Sauna
When I was a kid, Hong Kong movies and TV series were all the rage in the streets and alleys of China. I longed for Hong Kong when I was very young.
After arriving in Guangzhou, I needed to go to Hong Kong to purchase goods for my online store.
In order to go to Hong Kong more conveniently, I transferred my household registration to Shenzhen. With a Shenzhen household registration, I only need to swipe my card at the immigration office to go to Hong Kong.
After going to Hong Kong several times, I had the idea of living in Hong Kong, so I found an agent's phone number on a telephone pole.
In September 2014, I rented a house of less than 10 square meters near Tsim Sha Tsui for more than 6,000 Hong Kong dollars. The conditions of the house were extremely simple, comparable to the prison cells in American movies.
When I first arrived in Hong Kong, it was very difficult. I tried my best to make money with my online store. At that time, China's economy was still good, and my online store business began to improve.
Six months later, I cancelled the lease of the "prison room" and rented a fancy serviced apartment near Jordan MTR station for 11,000 Hong Kong dollars per month.
There was a gay sauna called Hutong near Mong Kok MTR station, only 2 stops away from where I live.
Hutong was in an old residential building. You need to press the video doorbell before entering the building, and the front desk will help you open the door remotely.
Hutong was transformed from a larger LOFT in this apartment building. The decoration was simple and modern, and the hygiene was also well maintained. You could see that the staff will clean up the small dark room that the guests have just used in a timely manner.
I remember that the ticket price of Hutong was about 150 Hong Kong dollars at that time. After I went there several times, one day the front desk (supposedly the boss) asked for my mobile phone number and said that he would send me discount information regularly. I left my mobile phone number.
Later, I received a text message from the sauna every week with a discount ticket price of only 50-70 Hong Kong dollars. I assumed that I had become a VIP of the sauna.
So I went to Hutong 1-3 times a week. Calculated that in less than 2 years of living in Hong Kong, I had sex with at least hundreds of people in Hutong.
Many of them came to Hong Kong for tourism from mainland China, and many of them were very handsome.
I spoke English in the saunas in Hong Kong, so no one knew where I was from.
There was a very handsome Hong Kong guy who was also a frequent visitor to Hutong. We had sex many times in the Hutong, but neither of us wanted to develop further. Because the culture of Hong Kong and mainland China is very different.
Bars
Most of the fun gay bars in Hong Kong were in Central. I lived in Jordan. If I go there at night, I need to take a taxi, which was very expensive, so I rarely go to gay bars in Central, Hong Kong.
But the first time I went to a popular gay bar in Central at a weekend night, an interesting story happened.
After I entered the bar, many people looked at me, probably because I was a new face.
It was very late, and a tall and slightly fat local Hong Konger came to chat with me. He asked if he could have dinner with me tomorrow. Actually, he was not my type, but I thought it would be nice to have another local Hong Kong friend. Sometimes I really don't refuse others.
His name is L, and he is a doctor.
The next day L invited me to a high-end restaurant in Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui for dinner.
I rarely go to restaurants that allow you to order dishes because they are expensive. I always eat at common tea restaurants in Hong Kong near my residence, and each meal costs about 30-70 Hong Kong dollars.
L should have taken this date very formally. The restaurant environment was beautiful and the dishes were also very exquisite. I could feel that he liked me very much, like a man chasing a woman.
At first he kept asking me what I did, and I said I was selling suitcases online. In fact, many Hong Kong people look down on mainland Chinese people, and I guess he was worried that I was doing something shameful.
That dinner cost him more than 1,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Later, L often invited me out for dinner, sometimes with his good friends.
In this way, I got to know a couple of his male and female friends. The girl was very beautiful. She was worried that I might hurt L's feelings or covet his money, and often asked me if I really liked L.
I remember when the four of us went to the bar together, the girl often put her head in my arms. I really miss that feeling at that time, because it was difficult for me to meet local friends in Hong Kong because of my solo job.
They spent a lot of money in the bar, often ordered champagne, and might spend more than 2,000 Hong Kong dollars a night.
After getting familiar with each other, I would go to L's apartment. His apartment was relatively large in Hong Kong. I remember there was a B&W iconic oval speaker in the living room.
He said he had a lot of Rolex watches.
About a week after we met, he said he wanted to buy me a car as a gift and asked me what kind of car I liked. I said I didn't have a drive license and I didn't have a place to park my car in Hong Kong. Later I rejected his kindness.
When he learned that I was selling suitcases online, he introduced me to some friends in Hong Kong who sold luxury watches and told me not to sell suitcases anymore, because that didn't make money. I might as well sell high-end watches.
I could feel that he really liked me and tried his best to help my business.
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink. Although he was very sincere and kind to me, I found that I still couldn't like or fall in love with him.
One day when we came out of the mall where his friend who sold high-end watches was, he wanted me to go home with him. I said sorry but I wouldn't go.
L felt from my tone that I didn't plan to continue dating him, so he left disappointed.
I was also relieved.
During the time I was dating him, he wanted to invite me to travel to Taipei, but I said I didn't have a visa to Taiwan, so I refused. Also I didn't accept any gifts from him.
As for his lovely female friend, because I broke up with him, I also lost contact with the girl.
During the nearly two years I lived in Hong Kong, I didn't have any successful relationship.