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At night in May, the temperature drops very quickly, forming a sharp contrast with the heat of the day. There was no one on the road, and the lonely street lamps stood on both sides of the street, emitting a cold halo. I was so drunk that I staggered out of the bar with a shy belly. I couldn't find an empty taxi outside. I walked and stopped along the road, and a gust of cold wind blew, and I woke up from the wine. The thin white shirt stuck tightly to the surface of the skin, and the cold wind blew straight up from the trouser legs. The hot alcoholic feeling dissipated in an instant, and the body began to shiver involuntarily. I shrunk my neck, crossed my arms across my chest, and moved forward. After walking for about half an hour, I unknowingly came to a main road. Looking around, I saw a majestic viaduct standing a few hundred meters ahead.

Destiny is indeed very miraculous sometimes. When you are lucky, it is like a divine help, and everything goes as you wish. The wind gets wind and the rain gets rain. However, people who have bad luck often complain that God is blind, and unlucky events happen one after another, as if they are colluded, and just come to you. Zhang Hongbin belongs to the latter. He had been extremely unlucky lately, and it seemed like the most improbable and terrible things in the world had happened to him. In the morning, he received a notice from the Human Resources Department. As the contract expired, the company would not renew his contract. Other colleagues who, like him, were told to pack up and leave, received a letter of termination along with a substantial amount of compensation. He was the only one who resigned normally without any additional compensation.

I was dressed in a brand-name outfit and ready to go out on a date. The driver was waiting for me at the door. The person I was dating was an alumnus of mine from college who is currently working as a reporter for a magazine. We didn't know each other well when we were students. I started dating her after I moved here after I got married. The meeting place was arranged in a corner of the busy city, which seemed to be a place of tranquility amidst the hustle and bustle. There were few customers in the coffee shop, and the soft nostalgic English melody slowly flowed out, giving people a feeling of relaxation. I dismissed the driver and followed the waiter to the reserved seat with intellectual steps. My friend's name is Ning Xin, but she has a fashionable French name of Yvonne. She had arrived first. "You're finally here."

The sky outside was dark, as if the end was coming. A dazzling bright edge cut across the sky, the rumbling thunder was deafening, and huge raindrops knocked on the window glass of the twenty-second floor, making a crackling sound, and the heavy rain poured down like a flood. The woman leaned against the window and stared at the man huddled in the corner. What would be the consequences if he were pushed out of this window right now? She hesitated. The thunderstorms in the hot summer may not last long, so we must make up our minds immediately. The man seemed to move. His hands were bound by ropes and clasped behind his back, face down, and his body slumped to the floor. "Where is this?" The man's voice seemed to come from a distant cave, hot and humid.

I stood at the entrance of an alley five hundred meters away from the subway entrance, holding a CD in my hand and looking around. "Hey, uncle, uncle, do you want to watch this kind of disc? It's colorful!" If I see a wretched uncle passing by, I will go up to him, show a cute smile, and sell him the disc. You guessed it! I am a vendor selling those kind of CDs. What is different from the traditional women who sell pirated discs is that what I carry on my back is not a child, but a JANSPORT backpack. Whenever there is any disturbance, I run away as fast as a rabbit.

The subway is the most convenient means of transportation for modern urbanites. The person who invented the subway must have never imagined that that small tin box could accommodate so many people who were squeezed out of shape. Subway people like me have long been accustomed to being calm in any cramped and crowded environment. As soon as I stepped off the subway, I naturally turned left. Five meters away from the subway entrance, there is a four-square-meter newsstand. The two iron doors that open outward are covered with colorful magazines. Buying a morning newspaper from the newsstand every morning is an unshakable habit of mine. Habits are terrible. Once you stick to the same behavior for many years, it will become a part of your life.

The subway is the most convenient means of transportation for modern urbanites. The person who invented the subway must have never imagined that that small tin box could accommodate so many people who were squeezed out of shape. Subway people like me have long been accustomed to being calm in any cramped and crowded environment. As soon as I stepped off the subway, I naturally turned left. Five meters away from the subway entrance, there is a four-square-meter newsstand. The two iron doors that open outward are covered with colorful magazines. Buying a morning newspaper from the newsstand every morning is an unshakable habit of mine. Habits are terrible. Once you stick to the same behavior for many years, it will become a part of your life.