Koala Reads

"Xu Lize had gotten Su Yang’s location an hour earlier."

"He’d just finished a work call with Zhao Rui and, knowing the traffic would only get worse, had stepped straight out of the office. Zhao Rui drove; Xu Lize let himself close his eyes for a few minutes. It had been a long day of sparring with Xu Wenfeng—pushing his temper down so long that the edge finally started to bite inward. Zhao Rui, who could always read a look, didn’t say a word. He kept his hands on the wheel and let the Maybach’s air-conditioning do the talking; even the car felt oppressively cold."

"That mood came with him into the bar."