A Corpse as Blue as Lapis Lazuli - Chapter 20 + Closing thoughts

Laili Jewellery Gold Shop, W34W+Q6 Leicheng Residential District, Leizhou, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, China, 9:00PM

I know, dear reader, that all this anticipation that had been building has been nagging at you. What happens tonight could make or break everything that we had worked toward. Will all our theories be true tonight? Will the person we were after even show up?

One thing was certain: the local police were confused about our plan, and even more so when we presented Xiao Fang as a stand-in for the Lapis Thief. It had been drilled into their minds that the Lapis Thief was male, and perhaps that made them sceptical to the fact a woman was acting in his place.