Just after Chu Wang left the photography studio.
Shanghai.
Baoshan District.
Shengqiao Town.
Inside a rental house.
Zhao Xiaoni dully sprawls on the bed, watching TV. He lazily pops sunflower seeds, feet propped up, surrounded by seed husks and rubbish strewn all around him. It's a reveal of how laissez-faire a single man can be, to a painstaking degree.
Suddenly.
"Click."
The sound of a door opens.
Zhao Xiaoniu trembles. This is his rented house. The only people who have keys, apart from him, are the landlord…or a thief.
The landlord is unlikely because he has not defaulted on his rent. He has paid a year's rent up front, so there's virtually no chance of the landlord coming without knocking and not saying a word. If it's not a thief...
Then could it be… The police?
The police?
Zhao Xiaoniu feels a chill down his spine.
If you do nothing wrong, you fear nothing. Not even a ghost knocking at your door.