The young girl's name was Lu Yi Yun. She was a complete otaku, and a severe 2D otaku. She never regretted it once she entered the otaku door, and she became haggard because of her love. She dropped out of college after a few days because she couldn't adapt to the environment. Since then, she had been living in a rented apartment.
Lu Yi Yun had a specialty, which was drawing. She had learned drawing and oil painting since she was a child, but she went astray because of her love for 2D when she grew up. She went on the road of comics and illustration. Now, she could almost support herself by taking some illustration orders. She also serialized some comics on Weibo, but it wasn't very popular.
She knew the reason very well. Her drawing skills were good, but what she lacked was the plot. A good plot but bad drawing skills could be tolerated, such as "One Punch Man" and "Attack of the Titans," but not vice versa. Having said that, the skill of making up a plot was not something that could be improved easily. She had to take it slow. She had been reading some popular novels recently, trying to improve herself. But maybe because she had read too many comics, she now had a headache reading things with words.
Lu Yi Yun was also a frequent visitor to "Eating, Drinking, and Playing in Binhai", but she wasn't a fan. Because she had never tipped or sent messages, she didn't dare to call herself a fan.
She watched Snowy's live broadcast not because Snowy was cute — she had already given up on 3D — but because Snowy would go to many places in Binhai City in her live broadcast, which was equivalent to traveling to the essence of Binhai City without leaving home. This was a very important life experience for Lu Yi Yun, who always stayed at home.
She followed Snowy's livestream to each unique shop. Whether the theme of the shop was food or board games, whether it was beautiful flowers or ancient books, she watched them with relish. Every time she watched, she would record it. All of these could become valuable material for her future comics.
She imagined walking into the shop with Snowy, tasting delicious food, listening to live music, taking a deep breath of the fragrant flowers, sitting on an old chair that was mottled with paint peeling from the long years, holding an old vertical traditional book, and spending the whole afternoon in the warm sunshine … But it was just a fantasy. She had no money, no time, and was even more afraid of going out.
Until last week, Snowy chose a pet shop for her live broadcast.
Lu Yi Yun also had a cat, which was left by the previous tenant when he moved. She didn't know what breed it was. If it was a precious purebred cat, the previous tenant would definitely take it away. The cat's back and head were yellow, its chest, abdomen, and face were white, and its limbs were also yellow and white. Its fur was quite long. The previous tenant called it "Jasmine."
At that time, Lu Yi Yun had just fallen out with her family because she had dropped out of college. Her parents threatened to cut off their relationship and cut off her living expenses. After renting a house, she had almost no money left. She was worried that she couldn't even feed herself, so how could she afford a cat? So, she asked the previous tenant to take Jasmine with him, but the previous tenant refused. He only said lightly, "If you don't want to keep her, then help me throw her away." After that, he carried his luggage and left. His back view was very cool.
Yi Yun said. and said. "Jasmine. Jasmine," Yun said.. and said. and said. "You. is. It's a life. Can you just throw it away? "
Perhaps it was because she felt that her lonely self was very similar to this lonely cat. When she came back to her senses, she had already hugged the cat in her arms and started crying. Jasmine didn't resist its new owner. It snuggled in her arms. Maybe it had accepted the fate of being abandoned.
After a long time, Lu Yi Yun wiped away her tears. For it, she had to find a way to fill her stomach.
From then on, she tried hard to pull herself together. She submitted her illustrations to different websites, and tried her best to get into various QQ groups to accept orders and advertise. Because she was a newcomer, the number of orders she received were not many, and they were not stable. The royalties were very low, but the requirements were very high. She was often woken up in the middle of the night by phone calls. She had to get out of bed to change her drawings. After changing it once, the other party was still not satisfied, so she had to change it a second time and a third time.
She also lost control and lost her temper in the empty rental house. Except for the mobile phone and computer drawing board, she didn't dare to smash it. But even at this time, Jasmine didn't avoid her. It silently squatted next to her, as if it had done something wrong. It didn't cry or move. In the end, the person and the cat cried together. After crying enough, they continued to change the drawings, and they changed until dawn.
After the initial difficulties, because she didn't disobey the client, and her drawings were good, and she submitted the drawings on time, the number of orders slowly increased, and the price of the drawings also increased a little. Life finally improved, and she and the cat had lost a lot of weight.
When she saw the live broadcast of Snowy's pet shop, the store manager introduced to the camera that the shop could provide cat bathing services. Only then did she remember that since she took over Jasmine, she had never given Jasmine a bath.
The rental house was the size of a palm, and she and Jasmine were always stuck together. After experiencing the hot summer, Jasmine's fur was long. If she said that Jasmine didn't have a smell, she would be lying to herself.
She felt guilty and blamed herself. Why didn't she think about whether Jasmine needed a bath when she was taking a bath?
In the live broadcast, she saw that Snowy also bought a cat in the store. The price was shockingly expensive, but Snowy didn't even frown. Sure enough, being a streamer was rich.
Because she trusted Snowy's choice of store, she decided to take the cat to the Amazing Fate Pet Shop for a bath. After checking the map on the Internet, she was surprised to find that the old-fashioned community she lived in was actually very close to the Amazing Fate Pet Shop. The back door of the community was on the same street as the Amazing Fate Pet Shop, and it was only a ten-minute walk. This further dispelled her fear of going far away.
There was a small supermarket in the community. She could cook by herself, and other things could be solved by express delivery or e-commerce. She hadn't left the community for several months. She had been staying in her room and desperately drawing.
Because she had lost a lot of weight, and because she didn't go out often, she didn't need to buy new clothes. Her previous clothes looked very fat. She cut her hair in the bathroom, in front of the mirror, so her hairstyle was terrible. She hadn't seen the sun for a long time, so her cheeks were unhealthy pale. She had been working at a desk for a long time, so her myopia had worsened. Her cosmetics were only the most basic moisturizer.
Looking at herself in the mirror, even she felt that she was very old. But it didn't matter. Anyway, she wasn't going out to look for a chance encounter, so her image didn't matter.
Along the way, she always felt that the pedestrians around her were looking at her. Countless eyes intertwined into a net, tightly entangling her. She hugged Jasmine tighter, suppressed the urge to turn around and run away, and quickly walked to the location on the electronic map with her head down.
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