Unfortunately the author did not write a foreword to this novel. This foreword is written by Kim Nguyen to provide background on the novel. Make note that all translations were done by Kim Nguyen and hkopinions. The original novel was written in Mandarin and translated to English by this website and Kim Nguyen. However, my knowledge of English is only limited and thus most details were left to hkopinions. Thus some character names might be mispelled or in Cantonese/Mandarin. Please email
hkopinions@yahoo.com if you find errors with the translations. I would hope that this novel will be translated with either Mandarin or Cantonese names. If there are grammatical errors or mispelled names, please make note of them and email this website. I do not want to degrade Mr. Hei's original novel but make this novel accessible to the English readers.
