Chapter Three: Fate's First Account

Zhou stepped from behind the screen. “Don't drink it.” Wanqing confessed that she had lied to him. She had even approached him originally to repay her brother's debt. Zhou fed the document into a shredder. “Money can be earned again. People can't.” Then the door locked. The man with the damaged ear drew a knife from beneath the cleaning cart. The men and ledger downstairs had been a diversion. His true purpose was to erase witnesses. Xu Zhi reached the corridor and rammed the door with her camera. When Shen Yan returned, he heard glass break inside. He consulted the watch. If he kicked down the door, the knife would enter Wanqing's neck.