Refuse To Bind The System, Meet God At The Corner

It’s night, x month x day, 20xx year, earth.

In an unknown small city, there is an endless flow of people and cars on the criss-crossing roads.

Maybe it's because it's midsummer, so even late at night it's not too hot. On the contrary, the occasional cool breeze blows down the necks of passers-by.

Downstairs of a small apartment, Xie Lingyun stopped in front of a beverage vending machine with two deep dark circles under her eyes. She clicked on the scan-to-pay function. On the display screen, a handsome but slightly haggard face came into her eyes. .

It looks good, but not very good-looking, and for an ordinary office worker who is almost thirty years old and doesn’t have much savings and still works overtime all day long, these things are not very important.

Because these things are really of little use to a middle-aged woman who is not good at socializing with others and is still clumsily learning how to deal with the world.

"Beep-beep-bang!"

A bottle of coffee dropped. Xie Lingyun took it to the park in the community not far away, found a bench and sat down, unscrewed the cap of the bottle, raised her head and drank the drink. The slightly bitter taste filled her lips and teeth. .

"Hey, it's time to get off work."

A familiar voice came from the direction on the right. Xie Lingyun didn't bother to look at it and asked casually: "What are you going to do if you don't sleep so late at night?"

"I just sent Qiao Wanzhao home." The visitor walked to the other side of the bench and sat down. The young man named Mu Bai smiled and asked, "Are you working overtime again?"

Xie Lingyun was relatively familiar with this boy who lived alone on the same floor. If she didn't have time to cook, she would go to his place to eat and drink. The two of them, who had known each other for a long time, had almost become close friends.

"An ordinary employee like me with no merit would have been fired if he didn't work overtime." Xie Lingyun finished the drink and threw it into the trash can not far away.

"Yeah, that's right." Mu Bai chuckled, "Work hard, and the days will become sweeter and sweeter."

"Haha, indeed." Xie Lingyun leaned back lazily, squinting at the young man sitting next to her, "Why did you stay up late at night and come to the park to find me, an old aunt?"

"Isn't it inappropriate to come to me just after sending a young girl home? Can't that little girl satisfy you?"

As he said that, Xie Lingyun's tired face showed a hint of charm, and she stretched out her toes and gently rubbed Mu Bai's calf.

"But I think you might not be able to satisfy me...Auntie, I'm quite horny."

There were cicadas chirping late at night in midsummer, and there were only two people in this place, a man and a woman. Speaking like this, an inexplicable ambiguous atmosphere instantly lingered here.

Mu Bai was unmoved. He just sighed and said:

"Come on, you better stop acting like an old maid who has never even been in love."

"You should just honestly find a boyfriend... No, at your age you should go on a blind date."

After hearing these two words from Mu Bai, Xie Lingyun instantly felt deflated. She lowered her head in disappointment and muttered in a low tone:

"I want to too...but I just can't find the right one..."

"My parents are at home all day urging me... I just want to urge you. I don't want to just find a man to get married."

"Oh." Mu Bai asked with a smile: "Then what kind of man do you think is suitable?"

"Is he the kind of man who is rich, handsome and well-educated? A man who is only loyal to you and will always only revolve around you?"

"I'm dreaming, of course not." Xie Lingyun said mockingly, "It's not like I don't know how much I weigh... That kind of me is really not suitable for me. Those people don't look down on me... I don't know how much I weigh... I never asked for this..."

"Okay, okay! Don't interfere too much in my emotional issues! You'd better take care of yourself first, student boy!"

Xie Lingyun suddenly wanted to change the subject with some embarrassment, and asked with some gossip: "How are you and that little girl named Qiao Wanzhao developing now? What stage are you at?"

"It hasn't even started yet, how can there be so many stages?"

Mubai smiled and shook his head, took out the small ball-shaped alarm clock from his pocket, and handed it to Xie Lingyun.

"Okay, now it's back to its original owner."

"I thought you would borrow it for a long time." Xie Lingyun took the small alarm clock and found that it seemed to have signs of being worn and beaten, and asked with some confusion: "What's going on?"

"Used for playing tricks and saving people."

Mu Bai smiled and did not make any unnecessary explanation.

"Tricky and saving people..."

Repeating what Mu Bai said, Xie Lingyun rolled her eyes, and an idea slowly took shape in her mind.

"What, what are you thinking about?"

"Well, it's the plot idea of ​​my novel."

Xie Lingyun played with her slightly damaged spherical alarm clock and said excitedly.

"There is a character named 'Duan Murong' in the novel I wrote. I originally wanted to write her to death, but after thinking about it, I felt that if she was written to death, the subsequent plot would not be able to develop. I was worried about how to write it. I’m going down, but what you just said inspired me.”

"Why don't we get a mechanical deity!" Xie Lingyun became more and more excited as she talked, gesturing as she said: "The mysterious man Mu Bai from the earth was involved in that accident, so he used a special alarm clock for Xiao Heizi. By chance, Xia Kunkun's words of 'What are you doing~~' saved that girl's life!"

As she spoke, her thin and somewhat pale fingers pressed hard on a certain case on the small alarm clock, and the long and continuous scream immediately sounded:

"What are you doing~~~Haha~ouch~~"

Mubai listened intently and asked with a smile: "The deus ex machina is fine, but why do you have to use my name?"

"Using your name is a compliment to you. You will be secretly happy when you read novels in the future." Xie Lingyun took out her mobile phone and prepared to continue writing the unfinished plot yesterday. When you become rich, you will reward me with a golden alliance!"

"Didn't you write a novel on a free novel website? Mubai laughed dumbly and said, "If you want to subscribe and reward, you have to go to some paid website to write. "

"Well, that's a good suggestion. After I finish writing this book, I may have to go to a certain place to preach." Xie Lingyun took a sip of cold coffee and continued typing: "Some readers of this website are too naive."

"Huh? How do you say this?"

"Alas, Mubai, you don't know something." Xie Lingyun sighed, turned off the screen of her mobile phone, and said helplessly: "Some of the readers who read novels on the website where I write novels are really ignorant. "

"What are those specifically?"

"It's just those trolls who click here and take a second look before posting negative reviews!" Xie Lingyun tightly grasped the coffee bottle in her hand and said through gritted teeth: "If you don't like what you see, why don't you just exit? I don’t ask them to see it.”

"If the novel I write is a paid subscription type, they can criticize them as much as they like. After all, the readers paid for it. To take a step back, if those people read it for a long time before leaving a negative review, then I will admit it. , after all, you also spent time."