My humble girlfriend

the wint

myriad ligh

e unusually quiet tonight, devoid eve

a black-and-white photograph, hunched ov

ountenance bore the weather

hand, yellowed with age and densel

arling, this is the first ten thousand we earned togeth

s, she

is head, tears

ench, he curled up and closed his

you so

ushed away his tears, only to find a crumpled

leeping on public benches in the park,

d his first three decades,

ordinary fami

arning martial ar

ecame the national juni

igious Hua Shen First Middle

ua Qing University's Engineering De

through his

by chance, embarking on a journey

less pursuit of Jiang Shuqing, a

tless advances, despite his relucta

in blissful c

raduation loomed, he struck a deal with

s of mishaps befell t

steadfast by his side, of

hope, they began pla

d year-end dividends vanished as the

orers arrived, d

s forced to ce

were compelled to sell their new house

approval, they were instead accused of

ze he had been betraye

verything, shattering a

y any longer, not with this k

reluctantly proposed a

nd flowers, not to live in

away Jiang Shuqing and

eived a call from Jiang

car accident, an

and his beloved Jia

slurp instant noodles with h

over, he just want

ing

ghed, wiping the drool from the c

be

be

bell come from

ing the bell that signaled the

he heard that bell, he would roll out

ree minutes, yet why d

iar, held any attraction for him. Living felt like being a corps

accidentally k

a

m, he panicked. It wasn't the hard park bench, and it sme

ng, unable to open them fully. He reach

h cou

ed around and felt something

. Before he could fully process what was happen

rew your floral underw

Beicheng, bewildered,

nt, he was i

four-person dorm ro

ng his head under the blanket, slightly mo

as a dream, was it too real? How could it be exactly

e... he wa

ions, wasn't ten year

ssy dorms, computers filled with

beer, sky-high housing prices,

ic, and he hadn't yet a

ong, di

just rung, Xu Beicheng hasti

phone, flipped it open, an

over the past ten years, his hands trembled, t

ything, he felt

button, a girl's cle

hel

felt even more distressed. His eyes welle

if