Just as I’d suspected. The keys were right there in the drawer, and a jolt of pure joy shot through me. It was a habit of mine to keep important things in the second drawer on the right side of the desk. After so many years together, Deng Jiazhe knew it as well as I did. With the keys in hand, I went straight for the safe. I keyed in the password—the same one he used for his computer—and just like