(You think it's slowly upgrading, but it's actually a whimper)
The rain in late spring always carries a lingering stickiness.
Lin Yue stood under the glass porch of "Hongtu Technology", looking at "3862.5" In the mobile banking payment message, and a smile uglier than crying appeared at the corner of his mouth. This is his optimized compensation, after deducting five insurances, one housing fund and personal tax, it is just enough to pay this month's rent - provided that he only eats instant noodles for the next half month.
At the age of twenty-seven, he had no car, no house, and no girlfriend. His only "achievement" was working as a "cog" in this Internet company for three years. In the end, he became the first batch of "costs" to be sacrificed because of the cancellation of the project.
Raindrops hit the glass diagonally, blurring the neon sign across the street. Lin Yue pulled the collar of his cheap suit, trying to cover the white collar of his shirt. He remembered HR's words about "company strategic adjustment", the evasive looks of his colleagues, and the fact that he stayed up late to revise the seventeenth version of the plan and finally had no chance to go online... A sense of powerlessness, like the rainy season, slowly rose up from the soles of his feet and flooded his chest.
"Damn it." He cursed, put his cell phone in his trouser pocket, and rushed into the rain.
