Xie Caiping, the so-called ‘grandmother’ of China’s criminal underworld, was recently sentenced to nearly two decades in prison for being a rotten human being. But I have to ask – 46 nets you the title ‘grandmother’?

Shit, I feel old.

Her criminal reign ended Tuesday when Xie Caiping, 46, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for running illegal casinos and bribing government officials. Her trial was one of a series of gang prosecutions in the southwestern city of Chongqing that have featured lurid testimony about sex, corruption and the violent underworld.

Xie is the only female gang boss to be tried as part of a monthslong crackdown on local gangs, known as “black societies,” in the sprawling southwestern megacity of 30 million. The trials have exposed the tangled web of links between government officials and police officers who sought to provide cover for the crime syndicates.