Chang'an City at night seemed to be sprinkled with broken gold by an invisible giant hand. In Yankang Square, the halo of oil lamps shines from the window lattice of thousands of households, complementing the sparse stars in the sky.
Qingfeng Li buried his head behind the mountains of files in the county government office, the smell of old ink stains and slightly rotten wood lingering on the tip of his nose. He is a low-level official from the ninth rank, and his responsibility is to manage the household registration and land property documents in the Xishi area of Chang'an County. The work is tedious and boring, day after day, year after year.
He rubbed his aching eyes and his eyes fell on a newly handed household registration change list in his hand.
