So far so normal

Lin Feng, a good man whose ideal is to live a peaceful life, to be a poor but not destitute small landlord—at least until a bunch of neurotic creatures moved into his home.

He lives in a little-known northern town that could barely be considered a suburb if the capital decided to build a twenty or thirty ring road. He is a truly ordinary person, and if all the good deeds in the world were attributed to him phonetically, he might be somewhat famous. Walking down the street, no one recognizes him. With a plain, square face that, apart from a hint of masculinity, looks ordinary after twenty years, his life goal is simply to be a good person. Other than that, he is quite unremarkable—such is his life.

Now is the early summer of June, when the heat is just arriving. Although the northern weather is somewhat cooler, it's still frustrating to walk under the blazing sun during the day. Therefore, the bustling city center is filled with various vehicles, but there are not many pedestrians walking outside. Among the few pedestrians is a tall young man in a white T-shirt, grey trousers, with an ordinary face. Lin Feng walks with a few pieces of paper in his hand, trying to walk in the shade of the trees or buildings along the way. The honking of cars on the road and the noisy cicadas in the trees make him feel restless. However, all this chaos seems not to affect the mood of this young man much. He just walks with his head down, occasionally blinking at his clothes, which are almost soaked due to the weather, and then looks down at the things in his hand—two of which are job advertisements, and one is a leaflet handed out by a student girl passing by the square earlier. The leaflet depicts a smiling and beautiful girl, with the words "Jinrong Maternity Hospital, specializing in..." printed below.

Lin Feng feels that students these days are becoming more and more lazy. When he was working outside and distributing leaflets, he never gave such things to men who could be identified as single at a glance. But no matter what, these hard leaflets are quite suitable for fanning.

"The last two, if they don't work out, forget it." Lin Feng muttered as he looked at the last two job advertisements in his hand. Fortunately, these two places are close to each other, so he can quickly finish today's "task." One of them is just ahead, an advertising company that looks absolutely powerless from the outside, but the sign at the door is loud: Galaxy Media Pan-cultural Development and Promotion Company. Just hearing this name, one would think it's a company destined to go bankrupt within six months. Lin Feng came here mainly because of this name. His main purpose is not to apply for a job, but to see what kind of extraordinary person could come up with such a magical name for a company.

He walked briskly for several hundred meters before rounding the road barrier and then ran to the front of this ad agency with a particularly impressive name, only to be surprised to find that the company had indeed closed down. The sign at the door was still there, but there was a notice of closure posted on the glass door, dated two days ago, while the job advertisement in his hand was from four days ago... What a rapidly changing world. Two days before a company goes bankrupt, it's still busy recruiting new employees?

Casually crumpling the job advertisement for the advertising company into a ball and throwing it into the roadside trash can, Lin Feng looked down at the last one and, two seconds later, crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the same place. He also reflected on whether he was blind when he screened these things two days ago—a public transport company is recruiting an office clerk, aged 25 to 40, able to work hard, computer literate, with work experience preferred, female.

He came to the city center with enthusiasm, just to see how bright the glass door of an advertising company that was busy recruiting new employees two days before closing down could be. He was really full of food and drink.

Lin Feng, male, likes women, 25 years old, no bad habits, good at eating without being picky, currently single, has few relatives and friends, lives alone in the old house left by his parents in the old southern city, like most young men, his life goal is to earn over ten thousand a month and marry a beautiful wife by the age of twenty-five, preferably with a car. His parents cannot be taken care of, so at least he has to live well enough not to disgrace his family. One-third of these life goals have been achieved: he is twenty-five this year.

This is truly a sad story.

He came to the city today to find a job, but he personally has no urgent need for a source of income: as mentioned earlier, Lin Feng lives in the old house left by his parents, for which he should thank the older generation for leaving behind the family property. At least the house is quite big—it's an old two-story house that has been converted into a structure similar to a family rental apartment.

For several years, Lin Feng has been making a living by renting out rooms. However, because the place where he lives is so remote, so remote that it's almost detached from human civilization, even to the extent that it might take a few decades of planning before the old house is demolished, the rental income is only so-so. It's not bad, but it's definitely not enough to get rich. It can make him, a bachelor, live quite comfortably, but that's about it.

