Autumn nights are already a little cool. Yang Fan took the expired meals in the store and squatted outside the store to feed the stray cats.

Watching the stray cats outside eating happily, listening to the familiar system prompt sound, and seeing that his title of good guy has become 45/100. Yang Fan couldn't help but smile.

"Yang Fan?" an uncertain voice came from behind him.

Yang Fan stood up, looked back, and saw the owner of the voice, and couldn't help but show a look of surprise

"Meng Zixuan?"

"It's really you, such a coincidence. Meng Zixuan said excitedly, and then she looked at Yang Fan's clothes and said with a slight smile

"You work nearby?"

"Well, I work part-time at a convenience store. Yang Fan said a little embarrassed. The stray cat that had just been fed kept circling around Yang Fan's feet, making a meowing sound, rubbing Yang Fan's trouser legs as if to express gratitude.

"Well, that's good, I used to work part-time at a convenience store, and it's a very workable job. Meng Zixuan said with a smile, she didn't show any embarrassed expression to Yang Fan because of Yang Fan's work, she squatted down and touched the head of the stray cat and looked at Yang Fan and said

"So you're such a gentle person. ”

Yang Fan touched his head after listening, although he had to do a good thing every day because of the system, it was still a joy to be praised by others, and he was praised by a beautiful girl.

"Were you okay last time?" Meng Zixuan asked, and then she complained a little, "You haven't called me since last time, which makes me worry about you all the time, and I don't have your contact information." If it weren't for today, would you still be prepared to stay in touch?"

"No, it's not..."Yang Fan looked at Meng Zixuan's worried eyes, he was speechless for a while, but there was an inexplicable feeling of emotion in his heart.

"Give me your phone. Meng Zixuan looked at Yang Fan and shook his head and said, Yang Fan took out his mobile phone in a panic and handed it to Meng Zixuan, Meng Zixuan took the mobile phone, and then made a call to his mobile phone, looked at the caller ID of his mobile phone, and smiled mischievously with satisfaction.

"So, I have your phone number. She handed Yang Fan's mobile phone back to Yang Fan, and then said, "By the way, last time at the Kaitian Hotel, I heard you say that you are an online writer, what is the name of your book? ”

"My book... My book is called Looking Up at the Stars. Yang Fan hesitated, and although he was ashamed, he still said the name of the book. Maybe it was because Meng Zixuan's worried eyes infected him.

Many online writers are reluctant to tell their friends about their books, because not only is it a sense of shame, but when your book is known by your friends, you will also have an inexplicable pressure.

"Brother Fan, come and help..."Li Xiao walked out of the store, ready to ask Yang Fan for a favor, looking at this scene, swallowing the following words alive, he smiled wryly and continued, "Brother Fan, it's okay, you continue." ”

The girl couldn't help but laugh out loud when she looked at Li Xiao's expression, and then she said to Yang Fan

"Let's get back to work. I already know where you work anyway. I might come back to disturb me more often in the future. After finishing speaking, Meng Zixuan waved his hand and urged Yang Fan to go back to work quickly.

Yang Fan nodded, and then walked back to the store, but his heart was not as calm as he seemed to be, and his heart was beating fast.

"Brother Fan, is this your girlfriend?" Li Xiao walked over and said with a wink.

"Girlfriend, how is it possible?" Yang Fan hurriedly denied it, and then he was in a trance for a while, and the picture of his encounter with Meng Zixuan appeared in his mind, from righteousness and courage to misunderstanding, from misunderstanding to acquaintance, and to today's encounter, and then said with a wry smile

"How can such a good woman be my girlfriend, how can someone like me be worthy of such a good-looking woman. ”

Meng Zixuan took the mobile phone and walked home happily, she remembered the bits and pieces of her encounter with Yang Fan, and couldn't help but smile gently, Yang Fan was different from the boys she came into contact with, although he was very ordinary as his name suggested, but he was extraordinary, he had courage, principles, dreams, perseverance, and values that were incompatible with this era.

Although they are just some ordinary virtues, these virtues are even more rare in this society where values are distorted and materialism is paramount. In front of her eyes, the back of Yang Fan and Yang Fan who were finally separated at the Kaitian Hotel appeared, and that back was as dazzling as a soldier who refused to bow his head and fight alone in this society in this era.

Thinking of this, Meng Zixuan's smile also brightened with the back in her mind, and she walked to the door of her family's community, where a silver-white expensive sports car was parked at the door. A handsome man in the car holding a large bouquet of bright red roses looked at her, got out of the car with a smile on his face, walked over, and said to her gently, "You're back." ”

"Don't say that, Brother Fan is actually a very good person. Li Xiao heard Yang Fan's words and said with a serious face.

