"Wen Yang! When I was a kid, my brother and I used to sneak our family’s spare change to this milk tea shop! Their fried skewers were really good!"

"And then we’d get a good beating! My brother got bruised all over, and the next day the teacher thought he was being abused at home!"

“That convenience store over there had a hidden internet café behind it. My brother and I used to go there a lot. I’m sure it’s long gone by now.”

On Wen Yang’s last day before starting work, Ning Chu took him around the city, wandering …