The Monster I Was Redeemed

　　 Making the bed, washing the dishes, placing daily necessities, seasonings, these things didn’t take much effort, and it took less than ten minutes to wait for everything to be done.

I can only say that reading motivation is really good.

All the places to be furnished are ready, and from this moment, Ai Liang has officially moved into this home.

After finishing everything at home, Ai Liang plans to go out and go to the bookstore in the city.

The Thousand Flower Market in the daytime, where the sun shines, is still relatively harmonious. Only at night, those idlers and others will dangle in groups on the street.

Ai Liang took the bus for more than half an hour and came to the city center.

In this completely unfamiliar city, Ai Liang can only follow the navigation to check the location of each bookstore.

In the era of big information, almost every store, even a grocery store, will show its location on the map.

So, after Ai Liang entered the bookstore in the navigation software… there were no messages that popped up.

It is now 2030, and physical bookstores are declining almost every year.

The kind of small bookstore that has only one storefront and few rows of bookshelves in the store. On the dusty bookshelves, there are still unpopular books of unknown age.

is almost eliminated.

Those who can survive now are those high-value, multi-functional cultural and creative coffee bookstores.

On the one hand, the rise of the Internet and mobile terminals has made resources easier to obtain and more convenient to read. People no longer need to go to traditional bookstores to buy physical books.

On the other hand, there is competition in the industry, but competition also revolves around the Internet.

The cost of opening an online bookstore is much lower than that of a traditional bookstore, and there are more sales methods and door-to-door services.

This further exacerbates the difficult situation of traditional bookstores.

Under the combined effect of external oppression and internal reform, the business model of Wenchuang Coffee Bookstore came into being.

This kind of bookstore only accounts for one-third of the profit, or even lower.

This kind of bookstore sells not so much books as it is to sell coffee, peripheral gifts, cultural atmosphere and services, in order to satisfy the “style” that most people seek.

Therefore, coffee bookstores are only common in the top ten international cities of the Asian Union, or the more popular tourist cities.

The reason is also very simple, and the cost is high.

Coffee bookstore sells services, not only with bookshelves, sofas, tables, but also with a large space and beautiful decoration.

Because of the addition of elements outside the bookstore, there is also a special barista.

Apart from the cost input, the monthly salary for the clerk is not a small sum.

Citizens in big cities will regard reading as a habit, and there will be many possibilities for customers in the bookstore. In addition to students and young people, there will also be adults or retired elderly people.

Secondly, in the more popular tourist cities, such as Qianhua City, this kind of exquisite coffee bookstore will be used by people who come to play as a place to take pictures and check in in the circle of friends, which will bring more traffic to the bookstore.

Only then can income be guaranteed.

The bookstore in front of Ai Liang is like this.

The 　　 bookstore lobby is decorated in khaki color. Whether it is the bookshelves or the connected tables and chairs, they are all in brown style. Just looking at the exterior makes people feel comfortable.

Ai Liang’s main reason for choosing this store is that it has a reading room independent of the bar.

It is specially prepared for people who want to read quietly.

is no different from the bookstores in Neihua City, here is also a membership system.

Ordinary members of 121 years can read books freely in the reading room of the store.

Three hundred and five senior members enjoy a 10% discount on book purchases and can borrow books.

Ai Liang thought about it for a while, then applied for a membership of 350 and paid a deposit of 200 yuan.

Reading is one of his hobbies, and he is still willing to pay for it. The two hundred yuan deposit is just to prevent customers from deliberately damaging the books, and the deposit will be refunded when the member expires.

Ai Liang, with a happy mood, began to wander between the bookshelves to find a novel classification.

Even if Ai Liang has spiritual power, he can’t see through the thoughts of the characters in the novel.

Almost every story can bring him freshness, and the burst of sincere emotion is something that reality cannot bring him.

After all, most of the real society is gray. Only in the story world can the truth, goodness and beauty be promoted for various reasons.

“So there are two volumes in this book?”

Ai Liang glanced back and forth on the bookshelf, and suddenly he found the novel that Yang Xingyue gave him.

Yang Xingyue gave him only the scroll, but I didn’t expect to see the whole set here.

Ai Liang did not hesitate at all, and brought three books, the upper, middle and lower ones, to the long table and sit down.

He first spent ten minutes, relived the plot of the first scroll, recalled the general content of the book, and then gradually immersed himself in the subsequent story with curiosity.

It’s only around nine o’clock in the morning. There are almost no people who come to the bookstore to read. Ai Liang alone is equivalent to a private room.

Time passed by one minute and one second, and the teenager reading a book became a landscape in the reading room.

Buzzing, buzzing.

What awakened Ai Liang from the story world was not the buzzing sound of the mobile phone, but the reminder of the girl diagonally opposite.

“Your phone rang.”

The sudden sound disturbed Ai Liang’s thoughts.

After discovering his mobile phone was buzzing, Ai Liang returned an apologetic smile.

It was not someone else who called at this time. It was Ma Yu, one of Ai Liang’s few friends.

It is not convenient to talk in the reading room, so Ai Liang hung up the phone and checked the private chat.

Generally, Ma Yu will call directly only when Ai Liang does not reply to messages in private and UU read www.uukanshu.com has important matters.

[Hello? Is Xiao Ai here? 】

[Have you found a place to live? 】

[When the house is rented, remember to squeak, tell me the address, and go to your place to play with you in the future. 】

【Return a message. 】

【I won’t be abducted. 】

[Squeak when I see the news. 】

The earliest news was last night.

Two of them were when he was doing housework in the morning, and the most recent one was ten minutes ago.

There are many more similar messages, all from Yue Qihua and Yang Xingyue.

According to the chat time, Ai Liang realized that it was almost eleven o’clock.

【I’m fine, I have found a place to live, it’s on Huayuan Road near Qianhua Experimental Middle School. I was doing housework in the morning, and I didn’t pay attention to the news just now. 】

[Wow, I am finally willing to reply to the news, why not answer the phone? 】

【The reading room of the bookstore is inconvenient. 】

【really? Are you kidnapped? send a picture to see. 】

【…】

If you made this request yesterday, I really can’t explain it.

Ai Liang silently turned on the video and turned around half a circle, then clicked send.

[Wait? You hooked up with a new girl as soon as you arrived at Qianhua Market? 】

Hook up with girls? Am I that kind of person?

Ai Liang raised his head in some doubt, looked around, and then found that the person sitting on his right was staring at him with complicated expressions.

Ai Liang had actually discovered someone around him a long time ago, but he didn’t care that it was their freedom to sit.

This is not the first time he has encountered this situation. When he went to a bookstore before, someone would come up to talk to him.

Anyway, just read the book by yourself.