"Yuan Bai, what are you doing?"
Seeing his good friend staring at his phone with a smile on his face, Sun Yiming couldn't help but curiously lean closer.
"Holy crap, what is this?" He exclaimed excitedly after seeing Qin Yuanbai's screen.
It turned out there was a picture of a woman on the phone.
Sun Yiming was so surprised for two reasons. First, his best friend was a lifelong single who always kept his distance from women. Second, the photo Qin Yuanbai showed on the screen was simply not in line with popular aesthetics.
Zooming in on the photo reveals a woman in a white shirt with a chin photoshopped to resemble a snake spirit. Her eyes are almost connected to her eyebrows, with large, dark pupils. Her nose is shrunken, giving off a suffocating feeling just by looking at it, not to mention the discontinuous bridge of her nose, swollen forehead, and so on.
In short, this is a photo that makes it hard to muster the courage to look at it a second time after just one glance.
At this moment, Sun Yiming's long-standing question was answered. Why had his best friend remained so aloof for so many years, unable to attract even the most beautiful women? It turned out he liked this type.
Qin Yuanbai naturally noticed the way Sun Yiming looked at him like he was a monkey, and looked up to glance at him.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Sun Yiming quietly moved a little further away from him, found what he thought was a safe spot, and then cautiously asked, "Yuan Bai, you don't actually like this kind of snake-faced guy, do you?"
Qin Yuanbai gave him a disapproving look and said in a serious tone, "Yiming, don't use such words to describe a girl you've never met."
Sun Yiming shut his mouth in frustration, but he was unconvinced. She was clearly a snake-faced beauty, and he didn't know what his friend saw in her.
...
Another corner of the city.
Yun Qing lay on the sofa in her apartment, looking at the balance on her phone with a distressed expression.
"My savings are down to four figures, what am I going to do?"
She is a recent college graduate who has not been looking for a job due to social anxiety and other psychological reasons.
They earn a little money by doing online gaming companionship and voice acting, barely enough to survive.
A few days ago, she accidentally turned on her microphone while playing a game. Although she only said one sentence, a teammate added her as soon as the game ended, and the two even added each other on WeChat.
With the idea of seeing if she could develop potential clients, Yun Qing did not refuse.
Her gaming skills are decent, but the gaming companion industry is becoming increasingly corrupt. If someone is willing to give her money simply because they like her voice, she will gladly accept it.
The excitement on Yun Qing's face subsided somewhat when she thought about her own face.
If that person knew how ugly she was, I wonder if they would still want to hang out with her.
Yunqing's parents are obsessed with appearances. They always make themselves up to have big eyes, high noses, and thick lips, and they even Photoshop themselves before posting on social media.
Yun Qing had seen these photos since she was a child and knew very well that she was not good-looking. Her eyes were only half the size of those photos, and her nose was not sharp enough to poke someone to death.
As a precocious child, Yun Qing became aware of her own ugliness early on due to such exposure.
So, starting from elementary school, she has always had thick bangs, wore black-rimmed glasses, and sometimes even wore a mask.
(The ugliness here isn't real ugliness, it's just the female protagonist's perception, a difference in perception inherited from her family. Although her parents are both handsome and beautiful, they don't think so, and they wear heavy makeup every day. However, unlike Yun Qing, her parents know that they are good-looking in other people's eyes, while Yun Qing was influenced by their aesthetics from birth and genuinely feels that she is not good-looking.)
I know this premise is illogical, but please bear with it for now and just enjoy watching.
When she entered university, she encountered a few special years where she was either taking online classes at home or wearing a mask, which made it easier for Yunqing to hide her appearance.
However, after graduation, she gradually opened up. If she were to find a normal job, she would inevitably have to deal with people every day, and Yunqing didn't want to be subjected to strange looks.
So she rented a small apartment near the university town and told her parents that she had found a job and would be able to become a full-time employee after a six-month internship.
Yun's parents doted on their only daughter and generously gave her 20,000 yuan as start-up capital.
Yun Qing originally thought it would take a long time, but she didn't expect to spend more than half of it in the first month. Half a year's rent plus deposit cost her nearly 10,000 yuan. Later, she added a lot of personal items to the apartment, and after all the miscellaneous expenses, she only had four or five thousand yuan left.
Now, more than three months have passed since graduation, and the new students at my alma mater have been enrolled for several weeks. Yun Qing has successfully become penniless again.
Just as she was thinking about how to make money, a new friend suddenly sent her a WeChat message.
Are you free right now?
Now? Yun Qing checked the time; it was already evening.
[You're free? What's up?]
[So, I added you last time but didn't introduce myself. My name is Qin Yuanbai, what's yours?]
Looking at the words on her phone, Yun Qing was not very willing to reveal her true information.
My surname is Yun, you can call me Xiao Yun.
Qin Yunbai sat in the private room, staring at WeChat with a troubled expression, unsure how to continue the conversation.
I saw your post on WeChat Moments a few days ago. Are you experiencing financial difficulties right now?
Moments? Yun Qing was taken aback and immediately started searching.
Seeing the post she made three days ago, she covered her face in embarrassment.
One of them was: What would happen if there were one more rich person like me in the world? I really want to find a job where I can make money from home.
Yun Qing was somewhat surprised that Qin Yuanbai would actually look at her WeChat Moments.
Haha, I'm just a little down about my current work environment, don't worry.
Is that so? Qin Yuanbai seemed to be deep in thought.
That's good. But I have a job like that right now, would you like to give it a try?
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