Sun Quan drowsily opened his eyes, his eyes slightly tired, because the novel he had worked so hard to write for more than half a year was suddenly blocked by the website, which was a big blow to him.
After working on the street for more than ten years, I finally wrote a book that could earn over 10,000 yuan a month. Seeing that my life finally had hope, tragedy suddenly struck me. How many months had I experienced the feeling of earning over 10,000 yuan a month? It was so sudden.
After being banned, in today's fiercely competitive online literary environment, how difficult would it be to publish another work with that level of achievement? He wasn't very sure.
The bad mood before going to bed last night obviously did not disappear after a good sleep. The tiredness in his eyes at the moment was due to heart congestion.
But the next moment, he suddenly frowned and turned his head to look at his surroundings in a daze.
wrong!
This is where?
Why am I here?
what's the situation?
In a small rental house, there is a brand-new black laptop on an old wooden table not far away. There is a Coke can next to the computer. There are some cigarette ash and cigarette butts in the can; the ceiling is yellow and peeling;
He was holding a flip-type black mobile phone; the bed beneath him... was covered with a yellow mat...
Sun Quan sat up from the bed in a daze and looked around, almost as if he was in a dream.
He raised his hand to scratch his face, pursed his lips, blinked his eyes again and again, looking confused.
He had an impression of this house. It was a small single room he rented more than ten years ago, but... the question is... why does everything seem so real?
It doesn't feel like a dream at all.
Rebirth? Time travel?
As an online writer who has been on the street for more than ten years, he is no stranger to rebirth and time travel. He himself has written several novels about rebirth and time travel, but... when he wrote, he knew very well that they were all about rebirth and time travel.
It’s fake, it’s impossible for someone to really be reborn and go back in time.
But now... he seems to have really traveled back in time.
It's just...it's now 0 years?
He has lived in this small single room for more than three years.
It was not difficult to confirm that it was in the early 2000s. He casually took the black flip phone from the bedside table. It was a TCL flip phone he bought with royalties when he was in college.
Opening the phone cover, the answer appeared - August 8, 2006, the year he just graduated from college. Judging from the numbers, it was a very auspicious day.
From 2019 back to 2006, the time span is 13 years...
Sun Quan frowned, calculated, and suddenly laughed.
I'm a little happy, I'm 13 years younger all of a sudden. Compared with the material and financial losses, these 13 years are so precious!
What's more, when the novel he was serializing was banned from the website yesterday, he was also very poor. He rented a house, a second-hand car, and only had a savings of less than 100,000. As for the female banknote? He didn't even know that his mother-in-law had it.
If you are not born, where can you get a female vote?
He was not unhappy at all with using those things in exchange for 13 years of his life.
Money can be earned again, cars can be bought again, but time...
Only people like him who have experienced the fleeting time and wasted years can truly understand what "an inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time."
With a smile on his face, he got out of bed and walked to the sink, looking at himself in the mirror.
Younger!
You are indeed getting younger!
Although he is thin, although he has some acne on his face, although his hair style is a bit vulgar, and although the T-shirt he is wearing is a bit cheap, are these important? What is important is that he has turned back into a young boy!
It is said that "flowers bloom again and no one is young anymore", but now he is different. He has returned to his prime. In 2006, he was just 21, and everything was in its best form!
His parents are not old yet, housing prices have not yet skyrocketed, and there are still many singles among his seniors. The most important thing is - he has 13 more years of experience, and there are so many opportunities to make money!
As long as he makes money, his life will be very different!
but……
Before making money, you have to go out and fill your stomach first!
In front of the mirror, Sun Quan touched his belly, turned around and took out his wallet and keys from the bedside table. He also took his mobile phone with him. He didn't even change his clothes, so he just wore the flowery pants, flowery shirt and slippers and went out.
The small single room he is renting now is a private three-story building near M University. The landlord's family lives in the bottom three rooms, and the other seven or eight rooms, large and small, are all rented out.
Sun Quan rented the westmost room on the top floor. Apart from the hot weather in summer, there were no other disadvantages, at least for him.
He remembered that after he graduated from college, he could no longer live in the school dormitory, so he rented a small single room here and wrote online articles full-time. For the sake of cleanliness, he rented the top floor.
Then I stayed there for more than three years. On the road of no return, I went further and further away and never looked back.
When he realized more and more that writing online articles was a dead end, he could no longer look back.
As an old saying goes: When you realize that today is what you were yesterday, you know that you have lost your way and you have forgotten how far you have gone.
…
Coming down from upstairs, riding a second-hand bicycle he bought when he was in college, Sun Quan walked out of this urban village with familiarity and ordered a basket of steamed dumplings and a large bowl of white rice porridge at a breakfast shop next to M University.
And a bowl of beef bone soup, it's so delicious.
This breakfast shop was his favorite shop when he was in college. His favorite beef bone soup here is fresh and fragrant, with endless aftertaste.
But since he left City M, more than ten years have passed and he has never come back, so he has never eaten breakfast here or drank the beef bone soup here. Now that he has traveled back in time, this is his first choice for breakfast.
Home!
After eating and drinking enough, he was very satisfied when he left, with a satisfied smile on his face.
It really makes sense to have enough food and drink to miss home.
Riding his bicycle, he went straight into the campus of University M. There was an ATM on the campus, next to a campus convenience store.
Sun Quan rode there with a smile on his face. After the boy in front of him took out the money and left, he stepped forward, took out his wallet, took out his Agricultural Bank of China card, and inserted it into the cash machine.
Having just returned from time travel, he had to first determine how much money he had in his card. There was not much cash in his wallet, just a hundred dollars. If the funds in his card were too little, he had to quickly find a way to make money.
Although he has traveled back in time, he doesn't remember how much money he has in his card now.
He only had a vague impression - it seemed that when he just graduated, after renting a house and buying a laptop, he didn't have much left over from the manuscript fees he had accumulated during his college years.
The bank card was inserted into the cash machine, Sun Quan pressed it skillfully a few times, and the balance on the card was displayed.
——1246.00 yuan.
He blinked and smiled again.
Quite satisfied.
Such a small amount of money would definitely go unspent in 2019! If you just waste it a little bit, it would be easy to spend it all in a day or two.
But now it’s 2006!
Many people's salary is only a few hundred, two to three hundred, three to five hundred yuan a month. It's everywhere.
Prices are also quite cheap. For example, the breakfast he just had, which included a basket of steamed buns, a large bowl of white rice porridge and a bowl of beef bone soup, only cost 3.5 yuan in total.
A basket of steamed dumplings costs 3 yuan, a bowl of rice porridge costs 5 cents, and beef bone soup is given away for free, which is a small way for the store to attract customers.
Therefore, if he spends more than 1,200 yuan sparingly, it will last for three to four months without any problem.