【Parallel world! Parallel world! Parallel world! 】
[This story is purely fictional, please do not take it personally! ]
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Friday, August 18, 2023, light rain.
Magic City.
At ten o'clock in the evening, on the last bus of Line 648, a tired-looking young man sat in the back seat, staring absentmindedly at the colorful skyscrapers outside the window.
The young man is named Chen Chuan, from Hunan Province, and is a college graduate.
After graduating at the age of 21, I plunged into the metropolis of Shanghai, dreaming of settling down here one day.
Ideals are full, but reality is skinny.
So far, he has been in Shanghai for three years.
Three years was a long time, long enough for him to experience all the bitterness and sweetness of life.
Three years was very short, so short that he still achieved nothing.
When he first came to Shanghai, he lived in a community about five kilometers away from the city center, with a one-bedroom apartment and a monthly rent of 2,800 yuan.
He once disliked these conditions.
But he didn't expect that three years later, he would be living in a community 18 kilometers away from the city center, in a single room without a toilet, with a monthly rent of 1,000.
The bus he was on now was the last bus back to Community No. 9 and the only direct bus.
As for why I’m going back now, it’s because I just got off work.
Do you think he is hardworking?
Bullshit!
Who the hell likes to work overtime?
But how can you survive in Shanghai without working overtime? If you don’t want to work overtime, just get out. There are plenty of people who are willing to work overtime.
I arrive at the company at 8:30 every morning and get off work at 9:30 every night.
You can work hard and earn 8,000 yuan a month without any social insurances or housing fund. With these conditions, there are many people willing to do it.
Because this job comes with two days off a week!
In today's society where the 996 work system is rampant, having two days off a week is an extreme luxury. Because of this, company leaders have no worries about having no substitutes.
He works as a graphic designer and is a formal white-collar worker working in an office. Although it sounds respectable, he is actually just a corporate slave.
We rack our brains every day to meet the client's requirements. Major and minor repairs are commonplace, and the probability of having to start over is more than half.
If it were just that, it would be fine, but not only do I have to face the client's difficulties, but I also have to endure the bombardment of the stupid leader.
The long working hours and the stressful working environment made Shen Chuan's temper increasingly irritable. At the age of 24, he was already experiencing hair loss.
But in order to survive, he had to work hard.
So much so that although he is still handsome, he hasn't had a girlfriend for several years.
He is 179.5cm tall and weighs 75kg. His facial features are inherited from his parents, making him a handsome young man.
But over the past few years, due to long-term work in front of the computer, his skin condition has become very poor, and due to lack of exercise, he has a small belly.
The handsome young man in the past has become a greasy uncle, and is also called a loser by beautiful girls.
Not only do you have no money, but you also lose your looks.
It doesn’t matter if I lose my looks, I don’t have time.
With such conditions, what girl would be interested in him?
The bus stopped and started, and tired office workers got on and off. An hour later, Chen Chuan got off at Community Bus Stop No. 9.
As soon as he got out of the car, he gave the middle finger to the sky.
"We agreed not to rain, but you took advantage of me not having an umbrella and kept raining all day!"
Despite being cursed, he had no choice but to endure the rain and quickly run to his doghouse.
The bus stop was about 300 meters away from Building 3 of Community No. 9. He ran as fast as he could, but when he stepped onto a step, he slipped and lost his balance, falling to the ground with a bang.
The severe pain stimulated his nerves, and he was soaked all over. The mobile phone in his hand was thrown three or four meters away and soaked in the puddle.
"If you dare, strike me to death with a bolt of lightning!"
He got up from the ground in a panic and roared angrily. When he picked up his phone, he found that the screen of the phone began to flicker after being soaked in water.
“Fuck!”
He looked at the 2,000 yuan phone with heartache, shook it violently in his hand, hoping to get the water out, and then wiped it on his clothes over and over again.
With a bad mood, Chen Chuan finally walked to the bottom of Building 3.
Community No. 9 is 20 years old, has 9 floors and no elevator.
He lives on the 8th floor and has to climb stairs every day, which is a torture for someone like him who is tired after a day's work.
After climbing up to the 8th floor breathlessly, he opened the door and went inside.
The first thing that catches your eye is a narrow corridor. Across the corridor is the toilet, and the washing machine in the toilet is rumbling.
This house originally had three bedrooms and a living room, with an area of over 130 square meters.
But how can this be difficult for a smart second-hand landlord?
That’s right, the house he rented was from a second-hand landlord, and he had never met the real landlord.
After the second-hand landlord rented the house from the real landlord, he directly converted the house into five single rooms.
The single room he rented was 15 square meters, about 2.3 meters wide and a little over 6 meters long. It had a tattered wardrobe, a second-hand computer desk he bought himself, and a 1*1.8 wooden bed.
In addition to these, there is a balcony shared with the neighbors where he can hang clothes to dry.
After entering his single room, he immediately took off his clothes, took a set of clean clothes and went into the public toilet to take a shower.
I had just been washing for less than three minutes when I heard a voice urging me outside the door.
"Who's still showering so late at night?"
The voice belonged to a girl, and Shen Chuan responded after hearing it.
"It's me! I just got off work. Wait a minute, I'll be done soon."
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