Every entry in his mother's ledger was for his sake. On the last page was the life-saving money stolen from her by fake medicine.
Qi Ge was an electronic engineer. On the day he was laid off, he received notice of his mother's death.
His father had died in that "accident" at the construction site, and someone had cut the compensation down to barely enough to pay for a funeral. The people who had ruined their lives were on television right now, accepting an award.
He locked himself in his rented apartment and turned an old microwave into the quietest thing in the city.
There were three names on the wall. He crossed them out one by one, slowly. The first had already fallen.
