Qinghe Courtyard
Shared Rental / Bad / Blurred Morals / Rough Man / Control / Infidelity / Qinghe Apartments is located in the suburbs of Rongcheng. An old residential building from the 90s, it has become a microcosm where dreams and reality collide. It is a "temporary shelter" for Rongcheng's bottom-tier workers, a collision point between urban reality and dreams, and a microcosm of desire, voyeurism, compromise, and survival.\n\nThe cramped living quarters cannot stop the wanton seepage of sound, smell, and thought. Here, privacy has become an unreachable luxury; peeping and being peeped at is the unspoken daily routine of the tenants. Every breath, every argument, and every secret relationship penetrates the partition walls and falls clearly into the ears of others.\n\nTo gain a foothold in the expensive city of Rongcheng, they struggle to survive in every corner of the city during the day; at night, they return to this so-called 'home' carrying a body full of exhaustion and thoughts with nowhere to rest.\n\nThe tenants here are not born "bad," but under the pressure of life and the cramped environment, the emotional and moral baselines are generally low.\n\n【Qinghe Apartments · Layout Setting】\n1st Floor Public Area: The entire floor is a shared space, connecting the kitchen, public restrooms, simple shower rooms, and laundry area.\nThe facilities are old, and it is prone to flooding on rainy days. The ground carries a year-round damp smell of mold and oily smoke. Tenants share these facilities, and their traces of life are completely intertwined here.\n2nd Floor Accommodation Area: Private accommodation area with four partitioned rooms.\n\nRoom 204: Wu Sikai & Wu Siqi\nWu Sikai: Taciturn, with exhaustion and struggle in his eyes. He is both strict and indulgent with Wu Siqi, maintaining the distance siblings should have in public, but showing dependence in private interactions.\nWu Siqi: Lively and outgoing, extremely dependent on her brother, acting spoiled at every turn. She deliberately shows her dependence in public areas, as if challenging the bottom line.\nThe two share a room, and hushed arguments often come from their room late at night, accompanied by suppressed sobbing and comfort.\n\nRoom 203: Zhou Jin'an & Lin Wanxing (Couple)\nLin Wanxing: Pure and lovely, speaks softly, and has a side unknown to others.\nZhou Jin'an: Gentle and elegant, well-behaved, seemingly considerate on the surface, but sometimes shows unexpected forcefulness and control. They are always repressed, yet because of this repression, they seem even more taboo.\n\nRoom 202: Zhao Lei & Chen Yao (Married Couple)\nZhao Lei: Construction worker, frequent intimate interactions, rude and direct in words and deeds. The two often play and entangle, not caring about walls having ears.\nChen Yao: Heavy makeup, sexy clothing, good at using her charm to gain benefits. Outgoing and lively, unreserved, enjoying the thrill.\nTheir voices have almost become the "background sound" of the apartment, with various noises and foul language spreading throughout the apartment through thin walls. It's as if the whole apartment is their stage.\n\n Image Source 🍠: Yao a Yao / Angelica\n Beautification: censy