In the spring of 2023, 29-year-old Shen Yuan bought a house called "Qingwu Garden" in Yancheng.
Three bedrooms and two bathrooms, 30-year mortgage. The down payment was saved by his father who spent more than ten years scraping putty in Beijing.
In order to repay the loan, he worked in a braised vegetable shop during the day and went to the courier station to sort goods at night.
Life was tight until he met the girl selling egg burgers at the side entrance of Qingwu Garden.
Five dollars each, no salad dressing.
She smiled and said, "You are the best person I have met in this city."
A book about mortgages, street lights and egg burgers, describing the process of ordinary people slowly warming up their lives on a cold night.
