After five days in Guangzhou, it was finally time to set foot on the road home...
When buying the ticket home, Shadow let out a huge sigh of relief, yet was also filled with deep unease, confusion, and worry. None of the money spent had been his own; once he returned, he would have to repay it or account for it...
Why had he come from Fujian Province to Guangzhou this time? For their future, his wife's work, and his son's future—to join a brand. He had not come to sightsee, nor did he have the mood or means to sightsee...
The only sightseeing had perhaps been when he went to wait for Xiao Ya, that great-looking guy. He had arrived early, then spent two or three hours wandering the streets with his wife, taking a look at Guangzhou's economy, local customs, and way of life. The rest of the time, he was either in class, writing, or sleeping!
Late at night, when all was still and silence reigned, his wife had long since gone to sleep. Shadow alone faced the computer, laboriously typing away, writing chapters. Having grown used to the computer at home, he truly was not accustomed to using other computers. Still, he kept the updates steady!
On this trip far from home, Shadow had not even brought a hundred yuan of his own money. He had only carried two borrowed credit cards totaling twenty-five thousand yuan... (Writers had no benefits at all; they could not even get credit cards.)
At around ten in the morning on May 10th, his manuscript payment arrived.
Shadow breathed a huge sigh of relief. Then, together with fifteen thousand yuan on the credit cards, it was all swiped out in less than two hours, barely enough to pay the franchise fee.