Everyone sat in a row in front of the wooden cabin, each holding a roasted sweet potato, its flavor rich and sweet.
With the evening breeze on their faces and the night sky above, everything was just perfect.
As they nibbled on the roasted sweet potatoes, their faces grew smudged and dirty. Xie Shan, in high spirits, joked, "It's true what they say. When you reach a certain age, you start thinking about retiring to the countryside. Staying in a place like this, I feel like I could add a few years to my life…"
Xie Shan might not be old, but he'd seen too many of the world's ugly truths at his job. There was a time when he worked so much insane overtime that he'd even started to despise his fellow human beings.
It couldn't be helped. Some of the appalling atrocities he'd witnessed were things only a creature unworthy of the name 'human' could commit.
"Retiring to the countryside? That's the easy part. You could live on any deserted island. I'd kill to trade places with you!"
