Lin Wanxing escaped.
He escaped from his wealthy but suffocating home, escaped his cousin's control over everything, and went south alone to find a job. She thought that a strange city was the starting point of freedom, but on the day of the interview, she was mistaken by HR for a job liar and locked into a windowless tea room in the office building. The door was chained from the outside, and the incandescent lights were buzzing. No one responded to her knocks and calls.
Fifteen hours. The battery of her mobile phone was running out little by little, and no one knew which floor of the building she was on.
She ordered a takeaway and wrote a line of small words in the remarks column: "Please help call the police. I am trapped in the tea room and the door is locked outside."
The rider who took the order was called Lu Qiao. He is twenty-three years old and has been working the night shift for three years. He is used to the glamor and squalor of this city. After seeing the note, she didn't hesitate. She picked the lock, lured the security guard away, and grabbed a strange girl by the wrist from the fire escape at 2:30 in the morning.
After that night, two completely different lives collided.
One is a "caged bird" who is over-protected by his family and faces the world alone for the first time; the other is a "night walker" who has been making a living since he was sixteen and has long been accustomed to walking alone. They crowded into an old rental house on the outskirts of the city. One taught the other how to distinguish between illegal agencies and job scams, and the other helped the other sort out labor arbitration documents and recover the wages that had been withheld.
HR tried to silence and spread rumors; the cousin came to intercept and draw class boundaries; the old company's dirty materials about squeezing job seekers, evidence of illegal deductions from takeaway sites - all the undercurrents poured into these two girls.
But this time, no one spoke for them.
They only have each other.
