Xue Yang is sewing. In the indecisive light of a single candle, the seam he's reinforcing wavers back and forth, merging with his fingertips until the stab of the needle separates them suddenly out: the thing that bleeds and hurts, and the thing that lets the sharp point pass through and through it, apathetic.
A character study of Xue Yang and his sewing skills, through the years in Yi City.
The weather's getting colder, so Xue Yang makes a healthy warm drink for Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing at the coffin home in Yi City. What they don't know won't hurt them (for now).