Chapter 0556.
Alcohol, gas burning, the flame would be quiet.
Only when wood burned, it would make this crackling sound.
”Hello? May I help you?”
After ten seconds or so, Chen Ge saw that there was still no one on the other side of the phone, so he asked tentatively.
The wine bottle fell, as if something had spilled out, and the fire burned even brighter.
”Hello! Is anyone there?”
The phone was answered, indicating that someone must be standing near the phone at this time.
”Could it be a fire? Are you alright? Please tell me your location immediately!”
Chen Ge tensed up and shouted.
The fire was still burning, and another voice was mixed in with the rising flames.
”Can I talk to you for a moment?”
His voice was nice, just muffled.
”Sure, I’m not doing anything right now.” Chen Ge was worried that the other party wouldn’t say anything all the time, as long as he could communicate, he would be able to get useful information, “Then what do you want to talk about?”
After a long time, he replied back, “I don’t know.”
The pace of speech was slow, and he seemed to have been thinking.
Chen Ge heard that the other party’s tone was not right, and he didn’t dare to open his mouth casually for fear of irritating the other party.
”Let’s think of something happy?”
”There are many happy things, everyone is happy, I know I should act happy too, but I just can’t be happy.”
”Relax, how about we think of some good memories then?”
”Memories?” The man was silent again, but the voice from the burning flame on the other side of the cell phone became clearer and clearer, “When I was a kid, my mom and dad used to fight all the time, for a living.”
Hearing the first sentence, Chen Ge felt that something was wrong, this was not a good memory, he wanted to interrupt the other party, but the man on the other side of the cell phone did not have the intention to stop at all.
”My mother controlled me very strictly, looking out for her son, and I’ve always been a very well-behaved child, a little shy and not talkative.”
”When I was in elementary school, I studied pretty well, but I only got the award for being a third-rate student once in six years.”
”In junior high school, I was very poor in English, with moderate grades, and in my junior year my mother found me a single English teacher to tutor me. After school, I had to go to class until nine-thirty at night, and when I got home it was ten o’clock.”
”That teacher taught me very well, when I was in the middle school, I scored more than ninety points in English, although I was good at math and language but didn’t do well, but my overall score was still in the top ten of the class, it seems that I scored more than five hundred and sixty points.”
”This score can be enrolled in all high schools except the city’s first high school.”
”Actually, I’m puzzled as to why we should label our children at that point.”
”City No. 1 High School is the best high school, and I missed it by more than twenty points, so if I wanted to go to No. 1 High School, I would have to pay an extra eighteen thousand dollars in tuition.”
”My parents’ combined monthly salary is over four thousand dollars, so in order to give me a better start, they shelled out that extra money to let me go to the first high school.”
”Am I grateful?”
”I don’t know myself, maybe I didn’t want to be ashamed, I worked my ass off for those three months when I first went there, I was worried about being exposed, worried about people knowing that you didn’t get in on your own merits, that you were a backdoor guy.”
”Actually, other people won’t care too much about that, maybe I’m a very proud person at heart, or maybe I don’t want to be different from them.”
”On the entrance mapping exam, I scored moderately high, which made me steal my heart, and I started to work harder.”
”But on the midterm exam, my grades slipped to the middle of the pack.”
”I can’t find out where the reason lies, maybe it’s a problem with my study method, or maybe it’s because I haven’t tried hard enough.”
”Spell it out.”
”When the final exam results came out, the rankings slipped again and fell to the back of the bus.”
”A high achiever, turned into a poor student, the identity has been transformed, but psychologically there is still a process of adaptation.”
”When you start adapting psychologically as well, you go from being a student, to being an underachiever.”
”I’m rather strange myself, I’m kind of one of those poor students who have high self-esteem and are proud at the same time.”
”When I was divided into arts and sciences, I met someone I liked, it’s hard to describe the feeling, I was happy to see it.”
”She was the kind of student who studied exceptionally well and hard, always going to class early in the morning.”
”The key to our classroom was in the hands of the class president, and I got up extra early every morning just to jump out the window and help her open the door before the class president came to open it.”
