Li Xiaocan took his handbag and walked into the alley under the dim street lamp, which was the only way to get back to the rental house from the company. During the internship period, there is very little left of the salary except for food, rent, transportation, internet, electricity, and water. She had to rent a house in an old neighborhood that was relatively cheap and in the middle of nowhere. The facilities in the old community are not perfect, with sports facilities in disrepair, dim street lights, potholes, and no cameras.

Li Xiaocan cautiously stepped on his high heels, turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, and his 500-degree myopia was eager to turn on a 360-degree all-round scan like a radar, and his ears were pointed like an alert puppy. She ran to the rental house in a panic, the 400-meter alley suddenly became extremely long, and while she complained that her boss had increased her workload and made her work overtime until now, she somehow popped up the news she watched during the day - "Silver Murder Case", which killed the woman in red and cut her organs. She suddenly remembered that she was wearing a red dress - it was a discount that she bought in La Chapelle for three hundred oceans in order to show her spirit during the interview, and her figure looked exquisite, which was a bright color in her low and embarrassing life. But in this empty and dark alley, it is obviously not a good thing. A gust of wind blew, and she couldn't help but stand on end.

Suddenly, she saw a black shadow in the corner of her eye, coming from behind, a cold "whirring" sound in her right ear, she couldn't help but feel a tightness in her heart, a crooked leg, a heart-piercing pain came from her ankle, she fell to the ground, and the black shadow was getting closer and closer, close at hand, she instinctively stretched out her hands to resist, but the tall black shadow rushed to her face, she had nowhere to hide......

"Ah......h She woke up suddenly, felt the soft quilt in her hand, and realized that she was lying on the bed, not on the cold and dirty road, and she woke up - fortunately, it was just a nightmare! She turned on the light, sat up, and fell asleep.

The pale ceiling, the yellowed walls with mildew spots, the old wooden floor that creaks when you step on it, the formaldehyde smell of inferior glue, the wardrobe that is deformed when you put bags and quilt covers, the small desk that is only the size of a palm and the drawer that doesn't know where to go, the messy company folder, a plastic chair, and less than five square meters of space, these are all her belongings in the city.

There was another girl living in the other room, who happened to be at the company's annual meeting and was on a trip. She was the only one in the whole house. Her room was close to the staircase, and the old walls were so poorly insulated that she could hear footsteps coming from the staircase. "The stairs are very close to the room, and after the security door is opened, there is my door on the left, the wooden door, I don't know if the security lock doesn't work, I already know that I have a new lock......", she thought nonsense, while dragging the table behind the door, in case someone comes in, the table is still a line of defense.

But the more she did this, the more frightened she felt. "No, the table is too light, and you need a suitcase," she said, dragging the suitcase from under the bed and blocking it behind the desk, looking safer.

She curled up in the corner of the bed against the wall, her ears listened to the footsteps in the corridor with her ears very cleverly, and a sound was getting closer and closer, and she couldn't help but feel a tight heart, until the sound was getting farther and farther away, and she didn't let go.

"If something really happens, I guess it will be a long time before everyone finds out about me." She thought sadly that her parents were far away in the countryside, her sister was married in another province, and her younger brother was studying in another country, and there were no relatives in this city. Friend? She just graduated and came to this provincial capital, her colleagues didn't even know her face, and her college girlfriends all went back to their respective homes to find their mothers as soon as they graduated.

A wave of loneliness and fear came over like a tidal wave. She turned on her phone, flipped through her address book, and with a long list of names running through her fingertips, she stopped in disappointment — two in the morning, calling only to say "How are you?" I just want to talk to someone", I'll be scolded. She smiled wryly. Fingers suddenly slipped to "Zhang Gang", hey, he!

Zhang Gang is her high school tablemate, both of them have the same hobbies and like literature, but in front of the college entrance examination enemy, especially for people like her who regard learning as a great cause, she has no time to take care of anything else, and the ambiguous smiles and words of the people around them "get close" to them made her keep a distance from him early. After the college entrance examination, the two of them have long been cut off from different universities.

Not long ago, a QQ message reminded: Friend request: Are you Li Xiaocan? She looked at the unfamiliar avatar and passed the friend request. His first words were: I finally found you!

Her second monk couldn't figure it out, and he babbled and said:

"I searched for the circle of classmates, campus passes, and friends circles, and searched with your name countless times, but I didn't find you, thinking that you had changed your name, and this time I finally found you!"

"How are you doing? How is everything? ”

"Where are you now?"

She felt very sudden, and in the face of a person who suddenly jumped out of her life, she suddenly remembered his shadow from distant memories. It's just a hazy non-friendship, when I was young, I blushed even when I looked at the opposite sex, and the two didn't even hold hands. It's the equivalent of nothing happening. She had forgotten about him. But he never forgot it. Little by little, the ice in her heart was melting.

In the past few months, she has been busy settling in her luggage, looking for a job, renting an apartment, moving, and adjusting to a new job. She often ignored his warm greetings. But at this moment, she suddenly realized his importance.

She asked:

"Hello, are you there?"

"How are you doing?"

"I'm in W City, and I've just joined a company."

"Did you sleep?"

Maybe it was a series of messages that bothered him, and the phone actually rang, and he called.

She didn't expect him to call, not annoying her. At this end, hearing his voice, she suddenly felt safe. She felt more at ease than she had ever been, and I guess this was a sense of security. She has always been independent and not sticky, but she actually chattered with him about homely things, talking about the steamed bun shop next to the company, talking about a cat raised by the old man downstairs, talking about the small snacks she ate in her childhood, talking about the dramas she chased, talking about "Huanzhu Gege" that she liked when she was a child, and talking about the snack street at the back door of the university...... He chatted with her all over the world, saying innocuous words, pulling some trivial things, without a trace of impatience and sleepiness in his tone, in his deep voice, she finally fell asleep, and the night was peaceful.

The next evening, her phone lit up: I'm at your doorstep.