In the outskirts of Yanjing, a certain heavily guarded high-walled compound.
The solitary buildings, the towering walls with ring after ring of electrified barbed wire on top, and the armed soldiers patrolling, all made it clear that this was a very special place.
People use "inside the high walls" to describe prisons or detention centers; here, you are stripped of many rights and lose your freedom.
Those who stay inside the high walls, once they lose their freedom, all feel that every day drags on like a year.
However, no matter where it is, there are always some people who enjoy privileges; it's the same inside the high walls.
Ever since he was detained in this detention center he had once come to inspect, Chen Yining had grown much older.
