He was lying on the sofa in a trance when suddenly the door opened and a long-haired beauty in a cheongsam came in. She wore a dark purple cheongsam, but tied a sharp knife around the base of her thigh and fixed it with a black belt. She looked delicate and lethal.

Her typical melon-seed face, a pair of soul-stirring eyes, eyebrows as thin as two willow leaves, mouth small red attractive. It's amazing how long, black and shiny a waterfall-like shawl does not necessarily make even the models advertised for shampoo on TV so shiny and smooth.

Behind her was an expressionless teenager, about 15 or 6 years old,...