Buying Happiness
No matter how unwilling Xu Qian was, the shuttle ultimately arrived at the First Layer.
After leaving the station, Xu Qian first looked up at the somewhat rigid sky overhead. Unlike the Third Layer, although the First Layer's sky also had clouds, those clouds never moved. Looking at them for too long could even make one feel uneasy. Moreover, there were only two temperatures in a day—daytime and nighttime—and both remained constant, never changing with the passage of time.
Xu Qian sighed. "I don't know how I managed to live in this hellhole for nearly a year."
"Do you still remember this place?" Zhang Heng asked.
"How could I not? Especially when I was just starting out as a streamer on the Second Layer, I had nightmares every night that the viewer count in my stream kept dropping until I had no choice but to return here. Thanks for making my nightmare come true." Xu Qian glanced at the stalls around the station, contempt flashing in her eyes as she tugged at her 20,000-Credit-Point coat.
"Come on. Didn't you say we were going to the little restaurant where I used to work? The sooner we're done, the sooner we can go back." Xu Qian had finally come to terms with it. Since she could not refuse this trip to the First Layer, she might as well cooperate and get this nightmare over with as soon as possible.
The two of them hailed a cab and went straight to the small restaurant where Xu Qian had once worked.
Before getting out, Xu Qian pulled a pair of oversized sunglasses from her bag and put them on, covering half her face. As soon as they stepped out of the car, they saw two young women in short skirts by the