Chapter 1: The Life of a Loser

The nights in the north are cold, especially in winter, and the wind blows howling, as if to cut a piece of flesh from a person.

Zhou Jiayi had just finished working overtime and walked out of the office building, and after a while, her face was unconscious, and she pulled the scarf around her neck upwards, and she quickened her pace.

The convenience store on the corner was still lit, Zhou Jiayi pushed open the door and walked in, picked up on the shelves for a long time, and finally only took two bags of instant noodles.

"It's eight pieces in total, do you need anything else?" Maybe it was late at night, and the clerk looked so sad that he didn't even look up.

"No, thank you." Zhou Jiayi paid the money, and when she saw the empty wallet, she couldn't help but sigh and stuffed the instant noodles she had just bought into her bag.

As soon as she opened the door, the wind blew in, Zhou Jiayi paused, looked through the dim street lamps and bright moonlight, and found that there was a 24-hour ATM not far away, and the bank's logo was radiating a lustrous light.

The buttons of the ATM machine are very cold, and the screen is clearly displayed, with a balance of 2,000 yuan.

The price of the imperial capital is expensive, the rent is not low, and the month's salary has not been spent much, and it is about to bottom, Zhou Jiayi skillfully pressed a few buttons, transferred a thousand to the family, and took out the remaining one thousand, ready to be used as a living expense for this month.

It was already early in the morning when I returned to the rented cottage, and the roommate who shared the room heard the sound and muttered a few words before turning over and falling asleep again.

Touching the damp futon, Zhou Jiayi turned on the switch of the electric blanket, and then lightly boiled water and instant noodles.

A bowl of steaming braised beef noodles was lowered, and the limbs suddenly warmed up. After brushing the dishes and washing up indiscriminately, Zhou Jiayi lay down on the quilt and turned off the electric blanket.

The electricity bill here is 81 degrees a piece, which can save a little is a little.

Obviously extremely sleepy, but she can't sleep at all, obviously it has been several years since she graduated from school, but looking at her current situation, it is not much better than when she just graduated.

I don't have the same skills that can be used by myself, I am afraid of being fired by the company and I have to work overtime, I don't have a dime in my □□, and I even have to share the rent with others to have a place to live.

It's not that I haven't thought about changing the status quo, but society is cruel, a third-rate college graduate, asking for money without money, without face, not enterprising, without perseverance, and even from the beginning without his own life plan, why should he live better than others? How can you live better than others?

Zhou Jiayi's life is a loser with a capital letter.

But it's miserable, it's not miserable, after all, it hasn't fallen to the kind of days where you have eaten the last meal and don't have the next meal, but a good life will always make people yearn for it, Zhou Jiayi often thinks that if only life could start all over again, she will study hard, go to a good university, find a good job, and live a life of being a master.

The warmth in the quilt dissipated little by little, and Zhou Jiayi muttered half-asleep: "If only I could really do it again." ”

Her heavy eyelids finally closed, but even in her dreams, her brow was half-furrowed.

Consciousness gradually cleared.

It's going to be late!

Zhou Jiayi sat up suddenly, pulled the clothes on the bedside and put them on her body, she slept too long this night, she was definitely going to be late, and she still had breakfast for a while, so she checked in first and then slipped down to buy a bread pad to cushion her stomach.

Thinking wildly, she rubbed her eyes, which hurt a little.

Isn't it time to sleep for a long time? Zhou Jiayi's question didn't last long, and she went to the bedside to touch her phone, wanting to glance at the current time, so that she could be mentally prepared. I didn't touch it for a long time, so I had to lower my head and look for it.

The quilt was crumpled up and thrown at the end of the bed, no.

Pick up the pillow, no.

When I lifted the sheets, there was no sign of the phone.

Huh!

Wrong. Her sheets were obviously cute white, but they became red, blue, and yellow in a blink of an eye, and she had never slept with this kind of plain sheets that her mother called "strong and dirt-resistant" since she lived in high school.

Zhou Jiayi was stunned for a moment, didn't bother to find her mobile phone, spread out the quilt, and embroidered a big heart on the red quilt cover, wrapped in the red double happiness letter, and then looked back at this room.

The single bed was next to the wall, with posters of Lin Junjie and Naruto on the wall, and on the other side was a small desk with a thick pile of books, all wrapped in book covers.

How familiar is this style of painting?

The doors and windows of the room were closed, she glanced around, rushed to the desk like a thief, picked up the top book, opened the beautiful book cover, and the words "That kid is so handsome" were printed on the title page, and a small label was pasted below, with the words "Hope to rent a book".

Zhou Jiayi is no stranger to this book, after all, compared to any later Korean stars, such Hallyu novels entered the Chinese market earlier, not to mention that this book became popular all over the country when she was in middle school, and there are almost few girls who don't know it.

Not to mention the Hope Rental Book Club, which is located next to the junior high school where Zhou Jiayi attended, she goes there almost every day, but she seems to remember that this rental bookstore was changed to a fruit store when she was a sophomore in high school.

Dreaming? That's a little too real, isn't it?

Zhou Jiayi pinched her arm, and suddenly gasped in pain.

Before she could react, there was a knock on the door to her room.

"Yiyi, it's time to eat, you're going to school, let's talk about it after eating."

When the door opened, Zhou Jianping was still a little unable to come back to his senses, he knew his daughter's stubborn temper, and thought that this time, as usual, he threw him a sentence through the door, "Don't be hungry, don't eat." "That's it.

