Original fic snippet: Ancient Chinese Secret

So. Being once again among the ranks of the unemployed (and heinously depressed about it, as usual), I've been watching way too much Taiwanese and Japanese TV. And a storyline I'd been bouncing around for a while started to take shape a bit differently than I'd intended.

I blame the following excerpt on the sedatives. Context: CIA agent (yes, yes, I have a spy fetish, what else is new?) surveils notorious Taiwanese hacker.

( You have only yourself to blame: )