Translator: Nacchi
Editor: Gummy

Seventeen-year-old Shen Chi carried his suitcase on the train to the border town. He sat on the hard seat and carefully opened the seal of the soda biscuits. He looked at the distant Yancheng and thought that he needed to live by himself.

This was his first time on the train and the carriage was filled with an unpleasant smell. Finally, it was broadcast on the radio, “We are here at the Border Town!”

Border Town is in the westernmost city. The air does not seem to have any moisture. The hot and dry wind blows like a knife on his face. He carried his suitcase and walked to a bungalow.

Cracks appeared on the walls of the house and the awning on the roof was leaking with dirty water. At that time, he had never lived in such a broken house.

He did not hesitate to go to the Internet cafe, sitting in front of the computer made him feel safe, even if the computer screen is dirty, he can make ten kills.

Shen Chi prepares to receive the water and the messages on his mobile phone are flooding. He knows that those people want to see him make a joke of himself but he is too lazy to bother.

The excellent high school speech was broadcast on TV and his eyes fell on the screen. The students who went there held a notice from Columbia University to give a speech, as if reminding them that it was another world.

In the shabby Internet cafe in the border town, the teenager’s heart suddenly filled with anxiety because he only had five hundred yuan on him. He tore down the small online love advertisement next to the drinking fountain.

*

The cold-looking youth wore a simple white shirt and sat in Princeton’s library to read. With enough time, he could spend a day in a book.

“I gave your ‌Wechat to someone.” Yan Ji said in the car. “That kid is a researcher from the Department of Astrophysics at Yan University. “

Yan Xue Xiao frowned. He didn’t want people to intervene in his life. He was more willing to spend his time doing academic work, hoping to get a teaching position before the age of 30.

Looking at Yan Ji’s face, he accepted the application of that person. The two said only one sentence then he turned off the phone and continued reading.

Yan Xue Xiao made some tea in the dormitory. He likes the faint astringency of tea. His face was looming in the white smoke when suddenly his cell phone rang.

——Asia’s No.1 Gun God asked to add you as a friend.

*

Shen Chi’s friend application was like a stone sinking into the sea. He later realized that he had been deceived, he squeezed his hands and lowered his amber eyes.

That is all his property.

A young man who doesn’t know the world ‌ faces the cruelty of life once. Of course this cruelty is just a small wave of painlessness for the days to come.

Shen Chi touched his empty neck. Originally, there was a necklace his mother gave him, because the piano teacher praised him for his quick hands, “Your child will become a famous pianist.”

The woman hugged him and kissed him, “Xiao Chi is a gift from God, right?”

As a young man, he is shy but playing the piano requires not only skill, but also the player’s affection. He just had a fast hand speed and gradually disappeared from the crowd. The teacher in the piano room euphemistically said, “He will become a good piano teacher in the future.”

He doesn’t know what it means to have no talent but seeing the deep disappointment from his mother’s eyes, perhaps he is unwilling to become an ordinary piano teacher or does not want to face disappointment and failure. His mother sends him to the boarding house in Yancheng School to study.

The boarding school days were not good. He was savage and learned to fight every time he wanted his parents to notice him.

And because he wants his mother to see him.

But now, he doesn’t have a mother.

The teenager sits in front of the computer to practice power leveling games. Because of the proliferation of plug-ins, they don’t earn much money for power leveling. One thousand and five packs enter God of War, even if they play games day and night, they can only earn 3,000 per month.

The classmate sitting next to him was named Zhuang Zhou. Seeing that he worked hard to persuade him to become an anchor, he did try to be an anchor, but he couldn’t even sign a contract. He gradually gave up this unrealistic idea, are people willing to see a taciturn anchor?

He finished playing ‌‌and left the Internet cafe. When he came home and saw the opened suitcase. Aunt Ji hurriedly zipped up the suitcase, “Xiao Chi is back.”

Shen Chi pursed his lips and said nothing. He didn’t know why the Ji family thought he had money. He only kept six hundred yuan a month for himself and the rest was returned to the Shen family.

He decided to move out of Ji’s house. He sat in a small room for a long time before making this decision. This should be one of the most difficult decisions in his life.

He didn’t know what he would face. He was confused, but when he saw the messed up suitcase he left Ji’s house without looking back.

