Indeed, a minute later, just as Lai Jiayi steered her bike out of the rental house yard, droplets of water poured from the sky.
It was small initially, but in less than a second, the droplets tripled, forming a heavy rain.
The cold and heavy rain skillfully hid the tears Lai Jiayi shed. Her shoulder was trembling hard as she pushed her bike aimlessly.
She's a human with heart and emotion. No matter how strong she was, there's no way she could keep up a strong facade when she was hit with three big problems.
The debt collector, father in a dire situation, and lastly, she was homeless now. She had nowhere to go. No money, no house, no family.
'What should I do? Is there really no way out for me?'
"Hahaha…" Lai Jiayi laughed coldly as she watched her pure white shirt getting soaked in the rain. Her clothes became transparent, and anyone could see her underwear like this.
The girl quickly took a jacket out of the boxes, and only then her mind settled down.
Not far from the girl, the small thing kept following Lai Jiayi even when it was drenched in the rain.
'Ah...this girl is in debt, her father is hospitalized, and now she has nowhere to go?'
The duck silently thought while the water hit the anti-water barrier around his body.
'I think...this is the right moment to send the invitation. Let's send it! It will get delayed as usual, so I better send it now before she cheers up!'
The thing decided, and it immediately sent a game invitation to the girl's phone while watching Lai Jiayi cried in silence.
The girl was still sobbing while walking when suddenly, she spotted a small cafe not far from her place.
'Daily Smile Cafe? A shelter!'
The girl didn't think much and immediately decided to go there.
'For now...all I want to do is to cry my feelings out.'
The girl quickly parked her bike at the entrance and sat next to it. She didn't enter the warm and bright-looking cafe but instead, sat down in front of it.
The roof sheltered her from the rain, but it didn't shelter her from the cold wind.
Lai Jiayi immediately gripped her jacket tight and looked down. Tears slowly poured again from her eyes, dripping to her knee.
The tears were somehow mixed with the droplet of water sliding down from the girl's wet hair.
At this moment, she looked like an abandoned poodle drenching wet. Anyone who saw her would surely pity her, but no one really extended help.
Lai Jiayi quietly sobbed as she wrung her wet hair. Despair had really consumed her. Even the thought of taking her own life somehow suddenly slipped to her mind.
"...no. I can't, " Lai Jiayi whispered to herself.
Suicide would be a dumb idea. Once she's dead, she won't see her father and other people who cared for her.
Crying wouldn't solve anything indeed, but now she had poured her feelings out, she felt like her heart had been washed clean.
So what if she's in debt, homeless, and her father needed surgery?
'There must be a way to solve this. As long as I live, there will always be a way out!'
Lai Jiayi's dark, gloomy eyes slowly brightened.
The girl had always been like this. Being hit down by a hard life couldn't stop her from raising the next moment.
No matter how hurt she was, she would always make a comeback in the end.
Giving up was never in her dictionary.
"Hmm, for now…" Lai Jiayi wiped her tears as she looked at her wet phone.
'Thank God it's still working.'
The urgent issue she had to solve right now was the fact that she's homeless.
'I have to find a house! At least for a night.'
Lai Jiayi checked her phone and stumbled upon a familiar phone number. It was the phone number of her one and only close friend.
The image of the tomboy, red-haired girl, flashed through Lai Jiayi's mind, and she couldn't help but chuckle.
'Liang'er will be able to help me. For sure.'
Lai Jiayi quickly called her friend, and upon hearing her lazy voice, a smile unknowingly appeared on her pale face.
With a weak voice, Lai Jiayi said, "Liang'er...can I go to your house today? You see...I got kicked out. "
Lai Jiayi's tone of voice was a bit teasing as if she hadn't really experienced anything heart-wrenching.
Others would think that she's perfectly fine, but how could Shan Liang, Lai Jiayi's best friend, didn't know something is wrong?
With a loud voice enough to make anyone deaf, the girl shouted, "WHAT DID YOU SAY??" Her voice was so loud that Lai Jiayi had to distance the phone from her ear.
Not to mention a few passersby looked at her with a strange expression.
'Okay, I didn't even put the call on a loudspeaker, and I almost died.'
"Let me sleep in your house. I'm homeless, " Lai Jiayi spoke again. This time she smiled bitterly.
Hearing this, the girl on the other side quickly asked in a hurried tone, "Where are you?" She believed what her friend said almost immediately.
'Yiyi is kicked out! Homeless! Oh God, what trouble she encountered again this time??'
"I'm in front of Daily Smile Cafe, near my previous rental house, " Lai Jiayi answered casually. She was about to say that she could go to Liang'er house by herself when suddenly the call was cut.
The dialing tone made Lai Jiayi widen her eyes in shock before looking at her black screen.
'Ah...Liang'er cut off the call?'
"Damn that rascal..." Lai Jiayi cursed softly, knowing that her bestie would surely storm here anytime.
Lai Jiayi was waiting patiently for her best friend to arrive when suddenly, a mysterious message box glowing in golden popped up on her phone screen.
'...hm? What's this??'
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