This is my first feature-length documentary. It was filmed in Houjie Town, Dongguan, which was one of the earliest areas where Taiwanese businesses entered mainland China. Guided by a sharp journalistic instinct, Zhou Hao moved into a rented apartment with his camera. Within those walls, babies were born, bloody murders took place, and love unfolded—at once deeply mundane and profoundly intense. When Houjie Township was completed and it came time for the credits, I refused the title of ‘Director.’ To me, the word carried a derogatory connotation back then; I firmly believed that a documentary is something that grows organically out of life itself, not something that is ‘directed.’