Don’t Cut Me Out

Chen Xu had been making investigative podcasts for five years, specializing in reclaiming the voices that had been cut out of other people’s stories. During the Episode 13 livestream, someone sent in an anonymous old case. No school name. No personal names. Just one line: Who Took the Nineteenth Second? The entire internet started searching for the girl whose life had been destroyed by a broadcast. Only Chen Xu knew that those nineteen seconds hadn’t been an accident. He had cut them out with his own hands.