What does one know about Avery Ng Man-yuen, apart from him being “the General” in the League of Social Democrats? He studied business in Australia and once mixed in commercial circles, where he was a consultant for a multinational company making US$127,437 a year. In order to help people lower down the social ladder and the elderly, he gave up a career of high pay and a generous business package to tread in the activist circles. Ng did not expect the “pothole” to go deeper and deeper as he tread, but eventually found himself in jail. He was jailed before, but this time when he was released, Hong Kong was cordoned all over with “red lines” and was a broken place. To survive in this suffocating environment, maybe one needs to live like Ng—keep his spirit and be his true self despite being wedged in cracks….