The moonlight is beautiful tonight and the wind is gentle.
Rae stood in front of the window, holding a thermos cup filled with wolfberries, looking at the busy street outside the office, and exhaled a deep breath.
This is where his dream took root.
It will also be the place where his dreams wither and die.
Just this afternoon, he received a final ultimatum from his parents: they must see him in his hometown in three days.
At the age of 18, he came to this magical metropolis from a small county in Central China to go to school and work.
I have been wandering in this city where I have no sense of belonging for 12 years now.
Rae has benefited a lot from these 12 years of youth.
Not only did he witness Hangzhou's gradual prosperity, but he was also nourished and destroyed by love.
Over the years, Rae has dated six girlfriends, from students to young married women. It is difficult to describe the experience in detail.
Sadly, up to now no one is willing to marry him, and all that is left of love for him is the aftertaste.
Just last week, a designer resigned from the company.
His office romance also ended with regret, and he became a single nobleman once again.
Rae changed four jobs after graduating from university, from an intern to a department director of a listed company, with monthly salary increasing from 3K to 30K.
It also turned him from a handsome young man into a greasy uncle who still has to rent a house to make a living.
Time is really a butcher's knife!
Silently and yet irreversibly changes a person.
After finishing a cigarette, Rae glanced at the city that never sleeps with a nostalgic look. With a heavy heart, he turned around and sat on the leather sofa in the office.
This sofa not only helped him to close one project after another, but also left the scent of his ex-girlfriend.
Leaning on the sofa, Rae opened WeChat on his mobile phone again.
The interface is a small group of four people, and the group name is: A loving family.
Looking through the chat history, it was full of voice messages from my parents and sister.
"Rae, your Aunt Zhang introduced a girl to you the day before yesterday. She is the same age as you. Come back and meet her."
"And your Aunt Qin, I don't know what she's thinking. She actually wants to introduce you to a divorced woman with a baby."
This is what Rae's mother said.
The implicit meaning of her words was that she wanted him to go back to his hometown for a blind date and get married soon.
He also pointed out clearly that if he waited a few more years, he would really only be able to choose a divorced woman with children.
"Rae, I will retire in two years. Your mother retired last month."
"Come back soon, while we are still young, get married, have children, and live a down-to-earth life!"
Rae's father wanted him to return to his hometown as soon as possible to develop and accept his fate in life.
Dian Minglu and his wife are about to retire, and the family will have to rely on him to support it in the future.
As for Rae's sister, she didn't say much, and basically just followed the two old people's wishes and explained things to him.
Rae has been looking at and thinking about the words in the group about a loving family since yesterday.
What my parents said is very correct and practical.
His current income seems to be quite a lot, but he doesn't know if it can last long. He hasn't saved much money over the years, and buying a house and settling down in Hangzhou is out of the question.
But the unwillingness in his heart had been resisting, resisting and rejecting this arrangement.
Until today, the human resources director of the head office talked to him.
I explained to him that the company's performance this year was particularly poor and it was at a critical juncture of life and death. The next step would be to lay off a large number of employees and improve everyone's efficiency.
There is actually only one meaning behind the words, which is to persuade people to quit!
For a director-level employee like him who has been employed for five years, the company's resignation package is three months' salary compensation.
This violates labor laws, but Rae also knows that this is the best option.
Ordinary employees can request N+1, but as a director he cannot make this request.
From the moment he became a worker, he knew that this day would come sooner or later.
Because this is Hangzhou, a city with abundant talents and the most prosperous e-commerce industry in the country.
After a while,
Rae replied in the group "Love Each Other, Love Each Other" with two words: "OK."
After the two words were sent out, veins bulged on Rae's hand as he gripped the phone tightly, and his inner resentment reached its peak at this moment.
Twelve years!
How many twelve years are there in a lifetime?
Even though Rae was unwilling, when he thought about his elderly parents, the housing prices in Hangzhou, and his slightly bulging belly, he collapsed on the sofa like a deflated doll.
Just be an ordinary person!
At the age of 30, the end of life is almost clear at a glance. Mediocrity is the norm. Go back to your hometown and live a routine life.
but,
Rae still made a final struggle and uttered his last words in the group of the loving family.
"I'll be home in a week!"
This was his last stubbornness and also his last attachment to this city.
After saying these last words, it seemed as if all his strength had been drained out, and he fell directly onto the sofa.
"I never thought of myself, this wanton soul~"
Rae threw the cell phone on the coffee table, and it rang and vibrated.
But at this moment he really didn't want to move, nor did he want to answer anyone's call, so he let his phone vibrate on the coffee table.
The phone stopped ringing suddenly.
Rae felt that the world was finally peaceful!
But the next moment, his cell phone rang again.
"Fuck, it never ends!"
Rae's worries instantly turned into boundless anger. He sat up with a somersault, grabbed the mobile phone on the coffee table, and answered the call without even looking at it.
"Who is it? Why is it never ending?"
The person on the other end of the phone didn't expect to be greeted with Rae's anger as soon as the call was connected. After a brief pause, a charming and mature voice sounded.
"Boss Rae, this is Lydia. Who is so blind as to offend our Boss Rae?"
"You're so angry, it just so happens that I have a new sister here."
Hearing this voice, Rae suddenly became clear-headed.
I put the phone in front of me and took a look. The profile picture was a woman with an extremely exaggerated waist-to-hip ratio. Her name was: Meiting.
Rae's tone softened immediately, and he said softly, "I'm not going tonight."
This woman named Lydia is a commercial K marketer that Rae met in a nightclub in Hangzhou.
As the name suggests, she is beautiful and straight.
He is not very old, only twenty-eight.
When Rae saw her for the first time, he was attracted by her tall figure and her extremely exaggerated waist-to-hip ratio.
She is very beautiful, and even with light makeup, she still gives people a stunning feeling.
After taking care of her performance for more than half a year, he has played all the games such as Mountain Flowing Water, Windmill, Ladybug, etc.
Of course Rae also experienced the Hangzhou-style service on Lydia.
However, Rae had no interest in playing today.
After hanging up the phone, Rae lay on the sofa and took a nap.
When the time came to midnight, the live broadcast team outside the office also ended the broadcast, packed up and left the company.
Rae suddenly shuddered and opened his eyes dazedly.
"Asleep."
He just had a very long dream. In the dream, he returned to his hometown, married a similar woman, and had a child. Without the desire to struggle, he lived a mess of life and finally died with regret.
Muttering something, Rae put his legs down on the coffee table and stood up.
However, after taking just two steps, I suddenly felt dizzy.
Holding on to the desk, Rae sat down on the comfortable office chair. Just as he was rubbing his temples to relax, he heard a ding sound in his mind.
"bite!"
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