The Fate of All Things

Wei Sun came from Sichuan to Hong Kong to find work. He lives in a coffin-like apartment building that looks just like a prison from the outside, in a flat cubicle of less than two square meters where he eats, sleeps, and goes about his daily life right over the toilet. To get to sleep, the 1.78-meter-tall Wei Sun has to stick his feet past the partition and dangle them in midair, because the partition is less than 1.7 meters long. At 2:00 a.m. one night in 2025, Wei Sun had just finished washing his face after his third odd job of the day. As usual, he stretched his feet out and lay on his side, slowly drifting off to sleep. He could never have guessed what he would see when he opened his eyes again...