“Sis, why don’t you come work for my senior’s company when you’re feeling better? The benefits offered are not bad, and we can work alongside each other,” Xia Zhi suggested enthusiastically.

He was looking forward to their future.

They were going to be colleagues and with their combined salaries, things were finally going to look up.

Xinghe replied as she packed her overnight bag, “I don’t intend to commit to a 9 to 5 job.”

Xia Zhi was bewildered, he asked, “Then what do you intend to do?”

“Alright, that’s everything. Let’s go home,” Xinghe said in lieu of an explanation. She lifted her bag and headed towards the exit.

Xia Zhi quickly helped her carry the rest and the both of them took a bus ride home.

of recovery, Xinghe was

Zhi said happily, “Sis, to celebrate your discharge from the hospital,

smiled thinking about her uncle’s

but she would end up

was because his cooking reminded her of

touch; a stark contrast to the warmth in her heart. If not for her uncle and Xia Zhi’s support, her past

with a semblance of family and even though they didn’t have much material-wise, they

promised herself she

to start earning money and she

5 job. It was not that she looked down on Xia Zhi’s senior’s company

the bus finally reached their

from the bus and

the city’s bottom feeders like cheap foreign labors, the

life was

people, life was not an

area cowed its residents’ spirit. Gradually, they stopped pushing themselves as they surrendered to the reality that, they believed, would be the rest of their

place to live, we can’t live here anymore,” Xinghe said

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