In the dim light, Rong Xiaochuan didn't know where he was going.

There was some rain in the sky, or snow, he didn't know, and he wasn't interested in knowing.

By the way, it's light snow today, so there should be snow.

But why don't you feel cold, or your heart is already cold.

His mind was full of the scene that had happened today, and he felt that his life could not have been worse than this time.

Rong Xiaochuan is twenty-six years old this year, graduated from the mathematics teacher's college, and after graduation, he came to the provincial capital Jiangdu to start from scratch, this year, he was less than twenty-two years old.

Three months later, Rong Xiaochuan worked as a lecturer in a computer training company, and the salary was not high, more than 4,000 yuan, but it was easy to win, and most of the day was resting.

However, a job with no future is not what Rong Xiaochuan wants, and if he wants to seek stability, he might as well become a teacher in his hometown, which is what his parents want to see the most.

Since he chose to come out and work hard, a stable and relaxed life does not belong to him for the time being.

So after staying in the company for more than half a year, Rong Xiaochuan became a salesman again, and this year, he was three months away from his twenty-third birthday.

It was not easy to take this step, and it took Rong Xiaochuan a long time to convince himself.

He does everything, houses, medicines, food, in the past two years, Rong Xiaochuan has changed four jobs one after another, and almost has some understanding of various industries.

This year, he was almost twenty-five years old.

He has a girlfriend named Chen Rou, who works as an English teacher in a middle school in Jiangdu, and is 24 years old this year.

The acquaintance between the two is a kind of fate, at that time Rong Xiaochuan was working in a real estate agency, Chen Rou was admitted to the teacher establishment in Jiangdu, and her parents were ready to buy a house here, and Rong Xiaochuan received their family at that time.

Because of buying a house, Rong Xiaochuan and Chen Rou chatted a lot on their mobile phones, and gradually became familiar, and later came out to meet twice, and after coming and going, the two confirmed their relationship.

It is precisely because of the appearance of Chen Rou that Rong Xiaochuan finally made up his mind to do one thing, that is, to start a business.

He contacted one of his high school classmates and a junior high school classmate, and the three-person entrepreneurial team was officially established.

At the age of twenty-five, Rong Xiaochuan's first company was established.

The company does online intermediary services, with large platforms on top and small businesses below.

They mainly build a bond between the big platform and the small business, facilitate their cooperation, and then extract profits from it.

Everything seems to be going well.

It took them three months to familiarize themselves with the business, and after three months, the company had expanded to eight people and had more than 30,000 people per month.

It's only enough for an employee's salary, but it's a good start.

Half a year later, they finally generated a surplus, which greatly increased Rong Xiaochuan's confidence, and the three of them immediately expanded the marketing department.

At this time, the company already has 15 employees, which can be said to be beginning to take shape.

This is Rong Xiaochuan's happiest time after leaving his hometown and coming to Jiangdu.

As the general manager of the company, Rong Xiaochuan is still the same as before, and will take half a day every day to personally run the market to understand the latest market rules, so as to make adjustments at any time.

Although he is as tired as a dog every day, Rong Xiaochuan feels that he is living a full and happy life, and the future seems to be becoming clearer and clearer for him.

It was also at this time that he began to really discuss marriage with Chen Rou.

In the new year, Rong Xiaochuan will be twenty-six years old, and Chen Rou will also be twenty-five, which seems to be not young.

But there is a very real problem, he has no money.

Starting a company has spent all his savings in the past three years, almost 100,000 yuan.

He can live in general and eat averagely, but whenever the company needs funds, Rong Xiaochuan can take out his savings without hesitation.

Because, this is all his current hard work.

Chen Rou finally agreed to maintain the status quo and wait until Rong Xiaochuan's situation improved.

At least you have to be able to afford the down payment on the new house, which is 250,000.

Although Chen Rou now has a house, it belongs to her parents, and she has a younger brother, and this house does not belong to her.

Rong Xiaochuan thought to himself, next year, the company will squeeze out a little, and it should be possible to borrow some more.

However, the sky is unpredictable.

Since October, there has been a sudden lack of connection between the company's customers and the platform.

Rong Xiaochuan and they continue to communicate with the platform, but there is never a unified caliber on it, only that it is a platform adjustment.

At this time, Rong Xiaochuan and the others already had an ominous premonition.

Entering November, the above finally gave a clear answer, because of force majeure, the platform will remove all the merchants recommended by Rong Xiaochuan Company, not their company, but all similar merchants need to be removed from the shelves.

From now on, such merchants can no longer sign up for the platform, and merchants that have already been listed will be off the shelves on the last day of the twelfth lunar month.

Just a week ago, the platform officially issued a notice to them.

It was a bolt from the blue for them, as it meant a complete disruption to their business, and they were also exposed to a significant amount of liquidated damages.

Rong Xiaochuan can be said to have gone from high spirits to low points in his life all of a sudden.

Employees left one after another, and everyone knew that the company could not do it anymore, and in desperation, they took the initiative to resign.

Just yesterday, the two partners finally couldn't hold on, and Rong Xiaochuan proposed to dissolve the company.

The three of them sat in the company for a day and came up with a rough agreement.

In the past half a year, the company has invested a total of 160,000 yuan, of which Rong Xiaochuan invested 100,000 yuan alone, because his shares accounted for half of it.

