Ten years after graduating from college, the class reunion organized by class monitor Gu Chengye was scheduled to be held at the most expensive hotel in the city. The per capita cost of 9,000 yuan was prohibitive for Lu Yuanzhou, who opened a small grocery store. He declined on the grounds that his wife needed to stay with him in bed, but Gu Chengye mocked him harshly, saying that he was a coward pretending to be poor. Lu Yuanzhou never thought that his absence from this angry party would actually make him the only survivor of the party - the eight classmates who attended the banquet all died mysteriously in the hotel box, and the cause of death was suspected of mass poisoning.
