Dali and Luo Youyou had been stuck at the hip for the past two days, showing all sorts of public displays of affection. The employees in the store teased Dali with outright jabs at him being a lolicon and a pedophile. 

This store was gradually getting on the right track with a stable income. Sales and marketing were handled by Dali while I basically watched over the store. The shop assistants all addressed me as ‘Song-ge.'

About a fortnight later, Xiaotao phoned to inform me of an incident in prison–the Imitator was killed last night.

I was taken by surprise; I couldn’t imagine why something like that would happen to him.

Xiaotao dropped by the store to pick me up and we were on our way to Mount Leopard Prison. The Imitator’s body had...