Mei Yunzhi: May bad luck stop. When Mei Yunzhi started school at seven, his household registration listed his birthday three days later than it really was, so he had to spend an extra year in kindergarten. At fourteen, a mistake on his answer sheet kept him at the middle school in his town. At seventeen, he took the high school entrance exam just as SARS was sweeping the country. One remark from his cousin, "You're from the city," got him quarantined for a month. At twenty, there were no natural disasters during the college entrance exam, but human error struck instead: he fell down the stairs. At twenty-three, he was cut from the exchange student program. At twenty-four, he applied to study abroad, only for an earthquake and tsunami to hit that country right before his departure. He never made it there. At twenty-six, he signed up for an online course to improve his spoken English and pass the proficiency test. As soon as he paid, he... transmigrated.
