One of the younger members, 21-year-old Ren Xue, said she had abandoned her boyfriend at Shenyang university to come to the farm. “I want to live here forever, I do not want to buy my own house,” she said. “My ex-boyfriend thinks life is all about making the right connections and working towards goals. I also used to be like everyone else, blindly following trends and copying what others did. But after coming here I changed completely. Now I think the purpose of life is to find freedom in your mind and heart. When I went back to university after my first trip, my classmates wanted to drag me back to my old life of playing computer games at night and sleeping in the day but I resisted.”