"Am I excellent?" Yang Fan heard the amusement, looked at Li Xiao and asked half-jokingly, "Where am I excellent?"

"You can write novels, you have the perseverance to write so many words, and there should be a lot of readers who can enjoy your books, these are all your strengths. Li Xiao continued in a depressed mood, "Unlike me, you don't have any merits, you haven't been likable since you were a child, and you don't have perseverance, I envy you." ”

Yang Fan was stunned by Li Xiao's words, he never thought that his original impression in the hearts of others was so positive and excellent, he looked at Li Xiao's lost expression, thought for a while and said

"You can try to write online novels, writing novels can bring a lot of changes to people, you see that Yang Yuan is ready to write novels, you can also try. ”

"Ah, Yang Yuan is going to write a novel?" Li Xiao was shocked when he heard the news, and after receiving Yang Fan's nod in affirmative, he was silent.

Hearing that Yang Yuan began to write novels, Li Xiao was very conflicted and complicated in his heart. He and Yang Yuan's family environment is not very good, the two of them have been working together in this convenience store for more than half a year, according to many urban novels and some inspirational stories, two people from poor families in a long-term working environment, should become good friends, work together to create a better future or business empire, but these stories, can only appear twenty years ago, or even more ancient times, it is difficult to appear in modern times.

The real relationship between Li Xiao and Yang Yuan belongs to the vague relationship between colleagues and friends, the two people have opposite personalities, Li Xiao is a talkative type, while Yang Yuan is a silent and hard-working perseverance type, in this real world, it is actually difficult for two people with opposite personalities to become friends.

Li Xiao, because of the poor family conditions since he was a child, he has a strong sense of inferiority, thinking that he has no advantages, and it is precisely because of this strong inferiority complex that he sometimes does not dare to try to integrate into other people's groups, plus his character is a lot of words and a mouthless type, so that he has never made a true friend since he was a child, as a young man, he longs for friendship and friends, at this time, Yang Yuan appeared.

Although Yang Yuan's family conditions are also not good, Yang Yuan has never had an inferiority complex, the taciturn Yang Yuan puts life on his unfairness and complaints about his efforts, he works hard to do two part-time jobs, works hard to change himself, and tries to try a lot of things he can do. Yang Yuan's quiet and practical personality charm deeply attracted Li Xiao, because Yang Yuan was exactly the person he wanted to become.

Because of these reasons, Li Xiao has always been sticking to Yang Yuan, and when he has nothing to say, he wants to be friends with Yang Yuan. But Yang Yuan just regarded him as an ordinary colleague.

When he heard about Yang Yuan writing online novels, he felt that the gap between him and Yang Yuan began to widen, and he was very afraid of this sense of distance, the greater the distance, the more slim the chance of him and Yang Yuan becoming friends.

He thought of this and said with difficulty

"My writing and style are not good enough, and I don't have the perseverance, nor the imagination of those online writers, is someone like me worthy of writing a novel?" Li Xiao's eyes became darker and darker with this sentence.

After Yang Fan listened to Li Xiao's words, he looked at Li Xiao and said, "Me too, my book has been rated as one of the six bad books on the xx network, am I not writing a novel?"

"I'm not like you... I..." Li Xiao couldn't help but shake his head after listening to Yang Fan's words, and said gloomily, "I actually read your novel the day before yesterday, I can't write your novel, and your novel is not bad at all, and that book list is not reliable at all." I'm afraid I can't. ”

"In the online literature world, basically everyone didn't have the amazing writing of the great god at the beginning. As for imagination, art comes from life, even if you record life plainly, and if you record more and more, you can naturally have unbridled imagination. ”

Yang Fan finished cleaning the shelves and said, "In the online literature world, there are no three words that are worthy or not, how can you know if you can do it if you don't try, in the online literature world, the most important two words are persistence." ”

"Hold on. Li Xiao pondered these two words repeatedly, thoughtfully.

"Go write it. Really, writing an online novel, you will always gain more than you lose. Yang Fan remembered that he had learned that the editor had given up his work, and remembered the early morning when he met a white-haired little Lori, and couldn't help but smile gently, and then he looked at Li Xiao and said seriously

"Persistence means that even if others give up on you, you don't give up on yourself. ”

"I see. After Li Xiao listened, his face changed to a smile as bright as usual, and he nodded vigorously

"Thank you, Brother Fan, I will try to write online novels, I will work hard to persevere, and there may be the seventh worst book on the xx network when the time comes. ”

"Okay, I'm optimistic about you. Yang Fan said with a relieved smile

In the convenience store late at night, there was the hearty laughter of two men, as if this autumn night had become a little warmer because of the laughter of these two men.