"It's a foreigner with a particularly hard-to-pronounce name, something with 'Si,' I just call her Aka." Liumei had met the neighbor a few times and greeted her. These days, foreigners come to China speaking flawless Chinese; Mai's is good and so is Aka's.
"I've seen her before," Yu Minglang remembered.
The first time Yu Minglang was scheming against Mai and got into a fight with him, he sensed someone across the building taking pictures. Although it was nighttime and the distance made it hard to see the face clearly, he could discern some features under the neon lights.
A blonde with a baseball cap. When they met face-to-face today, he instantly recognized this was the same person who was taking photos on the rooftop that day!
"Do you interact with the neighbors often?" Yu Minglang asked.
"Aka is really nice. Every time we meet, she's very enthusiastic to chat with me," Liumei thought the neighbor was quite nice.
"She looked at me in a strange way."
