[Why...? Xie Lian smiled politely as he considered just how to answer that.]

You could say that bad luck tends to follow me.

[Staying anywhere for more than a few years was usually a very bad idea and made it more likely something terrible would happen. If he didn't just walk in on it blindly in the first place.]

I'm a wanderer by nature. Collecting scrap from all over the country, where I'm from.