However, the follow-up liquidated damages still need to be about 250,000 yuan, and Rong Xiaochuan and them will be deducted by the company in the next three months, and they also need to pay 120,000 liquidated damages.

In fact, they can dissolve the company and change the number, and no one can find them.

But Rong Xiaochuan didn't want to do that.

The other two said that the liquidated damages were shared equally among the three of them, but Rong Xiaochuan said that they came here to invite him, and now not only did they not make money, but they also owed tens of thousands of yuan, and he paid the liquidated damages by himself.

In the end, under the negotiation, Rong Xiaochuan contributed 60,000 yuan alone, and the two of them each contributed 30,000 yuan.

On the same day, Rong Xiaochuan lent a total of 120,000 yuan on various lending platforms and paid all the liquidated damages to the merchants.

For this reason, he needs to return 15,000 yuan every month with interest.

Rong Xiaochuan didn't know what to take to return next month, he could only take one step at a time.

He went bankrupt.

From a young man with a deposit of 100,000 to more than 100,000 in arrears.

As for buying a house, it seems to have become a luxury at this time.

The partner is gone, but the company is still there, and for Rong Xiaochuan, he has put too much effort into this company, and he is reluctant to cancel it.

There is still a month and a half left before the next rent payment of the office, at least it will survive for more than a month.

And in order to maintain the normal order of the current merchants on the platform, he also left an employee, who needs to pay a salary of 3,000 yuan every month.

Coupled with his own living needs, he needs to spend 20,000 yuan next month.

At this low point in his life, Rong Xiaochuan thought of his girlfriend Chen Rou.

But he hadn't seen her for three days.

Chen Rou contacted him, but Rong Xiaochuan's mind was all about the company's affairs these days, and he hung up in a hurry after saying a few words on the phone every time.

We haven't seen each other in the past few days, only once by phone.

Actually, Rong Xiaochuan didn't know how to face her, he was running away.

This morning, the company's affairs came to an end, Rong Xiaochuan was originally going to go to Chen Rou and make it clear to her that no matter what, he respected Chen Rou's choice.

But downstairs at Chen Rou's house, he saw Chen Rou get out of an Audi car with his own eyes, still holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand.

It's purple lavender, and it's especially warm in this early winter, when it's a little chilly.

Oh, purple lavender.

When Chen Rou had already made a choice, Rong Xiaochuan found that he was particularly fragile in his heart.

Because, he has nothing.

In this city where he has worked hard for four years, he is alone again.

Xiaoxue, walking alone on the cold street, except for his parents, no one cares if he eats or wears autumn pants.

And today, it is his twenty-sixth birthday.

Entering a small alley, Rong Xiaochuan arrived at the rental house.

It's an old town gathering area, with narrow corridors, dimly lit lights, and even cracks in the walls.

The alleys are full of big red characters, and this place will not be long in coming.

There was a clatter, the sound of heels and steps crashing, and someone coming down from above.

"Ogawa is off work?"

A woman in red high heels, with big wavy hair and a blue skirt, stood in the corner of the second floor and looked at him condescendingly.

Rong Xiaochuan smiled reluctantly, walked past the woman, and a smell of perfume came to his nose.

This is a woman who goes to work at night, Rong Xiaochuan gets off work every day when she goes to work, and she goes to work when she gets off work.

Everyone knows what to do.

It's just that the people who live here, who can still look higher than whom.

Some people eat by their talents, some by their strength, and some by their bodies.

The woman glanced at his back strangely, smiled and went downstairs step by step.

A single suite on the fourth floor, Rong Xiaochuan's rent of 800 per month, has a small kitchen on the balcony, and has a separate bathroom.

This is the nest where he has lived for more than two years, simple and warm.

Sitting on the bed, Rong Xiaochuan smoked silently.

He glanced at his phone, expecting something, and a little scared.

Ding, the phone rang suddenly.

He grabbed it, and then pressed the answer button with some disappointment.

"Hey"

"There is your courier, please go downstairs to sign".

There was no fluctuation in the voices on the other side.

Rong Xiaochuan went downstairs strangely, he remembered that he hadn't bought anything recently.

Or is someone trying to surprise themselves?

At the entrance of the stairway, a guy in a black trench coat and a hat stood there.

Rong Xiaochuan was a little unsure.

"Please sign for the receipt".

There was a chill in his voice.

Rong Xiaochuan signed his name on a slip.

The other party then took out a small box and handed it to him, turned to leave.

The box is heavy, the surface is smooth, but there is no information at all.

Oh, let's think it's the first birthday present I received today.

Glancing at the back of leaving, the snow was a little heavy, and Rong Xiaochuan returned to the room.

The box didn't seem to be what he usually touched, there was a small button on the front, Rong Xiaochuan pressed it, and the box quietly opened from all sides, revealing a ring lying inside.

It is a black ring with a skull on it.

This ring seems to be worth a lot.

Rong Xiaochuan picked up the ring, looked left and right, and gestured on his finger with some uncertainty.

Put it on, you have nothing left to lose.

Rong Xiaochuan silently put the ring on his index finger.

Ah, a sharp pain suddenly hit, and Rong Xiaochuan fell headlong on the bed.