Chapter 1: Winter is coming

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In Shanghai, the last subway of the night was still shoulder to shoulder, Lin Xi stood against the handrail next to the door, his left hand was straightened with the laptop on his shoulder, and his free right hand slowly swiped the mobile phone screen.

In the subway TV, the standard mezzo-soprano words of mobile news broadcast Internet news: the Internet industry at the end of 2018 is not coming, but winter is coming. Layoffs, deduction of year-end bonuses, high-level reshuffle and rejuvenation, financing difficulties...... These are happening, and JD.com, Didi, and Zhihu, these well-known big Internet companies, are also not immune......

Lin Xi stopped what she was doing, raised her head, and looked at the mobile TV screen over the back of the head of the crowd in front of her, she used her mobile phone to put on her glasses, a pair of big eyes behind the frame looked indifferent, and her lower eyes and face had already been stained with a layer of gray and black by the eyeshadow that had taken off her makeup.

The mobile TV signal is as inscrutable as ever, and the picture is stuck in the way the hostess opens her mouth to say goodbye, Lin Xi lowered her eyes and looked at the dense text on the mobile phone screen: the proportion of layoffs on the major Internet, the continued tension in the foreign currency market, and the collapse of start-up companies one after another......

"Whew......," she sighed, put her phone in the side pocket of her pants, and slowly walked out of the train with the sound of the subway arriving at the station.

Although it is the middle of the night in the middle of winter, there are still many night runners on the newly built plastic track by the river, who exhale white smoke and dissipate into the air with the dim street lamps and the light of the high-end residential area opposite reflected in the water.

This road is the only way for Lin Xi to commute to work every day, and it is precisely because of this road that Lin Xi feels that ten minutes a day is quite poetic.

The sound of a string of tricycle bells striking Lin Xi made Lin Xi look sideways, the waste paper shells stacked high on the car were almost as high as the weeping willows on the side of the road, the man riding was against the paper shell, struggling to step on the pedal, and the woman in the back of the car was holding the pile of paper shells and trotting with the car.

"Take it off and take you to a bowl of ramen. As soon as the words fell, the woman responded with laughter, accompanied by the sound of the car bell, passing the lights and trees, cars and people on the side of the road, and continued to march towards the bright place.

Lin Xi lowered his head and smiled bitterly, life is never easy, some people write it into poetry, while others have a hard time.

Pushing open the door, Black Sweet jumped to greet his master, this is a well-trimmed Pomeranian, although the body and face are all Shunsuke's appearance, but the yellow hair on the head and body makes it look like a small Shiba Inu.

When Fang Feiyu took it home, Lin Xi also cried, after all, there was a blue Ying short who was being treated for peritonitis at home at that time, Fang Feiyu's behavior made Lin Xi feel that he seemed to give up the treatment of kittens from the point of view.

While changing shoes, he calmed Xiao Heitian for a while, although the door of the study was closed, he could still clearly hear Fang Feiyu's command of the game.

Oh, what kind of tournament is it?

Lin Xi changed into slippers and picked up Hei Tian, the black sweet water bowl and food bowl next to the TV cabinet were empty, and the water bowl was pulled by Hei Tian to the living room, it seemed that he was thirsty.

Lin Xi simply rinsed the puppy's utensils, put clean water and dog food, and Hei Tian began to drink the water happily, his tongue slapped the water, splashing a lot of water.

On the dining table, there was a pile of takeaway boxes, Lin Xi just wanted to clean it up, but he raised his hand and put it down, although his eyes were looking at the pile of mess, his eyes were very empty.

Until Lin Xi finished washing up and lay down on the bed, the door of the study was never opened. In order to isolate Fang Feiyu's game sound as much as possible, Lin Xi closed the bedroom door, Hei Tian also jumped on the bed by inertia, leaned on Lin Xi's arm and took a deep breath, adjusted his four little paws, enjoyed Lin Xi's caresses, and prepared to fall asleep again.

There was a dark and sweet temperature on the side, Lin Xi slowly lay down her body, the light through the curtain allowed her to vaguely see the shape of the lamp on the ceiling, gradually, the lamp seemed to be getting closer and closer, and Lin Xi also closed her eyes.

