Chapter 2: The Strange City is Also Injured

  F city, a first-tier city, with high-rise buildings rising from the ground, majestic and magnificent. (Ha eighteen pure text) In the eyes of outsiders, it is a paradise filled with gold everywhere. The streets and alleys are lined with trees, and the branches are filled with large and small lanterns, as if the lively atmosphere of the first and second days still exists.

  Gu Xi was born in a small mountain village, studied at a polytechnic college, and is currently an intern. The villagers all say that "seven don't go out the door, eight don't return home", but she had a big fight with her parents on the seventh day of the new year and left the province with just one suitcase. For over 300 days in a year, she can barely stay at home for even a short while, carrying the burden of being the family's unlucky star every day. To her, all the rules and etiquette mean nothing, as in her eyes, she doesn't have a home to speak of.

  Just got off the big bus after sitting for three days and three nights, and the strong wind blew her smooth hair into a mess, covering half of her face. All over her body, only a black backpack on her back could reduce the teasing of the cold wind.

  The wind seemed to blow with a sense of unease, gradually accompanied by small raindrops, becoming more and more unrestrained in its playful teasing. The branches of the trees by the side of the road seemed to be bending their waists backwards as if being squeezed. Fortunately, just as she got out of the car, a boy handing out flyers enthusiastically handed her a large sheet of paper. The wind was too strong, and before she could even open her eyes wide enough to see what was written on the flyer, she had to use her right hand to shield her delicate face. After only a few minutes, her pale face had been reddened by the rain and wind.

  The rain was getting heavier and heavier, but she walked past a grocery store with umbrellas piled up like mountains without even giving it a glance, as if there was no concept of needing an umbrella on a rainy day. With the wind and rain battering her, she still dragged a small blue travel suitcase in her left hand. Stumbling along, she finally saw a hotel called Van Yue Hotel, which was decorated very luxuriously, with shiny walls that looked extremely comfortable.

  They say that people born under the sign of Libra are indecisive, but she didn't have a hint of hesitation. Or perhaps it was because she couldn't bear being soaked to the bone, she quickened her pace and walked into the hotel lobby. The front desk receptionist's unimaginable coldness, raised her head and saw a girl drenched from head to toe, didn't know if her eyes were originally big or if she looked down on her, so she simply stared at Gu Xi for a moment before burying her head in the computer, her hands and feet moving busily, the sound of typing was especially jarring.

  Gu Xi's eyes were blurred by the rain, and she didn't see the expression of the front desk lady clearly. If it was usual, she would definitely think of ways to make the other person embarrassed. The small hand that had been dragging the suitcase, hated to pull the sleeve with elasticity to cover it up, but the delicate jade-like hand was swollen by the wind and rain.

  The coat was completely soaked, and as she put down her luggage and took off the coat, underneath was a white shirt that was also completely drenched. Her hair was dripping wet, with water constantly trickling down her back, making her entire body look even more tense and agitated. It wasn't that her movements were clumsy, but rather that she had been frozen stiff, struggling to pull out an ID card from her backpack.

  "I'll open a room." The sound of teeth grinding was almost loud enough to cover up the music coming from the hall, but she still managed to say a few short words. The protective film kept her ID card in good condition, and with one hand, she pulled it out, which was all wet.

  "Look at the price yourself." The front desk girl didn't even look up, buried her head and pulled out a bill, throwing it on the table. Those words, deeply etched in Gu Xi's mind, so clear, what about big cities? Can big cities look down on people like this?

  The moment the receptionist threw down the bill, that gust of cold wind was more terrifying than the storm raging outside. She couldn't bear it anymore, dropped her luggage, grabbed the receptionist's golden hair with her right hand and pinched her chin with her left hand, roaring, "You think you're in a big city? You look down on people like a dog? Go die!"

  "Hey, are you crazy? Let me go! What kind of place is this? A high-end hotel! Can a poor student like you afford to stay here? Why don't you take a good look at yourself?" Finally able to see her face clearly, it was an oval-shaped face with a thick layer of powder, and she was quite tall.

  "How was it? How did Zhu Bajie feel when he looked in the mirror?" Gu Xi, in one breath, picked up the water cup next to the computer and poured it onto the screen of Lin Xiaorong's Apple mobile phone on the counter. Then, she pressed Lin Xiaorong's head down, her chin hitting the area covered with water.

  Lin Xiaorong was dragged away, shaking her head and struggling, splashing water everywhere, and even her hair got washed. She was more and more afraid, not expecting that the initially petite 1.58-meter-tall girl, who looked like a student with her outfit, had such great strength on the surface, looking soft and weak but actually very powerful.

  "Damn it, can you afford to compensate for my apple?" The other party still shouted without compromise.

  The receptionist was the boss of the Fan Yu Group's cousin, who was usually idle and had a proud and arrogant personality. She often put on an unpleasant expression. Just graduated from university and came out for internship, she didn't have the ability to find a unit by herself, so her cousin arranged for her to work at the front desk of the subsidiary company. He had many handles on her, so she could only obediently spend half a year interning in the hotel.

  "Apple, you banana! Do you know how to treat customers? Don't you know that the customer is God?" Gu Xi seemed even more agitated, grabbing Gu Xiao Rou's head and pulling it back, warning her with a pinch on the chin that made a crunching sound before slowly releasing his hand.

  Bang———

  Then she picked up her suitcase and suddenly turned around and left the hotel, her footsteps getting louder and louder. Gu Xiaorong was completely frightened to death, her trembling hands slowly touching her chin, as if she had been pinched by that crazy girl, and began to curl up in the corner and cry loudly.

  As Gu Xigang stepped out of the hotel, she couldn't understand why her tears were like a faucet that had lost its button and couldn't be turned off. She was known for being aloof and never crying, so why were her tears now not listening to her? Was it because her fantasy about the big city had been shattered, or was it because she thought of her family who didn't care about her?

  After the fight, she packed her bags and left. She didn't have much money on her, and it was a completely unfamiliar city. Just as she had started, she encountered a bottleneck. The bitter memories of the past flashed through her mind instantly. Growing up in a conservative and feudal small town, the phenomenon of favoring boys over girls was still very serious. Her mother had miscarried several times, and her father believed in a fortune teller from the village who blamed her younger brother for the miscarriages. At the age of seven, she chose to attend a boarding school despite it being close to home. For over ten years, except during Chinese New Year or occasional visits back home, she had no idea where the rice container was kept in her own house.

  She desperately escaped, only to find that everywhere was icy and loveless. Perhaps she was too angry, the rain-soaked jacket from earlier was thrown into the trash can, the cold wind swept in, and her thin blouse instantly absorbed more rainwater, completely clinging to her skin, making her entire figure look slender and elegant. Fortunately, she wore a plain undergarment without any patterns, not too revealing.

  Bang!

  A strong force knocked her down, and this fall made her feel like her butt was almost split in half. Before she could even lift her head to see the other person's appearance, that damn shoe slipped again, moving a meter away, and her entire body lay on the dirty ground, sighing that bad luck always followed her.