“Don’t you feel that something is off?” I asked. “Li Mazi used to visit my shop almost every day to drink. Sometimes he’d skip a day, but there is no way he wouldn’t show up for three days straight. If he’d come to visit me, I would have woken up already.”

Yin Xinyue said, “Now that you mention it, I think there’s something wrong with Li Mazi.”

“What?”

“Ru Xue’s on a business trip, and she’s called Li Mazi every day since then. However, every time she called, Li Mazi would pick up the phone but not say a word. It’s been like that for three or four days. Ru Xue was worried about him, so she asked me to go to his house to check on him. I did go to his house but the door was locked. That’s why I thought he went to your antique shop. I came here and then found you in your...