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Chapter 14: The Janitor on Ward Six
Chen Feng read the line three times. Then Su Wan took the page from his fingers, because his hands had stopped working properly, and read it herself."Burn this and run," she said. "That's his advice. Eighteen years of silence, and the first thing he writes is an order.""It's my father's handwriting." He heard his own voice from a long way off. "I've never seen it. I know it anyway."It is, Ye Chen said quietly. The ink is fresh, and the pen pressure is the pressure of a man who has been afraid for a very long time. Chen Feng, there is a hook in this. Somebody wanted you to read it here, today, with her in the room."Who?" Chen Feng said aloud."Who what?" Su Wan asked."Ye Chen thinks it was left for us to find. Not hidden. Laid out." He rubbed his face. "Either my father is alive and warned me, or someone wants me to think he is."Su Wan did not answer at once. She folded the letter along its crease and slid it into the inside pocket of her coat, then glanced about the little room:
Chapter 13: The Woman Who Poured the Tea
Nobody moved. The lamp hissed on its crate, and from the stairwell came a faint draught that smelled of cold stone and something older, something like a medicine cabinet that had been shut for a century."Stay here," Chen Feng said quietly. "Please.""No," Su Wan said. "But I'll tell you what I will do." She turned to the nearer contractor. "You and your colleague stay at the top of those stairs. My phone is on a live call with Central General's emergency desk. If I say the word 'oxygen' twice, you call the police and you come down. If you hear shouting, you do not come down alone. Understood?"The man looked at Chen Feng, then back at her, and nodded. It was becoming a familiar thing, Chen Feng noticed: people deciding, without being told to, which of them was in charge.They went down together.---The stairs ended in a long vaulted room that did not belong under a warehouse. The walls were dressed stone, the floor laid in black and white flags, and along one side ran a row of glass
Chapter 12: The Lie Beneath the Heartbeat
The curtain moved. Su Wan stepped through it with her arms folded and her face arranged into the expression she wore for families who were about to hear the worst, and Chen Feng understood that she had not walked away at all."Five minutes," she said. "That was a generous five minutes."Su Tianhe had already shut his eyes. His pulse, under Chen Feng's fingers, was racing, and not from the lungs."Grandfather needs to rest," Su Wan said, and drew the mask back over the old man's face with a gentleness that did not match her voice. "We'll talk when the scan is back."She waited until they were out in the corridor, beside a vending machine that hummed to itself under the fluorescent lights, before she turned on him."You told him you knew," she said. "Before he finished. I watched your face while he was talking. You knew when he lied.""Su Wan—""No." She lifted one hand, palm out, the way she did to stop a nurse from rushing a crash cart. "I have been patient for a week. You came home b
Chapter 11: Two Kinds of Medicine
Central General's emergency department never fully slept, and at one in the morning it hummed like a held breath. Su Wan walked through the doors the way other people walk into their own kitchens. A charge nurse looked up, saw her, and had a wheelchair beside Chen Feng before anyone said a word."I'm fine," he said."You're sitting down," Su Wan said, and that was the end of it.She had him in a curtained bay inside five minutes, the penlight out again, a colleague called down from neurology within ten. Dr. Park was a tall man with the weary patience of someone who had been woken twice that night already. He turned Chen Feng's wrist under the light, frowned at the ring of faint grey lines, ran a pin up the forearm, and tested every finger one by one."Sensation's intact," he said. "Reflexes are normal. That pattern is odd. It looks almost like Wallerian degeneration, but there's no injury to explain it." He glanced at Su Wan. "I'll order an MRI. It's three o'clock in the morning, thou
Chapter 10: What the Mountain Remembers
"You were there," Chen Feng said. It wasn't a question, and his voice came out rougher than he wanted, still dragging breath from the fight, his head swimming where the blow had landed."I was young," Feng Lao said, almost fondly. He did not step back from the needle that had nearly opened his throat. "A junior disciple. I held a torch, if you want the unglamorous truth of it. I did not swing the blade that ended you, Ye Chen. But I watched, and I did nothing, and five hundred years is a long time to sit with the exact shape of a cowardice."Behind him the stairwell door had banged open. Four of Su Kang's contractors spilled into the corridor, big men in dark jackets, and stopped dead at the sight of the room: a man frozen on the marble, two more clutching dead limbs, a silver-haired old man standing in the middle of it all as though he were waiting for a bus.*He is stalling,* Ye Chen said, quick and quiet. *Or he believes he is. Look at his weight. Too even. Too loose. He is not fin
Chapter 9: The Frost Needle
Six men. Four filling the unmarked door, two rising from the table with their jackets already loose, and one old man at the head of it all, still smiling, as though he'd only raised the price of something.Chen Feng counted them twice. The number didn't improve.*Six,* Ye Chen said, flat and fast. *You have been mine for three days, Chen Feng. You are not ready for six. What you have is precision, not power. Spend it exactly, or do not spend it.*"Kang," Chen Feng said, not taking his eyes off the door. "The elevator. Hold it open and keep your phone in your hand."Su Kang's face had gone the color of old paper, but he moved. Chen Feng had braced for an argument from the other side of him instead."Don't tell me to run," Su Wan said, very low. She hadn't looked at him. She was looking at the two men by the table, her eyes moving the way they moved over a trauma bay. "Chen Feng. The one on the left. He's been shifting his weight every ninety seconds all night, and you've been reading i
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