Those who have never been in Yanjing will never be able to understand how cruel the city is.

According to statistical reports, from 2000 to 2007, the total population of Yanjing increased by 4.18 million, and the average annual growth rate of permanent population was nearly 600,000, which is equivalent to an annual increase in the population of a medium-sized county-level city.

With the increasing number of immigrants, many Yanjing locals have asked countless times: Why do they all come to Yanjing?

It's not surprising to have doubts, because Yanjing is not a city with a high sense of well-being. Especially some young people with no education and no skills, wandering in Yanjing, can't afford to buy a house, can't afford to buy a car, finally find a job, spend at least three or four hours a day on the road, tired to death every day, depressed to death, get up early and be busy for a month, at least half of the salary in hand is given to the landlord, the most important thing is to look at the rising housing prices, there is no possibility of living at all, what do they want?

yes, what's the picture?

There are many answers, and everyone who comes here has their own reasons.

People yearn for the prosperity here, the opportunities here, the "equality" here, the high-quality resources here, the metropolis atmosphere here, and even some people love the city just because they look good.

After all, this is a unique capital.

There are beautiful buildings, there are wide roads, there are the best services, there are the most beautiful women, there are good cars on the streets, and there are neon lights all over the eyes.

Countless people with dreams and ambitions, leaving the comfortable pastoral life of their hometown, rushing to Yanjing City, unwilling to squeeze into the reinforced concrete jungle, dreaming of soaring here, dreaming of rising here, dreaming of getting ahead here, dreaming of becoming famous here, living in a big house, driving a luxury car, embracing beautiful women, being poor and extravagant, drunk and dreaming of death......

Living and walking in this dazzling city, many people can't find the north no matter how hard they try to discern it, because the city has only one direction from the inside out - up, up, up, up!

Only by going up can you enjoy the wonderful, alluring and colorful nature of the city.

It seems like there is everything, and it seems like there is nothing here, it is inclusive, open, diverse, and it looks vibrant, but only dignity and humanity are dying here.

Here, Yanjing!

Some suffer under the sun of the city, and some cry in the corners of the city.

Some are strong in enduring and some are mean in repression.

The more hardships some people endure, the more high-spirited they are, and the more frustrated some people are, the more unscrupulous they are.

Some people carefully guard their dignity and love in hard days, and some people fall into the endless abyss in the glamour.

Some people shine out in the midst of thousands of tribulations, and some people are swallowed up by the muddy water.

Now......

Fan Qingyu, who came out of the hospital, was driving a car, wandering aimlessly in Yanjing City.

She didn't know where she wanted to go, she was just subconsciously driving forward with the traffic.

Stop at a red light.

In front of you, you can see two huge real estate billboards.

One of them reads in large red letters:

-- Integrate into Yanjing, experience the imperial city, private mansions, famous families.

The other reads in large brown letters:

-- Have a home in Yanjing! Quality of life, Supreme Mansion.

These billboards can be seen every day, Fan Qingyu has long been accustomed to them, but I don't know why, when she looked at these billboards today, she inexplicably had a sense of absurdity.

Copywriters have painstakingly put together so many amazing and luxurious words, how many people can enjoy the "quality life"? How many people are worthy of being called "famous families"?

Another red light.

A tall, thin man on the side of the street was playing and singing, a box with a guitar open at his feet, waiting for a reward or handout. Looking at the man's side face through the car window, Fan Qingyu could see that this was a very handsome man, in his twenties, with stylish facial features, a bit of the vicissitudes of a mature man on his face, and a bit of self-appreciation from the bones. Most of the women who pass by the man, as long as they are not in a hurry, will be attracted by his singing, stop to look at it, and put some change in the guitar case.

All right......

Tall, handsome, melancholy, and able to sing, does this man attract women?

If you want to talk about attractiveness, there must be, but if he has no house, no car, no job, and can only sing, how many women will be willing to live with him? Yes, yes, there must be, after all, there are many young women in the world who like handsome guys and "have love and drink water", but when the appearance gradually fades in the firewood, rice, oil and salt, there is a good chance that they will regret it.

The light in front is green......

Fan Qingyu continued to walk forward without taking another look at the male singer on the street. This so-called "decadent, confused, pitiful" handsome guy was no longer in Fan Qingyu's eyes 10 years ago.

About half a year ago, a friend introduced a "talent" who engaged in investment to Fan Qingyu. The "talent" is tall and handsome, with witty words, and the two have eaten together three times. After three contacts, Fan Qingyu felt that if the man's background was true, he could consider marriage.

Unexpectedly, the fourth time they met, the man opened his mouth to borrow money from Fan Qingyu on the grounds that the business capital turnover could not be opened, and Fan Qingyu said that he had no deposit, so the man encouraged her to mortgage the house and take out a loan as an investment.

didn't give the man a chance to say a word, Fan Qingyu took his bag and left.

Back in the car, she deleted all the mobile phone numbers of the man and the friend who introduced the man.

A woman, in a society where liars and jackals are rampant, if she doesn't have some concentration and Taoism, let alone struggle alone to have a house and a car, she may have already been eaten to the point that there are no bones left.

32-year-old Fan Qingyu, in this cruel city, I have seen too many people who have no bottom line for profit and money, too many unprincipled and dirty things, and too many tired family members who nap in the bus and subway, completely insulated from the bustling songs of the city, they are busy and hard to pay and pay, but there is no equal quality of life, these people have never belonged to the city, they are just passers-by.

All this, at the beginning, Fan Qingyu would be infinitely emotional, but later she would only smile faintly, she has lived here for a long time, and even the most sensual women know that this cruel and real city cannot tolerate wind and snow.

Therefore, in the eyes of Fan Qingyu and her girlfriends, the handsome guys who sing on the side of the road are worthless, those men in suits and leather shoes in high-end office buildings are sexual, those men who drive a good car and live in a big house are sexual, and the sexiest are the rich and genuine rich second generation, no matter how virtuous they are, women will fall in love with them, because they can give women a satisfactory state of life and quality of life. In this city, it is never the woman who is sexually sensual, but the man who has power and wealth.

Driving the car, unconsciously, Fan Qingyu came to the outside of the community where Hong Jian and Zhan Hong lived.

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(Horizontally, it is seen as a peak on the side of the ridge, and the height of the distance is different.) Some of the content in this chapter is a matter of opinion, and does not require approval and refutation. ）

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