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The latest serial murders continue to challenge Yang Keping’s psychological limits. The victims are all women, and each death is more tragic than the last: first a student in a white dress, hanging from a tree; then a young business owner’s wife, her head missing, lying in a pool of blood; then a long-haired woman with layers of hair stuck to her face, drowned; and finally an unnamed woman wearing a cross necklace, burnt black and unidentifiable. The investigation is in trouble. One night, Yang Keping was visiting the Night Road bar as usual when he felt a woman in the corner watching him with a sense of déjà vu. As he was about to leave, the woman followed him and said softly, “There is something impure in you. Key featuress Lei Jun, a stalwart of contemporary Chinese thought, winner of the fourth Shoji Shimada Award. Finalists for the 3rd Annual Shoji Shimada Award for Speculative Fiction. 69