The police, upon hearing that Mo Nuan had regained consciousness, arrived at the hospital with a photo of the suspect. They took her statement and asked her to identify the man in the photo, but Mo Nuan said she didn’t recognize him.

News of her injury wasn’t a secret and spread quickly. Throughout the morning, a steady stream of visitors came to see her—some were colleagues from her firm, but most were business partners of Lu Chen. Mo Nuan didn’t know most of them, and given her fragile condition, she quickly became exhausted. Lu Chen blocked most visitors, only allowing close family members and a few trusted friends to enter....