This novel was written by a director in the Blood God Hall (VIP group).
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Lin Xuerui looked at the door of the small room. Deep in the dim corridor, she could hear the man's footsteps gradually fading away.
He wouldn't come back, right?
She thought with some apprehension. Finally, she retracted her gaze to the bedside table at the door of the small room. There was a white crystal there.
She didn't care about the awkwardness of her exposed body. She jumped off the bed, stepped on the messy clothes on the floor, and reached out to hold the thumb-sized thing in her hand.
After all, if she was seen by the manager or her mother, the extra tip would fall into the hands of others for nothing.
Thinking of this, she looked at the clothes on the floor and couldn't help but curl her lips. Finally, she met a gentler person who didn't tear her clothes off. At least he still undid them.
The manager knocked on the door and coughed. Lin Xuerui understood that he was urging her to hurry up. The manager was young and looked to be in his thirties. It was rare for him to be gentle to a girl like her who had just entered the industry. He seemed to have a good impression of her. Otherwise, he wouldn't have asked her to work the clock every day.
She hurriedly put on the short cheongsam — work clothes.
She hid the crystal in the depths of her cleavage that she used to be proud of. When she walked out of the room, she met the manager's gaze that lingered on her body. The latter's lips curled into a faint smile. "This new major general is a virgin, right?"
"… Probably," Lin Xuerui replied subconsciously.
The manager nodded and wrote in the small notebook in his hand.
"Well … Counting it, he's your tenth customer. Congratulations." This was the second time the manager had congratulated her. The last time was after she had her virginity.
She smiled and then remembered that she had entered the industry for less than ten days.
The slight pain in her lower body made her stagger a little. At least, it was much better than the pain that her previous customers had brought her.
The texture and coldness of the crystal core between the two Little White Rabbits gave her an inexplicable sense of confidence in life. The words that her father had once said to her when they were together surfaced in her mind.
At that time, she had come to Beijing alone for the art exam. The art exam was the coldest time in the capital in February.
The cold wind blew on her body. As a southern girl, she knew for the first time why there was an idiom called bone-chilling wind.
"Take it first."
She took the envelope from her father's hand. The feeling told her that the thickness of the two fingers was at least ten thousand yuan.
"We don't need that much, Dad."
She didn't have a good reason to refuse, but she didn't want her family to sacrifice too much for her.
"Do you know who wrote 'Alone in a foreign land, a stranger'?" His father asked at the time.
"Not Wang Wei?"
"Do you know why he wrote that?"
"… It's probably loneliness."
"Loneliness is one thing, but more importantly, he doesn't feel safe."
"A sense of security?"
"Do you know what gives you a sense of security?" The father patted the envelope in his daughter's hand. "This can give you a sense of security.
When you're alone outside with no one to rely on, at least you have money. "
She recalled her father's words. In the past, she thought that this was a feeling that only people of her generation who had experienced ten years of turmoil would have. But now, this feeling had appeared in her heart.
At least, I still have the crystal core, right?
"How is it?" Back in the backstage lounge, the female colleague Xiao Hong quickly asked.
Xiao Hong was her name in this line of work. In fact, she was not young at all, and she was her teacher.
"It's much better than the previous few times." She smiled in response to her teacher's concern for her.
"That's good. Practice makes perfect, hahaha." It was obvious that Xiao Hong was a bold and unrestrained person.
With that in mind, she walked to the dressing table and wrote on the calendar that was pinned to it: October 1st, 2013.
National Day. Guests: 1.
Three months ago, she was still a graduate of the Acting Department of the Film Academy. She had just signed a three-year contract with Bo Wan Media as their artist, releasing records and acting in TV series.
Lin Xuerui felt that she was one step closer to her dream of becoming a performing artist, thanks to her role as a nurse in the domestic blockbuster "Army of Hegemony" in her third year of university.
However, now, she was the No. 312 technician in the Sea Dragon Palace Entertainment City of Beijing Base City.
She had heard from her mother, who had brought her into the industry, that as a virgin, if it were not for her appearance and figure, she might have had a talent for performing. She was a technician with a three-digit license. She should be thanking the gods if she could earn ten crystal cores a month.
Due to the outbreak of the apocalypse and the constant enthusiasm of the generals for this kind of demand, the one-month training for them during the Heian Era was compressed into three days. She had to familiarize herself with and master how to provide a full set of services for the guests within three days.
It was said that she gave a blue crystal core to the Entertainment City, but after that, the fee was reduced. The fee for each visit was five white crystal cores. Lin Xuerui received a total of ten guests, and only three of them gave an extra crystal core as a tip.
She now had 11 times the physique, and the 10 times were provided by the Entertainment City. As the virus worsened, spread, and upgraded, she had to improve her basic physique every month. Otherwise, she would also become infected, mutated, and be erased by the Base City.
As for that double physique, she had accumulated it with her own tips.
She hastily removed the dirty makeup and put on a new layer of light makeup. She was used to poor quality concealer. Yes, she had to get used to it. This was the way to survive in the new world.
When you have nothing, at least you have crystal cores.
"Welcome, General. The Entertainment City is now having a promotion. If you top up 1000 white crystal cores, you will get 1000 white crystal cores. Are you interested?"
Outside the window, the sound of the young masters outside the gate of the Entertainment City echoed faintly.
"About the Past Beyond Time"
Doomsday Calendar, Year 0 of the New Era, March 1