Shi Yan returned home from the coffee shop. It was still light outside.

He felt something he was not used to.

In the past, the way home was dark, but the voice-controlled lights in the stairwell, which had turned yellow with age, were on, because he had either just finished evening classes at school or had just returned from a part-time job on the weekend.

He didn't know how to spend the extra free time.

He inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it a circle, but finally pulled it out. Shi Yan remembered that there were only a few vegetables left in the refrigerator - he decided to go to the supermarket first.

It is near the peak time of getting off work and school.

Shi Yan picked out vegetables, queued up, and paid the bill. It took him nearly half an hour to come out of the supermarket. The supermarket was not far from home, and he could see the entrance to the community after passing two traffic lights.

He was carrying a schoolbag on his back and holding the supermarket's standard printed plastic bag in one hand, walking on the road neither slowly nor quickly.

The boy was wearing a blue and white short-sleeved school uniform. His tall and handsome figure was elongated by the afterglow of the setting sun. When reflected on the ground, he looked handsome and quiet. The hand that was exerting force at his side and the black watch on his wrist made his skin look cold and pale.

This is a small house, located on the 4th floor with a suitable humidity level. It covers an area of ​​less than 90 square meters and has two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom.

The decorations in various places have a distinctly old feel, but the interior is kept clean and tidy. The most numerous thing in the house is books. The entire TV wall in the living room is filled with bookshelves filled with various books. Each book has pages that are curled to varying degrees, and you can see how many times they have been read.

Shi Yan was alone, and it was quick to cook for one person. It was enough to cook a little rice and fry a dish. So it only took him less than 30 minutes to finish dinner, and another eight minutes to clean the stove and wash the dishes.

It was just a little after six o'clock.

He thought about it, went back to his room, changed into a simple sports outfit, went downstairs and started running along the trails in the community. Sweat gradually appeared on his forehead and his black hair became slightly wet. He stopped, panting, and looked at his watch.

Only an hour and a half had passed.

But at this time, the sky finally darkened.

He went upstairs to his home, grabbed a change of clothes, and went into the bathroom to take a shower.

About fifteen minutes later, the bathroom door was pushed open and Shi Yan came out, wiping his hair with a dry towel in his right hand.

He walked into the living room, took a cup and poured himself a glass of boiled water. When he took two sips and put the cup down, he heard a rustling sound coming from the balcony.

A round, white, long-haired cat walked out, stretched out its two furry paws, and stretched lazily.

After taking two steps, it stopped where it was, its beautiful gem-like eyes staring at Shi Yan blankly, as if to say:

Why did you come back today?

The man and the cat stared at each other in confusion for a while.

“…”

Shi Yan has raised it for almost a year and a half and has never given it a name. He is also not like other pet owners who keep pets for emotional value. He raises it simply to take care of it.

Provide it with space to move around, enough food and water, and solve its excretion problems.

He never even touched it, and the only time he took it for a bath every six months was by putting it in a pet box and taking it to the pet store.

And it's not very clingy. Those pet public accounts say that after raising a cat for a long time, it will behave in a way that shows affection to the owner, such as purring to show comfort and pleasure, or stepping on the owner's milk with its paws.

If I were to explain it in human language, the look it gave Shi Yan was very arrogant.

It always walked back and forth in front of Shi Yan with its tail erect, as if it was patrolling its territory, while Shi Yan was just a subordinate in its territory who could move, breathe, and hunt for it.

Shi Yan had never specifically looked up the cat's daily routine.

Anyway, it always likes to sleep during the day. It lies in its nest on the balcony and sleeps lazily all day long. It only wakes up slowly at night and starts to fill its stomach.

When Shi Yan poured cat food for it, it buried its head and chewed each grain one by one, feeling a little dazed. Cats have no exact concept of time, and it was wondering if today's meal was too early.

Shi Yan put the measuring spoon back into the cat food box. The phone on the coffee table made a ding sound and the screen lit up.

New message alert tone.

This was an unfamiliar voice to Shi Yan. Apart from contacting for gas, drinking water and paying part-time wages, he had no social life and his mobile phone was like an electronic brick.

Shi Yan closed the lid of the cat food box, put everything back in place, stood up, walked to the coffee table, picked up his phone and unlocked the screen.

The only contact in the list who had received a message from the system saying "Your friend request has been approved, you can start chatting" in the coffee shop during the day sent a second message five hours later.

[What’s your decision?] As soon as Shi Yan clicked on it, a third message popped up in the dialog box, which was the transfer information.

[The other party transfers 300,000 to you.] A full three hundred thousand was transferred to you so easily, and immediately below the transfer information dialog box, a new window popped up with the other party typing very quickly.

[Oh, I seem to have forgotten to say that.] [If you reject this deal, I will be unhappy and will probably hire a lawyer to help that scumbag sue you.] [:)] Shi Yan was stunned: "..."

A transaction, as the name suggests, is an act that should be conducted based on the willingness of both parties. Is what she is doing considered "forced buying and selling" - leaving people with no choice but to agree?

The other party stopped sending the last message, as if giving him time to think.

But, it’s obviously already :).

What is the significance of this consideration time? Shi Yan lowered his eyes. After a while, he typed and asked: [Is the transaction valid only within the remaining thirteen-day exchange period?] [√.] [Once the thirteen days are up, the transaction will end immediately.].

Shi Yan asked again: [What does “playing with you” roughly mean? ] [You will know once you agree. ] The other party replied immediately.

Shi Yan: “…”

It seemed that the time given to him to consider was up, and the other side began to count down and urge him.

[5] [4] [3] “…”

It was only thirteen days, thirteen days, less than two weeks, and it passed in the blink of an eye. Using thirteen days to completely solve a problem, anyone would think it was a good deal.

There was only a lone floor lamp on in the living room, but the lights from thousands of houses outside the window were even brighter, shining through the glass like stars, and together with the light from the turned-on cell phone, they were reflected in Shi Yanzhan's dark and silent eyes.

When the dialog box [2] popped up, he replied: [I promise you, but the money is not needed.] During the day, she could make Zeng Huai and Lian's lawyers unable to find them with just one phone call, so with just one word from her, the three hundred thousand yuan was not needed.

(End of this chapter)