Days Watching the Sea in the Fog

Yingshui City is a small seaside town that is always shrouded in fog. Zhang Manqing, sixteen years old, has three major hobbies in life: reading comics, pretending to be trash, and openly pulling out "Disqualification in the World" in English class to piss off the teacher. His family owns a second-hand bookstore called "Ting tide". The only employee in the store is an orange cat. The only drawback is that the cat feels that the entire row of "Osama Dazai's section" is its private property. Until one day, no one came to the job advertisement for three days after it was posted. On the fourth day, someone came. Zhang Wanning. A new transfer student, first prize in the essay competition, dressed in school uniform like a literary girl from the Showa era - if you ignore the bottle of pink magic claw in the mezzanine of her school bag. "Looking for part-time jobs?" She said. "You?" He said. "How much is the salary?" "The books are heavy, dusty, and cats will bite—" "If a cat bites someone, I'll call the police. If you bite someone, I'll resign." ... Okay. From that day on, they had a dual identity: during the day, they were ordinary classmates who pretended not to be familiar with each other, and after school, they had an employment relationship where they turned off the lights together, fed the cat, and battled wits with the mice in the bookstore. He didn't know why she came. She didn't know what he was thinking. But the orange cat knows everything. But it doesn't say. It just slaps you with its tail and goes back to sleep. A story about how two people gradually became "not just classmates, nor just bosses and employees" in the fog of Yingshui City, in the dust of used bookstores, and in the peripheral vision of secretly observing each other. Wait, what does "not just" mean? You'll find out just by looking down.