Chapter 3 Xi Mi had booked a budget room on the ground floor. It didn't have air conditioning, so she slumped over the windowsill with her tongue hanging out from the heat. The window wasn't high; sitting inside, her chin rested right on the sill. Across from her were the inn's luxury suites, standalone little villas equivalent to presidential suites in a five-star hotel. Right outside her window was a flagstone path, which guests staying in those villas had to walk down, passing right by her…