”There were a lot of things like that, when she went to the cafeteria for lunch at noon, I would stand in the corridor with my English book and memorize the vocabulary words, trying to wait for her to come back and watch her walk from the cafeteria into the school building.”
”I’m ashamed to say that after a semester of memorizing words, I only scored more than thirty points in English at the end of the semester.”
”My academic performance got worse and worse, stabilizing within the bottom tens, and by the time I reached my senior year of high school, when everyone was breaking their backs and carrying on, my interests were reading and writing.”
”Read all kinds of extracurricular books, online articles, magazines, all sci-fi and suspense novels at home and abroad.”
”After reading more, a world would appear in my head, a world that I had conceived myself, and it was at that time that I first set up an author’s number on the Internet and tried my hand at writing.”
”More than a hundred days from the college entrance examination, a few of my comrades who were playing the night market closed down one after another, while I still stepped on the monitor and slipped out to code.”
”During the hundred-day pledge assembly, the school leader was on the stage making a general speech, and I looked at him, thinking about my favorite books, my favorite authors, and how I wanted to be just like them. Shape a world that a lot of people will like.”
”There are two ways to interpret those four words when you’re done with high school.”
”One is that the exam is over, and the other is that I’m done.”
”Only passed the score line of the junior college, compared to those who have taken a book and still not satisfied, ready to repeat, I decided to seize this last opportunity to confess.”
”It’s very true that I still didn’t open my mouth and saw the girl I liked with the class president.”
”I went to cut a bald head, as the city key high school key class only a college student, must have their own style, from the calm.”
”Not going to contact them anymore, maybe because, the stronger the self-esteem, the less people like others to sympathize.”
”Be an underachiever, and be an underachiever with a dream.”
”After I went to college, writing became all about me, and I’m going to get a mythological work that gathers all the elements of the ancient and modern world.”
”I read a lot of books, knew a little bit about everything, and pitched what I wrote to websites.”
”The first signing was at that time, more than 300,000 words on the shelves, no one read it.”
”Then pitched some messy stuff, they didn’t want it.”
”In the second semester of my junior year of college, some of my classmates started to get busy with specializing in college, getting their teaching certificates, etc., and I went to an internship in one of the farthest places from home.”
”My father’s factory closed down, the boss was sentenced to ten years for illegal fund-raising, and my mom was the only one in the family with a salary of less than two thousand.”
”Go out for an internship, the place furthest from home pays the highest salary, and you can still see the sea.”
”Thirty-three people from our school went to this company for internship, because it was just working on the front line, the temperature in the workshop was over forty degrees, and we had to be in constant contact with copper sludge and kerosene, and after a month, sixteen people stayed.”
”I because of professional reasons, then was transferred to other departments, daily work is not easy, but within the acceptable range.”
”Slowly becoming more and more skillful, the leadership also felt that although this child is not talkative, but down-to-earth and serious, and then transferred early.”
”Working eight hours a day, one day off a week, after getting used to this kind of life, I began to reflect on myself, should I work here for the rest of my life? How can a new-age worker have no ideals?”
”I started writing again, working eight hours and going back at night to write 4,000 words, 4,000 words that no one reads, no one likes, not even a scold.”
”If I don’t write, nothing will change, write, it’s exhausting, but at least I like to write.”
”Maybe God really favors people who work hard, the article has very few readers, but the girl I liked in high school suddenly contacted me on WeChat.”
”When I was a sophomore, I heard from another male student that she had broken up with the class president, but I was obsessed with writing my own mythological sci-fi suspense novel, so I didn’t care.”
”Then we started contacting each other a lot, and I visited her when I took my annual vacation, hanging out at their school.”
”There’s just one word difference between college and university, so I didn’t think the gap was too big, but then she got her master’s degree, and four words is a bit farther apart.”
”I forget what day the confession was, and I don’t know what I said at the time, but it just wasn’t right anyway.”
”It wasn’t too hard, I guess.”
”Then I just kept working and coding on my own, and finally got the book through to the shelves.”
”Still no one read it, and the monthly manuscript fee was more than six hundred, six hundred of which was a perfect attendance award.”
