In the second scene, the protagonist Liu Guangqi has just moved into the alley. The first week, his house was ransacked and his windows were smashed. The second week, the people poured dog blood on the walls, making the stairwell smell terrible.
The neighbors complained incessantly, while those who enjoyed watching the spectacle watched live, pointing and gossiping, and some even snickering with schadenfreude.
Life is so hard, and seeing someone else living worse than me is a kind of comfort.
This is a morbid mentality, but no one seems to think there's anything wrong with it.
With sunflower seeds in his hand, Yi Mu glanced at the scene from afar and then yelled, "You can't even handle your own family's affairs, yet you're always craning your neck to stare at other people's houses. Aren't you afraid of hurting your back?"
He was referring to those gossipy old women, who have nothing better to do than to gossip.
He disliked the older women, and these women who enjoyed watching the drama didn't like him either.
He was the biggest topic of conversation among the women in this alley. He was a man in his thirties, and when he first moved in, people even introduced him to potential partners.
Later, when they found out he was an old man selling pornographic drugs, no one had any interest in him anymore.
Not only did no one have any interest in him, but they also spread rumors behind his back that he was sick, saying that even glass is sick.
The two sides were hurling insults at each other when Liu Ming returned, accompanied by his new deskmate.
His door was covered in dog blood. Luckily it was daytime; if it had been night, it would have scared people to death.
Liu Guangqi sat on the steps, silently smoking, his shoulders drooping with desolation, no longer able to muster any anger.
He had been worn down by life, reduced to a lump of dough, and was now numb, at the mercy of others' kneading.
Seeing her son return with a female classmate by his side, she quickly put out her cigarette and took the schoolbag from her son's hand.
Liu Ming stepped aside; his father's hands were covered in blood.
"Dad, what's going on?"
Liu Guangqi's lips twitched slightly. He glanced apologetically at the girl beside him and then told them to go home.
Using his skillful delivery of lines, Yi Mu engaged in a verbal battle with the older women for three hundred rounds. He single-handedly faced more than a dozen older women and did not lose the battle.
The older women only ever use a few swear words, but he, though he doesn't use any swear words, delivers sharp and powerful remarks.
Old Liu had a feeling that he had found a treasure.
It's such a waste that Yimu became a celebrity; he should have gone straight into the film industry.
He's a young man in his early twenties, yet he plays a thirty-year-old, and it doesn't feel out of place at all.
He's that guy who seems sharp-tongued and can't get along with anyone, but deep down he's actually a kind-hearted old man.
He didn't think he was inferior to anyone. He earned his living by his own body, without stealing or robbing, and without complaining or blaming others. He was much brighter and more radiant than many shady people who lived in the sunlight.
This character was slightly embellished by Lao Liu.
When he was at his lowest point, he met this woman, who was almost forty years old and still quite attractive. If she hadn't dragged him into the house like a dead dog, he would have died of alcoholism or the flu that year.
Imu doesn't have many scenes; the most important ones are later on.
He later learned that the loan shark who was chasing Liu Guangqi for debts was a regular customer of his.
The boss was a cripple, tall, with a scar from his eyebrow to the bridge of his nose, a wound inflicted by a knife when he was a henchman of a gang leader in his youth.
Old Glass had been with him for three years, and the boss had always wanted him to be his mistress, but Old Glass disagreed.
"I only have one life, and I'm doing just fine on my own. I don't want to be dragged down by you."
The eldest brother scolded the old glass-like man for being a coward, and the old glass-like man nodded in complete agreement: "I am a coward."
This scene takes place indoors, with the backdrop of the two people engaging in sexual activity on a bed.
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