On a summer day in 2003, sunlight filtered through the mottled leaves and fell across Zhao Xun’s face. A poised college student walked up to him. “Zhao Xun, what day are you heading back to Guzhou to report for duty?” Only then did the bewildered Zhao Xun realize: it was the day the new civil servants’ training program in Dongdu City was ending. Could he have been reborn? That was impossible, wasn’t it? Had he just read too many novels????
