After they embarked on a relationship, he thought she would be the one. In the second story, Officer 663, a beat cop, has routinely ordered a chef salad at the stall for his girlfriend, a flight attendant he met on a flight she was working. The day of his birthday is altered not by May's return, but by his encounter with an Asian woman wearing a trench coat and a blond wig, to who he is instantly attracted, not knowing that she has had a difficult day in her "job" as a drug smuggler. That ritual will end on May 1 - his twenty-fifth birthday - which if she does not return to him by then, he will come to the conclusion that it is not a joke and try to move on without her. He goes through a daily ritual to deal with the news, he hoping the break up is a joke seeing as to the day she tells him. On April 1, 1994, May, his girlfriend of five years, breaks up with him. In the first story, He Qiwu, badge number 223, is a plainclothes officer. Two individual stories of lovelorn Hong Kong police officers are told against the backdrop of the bustling but often lonely concrete jungle that is the city, the two stories loosely tied by the same western fast food stall in the Chungking Mansions they routinely frequent.
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