The Interior (Red Princess 2)

China

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Keith Baxter (murder)

U.S.

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Xiao Yang (murder)

China

Aaron Rodgers

Paying bribes

China/U.S.

Knight International

Accepting bribes

China

Sun Gan

Illegal working conditions at Knight

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Knight

Illegal filing of papers to FTC & SEC

U.S.

Tartan/Knight (Phillips, MacKenzie & Stout)

Hulan realized how desperate David was when he didn’t automatically strike Sun Gan off the chart and that he’d let down his guard enough to let drop that Miaoshan’s papers and Sun’s papers were similar.

“Why are you so sure about Aaron Rodgers?” David asked. “He was really shaken up when Xiao Yang died.”

“He was the last person to see her alive, and everyone else was in the meeting with you,” Hulan answered. “I’d also like to put Aaron down for Miaoshan’s murder. He was having an affair with her. Maybe she made one too many demands on him. The fact that she had the papers would have meant nothing to him, which explains why he didn’t take them.” Hulan put a finger on the last card and asked, “What do you think Miles meant when he was talking about Keith? Do you think Keith had found what we’ve found and told Miles?”

“Miles made it sound that way, but I’m not sure.”

“Tell me again what he said about you and Keith.”

“Which part?”

“About when Keith died…”

“Miles said that I went out to dinner and ‘a guy’ gets killed in front of me, that he died in my arms in public,” he said.

“Right, and that people would think you’d suffered from post-traumatic stress and had made up all this stuff,” she said, motioning to the cards.

“He made it sound like the firm had done me a big favor, like hiring back some brain-injured person as a way of doing the right thing.”