There was misty snow in the border town. The teenager dragged his suitcase alone to find a house. No one wanted to rent their house to minors. He finally lived in a crumbling residential building.

He lives in the last room on the second floor. Although the room is so small and somehow empty, he wiped the windows and raised his hope for the future.

Because he needs to spend money on food and lodging, he takes the power leveling order harder. He is used to eating less food and is only full by eating biscuits every day.
[tl: People pay him and he used those accounts to raise their rank.]

This residential building is really not a good place to live. The residents are a mixed bag. At night, the landlord Hong Jie painted makeup and brought different men home.

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Sister Hong’s daughter is a woman who likes to wear white skirts. Her name is Xiao Zui. She will secretly entertain him with the beef pot helmet made by Sister Hong.

That was one of the few moments when he could eat meat. He would sit on the stairs and talk to Xiao Zui, “The city wall of Yancheng has a history of thousands of years. The autumn wetland park is full of white cranes. I remember the restaurant next to the park didn’t taste good.”

It’s a pity that Xiao Zui can’t speak, so she can only look at him with those clear eyes. He will always fall into a deep depression as he talks, “In fact, Yancheng is nothing good.”

Xiao Zui seems to be very interested in the outside world. She often sits on the steps and listens to him. Every time Sister Hong always says, “Do you know how expensive Yancheng is? Is it such an easy place to go?”

The luster in Xiao Zui’s eyes slowly dissipated and she gradually stopped listening to him. When the Mid-Autumn Festival started the boy sat alone in the rental room and looked up at the moon.

Day after day the resident helped a thin student and that person became his little attendant.

The little attendant, Shi Liang, gave him oranges from time to time and did his homework when he was busy. Shi Liang said that he has an older brother but he didn’t call him for a long time. Every time he talked about his brother, the younger attendant would hang his head

Shi Liang’s mother needs money for the operation and the little attendant is going to work with others in other places. On the day of departure, a Japanese food shop opened in the provincial capital and he asked them to eat at the Japanese food shop to bid farewell.

He remembered that the name of the store was Song. They took the money they had saved for a long time to eat but they were kicked out before they even stepped in.

“You can’t afford it.”

The waiter in a blue kimono objectively narrated.

He tightly held the two hundred yuan in his hand, Shi Liang comforted him, “Next time we will go to another restaurant to eat.”

On the way back from the provincial capital to the border city, they sat on the bus and talked about the future. The eyes of the little attendant were full of longing for the future.

The last time he saw Shi Liang was in the Border Town newspaper. The boy who was much thinner than his peers became a cold corpse on the operating table and all the organs were removed.

Shen Chi’s hand was shaking while holding the newspaper and felt that his chest was breathless. At the funeral, he watched Shi Liang’s brother being labeled as a mad dog and everyone hated him.

He has no time to be numb. The border town is entering winter, he only has a thin quilt and he can’t even find winter clothes.

Yan Shen’s family lived upstairs. He always felt that the relationship between the father and son was very strange. There was no school during the winter vacation, and Yan Shen would always throw Yan Jianguo downstairs.

However, he once saw Yan Shen protect the dying Yan Jianguo, blood dripping all over the floor. Yan Shen clenched his fist and said to someone, “I’ll do it for him.”

Soon there was a homicide case known all over the country in the border town. Yan Shen attacked seven people indiscriminately in front of the train station. One of them was said to be the housekeeper of a powerful family.

Yan Zhao soon died.

No matter how big the incident is, the turbulent border city is nothing more than a drop of water falling into the sea. The impact was only the suspension of the Third Middle School and Mr. Wang suddenly became ten years older.

Student’s from the Border Town school can’t pay the high tuition fees in the provincial capital. Zhuang Zhou had to give up his studies and go to work in the provincial capital. When he went, he smiled and comforted him, “A person like me will not be able to pass the university exam ever again.”

Shen Chi still remembers the three people saying their dreams but the dreams didn’t seem to reach them in the Border Town. When Zhuang Zhou also left, he became more silent and he couldn’t say a word for several days.

He can live only by eating little. The boy looked at his pale self in the mirror, his depressed loneliness gushing out and he didn’t know why he wanted to find someone to talk to.

He added the WeChat number again.

This time he finally got through.

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