The alarm clock rang at eight o'clock, and the room was dark, only the light of the corridor leaked from the crack of the door.

This basement is a number of cubicles that were later renovated and has no windows, so no sunlight can be seen. Above each door is an exhaust fan that rotates 24 hours a day to keep the air circulating.

Alex rubbed his eyes, rolled over and sat up.

He didn't work today, but he made an appointment to play. He got up, took off the towel, put it on the basin, and went to the water room to wash. Passing by the shower room and seeing that it was empty, I simply went in and took a shower.

There is a long line in the shower room at night, but there is no one at this time. Most of the people in the basement went out to work.

The tenants in this basement are young and mostly single.

The host is a thoughtful person. He was looking for tenants, only young people. Bring a family with a family, old and young, he doesn't want it. The landlord himself said that in the early years, he had also found something like that. Needless to say, the child is noisy and doodles on the wall. Some people with low quality will urinate when they open their crotch in the corridor.

The old man is sloppy and loves to collect things. There was an old man in a tenant's house who almost turned the basement corridor into a waste recycling station.

The landlord got into a fight with them before kicking them out. After that, he only hired young, preferably single, tenants. He will also ask how many people live in the other party, and he allows up to two people in a room. Otherwise, there will be too many people, not to mention the pressure on toilets and showers, as well as various safety hazards. If he is married, he has to ask if he has children. If he has children, he generally does not rent.

Speaking of which, he is quite clever. Although it is a damp and cold basement, he manages it very well. The corridor is clean and no one is allowed to put anything in the corridor. Just throw it away when you put it on the landlord.

It is not lost if you throw it away, it is signed in the rental contract.

If there is a power outage and there is no light in the corridor, you can immediately see the arrow drawn with fluorescent paint on the floor, indicating the direction of the exit. Throughout the basement, fire extinguishers are located in six different locations.

It can be seen that the landlord takes great care in running the basement.

Combined with the low price, the small cubicles here are in short supply. The landlord is said to have a long list in their hands, all queuing up for rent. Update every week.

So the landlord never competes with those who can't pay the rent. If you don't pay for three days, you will let me slip away. The new tenants moved in immediately.

Alex came back from the shower and looked at the empty room. David made his last payment last week, invited a few friends for a big drink, and left on Saturday. Alex took him to the train station and forcibly gave him a thousand dollars before parting.

Dawei hugged him and patted his back fiercely: "You are so handsome, I will turn on the TV and tell people, this is my buddy. Son, in the imperial capital I slept with me on the bunk and the bunk, crying, crying, hold it back for me, is it a man, you cry all the time"

David said, his eyes were red. ...

The great man is very good, has a sincere heart and a good personality. He is one of alex's few friends. Alex has many acquaintances, but not many can be called friends. If you can ask for help when you are down, you can open your mouth to borrow money from the other party and the other party is willing to borrow money when you are in financial trouble.

Alex looked around the cubicle, and in the future, he lived alone in this room. He has some money on hand now, but he has no plans to move from here and find a better house. Mainly because the rent here is really cheap. And he can't make sure he can afford the higher rent all the time. His uncertainties are out of his control.

He took out a basketball from under the bed and put it in his backpack. Alex got dressed and put on his sneakers to go out.

He is tall and has good motor nerves. He has been on the school basketball team since high school. He doesn't have the pocket money to go to the arcade to play video games or go to Internet cafes like other children. Playing basketball is one of his few hobbies, and he has never put it down.

The place he rented is near the West Second Ring Road, which is an old community. The advantage is that life is convenient, and there is a subway when you go out. He took the Line 2 subway to bypass half of the Second Ring Road, changed to Line 1 and took another stop of the subway.

Next to the famous **** park in the imperial capital, there is a famous gymnasium. Outside the hall is a large basketball court with many fields. Many people who like to play basketball love to come here. When there are a lot of people, if you want to play the whole court, it is easy to gather people, and there are still spectators.

Alex first brought his own basketball to play. I met some people very quickly.

The boys were about the same age as him, but with very different identities. They are all college students.

Boys naturally have no identities when exercising. Alex has played on the school team. He is very high-level and very popular. He quickly mingles with these peers, and he has the illusion of returning to his school days.

When it was time to eat together, the children remembered and asked his name and identity. When I heard that he was a model, I felt that it was a glamorous profession. For these children still in school, it was a mysterious and unknown world.

