Loren's home is in the southernmost suburb of Shanglin City, which is commonly known as the slum.

He moved here from the age of thirteen and learned to get used to it.

Twelve huge and incomparable gray towers stand here, a large number of air bridges connect them in series, and from a distance, they look like a hideous gray giant beast, with teeth and claws, roaring towards the urban area of Donglin City.

Each of the towers for the poor has 128 floors, with an average of 250 households on each floor.

More than a million people live in this area, forming an ecosystem of the poor, where some people have never been out of the circle from birth to death, and everything in the circle is their whole world.

Loren's home, on the sixty-third floor of the Ash Tower Six.

The dim light reflected the narrow corridor, and Loren walked briskly through it, and at the corner of the corridor, the faint sound of the violin music gradually became clear, and he couldn't help but slow down.

It wasn't because of how melodious the song was, but because he saw the door next door to his house open, and a tall and slender woman in white was walking out of the door, smiling and saying goodbye to her family.

She was his neighbor, a former high school classmate, who had been young together, laughed together, and then he took a three-year sabbatical, and she was admitted to college, and since then they have parted ways, leaving only neighbors.

Who didn't have hazy feelings and youthful beauty when he was young? It's just that for Loren, that era will never come back.

He thanked her for appearing in his youth, and the way of thanking him was to appear in front of each other as little as possible, so that the beauty that everyone spent together was only in the memories.

At this moment, she was gray-faced and dressed in black, while she was dressed in white like snow and in her prime.

Loren turned around, pushed open the nearest security door, hid in the darkness of the safety ladder, accompanied by the poignancy of the violin, listened to the crisp footsteps approaching, and then drifted away in the direction of the elevator, until it disappeared, Loren flashed out of the darkness and continued to move forward.

When he came to the door, he glanced at the door of the neighbor on the other side, and the violin music came from it, remembering that there were no such musical cells in this household before, and it seemed that it was a new neighbor.

When he opened the door of his home, the electronic bills floating slightly in the air were particularly eye-catching, like waves, wave after wave, turning into invisible pressure on his face.

Loren walked through the bill wave with a blank face, and at the same time calculated his current financial situation, there is no doubt that he has entered another economic crisis, and Susie's medical compensation for falling from the building this time has become an unexpected part and the most unpredictable part, and no one knows how much Susie will have to spend......

This further strengthened Loren's determination to visit Susie later, and it would be nice if her conscience found out and she could spare herself.

"Aaron, are you back?" a lazy female voice came from the room, with a somewhat hoarse magnetism.

It was just a small one-bedroom suite, and Loren only had to turn his head to see the owner of the female voice, who was leaning against the windowsill of the room, smoking a cigarette and carrying a wine bottle, and was meeting Loren's gaze.

Her name is Lin Yin, Loren's mother.

Loren glanced at her feet, cigarette butts and a few empty wine bottles, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Lin Yin, have you drunk too much again?"

Lin Yin smiled, rubbed his short black hair, raised his head and poured a big sip of wine before shaking his head: "Not yet!"

Loren walked to his bed, which was in the corner of the cramped hall, threw down his backpack, and replied to Lin Yin: "Didn't you get a job as an architect in the game world last week, and you lost your job again?"

"Yes, I was in charge of the plot design, I just added a little touching element to that small world, and then the master planner criticized me, I was really wronged...... As a man of backbone, I choose to resign!"

Loren walked into the narrow kitchen, took out the broom and garbage shovel, and habitually pressed the on/off button, of course, there was no response, Loren was also used to using these automatic machines as hand tools, carried them into the room, and began to sweep the garbage on the floor.

"The whole world is being wronged, what are we talking about?" Loren could only smile, "What kind of strange element is this time, kissing a pig? I thought he was a prince, but it turned out to be a pig?"

Lin Yin was dissatisfied: "Your talented mother, in your mind, is such an image of the creator?"

Loren couldn't help but pause in his movements, five years ago, their family fell into the middle of the road, three years ago, his father disappeared, and since then the situation has deteriorated, and the shade of the forest has also collapsed, and she is decadent and lonely, and I don't know when she started, it is good that she likes him to call her name directly, but at this moment, she rarely mentions her mother's identity.

Loren raised her head and looked at each other, Lin Yin rubbed her hair embarrassedly, she turned her head to look out the window again, in the steel jungle, there was a light rail flying over the air bridge, and the world outside the window was actually not very scenic.

But Lin Yin watched intently, and then said softly: "Hey, Aaron, you go back to school today, right?"

"yes, I have to go back to school in the morning to go through the formalities, and I have to hold a hearing, I hope it goes well. Loren looked at her mother's side face, the years were merciless, and they had left traces on her face, but vaguely, she could still see that she was once a beautiful and delicate woman.

Lin Yin said, "Money, is it enough?"

Loren's eyes lit up: "You've been more generous lately?"

Lin Yin laughed: "I don't have any money, but I will comfort people." ”

"......" Loren continued to bow his head and sweep the floor.

Lin Yin continued: "Today is the anniversary of my acquaintance with your father......"

Loren could not respond because there was no day for the poor.

"I remember seven years ago, our family celebrated at the Sky Peninsula restaurant. Lin Yin's voice was full of remembrance, "I still remember that time, we were standing on the highest point of the whole city, and your father said at that time that he especially liked high places, in fact, it was not for the whole world to see, but to see the whole world......"

Loren paused again and looked at his mother suspiciously: "Lin Yin, seven years ago today, we didn't go to the Sky Peninsula Restaurant, and my father didn't say anything like this!"

Lin Yin's whole person was also condensed, slowly turned her head again, staring at Loren, her eyes were not only surprised, but also mixed with fear, her whole person shrank out of the window, as if to open some distance with Loren, she gritted her teeth, and asked in a deep voice: "That day is very special, you can't not remember! You... You're not Loren! Who the hell are you?"

The temperature around him dropped suddenly, and an inexplicable chill rushed towards Loren, and even his scalp was numb, could it be that the plane collapse he experienced last night prevented him from returning to the world that truly belonged to him? Something terrible had actually happened......

The atmosphere entered the freezing point, and the whole world froze!

Lin Yin suddenly laughed, shook his head and said, "Silly boy, how about it, do you think my acting skills are great? Hey, just joking with you to help you relieve your pressure." Hmph, I'm going to change to the acting route, I heard that some low-level planes are recruiting actors from the big world, so I just gave it a try. Your dad said back then, in fact, I'm the best fit to be an actor......"

As she spoke, her eyes gradually steamed with water vapor, and her voice was blurred, Loren pursed her lips vigorously before she said softly: "Lin Yin, don't get along with the past, because it's already over;

"Yes, life has to go on......" Lin Yin said again.

Loren suddenly protested: "The rent is half for one person, don't think about it this month!"

“......”