Operation: Date Battle

When he woke up, the lights in the hotel room were still on. Liu Zixing had slept through the night like that. Although it was already daytime outside, and unusually fine weather at that, the room with all its curtains drawn was still lit, making it a little brighter after all.

He checked the time. It was almost three in the afternoon. Liu Zixing had not expected to be so exhausted that he would sleep through lunch. Now his stomach was rumbling with hunger.

He quickly got out of bed and washed himself thoroughly. Finally, he shaved off the stubble that had grown over the past few days. He had no way to change his clothes, but he figured it was still better to clean himself up.

The wound on his ear, injured the previous night, had already hardened into a large clot. Liu Zixing looked at it and shook his head, feeling that he somehow suited having no ear on that side even better.

If he had had ears, he would not have spent all these years refusing to listen to his mother and wife's earnest advice, nor would he have been obsessed with gambling day after day... Since he had never been able to listen before, it might as well have been better not to have ears. Now that he had none, even if he wanted to listen, it seemed he could never hear again.

He thought about what he had to do that day, quickly tidied himself up, put his hat back on, checked out, and left the hotel.

The uncle at the front desk had been reading the newspaper, but was now eagerly chatting up a woman wearing a very short skirt and a coat. When he saw Liu Zixing checking out, he was not enthusiastic