Chapter Four: I Do Not Consent

【ALTERNATE PAYER: LIN JIANXIA.】 【PAYMENT: THE LAST DAY BEFORE HER FATHER’S DEATH.】 Twelve hours remained. Jianxia saw two blue lines, one binding Qiao Ran, the other herself—two nooses offered as a choice. She shut off the screen. “No one pays,” she said. “Tomorrow, we refuse to win for it.”