At eleven o'clock in the night, Chen Shi, a third-year graduate student majoring in folklore at Jiangjing University, was still taking photos of a Qing Dynasty manuscript of "xx County Chronicle" in his tutor's office filled with old books.
The phone screen lit up, not with condolences from my girlfriend, but with a rent reminder message from the landlord: "Chen Shi, if you don't pay the rent this month, I'll move out tomorrow!"