In the morning, after Lin Xi finished washing, Fang Feiyu had almost eaten the takeout he ordered.

"I'm so hungry, you're still sleeping, so I'll order my own breakfast first. Fang Feiyu lifted his glasses and pushed the finished takeaway lunch box to the corner of the dining table, along with the lunch box that was not cleaned up yesterday, occupying half of the table.

"Oh. Lin Xi responded, opened the refrigerator and poured a glass of skim milk, and took out the remaining slices of whole-wheat toast.

"You've been working overtime a little too late late, is the company so busy?" Fang Feiyu didn't rush back to the room, and waited for Lin Xi to sit down, wanting to exchange a few words.

"Hmm. With the milk and eating a slice of toast, Lin Xi was not in the mood to repeat the company's affairs to Fang Feiyu again, in the past, Lin Xi might have complained angrily, but gradually, he didn't want to repeat these meaningless words anymore, what could he do, how could he help? It was just to persuade her to calm down.

Seeing that Lin Xi didn't want to speak, Fang Feiyu stretched his body and pretended to be relaxed and chatted about his game.

"Yesterday's competition was really intense, we united several guilds to fight together, I was the commander-in-chief, and I couldn't pull away for a moment, but fortunately, in the end, the hostility was still beaten down by us. ”

"I'm not interested in your game. Lin Xi frowned, just hoping to be clean.

Fang Feiyu once again put his hot face on his cold buttocks, was silent for a few seconds, and got up: "Pay attention to safety on the way to work, come back early, I'll go to sleep." ”

"Hmm. ”

This is their way of getting along, they have been together for 6 years, Lin Xi has admired Feiyu from the beginning to now he is not salty or even bored. They met in the game and then came together, I still remember the first time I saw Fang Feiyu at the station, the light of the sun shining on his face, accompanied by the curvature of the corners of his mouth, illuminated the entire station, and the picture was like a spell to determine how ridiculous this encounter was, and she would be willing to fall into it......

"Toot toot. A royal blue Ferrari honked a deep horn, and people on bike-sharing bikes on the side of the road leaned towards the river.

Since the opening of the community on the other side of the river last year, Lin Xi lives in this area of luxury cars, looking at the opposite community, and then looking at the old man's house only across the road, when Lin Xi's mother bought a house, the real estate agent repeatedly emphasized that the old house she bought will be demolished within three years, and now 10 years have passed, surrounded by high-rise buildings, only the community she bought is not demolished.

It is said that in Shanghai demolition and prosperity, Lin Xi's mother Chu Yun also told Lin Xi with confidence that the decision to come to Shanghai was not wrong, even if it was to marry someone he didn't love, but life is not like this, when he is forty or fifty years old, finding a partner is just a partner to live with.

Thinking of Chu Yun's words, Lin Xi couldn't help but shake his head, why do you want to find someone who is more than ten years younger than herself, according to her age, she can only call her brother to be her stepfather, and he is also a calculating Shanghai man who has not taken off his child's heart and wants to compete with Lin Xi for maternal love all day long.

In order to buy a computer and find money from the family, her stepfather Wang Qin insisted that she write an IOU of 5,000 yuan, and after that, Lin Xi rented a house on the other side of the river, although it was only separated by a river, Lin Xi rarely returned to that home.

Looking at the high-end community, Lin Xi sighed, after meeting Fang Feiyu, the two also planned to buy a house nearby after the opening, and Fang Feiyu even took out all his previous savings, but a stock market crash made everything come to naught.

Although the two of them said that it didn't matter, they didn't think they were people who took money very seriously, but once there was any dispute, Fang Feiyu said, "It's not because you want to buy a house." Then he was able to nail Lin Xi straight to the pillar of shame.

Yes, Lin Xi felt ashamed and ashamed, she never thought that she was a person who had to live on men, but because she desperately wanted a home, she pinned all her thoughts on buying a house, and Fang Feiyu was the lifesaver that she could break away from that family, build a new home by herself, and have a nest of her own.

She held the straw, but the straw was straw after all, and it fell when the wind blew, and her hand broke when it was broken......

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