Suspect

An unconventional style, with plain prose.

The cover is purely a bait-and-switch.

This understated story follows the thread of Hans Christian Andersen's tale, "The Red Shoes."

Sun Weisheng was born in an orphanage. A person's life begins in childhood, and his childhood began with everything falling apart.

He is constantly repenting, because he cannot give up longing for the dazzling temptations of the world... He is another Karen, yearning for redemption and struggling to escape the predicament he created for himself.

Could his salvation be Molly? The very temptation he longs for.

"They all say you belong only to yourself. I don't think that's true."

"I still belong only to myself. I am my own. I see you as a part of me that I was born with. You have long since become one with my flesh and blood."