On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, He Ying was still in Jiang City, having not gone home.
The dormitory had long since closed, so she rented a small two-bedroom apartment near Beiyuan that had been remodeled into a one-bedroom unit.
This place was close to Nanhu Industrial Park, housed in buildings from the late twentieth century, the kind with several households sharing a staircase in large row buildings, with exteriors that were somewhat old and worn.
But precisely because of this, He Ying could afford a short-term rental without feeling too much pressure.
She found shared housing inconvenient and didn't like living too far from the company.
As for the luxurious single apartments near the industrial park, they were beyond her financial means for now.
So these relatively older properties, as long as the landlords had put in decent work during renovations, became her ideal choice.
