Chapter 1 The Wedge The Out-of-Control Elevator

Walking out of the editor-in-chief's office, Lin Mingyang's mood was as dark as the gloomy sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the once grandiose ambitions and youthful ambition would eventually be reduced to a cloud of smoke along with his departure.

Six years ago, just graduated from college, Lin Mingyang with the dream of going out to make a difference, pocketed the last sum of money given by his family, came to this city that carries the glory and dreams of many people. The tall buildings of Lujiazui, the brilliant night scene on the Bund and the bright lights of the Oriental Pearl Tower, like many foreigners who just joined this city, Lin Mingyang was deeply impressed by the atmosphere and vitality of this international metropolis of Shanghai, and he firmly believed that this is the stage for him to realize his dream.

Lin Mingyang soon found a stable job at a small newspaper in Shanghai, where he was assigned to the Entertainment Department to write reviews of newly released movies. With his good writing skills, coupled with his fresh thinking, Lin Mingyang soon made a name for himself in the small but growing circle of Shanghai movie critics.

After four years of struggle, Lin Mingyang went from being a trainee reporter to a senior movie critic, and became the deputy editor-in-chief of the entertainment section of the newspaper. He finally got his first office in this crowded building, and his flourishing career seemed to indicate that his life was heading in a good direction.

When Shanghai's housing prices began to rise, many people around him advised him to buy a house quickly. But Lin Mingyang is still a little young and vigorous and do not want to put their own lives so soon to chain themselves to a house, the key is that he has confidence in the country's property market control policy, the government will not put people's livelihoods at risk.

But the crazy rise in housing prices make Lin Mingyang more and more can not understand the city, or more and more can not understand the country indulged in the property market price game. At this time, no matter how great his determination, the city's housing prices have risen to a point where he can not afford.

His family kept urging him to get married as soon as possible, but without a house or a car, Lin Mingyang also repeatedly hit a wall in his search for a girlfriend. Increasingly high cost of living, high housing prices, so that more people like Lin Mingyang in Shanghai have nothing to rely on foreigners chose to leave the city. Several young people in the newspaper who are in the same situation as Lin Mingyang have resigned and left, and even though Lin Mingyang receives more than 2,000 dollars more per month than they do, the reality is still cruel to him.

The newspaper office made a retention, but Lin Mingyang has decided to leave the city, his parents have already contacted a newspaper office for him in his hometown in the interior of the small town, although after going back to the newspaper office Lin Mingyang can get less than half of the current salary, but the price of housing in the small town is less than a quarter of the price in Shanghai.

In terms of career prospects, the small town in his hometown is certainly not comparable to Shanghai, but the pressure he will face in the future is also vastly different. Between ideal and reality, Lin Mingyang had to make a painful choice.

The elevator went down to the 15th floor, the door opened, walked into a tall young woman, with a pair of black-rimmed glasses, long black hair tied back, face makeup is very delicate. Lin Mingyang leaned in a corner of the elevator, because of mutual ignorance, the other walked into the elevator and intentionally kept a certain distance from him, but the faint perfume emanating from her body, in this narrow space is still unnatural towards Lin Mingyang nostrils drill.

This elevator is only for the exclusive use of the newspaper's internal staff, looking at the other side of the raw face, Lin Mingyang on the surface as if nothing happened, but the heart muttered, who is this?

In his memory, the newspaper office does not seem to have such a person, whether it is an editor or a reporter, it seems to be unable to find such an unfamiliar face. The moment the elevator door slowly closed, Lin Mingyang suddenly remembered someone.

"It's the new editor Chen from the fashion section, right!" Lin Ming Yang was able to climb to his current position at a young age, the various news circulating in the office was naturally very well informed, not to mention that the newspaper occupies four floors in the building, but there are only a hundred or so people at full capacity. It is said that the fashion section has recently poached a chief editor from another magazine, which Lin Mingyang has never encountered before. If nothing else, it should be the well-dressed beauty in front of him.

"You are?" The other party frowned slightly, a puzzled expression on her face.

Lin Mingyang smiled politely and extended his hand, "Hello, I'm Lin Mingyang in charge of the entertainment section, counting as half of Editor Chen's colleague!"

"So it's Editor-in-Chief Lin, hello!" This newly transferred Editor Chen smiled very gently, shaking hands with Lin Ming Yang gently before quickly drawing her hand back, this discreet action showed her very delicate mind.

"What a careful woman!" Lin Ming Yang secretly gave this new colleague he met for the first time this definition.

"Just now, Editor-in-Chief Lin seemed to have mentioned the expression 'half-colleague' just now, I'm a bit confused!" Perhaps it was because she felt that such a cold way of meeting between colleagues in the elevator was a bit depressing, seeing that Lin Mingyang didn't say anything down there either, that reserved Editor Chen took the initiative to pick up the conversation.

"I just resigned, so the title like chief editor, editor Chen can be removed from my head!" Lin Mingyang deliberately made a casual expression on his face, using this to cover up the loss in his heart.

"So that's how it is!" A somewhat regretful expression appeared on her face, "Editor-in-Chief Lin has found a more suitable position elsewhere?"

"Sort of!" Lin Mingyang felt that the smile on his face was more or less indescribably bitter.

After all, it was someone's personal issue, after seeing that Lin Ming Yang was not willing to talk more on this issue, Editor Chen did not pursue the matter, the elevator was steadily descending, in order to avoid embarrassment, she shifted her gaze to the elevator floor buttons.

Seeing the numbers marking the location of the floor has just become 10, the elevator suddenly came buzzing loudly, like something was suddenly ripped off, followed by the lights in the elevator instantly extinguished, and then violently swayed, in the darkness Lin Mingyang only felt a soft body crashed into his arms, it was too late to have other ideas, the entire elevator is like a derailed train speedily sinking, surrounded by piercing piercing piercing piercing sound constantly! Stimulating Lin Mingyang's eardrums.

Until the arms came from a slight trembling, nostrils side came from the other side of the hair traces of the fragrance, Lin Mingyang at this time only reacted to his own arms holding is that just recognize less than a minute of the beautiful colleagues.

In the darkness can only be seen to indicate the number of floors has been decreasing downward, 10th floor, 9th floor, 8th floor, 7th floor ... This free fall type of fall than the roller coaster but also to stimulate the human heart, not to mention the arms of the weak woman, that is, the young and strong Lin Mingyang is as earthy, cold sweat, he can even imagine, in the acceleration of gravity, the elevator with such a He could even imagine, under the effect of gravitational acceleration, what kind of scene it would be when the elevator dropped down at such a height and landed on the bottom floor.

When he saw that the jumping number was about to turn into "1", Lin Mingyang closed his eyes in despair.

At that moment, the only regret Lin Mingyang had in his heart was that he had already held someone in his arms, but he still didn't know his full name.