After working late, Lin Mo returned to Yong'an Residential Complex. The gatekeeper looked at him and asked, “Why did you go out again?”
According to the sign-in sheet, he’d been home for twenty-six minutes. But at that time, he’d clearly still been waiting for the bus eight stops away.
He carried his nearly cold dinner upstairs. Before he could even put his key in the lock, he heard the door being locked from inside.