Golden Assistant [HIATUS]

Chapter 1

November, Beijing.

"What did you promised me?! A few years to buy a house? A few years to buy a buy a car? I even left my old mother behind to follow you to this ghostly place. All your classmates are accomplished and successful in life, and look at you! What?! Are you even a man!"

Xiao Yi endured the scolding while they were walking, with hands in his pockets and a cigarette in his mouth. After a while, his girlfriend behind him stopped. But Xiao Yi didn't even notice, walking on, and on, and on.

"I'm sorry." Xiao Yi discarded his cigarette and reluctantly said, "Honey, I need to survive, it has been very hard to make a living, give me a little more time ......"

When Xiao Yi turned his body around to look at her but there was no one behind him. She was gone.

A burst of autumn wind passed by when the phone buzzed. "wife" had texted him.

(T/N: It is a trend in Asian countries to call their girlfriend as wife and boyfriend as husband)

'Xiao Yi, let's break up.'

Then his phone rang and Xiao Yi slowly answered the phone. It was a call from home.

"Xiao Yi." His old mother said on the other end, "how come you haven't been picking up your phone? When are you coming home to visit us?"

"I......" Xiao Yi said tiredly, "What happened? Has something happened?"

"Your father just watched the news broadcast about wedding reception room, it cost 80,000 yuan, is it enough?"

"I have no need for your money right now Mom. Ah, I'm entering the subway so I'll call you tomorrow, go to bed early and don't let dad borrow money."

12:00 Midnight

Xiao Yi was dead drunk when he returned to his rented room, kicked the door open and fell onto the sofa, gasping for air.

"Wasted, waste of space......good for nothing ......" Xiao Yi cried exhaustedly, "Might as well just die."

With that, Xiao Yi walked unsteadily to the balcony, facing the night view from 18 stories, and looked down. He slowly climbed up onto the railing, then quickly climbed back down. He repeated these actions for a while, then kneeled down and cried.

"Mother -" He sobbed.

"Crying boy!" The neighbor living next to the balcony pulled up their window and shouted at him, interrupting his cries "Do you know what time is it! If you are going to continue crying, I will call the police!"

This evil society only worships money, not even allowing people cry on their own balcony. Xiao Yi slowly crawled back into his room, the cold wind blowing on his back. He struggled to crawl into the kitchen, then twist the gas button on his stove. His telephone has been ringing nonstop, and he had finally glanced at it.

Xiao Yi looked at the gas stove and planned his next move. Boil the noodles and eat first, then think about committing suicide later.

Xiao Yi ate the instant noodles and gave his girlfriend a call, but her phone was turned off. After finishing the instant noodles, he lies down and closes both of his exhausted eyes.

The house rent is 2,000 yuan, water and electric bill is 400 yuan, accompanying his girlfriend to dinner at the mall is 1,000 yuan, credit card debt is 2,000 yuan, traffic ticket is 400...Minus monthly income of 5,000 yuan with tax. Every month he lives by his credit card, but the card always has such a low amount of money on it... One square bedroom is 80,000 yuan, but Tongzhou cost 250,300 yuan....Without eating or drinking it will take 300 years to buy a house and get married.