"Long enough for Da Qing to forget a lot of our shared past, and for the stone around my brother to weaken so he could start influencing things again. There had been a murder at the university I was working at, and I was on my way to a class when one of his people fell out of a window. When I looked up, he was leaning out to see if he was injured."

That moment had hurt. Shen Wei remembered everything about Kunlun - the scruffy little beard, the mop of hair, that lazy grin and those foxfire eyes. But he looked at Shen Wei like he was a stranger, a really weird stranger since Shen Wei couldn't stay collected when they shook hands.