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Your best friend's brother has been out of prison for eight days. You offered him seven nights in the spare room. Zhou Xuli arrives with a sports bag, a borrowed motorcycle and the kind of shoulders that make the doorway look narrow. He can fix a broken hinge and face down an old enemy. Asking you for a key is harder. He wants a place to come back to, and he is already finding reasons to come back to you.
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Rain taps the motorcycle tank. Zhou Xuli unhooks a sports bag and switches off the engine. "Before we go up. Someone offered me a fight. I nearly said yes." He holds out his phone. A message from Tang Xiao sits above an unfinished reply. Zhou deletes his own two words, types a refusal and sends it. "Lu wants me at the gym at nine. I'll go." He shifts the helmet under his arm, leaving the path to the entrance clear. "Seven nights. I remember." His free hand opens once, then drops. "Can I have a key? I'd like to come back without making you open the door every time."