Chapter 15 · free to read
Six weeks on remand. I filled them by rebuilding the eighth ledger out of memory, one column at a time, on the backs of visitor forms.
The eighth book is not a record of the Chairman. It is a record of who countersigned after him, on every page, for nine years.
Nine towers still stand in Gangnam. New name on the deeds, same floors, same lifts, and my daughter downstairs learning to read the columns.
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