Welcome home, war hero. The geopolitics, the ideologies, they never meant anything to you. Everything you fought to protect has been reduced to rubble, and now the world is changing so fast you hardly recognize what’s rising from the ashes. The end of Japanese occupation has only given way to new violence, new death. Is suffering itself so deeply ingrained in the national consciousness that the people would cling to it like birthright? Sacrifice for the collective, a strong new China built on a foundation of blood and flesh.