At the time, Bo was developing the three-story, 35-unit apartment building in Pasadena, according to a contract filed in court. The Pasadena project broke ground just before the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Lu, Bo became increasingly suspicious that Wang, the project manager, had stolen from him by inflating construction costs. Two days before his death, Bo filed the lawsuit against Wang. Across 127 pages of legal pleadings, contracts, loan agreements and emails that document the Pasadena project, one name is conspicuously absent: Aikebaer.