Mobile Shelter

After leisurely typing the last word and setting up automatic publishing, Dong Qicai casually closed the typing software.

"Phew, I've finally finished today's coding task. It's time to go to the city to buy supplies this afternoon. The weather forecast says it will get colder in a few days, so I'll buy more to stock up this time."

As the protagonist, Dong Qi is undoubtedly a time traveler. However, compared to the dramatic events that other time travelers experience after their journey, Dong Qi's time travel process and his life afterward can only be described as uneventful.

After transmigrating from Earth to Planet Blue and regaining the body of a sixteen-year-old, Dong Qi discovered that Planet Blue and Earth were quite different. With the idea of ​​becoming famous as early as possible, he immediately chose to enter the entertainment industry.

For newcomers without connections, the easiest way to enter the entertainment industry is through singing. After all, among all artists, singing requires the least initial investment and allows them to gain fame and recognition the fastest.

However, after several of his uploaded songs were covered and became wildly popular, and that person even gained a reputation as a talented songwriter, he, the true original creator, was instead seen as a clown trying to piggyback on someone else's success.

Dong Qi then realized that it was too difficult to make it in the entertainment industry without a background.

Actually, some entertainment companies did contact Dong Qi, but the contracts they offered were unacceptable to him.

The music industry is already so difficult to navigate, let alone the film and television industry, so Dong Qi could only turn to the novel industry, which has the lowest entry barrier.

As the saying goes, "Read three hundred Tang poems by heart, and even if you can't compose poetry, you can still make something up."

Having read all sorts of novels, even if I were still on Earth, if I went back to around 2005, I could still make a living by using all sorts of novel plots. Even if I couldn't become a great author, I could at least achieve a comfortable standard of living, let alone make ends meet.

Dong Qi not only thought this way, but he also acted on it.

After transmigrating and becoming an orphan, he had already reached a level where he earned no less than 5000 yuan a month when he left the orphanage at the age of eighteen.

At this time, the standard of living on Earth was only similar to that on Earth around 2010.

On this similar planet, a monthly income of 5000 might only put you in the lower-middle class in a first-tier city.

However, if you move to a third-tier city, as long as you don't have too high expectations for life, you can still live a fulfilling life.

That's why Dong Qi saved enough for a down payment on a house when he was 25. Since he was going to live alone anyway, Dong Qi simply took out a loan to buy a detached villa with a yard in the suburbs of a third-tier city.

Don't think that Dong Qi is amazing for buying a house and a car in just a few years; in fact, he didn't spend much money.

Even though the house is a villa, in a third-tier city, especially in the suburbs, the price is actually lower than that of a small bathroom of a few square meters in a first-tier city.

Just think about how much a hundred square meters of housing in Hegang costs, and you'll understand how big the price difference can be between different regions.

In addition, since it was a down payment with a loan, it was only a matter of tens of thousands of yuan. However, because it was located in the suburbs, Dong Qi also bought a car for commuting.

Because of the need to go to the city center to purchase supplies due to the suburban location, Dong Qi did not choose a sedan or SUV, but instead opted for an Iveco van with a larger interior space.

As for why they didn't choose a van, it's because even in Dong Qi's third-tier city, there are restricted driving hours during peak daytime hours.

Although Dong Qi could buy all kinds of daily necessities in the suburbs where he lived, just like on Earth, the suburban markets often sold brands that were not available in the city, such as Lei Bi, Kang Shuai Fu, and Ke Ke Ke Shuo.

Therefore, apart from the vegetables he buys daily, even for meat, Dong Qi prefers to buy large quantities of frozen meat from a supermarket in the city once a month rather than buy small quantities from a suburban market.

The main reason is that Dong Qi doesn't like to haggle, and he can't detect the boss's tricks when taking the food.

So even though the prices are higher in city supermarkets, Dong Qi still chooses to buy in the city.

After a busy afternoon, Dong Qi finally returned to his old home from the city supermarket in the evening.

Looking at the carriage crammed full of supplies, Dong Qi, who had been working hard all afternoon, was too lazy to move the newly purchased supplies into the warehouse.

Since the car is already parked in the underground garage, after putting the frozen goods into the refrigerator in the storage room, we can sort out the other supplies tomorrow when we have time.

The villa consists of one basement level and two above-ground levels. The main reason for choosing to buy a villa here was because it has an underground garage, which provides direct access to other rooms on the basement level, making it convenient to deliver supplies to the storage room.

Perhaps because he was tired after a long afternoon, Dong Qi simply washed up, lay down on the bed, and quickly fell asleep.

When Dong Qi woke up again, he was not only still somewhat drowsy, but also felt very uncomfortable.

Once he was fully awake, Dong Qi realized that the sheets he had been lying on and the blanket he had been using to cover himself were now covered in water stains, as if someone had splashed water on them.

As an orphan, Dong Qi had a few friends, but none of them had keys to their own homes, so the water stains on the bed couldn't possibly be the result of someone else's prank.

If it weren't for the excessive amount of water on the bed, it would actually be very similar to the condition after sweating from an illness, except that even when you sweat from an illness, you wouldn't produce such a large amount of water.

Just as Dong Qi was wondering what was going on, he heard someone ringing the doorbell outside the yard.

If you can't figure out what's going on in bed, put it aside for now. Go see who's looking for you outside the yard at this hour. You can deal with other things when you have time.

After casually slipping on a fleece-lined pajama set, Dong Qi finally stepped out of the bedroom.

Hearing the doorbell ringing incessantly in the living room, Dong Qi shouted as soon as he stepped out of his room, "Coming, coming! I'm out now, open the door right away!"

Upon opening the small door, Dong Qi noticed that the person outside was Dong Hao, a constable from a nearby government office.

(To avoid using prohibited words, some professions in the book are replaced with ancient names, but the protagonist is still in the modern era.)

"Hey, Brother Dong, what brings you here today? Let's go inside and talk." Dong Qi then stepped aside and invited Dong Hao into the house.

"Alright, I won't go in. It's good to see you come out safe and sound. I'm telling you, you're not getting any younger. You have a car and a house, why don't you hurry up and find a wife? Living here alone, if something happens to you, there'll be no one to lend you a hand."

Hearing Dong Hao say this, Dong Qi was also somewhat helpless. After getting to know each other for a while, perhaps because they were compatible, the two people who should have been completely unrelated gradually became friends.

Despite living alone for a long time due to writing, Dong Qi is not an introverted person. However, perhaps because of his past experiences on Earth, he is not very proactive in matters of the heart.

Although I go to the city for foot massages every now and then, it only costs a little money. Even if I get caught, it's just a few thousand yuan in fines. I've never heard of anyone going bankrupt because of it.

But arranged marriages are different. If you're not careful, you might lose both your money and your partner. If you're really unlucky, you might even end up in jail. So, before he knew it, sixteen-year-old Dong Qi was already in his thirties.