They envy him for his height, handsomeness, taste in his clothes, and envy him for shooting a basketball casually, making the girls nearby scream and applaud, even if they come with their boyfriends.

Alex is a model, professional environment and financial independence, make him very tasteful in clothes. Compared with him, those male students were a bit of a bum.

He was even pursued by schoolgirls.

The girl was a girlfriend brought by a certain boy's girlfriend and claimed to be in love with him at first sight. After watching him play for weeks in a row, I finally mustered up the courage to make a confession on the basketball court.

At that time, a group of big boys were booing, thinking that the girl was pure and beautiful, and the boy was tall and handsome, and they were a perfect match. As a result, alex rejected the girl and surprised them.

When eating together, the eyes of those boys were full of envy and hatred. They opened their minds and guessed wildly. Ask him if he doesn't like ordinary beautiful girls because he has seen too many beautiful female models.

Alex didn't explain, they thought he acquiesced. A group of single dogs are very envious.

They don't know, Alex rejected the girl because of his inferiority.

He knew that the envy of these college students for him was due to their innocence and ignorance of the world. They just think that modeling is a glamorous profession, ignorant of the hardships and ugliness involved. If he was with the girl and let her know about his life, those beautiful illusions would soon be disillusioned.

He felt that by then, she and they would look down on him.

Because he is not worthy of a female college student at all.

Those male students who are full of envy to him don't understand at all, they are the ones he envy and yearn for.

He actually worked hard in high school and wanted to get rid of his original life by taking the university entrance exam. Unfortunately, his brain is not very useful, and he is not good enough in learning. In the end, I didn't even get into a college, so I could only go out to the society.

Only when you enter the society will you truly understand the purity and beauty of the campus, but at this time, you will also realize the truth that time cannot be reversed.

Later, he made a girlfriend, who was a model like him, and the girl chased him first. In fact, there have always been quite a few girls chasing him, but he doesn't seem to be very enlightened about love and has no idea.

The girl is also a little sympathetic. Her family background is very similar to him, and she said she hadn't been back for two years. She said that she was fine when she was alone, and she didn't need to go home, and she didn't need to go back to that home.

Alex is very distressed. He wanted to persuade her to go home and have a look no matter what. Although she liked him and made it clear that she was chasing him, she sneered at his words.

Alex thinks that a woman's heart can be harder than a man's or is it just that he is too weak

Anyway, he felt flustered if there was nowhere to go back.

It was originally a large group of people drinking together, and finally became a family where the two of them talked to each other.

In the corner of the bar corridor, the girl hugged him and kissed him hard, and said with tears: "You understand me, right? You understand me."

He felt distressed and developed some different feelings for her. He took the girl back to the three-bedroom apartment he shared with others at that night because of his vigorous age and alcohol.

The girl is very thin. In order to maintain her figure, she eats three meals a day no more than a mouse. There is a bikini bridge when lying flat, and when alex exerts force, her crotch hurts several times. In fact, in the end, Alex didn't even know if the other party was a virgin. He didn't ask, he didn't think it was important.

I have seen more men and women in this circle seeking comfort from each other. It is more important to have someone to accompany and not be alone.

In the six months they were together, it was impossible to say whether they were happy or unhappy. Girls cry a lot, drink a lot, and cry more when they drink. She said she wanted to get ahead, to make a lot of money, and to slap her father and stepmother in the face with thick bills.

Alex is not a very coaxing boyfriend, he just accompanies her silently. He felt that at such times, she needed company.

Later he realized that she actually needed something else. Those, he couldn't give her.

For what she wanted, she fell in love with a man in his thirties. He is a business owner, and she modeled for his company's products, and she was attracted by men and quickly became hot.

When she broke up with him, she didn't feel any guilt and said some unpleasant things. She said he was nothing but a good-looking face. He can't give everything she wants, he can't give it.

Their mutual acquaintances are very upset for him. They dragged him to drink, and it was them who drank the most. Probably the girl's words, although it was him, fired a class gun and swept away all these young men with unstable incomes.

The most indifferent is Alex. When he was with her, he felt sorry for each other out of the same illness, and he just wanted to seek some comfort. As a result, during the time they were together, instead of getting the comfort he wanted, it gave him a lot of psychological pressure.

She gave up on him, but he felt relieved. Not too sad.

Because he always knew she was right.

He is nothing but a good-looking face.

But life, even if it is sentient, cannot drink enough water.