”Then I searched for my own book and found a lot of pirate sites, I was so angry, I went to report it, complained about it, and tried everything I could to finally add the QQ number left by the person on the pirate web page.”
”That place also has readers’ comments, more lively than my genuine book review area, after I added that person, I gave him the word to immediately take my book off the shelves, otherwise I will use various means to defend my rights.”
”He ignored me.”
”I looked for other piracy sites, found to stay a lot is the same person’s QQ number, I will reason with him.”
”Still not back, finally I a bone so proud of the poor student, the first time to beg.”
”I’m a genuine author, to this open pirate web page people say, I also do not ask you to downgrade, you do not synchronize with me to update, and so I genuine chapters sent three days after you then update okay? If you don’t agree for three days, one day is fine? Count me as begging you.”
”I also posted in that pirated version’s comment section, saying that I’m just six hundred full time a month, if you like it please support the genuine version.”
”Some people below replied to me, saying that I’m selling misery, saying that I’m stupid, saying that reading what I wrote poisoned me to death, saying that which god cares about all this, and that there’s just a lot of fucking pouncing going on.”
”The person who opened the pirate page didn’t reply to me, and I didn’t reply to those pirate readers, and after exiting the browser, I continued to go write today’s four thousand words.”
”Four thousand words a day, a month without stopping to get a full attendance reward – six hundred dollars, this six hundred is all the reward for all my efforts.”
”About a week later, I was driving the polishing machine when the operation error, the workpiece flew out and hit my hand.”
”The middle finger of my right hand, the bone was broken, just two layers of skin left attached.”
”The incident happened at two o’clock in the afternoon, after dealing with it at eight o’clock in the evening, I returned to my dormitory.”
”Turn on the computer, seven fingers to write today’s four thousand words, four thousand a day, do not stop this month before the full attendance award.”
”Write until 1:30 in the evening, just wrote more than three thousand words, then the whole person suddenly broke down, lying on the keyboard crying like a dog.”
”What the hell am I doing?”
”Then when I was on vacation again, I went back to my hometown, and that girl wanted to invite me to dinner, and then I went to dinner and watched a movie.”
”The movie I watched that day was Big Fish Begonia, and I saw that the female lead Tsubaki still got together with Kun after the male lead Chu gave his life for the female lead.”
”It was as if I saw myself and let go of everything.”
”I put my carefully prepared gift on the flyover and squatted on the road until the latter part of the night, people coming and going would probably think this guy is weird.”
”When I got home, I went back to Zhuhai the next day.”
”Working, coding, what sustained me then, I don’t even know what it was myself.”
”Then I wrote a new book, and after another half year, the heavens finally did not treat those who work hard, and I had the happiest time I’ve ever had.”
”I met a female reader who was five years younger than me.”
”At that time she was in school and I was at work, halfway across China.”
”The first time I went to see her, a typhoon came and the plane couldn’t take off and was late for quite a while.”
”What’s even more coincidental is that this typhoon hadn’t left yet, and there was another one about to make landfall behind it, and all of this is true.”
”At that time, she told me that if I couldn’t arrive that day, we wouldn’t be together anymore.”
”The most coincidental thing happened, in that small amount of time between the two typhoons, the plane took off.”
”That would be considered my first relationship.”
”Everything we did between us was a first for me.”
”The first time I held hands, the first time I went to an aquarium, the first time I went to an amusement park, the first time I passed by the entrance of a haunted house, the first time I rode the subway, the first time I kissed ……”
”The titanium straight guy in me didn’t let her worry a lot, and hid a lot of my shortcomings from her, such as corrected fingers that still show the problem, such as education, and bragging about my books.”
I had a lot to say to her, and was very in tune with her, and just happy to spend time with her.
”Then I wrote another psychic novel and got completely fired up, thinking that God really doesn’t treat a hardworking person badly.”
”Those days were like glowing, bitter and sweet, with dreams within reach.”
”It was as if I saw the poor student who stood the least conspicuous in the crowd saying thank you to me during the 100-day pledge assembly in high school.”
”Thank you for not giving up, and finally, one day, you’re standing with those authors who were once your favorites.”