After the National Day holiday ended, everything returned to normal.
Wang Hao's internship at the advertising company officially began. Every day he served tea, poured water, and bought coffee, buns, fried dough, and soybean juice. From his first day at work, he made an effort to build good relationships with his colleagues and soon learned where the cheapest meals and most conscientious boxed lunches were available near the company and the employee dormitory.
Wang Hao also struck up a deep friendship with an older, thirty-year-old single male colleague who lived upstairs and knew how to cook. Whenever he had free time, he would go mooch a meal—though it wasn't entirely for nothing, as he lent the colleague his Steam account.
Thanks to his good relations with the staff, Wang Hao managed to survive on the little over a hundred yuan in his card until the 15th, when he received his living expenses, paid off the installments he owed on Huabei, and started a new cycle of debt.