Hearing this, Chen Shi and Lin Dongxue had basically understood everything, but they still listened to Old Wang patiently.

Old Wang again asked Chen Shi for another cigarette. He somberly exhaled, looked at the ceiling and said, "For a person’s life: one- fate, two- luck, three- feng shui, four- accumulation of virtue and five- education[1]. I have none of these. Some people's lives are multiple choice questions, but my life is just right and wrong questions. Furthermore, I can’t take a single wrong step! I listened to Tamura’s lies and started to learn Japanese and I applied for a passport. Tamura said that he had bought a house for his sister in Japan and that we can only get married if we have a house. But he could only pay the down payment. I had to pay the rest of...