When the limousine went out of their eyesight, Atman’s wife Chry started to complain without end. Chry said angrily, “they stayed here for a week, I have to cook dinner and wash clothes for them every day, why didn’t you receive the money?” Atman replied with an reluctant smile, “we used to be roommates. How can I receive his money?” “You have no ability to earn money like him, but still you want face. You’re classmates, look at the difference.” shouted Chry with a glum face.

    Atman didn’t say anything more. In the dark, he couldn’t sleep. Since his childhood, he loved history and literature so much, for so many years, what did history and literature bring for him? Nothing, though he was reluctant to admit.

A man without money and power was just like an eunuch without castration, sighed Atman, however, he never thought the history and literature of China for five thousand years was useless. Lying on the bed, he thought he was really useless and just living in vain.

    From beginning to end, he thought natural science was only for artisan. He was disdainful to be a scientist, but he couldn’t be an official. It wasn’t a big deal. Jiang Ziya was eighty years old, however, he was still ambitious, how could him be disappointed while only thirty years old? Thought Atman.

    In the following day, when Chry woke up, she couldn’t find Atman. When she tried to find him everywhere, Atman was already on the train to the city Deep. He hated his current life and decided to abandon all of them. He would rather die vigorously instead of dragging out an ignoble existence.

    When Atman came to the city Deep, he had no other acquaintances. Though he hated Laic, he had to seek help from him. When one is under eave, he has to lower his head.

  At Laic’s luxury office, Laic received Atman warmly, but used the excuse of wading pool to refuse Atman. Laic gave five thousand Yuan to Atman, Atman wanted to hit him on the face, but he didn’t show even a tiny discontentment on his face, instead, Atman received the money with both hands and said with a smile like a flower in full bloom, “thank you! I know old dude as you are real friend. That’s why I come to you directly as long as I come to Deep.”

    When Atman came out, he saw Laic’s wife Neon. Neon greeted him warmly, Atman was ashamed and only smiled, and then left hurriedly.

    Spending a whole afternoon, finally he found a basement for rent as his home. Sleeping on the floor, he cried his eyes out, but no one heard him for the sake of basement, “now I’m thirty years old, still achieve nothing, even my own wife treat me as nothing. I’m really useless.”

    Finally his tears were gone, Atman slept. When the east sky just showed the fishbelly white color, Atman got up and went out to find a job to support himself at first. No matter what the world changed, people had to eat at first.