Chapters 22-25 Summary

In Chapter twenty-two, Chen goes to Guangzhou to search for Xie Rong. The local police are not particularly helpful and Chen's own investigations prove fruitless. Chen stays at the Writers' Home, a hostel for writers, to save money. There he meets a businessman called Ouyang who is enthused to meet a published poet. Chen asks Ouyang if he can help locate Xie using his local connections and Ouyang says that he will try asking some of the madams he is acquainted with. Chen has misgivings about Ouyang's connections to prostitution, but decides that his murder investigation is more important.

Chapter twenty-three has Yu visiting the artist Jiang Wehe. She discloses her relationship with Wu. It was a purely sexual one, convenient for both of them, with no expectations of a romantic involvement. Jiang broke it off when she discovered Wu had...