The next few days were a blur of shopping trips and appointments. Yujin informed me that they had a number of out of town meetings that I would be attending with them, and asked me to prepare. As usual, I had no idea what I was preparing for because of the evasive nature of their request, but I did my best.

I was equipped with a passport that I suspected was a forgery since I hadn’t actually been to a government office to have it issued. But the picture was flattering, and I was ...