To be honest, with this stable income, Lin Feng doesn't need to find a job, but he's a bit pretentious when he has too much free time, always feeling that he should make a little effort to explore his life path. Plus, the more important reason—his old house is so remote, so remote that it's almost cut off from human civilization. Since the last migrant couple moved out of the rental house, not even half a year ago, there hasn't been anyone renting the house for almost half a year. Looking at the empty two-story "apartment" for several consecutive months, Lin Feng realized from the bottom of his heart a fact: unless the city planning leans towards his side, otherwise, if he wants to survive, he really can only find a job.

After studying the urban planning at home for three days, Lin Feng believes that the possibility of his home area suddenly becoming a commercial center overnight is really not great. Considering that as a grown man, he cannot waste his life away, he finally decided to find a job first, at least to have an income to maintain his life.

After all, back in the day, he was also a hardworking man who worked to earn tuition fees. He could still starve himself to death, couldn't he?

But fate is not to be moved by human will. On the first day of his wandering around outside, basically... all that was left was wandering around.

Thinking too much is useless. Lin Feng stretched lazily, decided to take a rest under the shade of a tree in a small park on the roadside, wait for the hottest hour of noon to pass, then find a small restaurant to fill his stomach, and then take a bus back home. Fortunately, this is a northern small town that is difficult to even consider as a third-tier city, even though its economy is developing rapidly

, it still manages to maintain a bit of small-town leisure and spaciousness: at least the city's public land planning is good, with plenty of trees, even in the downtown area where every inch is precious, there are still quite a few small parks for rest.

He found a piece of paper to wipe the bench clean and then lay down with a big smile, covering his face with the leaflet with the hospital logo and the beautiful girl printed on it to block the sun, and rested carelessly like this. Of course, he dared not sleep like this, after all, there are more and more thieves nowadays, and good people are not enough to cause trouble. Although there is nothing valuable in his pockets, it's not good to be stolen from. He just planned to rest for a while, at least to dissipate the heat on his body a bit.

But just as he lay down, it seemed like less than a minute had passed when the sunlight dimmed through the edge of the leaflet, as if someone had come beside him. Lin Feng raised his head slightly surprised, only to find that the sky was already setting sun, and a petite and slender female figure was standing beside him, which happened to block the already sinking sun. Due to the backlight, he couldn't see the girl's face clearly, so he could only confirm that she was a slim girl with short hair through a faint outline.

"Oh, you're awake?" The strange girl seemed very familiar, waving her hand and greeting him in a casual manner. Lin Feng sat up suddenly, first looking around to confirm that it was indeed sunset now, and that he had actually intended to just rest for a while but had slept for half a day, then he finally had the opportunity to carefully look at the stranger in front of him. At this moment, the stranger seemed to finally realize that standing in this backlit position made it difficult for others to see her face clearly, so she smiled, slightly turned her body so that the other person could see her face clearly.

A very beautiful girl—this was Lin Feng's first impression.

The other party was dressed quite coolly, wearing a fitted white short-sleeved shirt with a slightly childish plastic puppy decoration on the collar, and dark shorts with casual shoes, looking like a female college student who had secretly skipped class to go shopping. This familiar stranger had a shoulder-length bob cut, perhaps she really liked sports, her skin was slightly wheat-colored, healthy and full of sunshine. Her features were exquisite and charming, but the most striking thing was her lively big eyes, which were more energetic than any pair of eyes Lin Feng had ever seen, as if the vitality of the whole person was about to emanate from these eyes.

Behind her was a rather heavy-looking large suitcase.

Looking a little dazed, Lin Feng saw the girl in short hair, who seemed to be familiar but also unfamiliar, bursting into an unprecedentedly brilliant silly smile (although it seems inappropriate to say so, but Lin Feng really thought it was a silly smile). The smile was clean and pure. Nowadays, it seems that it's rare to see such a smile on the face of a girl of the same age. The other party rummaged around in her small bag, finally pulled out a crumpled piece of paper, and handed it to Lin Feng: "Excuse me, do you know where this place is?" Lin Feng slapped his face to wake himself up, not caring about this strange girl, but looked down at the address on the paper... Oh my god, isn't this his home?!