Mr. Shen kept a stand-in for three years. Then, when his one true love returned from abroad, he tossed her a check and told her to get lost. The stand-in smiled faintly, took the check, and walked into the top-floor office her rival could never hope to reach in this lifetime. After all, she was the one who had saved him years ago, and the new power player in finance he could not afford to offend.
