Chapter 37: The Locked Door

The roll of rice paper was heavier than sin, and Siu-Bak carried it through the midday crowds like a man smuggling a live grenade. Which, in a way, he was. Names were explosives. He had seen what one page of a ledger could do—topple a loan shark, empty a safe, put a daughter back in school. A whole map of secrets might bring down the sky.