boyutpedia Chapter 51 Real World 5
Chapter 51 Real World 5
Opening her eyes in the real world, Liu Yuxi stood in front of the hotel window looking out at Victoria Harbour, still filled with endless emotions, a feeling that things had changed and people were no longer the same.
As she looked at her eyes, she wondered if her prescription had decreased again. Immediately, her sharp mind kicked in. Unable to wait until she got home to get her eyes checked, she washed up, changed, and went to an optician's shop to have her vision measured. Wow, it's only around 100 degrees now! In another month or two, her vision should be normal.
Since 100 degrees of myopia doesn't affect daily life at all, Liu Yuxi got a pair of blue light-blocking anti-radiation glasses this time, saving her the trouble of replacing them later.
After getting her glasses fitted, Liu Yuxi happily went to eat. As a native Hong Konger, she naturally knew which restaurants were good. Although some details were different, most of the people and things were the same. She felt that she had wasted her trip to Hong Kong the past few days, but there would be other opportunities in the future. She bought some clothes and gifts and headed straight to the airport to return to Hefei.
As usual, there was a live stream in the evening. Liu Yuxi had also done a live stream on her phone while in Hong Kong, mainly showing her viewers the lively Victoria Harbour and Central district, but not her own schedule. During the evening's live stream, viewers could clearly feel Liu Yuxi's joy, sending many comments and song requests, which Liu Yuxi, of course, fulfilled one by one.
On weekdays, she would chat and boast with her colleagues, then catch up with clients—after all, she hadn't quit yet. Life went on as usual. But as Liu Yuxi's film and television projects increased, she began to consider resigning, as the job was becoming somewhat of a dead end for her.
If social security really couldn't be paid, she'd just pay it as a freelancer, or ask the editors at Yangshizi if they could help with that. She decided to do it anyway. Liu Yuxi submitted her resignation and wouldn't need to come to work next month. Although the store manager tried to persuade her to stay, after Liu Yuxi showed him her author's income data, the manager stopped trying to convince her. She also transferred her clients to close colleagues. And just like that, Liu Yuxi left the real estate brokerage industry, where she had worked for several years.
Without a stable job, people's routines tend to become chaotic. Many families with some assets are fine even if their children are constantly sponging off them, so why do they insist that their children take the civil service exam or find a position in a company or institution to coast along? Firstly, without a job, people's routines become irregular, and secondly, when a person is idle, they are more likely to cause trouble and seek amusement, and many people end up finding amusement in themselves.
However, these problems won't apply to Liu Yuxi. She's planning to live in Beijing for a few years. Hefei has experienced frequent small earthquakes this year, all at the same latitude and longitude. How to put it? Humans are insignificant in the face of natural disasters, so if you have the means, it's best to move around!
With current housing purchase policies being quite lenient, Liu Yuxi contacted a Beijing-based real estate agent she had previously worked with via WeChat. She asked him to recommend some three-bedroom apartments with yards on the ground floor that she could buy. She first viewed the apartments in VR on her phone, and then selected a few. She went to Beijing to see the apartments in person and finally settled on an apartment located within the Fifth Ring Road with an 80-square-meter yard. Of course, she opted for a mortgage, but with her current income, she wasn't worried about not being able to get the loan.
Because the house had only been renovated two or three years ago, and all the furniture and appliances were still there, Liu Yuxi stayed in Beijing to handle the paperwork. She then discussed with the owner about taking possession of the house early, adding everything that needed to be added, so she could bring her parents to live with her. Everything was settled in about 20 days. Liu Yuxi returned to Hefei, packed and shipped all her belongings, collected what needed to be collected, and threw away what didn't. She also went home to help her parents ship their packed belongings, and then the family of three flew to Beijing.
First, she spent a few days sightseeing in Beijing with her parents, visiting the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Military Museum, and the Great Wall. Of course, they also watched the flag-raising ceremony. After that, she and her parents went their separate ways. Her husband was fine as long as someone played mahjong with him—three games a day—and if he needed anything, he could be found at the community's senior activity center. Her mother, on the other hand, loved being around people. She first became familiar with the community's square dancing group, and then a group of older women started forming their own groups for activities.
Liu Yuxi gets up early every day to exercise in the nearby park. Before long, all the elderly people in her neighborhood knew her. After all, she practiced real kung fu in the mornings, and her routines were quite eye-catching. Once they got to know each other, she would sometimes join the elderly people in practicing Tai Chi and Tai Chi sword.
Because the soundproofing in the music room of her apartment complex isn't yet complete, Liu Yuxi usually does her outdoor live streams in the late afternoon in a corner of the park. Sometimes she wears a mask and demonstrates some martial arts moves for her viewers during her morning exercise. Surprisingly, some viewers really enjoy it. After all, aside from more common styles like Taekwondo, traditional martial arts routines are generally not encountered in daily life. So now, Liu Yuxi also live streams during her morning exercise, always wearing a mask, as she doesn't want to become a famous internet celebrity; it's better to maintain a certain distance.
In her spare time, she adapts novels. Now, as she sells more and more copyrights, she has become well-known in the film and television industry. Sometimes, she is invited to offline events by the film and television industry, or when the crew is filming in Beijing, she will go to the crew to make a cameo appearance. After all, she is just an extra. It is not easy to become beautiful, but it is easy to make herself ugly.
When she's bored, she'll go to the Deyun Club's small theater to listen to crosstalk and support "Miss" and "Second Brother." She'd like to support Guo Degang, but she'd have to be there in time. Maybe she can get some inside tickets when she becomes more famous! She feels that her hobbies are really quite diverse now.
Because she's never married and has no children, and worried that her elderly parents would be bored at home with nothing to do, she bought them a Corgi. It's generally not advisable for older people to keep large dogs, as accidents can easily happen during walks. Corgis are quite gentle and not very big, so they're not too hard on their feet. Especially chubby Corgis, which look like they don't have legs—they're so cute!
Liu Yuxi felt she had rested well and wanted to time travel again. She spent her mornings hanging out with the elderly people in the park. Lately, she had become quite fond of Peking Opera, and she wanted to time travel to see if she could learn some opera, otherwise she wouldn't be able to fit in with those old folks.
Now that there's no need to worry about rest days, Liu Yuxi is completely free and can do it any night, so that night she contacted Xiao Liu to put it on.