the Lincheng Outrage as divine permission to cleanse the rails of traitors to love.