His belly is as round as a ball, swaying from side to side when he walks. A simple, honest expression is always on his face. His eyes are small but bright, and when he smiles, they narrow to slits. Because he is fat, he sweats easily in summer, often soaking a large patch of his T-shirt and giving off a faint smell of laundry detergent. He is sensitive, stubborn, and a little inflexible, and once he makes up his mind, it is hard to change it. He is kind at heart, but does not know how to express it. His past has made him wary of everything around him, always suspecting someone is scheming behind his back. He carries a blue notebook titled “Scam-Proof Diary.” Whenever anything strikes him as “suspicious,” he writes it down at once and marks it with pens of different colors. He loves instant noodles, especially braised beef flavor, and keeps a whole case hidden under his bed. In 2016, he enrolled in the investigation program at a prestigious university, earning grades above average. Shortly before graduating in 2020, the lavish seafood takeout he had ordered to celebrate passing a job interview was stolen, causing him to miss his interview at the police station. He then failed the graduate school entrance exam twice, his first love ran off with the 30,000 yuan they had saved together, and he repeatedly hit dead ends in his job search. In the end, he became a night-shift cashier at a convenience store in Minle Residential Compound. Time here seems to pass more slowly than outside. The residents still keep many old habits: every morning, Grandpa Zhang buys a newspaper at the newsstand by the entrance, while every afternoon, Auntie Li makes sure to get to the market on time to snap up fresh vegetables. This slow-paced life provides the soil for Wang Dapang’s “fantastical” experiences.
Very plain, but also very healing
It's very healing, even though it's a bit nagging, it's still very relaxing.