Zhou Jiayi called out to Dad, looked at Zhou Jianping in front of her when she was young, and didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, Li Qiumei in the kitchen shouted: "Don't eat again? Don't eat, I see how long she can be hungry, she doesn't study hard all day long, she still loses her temper after the exam, it's not for her good to ask her to tutor, she has to go to school in the township, can those high schools in the township compare with the county? Besides, there are a total of 60 people in their class, and 40 of them all went to Jiangping No. 1 Middle School, and this result fell from the front of the car to the back of the car, and I don't know how to reflect, I blame you for not taking care of her well!"

Li Qiumei said, walked out of the kitchen with a plate in each hand, and saw the two fathers and daughters at the door of the room, she was surprised, but she was not polite, and said: "I still know that I will come out, I don't eat two meals, I thought you were going to become an immortal!"

"You don't have to say a word." Zhou Jianping glanced at his wife, then turned back to his daughter and said, "Yiyi, I haven't eaten and I'm hungry for a day, come, eat first, and we'll talk about your school after eating." ”

Zhou Jiayi replied in a low voice, roughly guessing what the situation was now.

She had good academic performance when she was a child, her home was in a village not far from the county seat, junior high school was in the county, and because she was admitted to a key class, she was even exempted from school choice fees, her parents can say that they had high hopes for her, but unfortunately she lived in the countryside since she was a child, and her classmates in the city were incompatible, and the English and computer classes added to the junior high school were never contacted.

At that time, she faced the crossroads of life for the first time, and she didn't know how heavy the two words were in the future, and her parents hoped that she would be able to be admitted to the only and best high school in the county for another year, but she was unwilling, not wanting to be one level lower than her classmates, and thinking that she could stay away from her parents if she went to a high school in the township.

The idea of a teenager is nothing more than this: the whole world has to listen to me, I know what I want, you adults don't understand us children at all!

Zhou Jiayi still remembers that she first quarreled with her parents, then went on a hunger strike and a cold war, and in the end, her parents compromised first, paid her a school choice fee of 2,000 yuan, and let her go to a high school in the countryside.

Thinking about it, at that time, it was nothing more than low self-esteem and good face, and I felt deep in my heart that even if I did it again, it would not change the result, so why waste time and be embarrassed.

Others' denial of you is not terrible, your own denial of yourself is terrible, Zhou Jiayi didn't understand this truth at that time, she lowered her head, admitted defeat, and then made her life a mess.

Zhou's mother is a knife-mouthed tofu heart, seeing her daughter sitting down silently with her head down, her elongated face finally returned to its original state, and said while serving rice: "Your father usually runs cars outside, I want to take care of the house and the field, I think you are measured, and your father cares less about you, and I put a hundred and twenty hearts on you, and the result is ...... Alas......"

As she spoke, Li Qiumei couldn't help but count her daughter, but looking at Zhou Jiayi, who could reply ten sentences when she said one sentence on weekdays, some words came to her mouth, and she swallowed them back after all, leaving only a sigh.

Listening to her mother's broken thoughts, Zhou Jiayi, who lowered her head, couldn't help but reddened her eyes, in her previous life, because of her ignorance, the family suddenly had such a large expenditure of 2,000 yuan, and her mother went to the construction site to do small work in order to supplement the family, and overworked and suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, although she saved her life, Zhou Jiayi almost never heard her speak loudly in such a spirit in the second half of her life.

"Look at you, Yiyi said that she cried, everything is like this, what's the use of it, she doesn't feel good in her own heart when she gets tested like this." After Zhou Jianping finished speaking, he took a chopstick dish and put it in the small bowl next to him, "Your mother made your favorite braised eggplant." I asked someone to ask for it, if I want to go to Meizhen High School, our family Yiyi will have to pay 2,000 yuan for this score. ”

"What, two thousand?" Li Qiumei's face was not very good, "It's not that Yiyi's score has passed their score line, why do you have to pay money." ”

"It's not a school district, it's still the price of finding an acquaintance, the kid from Hu Laosan's family is 20 points less than our Yiyi, and they asked for this price." Zhou Jianping raised his hand and made a slap.

"Alas!" Li Qiumei sighed, she scolded and scolded, beat and beaten, persuaded and persuaded, the dead girl was soft and hard, and it was impossible for her to be a father and a mother to really call her not to go to school, she went out to work at a young age, it seems that these two thousand yuan are indispensable.

Li Qiumei has a cool temperament, and she didn't hesitate to figure it out, and said directly to Father Zhou: "Our family's money is stuffed in the burden at the bottom of the wardrobe, you count two thousand two, buy a cigarette for Lao Wang, fortunately, people also help us run errands, this thank you gift is indispensable." ”

The financial power of the Zhou family is in the hands of Li Qiumei, and as soon as she speaks, it is equivalent to a certain matter.

Father Zhou hadn't finished swallowing the food in his mouth yet, so he answered first, "I'm going to get out of the car later, I'll go back tomorrow morning." ”

Zhou Jiayi sat there and still didn't say a word, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother were a little surprised, Li Qiumei said suspiciously: "Still have a straight face?" Didn't you hear what I said to your dad? I agree that you will go to high school in Meizhen, let me tell you, we can pay a lot of money this time, if you don't study hard, believe it or not, I will break your legs!"

Zhou Jiayi, who had a strong smell of gunpowder, didn't take it to heart, only to see her put down her chopsticks and said with a solemn face: "Dad, Mom, I won't go to Meizhen to go to high school, I figured it out, I'm going to tutor." ”