Wu Zhiqu remembered that back in his hometown, whenever people talked about someone living an easy, comfortable life, they would say with a mix of envy and sourness, “So-and-so is really living the life of an immortal.”The life of an immortal.What that kind of life actually felt like, Wu Zhiqu had never known.But what it was like to live as half an immortal—that, Wu Zhiqu had finally gotten a taste of.