Poor People's Life is Hard!

It was late at night, and the autumn wind outside the house started to wreak havoc. The hotel room temporarily became a safe place. Le Yao was still leaning on me, looking at the air conditioner vent in a daze. I was the same. Neither of us had the desire to eat.

After a long time, I looked at Le Yao's face. The fingerprints finally disappeared a little. I said to her, "Let's go out for dinner. If you don't want to go out, I'll order food."

"Let's go out and eat." Le Yao shook her head."

"Yes, when I came, my leader gave me 2000 yuan to treat you to a meal!"

Le Yao finally smiled and said, "I'm tired of eating the bento boxes from the crew. Today, let's eat delicious food."

I nodded heavily, "Mmm, eat delicious food. If it's not enough, ask for more from the leader. Eat until he's poor. Let him be afraid when he sees us."

"You're so bad!" After saying that, the two of us looked at each other and smiled.

...

The night wind blew, and there were not many pedestrians on the street. Le Yao walked beside me in a thick pink down jacket. Although we wanted to have a luxurious meal, we only decided to eat a bowl of noodles in the end. Perhaps at this moment, we didn't like the extravagance of luxurious food and only pursued the simplicity of a bowl of noodles. In simplicity, we forgot the pain of reality.

In the noodle shop, Le Yao took off her mask and took out a small mirror to look at her face. She said to me with some worry, "The poster will be shot the day after tomorrow. I don't know if these fingerprints can disappear."

"There's still tomorrow, so it should be able to." I comforted her.

Le Yao nodded and said, "I'll use the ice pack when we get back."

I looked at Le Yao with some heartache, but I didn't know what to say. I just regretted that I shouldn't have been so impatient with her. I hated the trouble I brought her. In fact, she treated me very well, but this kindness was only discovered when I asked her for help. This made me blame myself!

Sometimes, people really shouldn't judge another person one-sidedly. Although Le Yao was a troublesome woman, she had her good points. At least, she had the loyalty of a friend. Otherwise, she wouldn't be willing to suffer and choose to help me without hesitation.

While eating, Le Yao and I talked about our friends. She asked me, "Zhao Yang, how are Robben and CC? Are they together?"

"I don't think so."

"That would be such a pity. CC is a good girl. Although her personality is a little idealistic, Robben is also very idealistic."

I nodded and agreed with Le Yao's words. However, I said helplessly, "You should know that Robben has a hurdle in his heart that he can't overcome. He doesn't want to get along with CC with this hurdle."

"What about you? Have you walked out of that hurdle in your heart?" Le Yao suddenly changed the topic to me.

I had an answer in my heart, but I fell silent. At this moment, I really hoped that someone would pass by the Castle in the Sky and come back to tell me how long it would take for me to overcome the layers of obstacles and once again ascend the Castle in the Sky to meet the woman in my heart… However, I knew that the woman waiting in the Castle in the Sky was no longer Jian Wei.

Seeing that I didn't speak for a long time, Le Yao smiled and said, "You've already used silence to answer."

I didn't deny it, but said with some disappointment, "Hurry up and eat. The noodles are almost soggy."

Le Yao lowered her head and ate a mouthful of noodles. Then, she said to me as if she remembered something, "When we return to Suzhou this time, let's go to CC's restaurant to get together. I haven't eaten there in a long time."

"Mm, let's do it tomorrow night. Call Robben along."

...

With the promise to be friends with Le Yao, we didn't stay together that night. In the hotel room, I still lit a cigarette and immersed myself in loneliness. I couldn't help but think of Jian Wei. This kind of desire made me panic and couldn't stop.

I took a deep breath of the cigarette and smiled helplessly. Jian Wei and I had experienced so many things, but when we pieced them together, it was an incomplete love. In the end, these little things turned into a brute force that scattered in all directions and tore me apart.

In the midst of the shattering, I seemed to see Jian Wei sleeping on the same bed as Xiang Chen, whispering passionately. How could she remember the bits and pieces that we had experienced in the past? So, in the midst of the shattering, I was annihilated into dust. It was so painful that I couldn't feel the pain!

A message notification finally saved me. I put out my cigarette and picked up my phone from the cabinet. However, this message that saved me surprised me. It was actually from Mi Cai.

"After you apply the pesticide, there should be a lot of cockroach corpses in the bathroom, right?"

She was really something. She was even afraid of a dead cockroach! I smiled and replied to her message, "There should be some."

"Then do you have time to help me clean up these dead cockroaches?"

"I'm on a business trip in Heng Dian. Wait for me to go back, or you can find someone else to help."

"I'll wait for you. I don't want to trouble others with such a disgusting thing."

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry as I looked at Mi Cai's reply. She's really something. I just owed her some money, and she could make me do all sorts of disgusting things in a justified manner. Then, I replied to Mi Cai, "The poor have a bitter life. They live without dignity or happiness…!"

"Stop complaining! Be a good person and work hard."

After reading Mi Cai's reply, I actually found it funny from the bottom of my heart, but I couldn't tell why I found it funny. In short, it was a very subtle feeling.

My mood gradually became less heavy. After hurriedly replying to Mi Cai with a "good night," I drew the curtains and turned off all the lights in the room. After a moment, I fell asleep.

...

The next day, I brought Le Yao back to Suzhou. She had already canceled the room she rented in Suzhou. I helped her arrange a hotel and arranged for us to meet at CC's restaurant in the evening. Of course, I had to call Robben. This was something I had promised CC. A person with principles like me naturally meant what I said.

After returning to the company to report to Chen Jingming, I continued to work for the entire afternoon. It was only when it was almost evening that I finally got out of work. I lay on the chair and rested for a moment. Finally, I took out my phone and dialed Robben's number.

Robben quickly picked up the call. I asked directly, "Where are you?"

The sound of a razor turning came from the other end of the phone. Robben took a break and said to me, "I'm going to work at the bar later."

"Don't go. Let's go to CC tonight. It's my treat."

Robben's tone was a little impatient, "I said I'm not going. Don't cause trouble for me, okay?"

"Didn't you say that if I brought Le Yao with me, you should go with me?"

"That's what I said."

"Do you keep your word?"

"It counts. Isn't Le Yao filming in Heng Dian?"

I smiled and said, "If I didn't bring her back, how can I invite you, big shot Robben? Stop dawdling and come over quickly… Oh right, bring my guitar out too. We'll help CC out tonight."