It was already late January.
Around noon, Beta Town gradually grew livelier.
Although the Spring Festival was approaching and the schools were on winter break, this did not affect the influence of Beta Town's merchants in the Wizarding World at all. Guests still flowed endlessly through the streets every day, except that unlike usual, when students made up the main stream of customers
"I am a failure. I hardly ever notice whether the sun is shining, because I have no time.
"My parents could not support me, and my education was not high. Alone in the city, I searched for a future.
"I found many jobs, but none of them hired me. Perhaps no one liked someone who was not good at speaking, did not enjoy socializing, and had not shown enough ability.
"I spent three whole days eating only two loaves of bread. Hunger kept me awake at night. Fortunately, I had paid a month's rent in advance, so I could continue living in that dark basement without having to go outside and endure the abnormally cold winter wind.
"Finally, I found a job. Night watchman at a hospital, guarding the morgue.
"The hospital was even colder at night than I had imagined. The wall lamps in the corridor were not lit, and everything was dim. I could only rely on the faint light leaking from the rooms to see where I stepped.
"It smelled terrible there. Every so often, a dead person would be delivered in a body bag, and we would help carry them into the morgue.
"It was not a good job, but at least it let me afford bread. I could also use the free time at night to study. After all, no one wanted to come to the morgue unless a corpse needed to