Chapter 6: Status
"Jie Tong, that snake,” Li Yao said, “He escaped.”
“You know him?” Yu Han asked. Both boys were in gangs, so that wasn’t strange. Still, small world.
“There’s no kid in the Riversong underworld that doesn’t know about the Jie twins. They’ve been lying low for a while. It wasn’t until you blabbered about your “good brother Jie Tong” that I realised what he was up to.” Li Yao waved a piece of paper in front of Yu Han.
It was the rock-tied letter someone from the crowd had thrown at Li Yao.
“You’re one vindictive son of a bow. What did he do to you?” Li Yao asked. “You ruined him.”
“He did this to my nose,” Yu Han said. If Elder Brother was alive, would Jie Tong try the same thing? He’d always looked up to him. Or pretended to.
No changing a snake. Yu Han was one, though he bit people more through numbers and fine print than physical daggers.
“No wonder,” Li Yao said, shaking his head. He tapped the fencing on the bulwark in a peculiar rhythm. “They got his sister first.”
“So she’s dead?” Yu Han asked. He felt a slight pang. Jie Hua didn’t try to kill him—she was always kind.