[ONC 2022 LONGLIST || FEATURED] Xie Xiao's fate changed two thousand years ago, when he nearly lost his life at the hands of a friend, and then became an immortal because of the same person. He has been living a wanderer's life since then, watching the world change--watching wars crest and fade, nations rise and fall--never aging, never belonging to any time. He was tired of it all, and he wanted to grow old and die just like everyone else. For that he had to find the man who turned him immortal all those years ago. But how much did Xie Xiao know about this man who was once his friend? How much of what happened two thousand years ago did he really understand?