Twenty-six-year-old Su Wan is a cultural and creative editor for a small publishing company in Shanghai. Her monthly salary is just over 10,000 yuan. She commutes to work on the subway every day and is worried about KPIs. The cultural and creative products she planned were plagiarized by large companies and were slapped down. In order to protect themselves, the company pushed her out to take the blame. Unemployed, blacklisted from the industry, her savings were at the bottom, and on that rainy night when her life hit rock bottom, she found a roommate posting on a rental housing classifieds website.
The person who posted the message was Gu Huai.
Twenty-nine-year-old Gu Huai is the founder and technical director of an AI medical startup company. The primary medical auxiliary diagnosis system developed by the company burned through three rounds of financing. Investors withdrew their capital and partners ran away. He mortgaged his parents' old house in his hometown to pay his employees the last month's salary. There are only three people left in the company, and the account balance is 47,000 yuan. I cannot afford to pay next month's rent.
Two young people who were pushed to the ground by life and rubbed against each other accidentally ended up in the same old shabby apartment because of a post about sharing a house. There are two bedrooms and one living room, there is no elevator on the sixth floor, the kitchen faucet leaks, and the refrigerator buzzes like a tractor.
Su Wan does cultural and creative product design, and Gu Huai writes code. At first, they were roommates who were struggling. By chance, Su Wan helped Gu Huai's company design the first version of the product interface and brochure. Gu Huai helped her write a crawler program to monitor plagiarism in the market. Two young people with nothing, relying on their respective professional skills, spent countless late nights in the living room eating instant noodles while building a future.
