“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.

recovery,

your discharge from the hospital, dad bought a whole chicken this morning to make

about her uncle’s

would end up eating

cooking reminded her

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

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

she promised herself she

earning money and she wasn’t lacking in means

was not that she looked down on Xia Zhi’s senior’s company but

stations, the bus finally reached their residential

from the bus and headed

the city’s bottom feeders like cheap foreign labors, the practically homeless, abandoned seniors as well as the

everyday life was a

people, life was not an enjoyment but

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

immediate objective is to find a new place to live, we can’t live here anymore,”

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