When Saffit Astreya was seven years old, his father Eric died in a subway shooting incident.
In Los Angeles in the United States, such things are not worth making a fuss about; reporting a single gun death would mean the national newspapers couldn't cover other news.
Every day is a shooting incident.
But for Saffit and his brother Holka, it was the collapse of a perfect and happy world.
Their remaining mother lived with them for two years, eventually trying illegal drugs due to stress—no matter how much they tried to dissuade her, she gradually became neither human nor ghost.
She even contemplated selling the two brothers for money.
Thanks to Saffit's quick thinking, he sensed something was wrong and escaped with his brother from his mother, finding a job as an illegal worker at a local Chinese restaurant.
With the condition of room and board and year-round lunch breaks, he worked there until he was sixteen.
