March 20, early morning.

  The bright skylight shines through the curtains, casting a warm tone on the interior. The white sheets were a little messy, and Huajiang Xiaye was curled up in the bed. A beam of sunlight stumbled through the floating air and landed on her trembling eyelashes.

  "Today... is Friday. It's so annoying to have to go to work."

  The phone dinged, and she weakly pressed the alarm clock and opened her eyes.

  What she saw was the familiar ceiling of her home. Did she sleep until dawn? Yesterday, she helped the new tenant buy something at the convenience store, and he took it away. After that...

  Huajiang Xiaye thought vaguely, feeling that she didn't remember it clearly.

  At this time, the phone dinged again. She took it to look at it, but it was a message from an account named "Meiji" on social software.

  Nagasawa Miki is one of her best friends in Tokyo. The two were high school classmates and now colleagues, working in the same company.

  Miki: "Good morning! How was yesterday? Are you done with Mr. Scumbag?"

  After reading the message, Hanae Natsuye understood what the other party was referring to and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

  She replied: "Well, it's over, and I returned home safely."

  She and Miki almost talked about everything, so the other party naturally knew the situation. Yesterday, it was the other party who first discovered the photos of the hotel on Instagram, and then told her intelligence.

  The other party immediately replied: "I've told you that man is unreliable, isn't he just a little bit more handsome? He spends the whole day with five and six people, thinking that he is like Johnny's idol. He doesn't work all day long and is idle. The only one who can tolerate this kind of person is you, Xia Ye."

  "But it's good that that guy didn't pester you anymore. It's still a bit shameful."

  "...Are you okay?"

  Miki clicked, feeling very worried. She felt worthless, and the last sentence was obviously worried about her, and Huajiang Xiaye felt a trace of warmth in her heart.

  Xia Ye: "It's okay. I don't feel anything anymore. Don't worry."

  After a pause, she remembered the scene where she happily slapped her face and returned to the back of the taxi. A man in the front seat went from talking and laughing with the driver to turning against him. Recalling it at this time, she suddenly felt funny.

  Xia Ye: "And I met a handsome guy later, who is now in the room downstairs and has become my tenant."

  Miki: "Hahaha, that kind of bastard is not worth being sad at all... What, you are so We met again soon? It seems that we don’t have to go to the nightclub today. Wait, you have become a resident! Natsuye-chan, you have changed and become better..."

  "What kind of handsome guy? Single? What's your name? How tall and handsome?"

  When mentioning the handsome guy, the other party's typing speed increased significantly. Huajiang Xiaye could already imagine her best friend's impatient look. However, for some reason, she didn't want to tell the other party the man's information so quickly. She used the all-purpose sentence "I have to go to work" to get over it first.

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  In fact, it was time to leave. Huajiang Xiaye looked at the time and hurriedly got up.

  Washing, facial mask, breakfast... Huajiang Xiaye was more efficient than before, and then spent an extra five minutes on makeup.

  Putting on her business attire and carrying her bag, she practiced "Good morning" several times in front of the mirror.

  Once she got the right feeling and was ready, she opened the door and set off.

  Huajiang Xiaye deliberately went down the stairs on the other side so that when she reached the first floor, she could pass by the new resident's room.

  Unfortunately, the man's door was closed so early in the morning. Sure enough, I wanted to happen to meet the other person coming out when I was going to work, but it was too difficult to be a coincidence.

  Huajiang Xiaye walked over hard and passed slowly. Everything was as usual. There was no other way. The flat shoes did their best.

  So she retreated slowly, stopped and leaned against the door.

  Listen carefully, there is no sound.

  Are you still sleeping? Didn't you sleep well yesterday? The next second, she felt like a fool again.

  Huajiang Xiaye herself couldn't answer the question of how she felt about the man named Yu Bai whom she had only known for a day, and why he did what he did. But because she thought about seeing him today, she even had to fight for a long time to get up. They all became crisp and cheerful, as if they had some kind of motivation for life. Could it be that I am really motivated by sex? No, no, Huajiang Xiaye, you are not such a superficial person...

  She thought, pacing back and forth in front of the door a little angrily.

  Lifting up her lady's watch, Huajiang Xiaye walked out of the apartment helplessly.

  Snap.

  However, just as she was about to walk out of the apartment door, there was the sound of the door lock opening and turning in the corridor on the first floor.

  There was only one person living on the first floor yesterday. Huajiang Xiaye took back her stepped foot and squatted down, as if her shoes were not worn properly.

  She pulled the heel with her fingers and twisted it crookedly for a long time. When the man behind her appeared rubbing his face, she finally put the feet wrapped in stockings in.

  "Good morning!"

  She showed a beautiful smile to the other party, "What a coincidence."

  Yu Bai saw Huajiang Xiaye at the door and was startled before replying: "Well...good morning."

  "Yu Bai, you are "I woke up very early."

  "No, I was asleep, but someone kept walking around outside the door and woke me up. Landlord, I think the sound insulation here needs to be improved."

  Huajiang Xiaye's smile became a little forced.

  "Hehehe... Really..."

  She gritted her teeth inwardly, and this time it was a double blow. Improve sound insulation? There is no charge for the materials, but you have to pay for the labor. I’ll make a fuss about it.

  "So landlord, are you going to work?" Yu Bai stared straight at the woman's beautiful face, then glanced up and down her outfit, and nodded imperceptibly.

  "That's right."

  Huajiang Xiaye keenly caught the focus of the man's eyes. She felt that she had achieved some victory this morning. She gently pulled the skirt and flipped her hair. Her little daughter said in a pretentious manner: "After all, I also have to work to support myself. My own."

  No matter how hard you work, can you buy a building in Tokyo?

  Deciding not to complain, Yu Bai withdrew his gaze and walked out of the apartment, and the two of them walked out side by side.

  "Yu Bai, what are your plans today? Are you going out?"

  "Yeah, yes, I'm going to forge my identity certificate... and take care of it. I had some accidents when I came to Tokyo and lost everything on me, so I have to solve these problems. "

  That's true." Huajiang Xiaye nodded in agreement. It turns out that this man still has common sense, understands priorities, and is very motivated.

  When she thought of something, she said: "Ah, that's right, you must need some money to do these things, right? You also need to buy a ticket to take the subway..."

  Without saying anything, Hanae Natsuye took out a Fukuzawa Yukichi Ten Thousand Yuan card from her wallet. The big banknotes were stuffed directly into Yu Bai's hands.

  Yu Bai: "..."

  "Then you owe me 170,000 yuan now, remember to pay it back." Huajiang Xiaye urged after giving the money, but looking at her expression, she was not in a hurry to pay back the money.

  In this situation, it would be very misleading for a woman to generously take money out of her bag and give it to a man. Yu Bai tried his best to regard this as a kind act from a kind person, "Okay, 170,000."

  "Then bye, tonight. See you!" The two of them had arrived at the fork, and Huajiang Xiaye said goodbye in a good mood.

  Seeing that the woman was already three or four meters away, Yu Bai's expression suddenly showed some hesitation.

  "Huajiang." He called to the other party.

  Huajiang Xiaye turned around in confusion.

  The woman smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"

  "Yesterday."

  Yu Bai said in a calm and word-by-word tone.

  "Don't you remember what happened last night?"