Three cars rushed through the night.

　　The wide asphalt road stretched out before us, with trees along the sides stripped of their leaves, their branches receding into the distance.

　　When I was very young, South City was still a small county. In the past ten years, the area around the city had been rapidly developed, and the economy had grown at an astonishing pace. Today, South City was no longer the place I had once known.

　　I've always been someone who ...