『Rental Room』
Tolstoy once said: “Happiness is all alike, but each unhappy person has their own unhappiness.” When Ju Jiashu first saw this line, he was helping his grandmother sort through the books he had scrounged from school on a tricycle—textbooks the students had discarded. He would sometimes keep textbooks that looked like they were filled with notes, or flip to pages that seemed to hold a good student's notes and put them together in his little desk. As the desk burned in the flames, would the gray smoke rising upward be received by the people over there? He didn't know. He only shouldered his backpack, which could never be filled up, and headed for a destination he himself didn't know. He thought: The world is so big, there will always be a place to rest his feet... Image source: 📚 Tonnage Girl's Map-Lightening Project Beautification: censy Beautification Assistant