running

Li Ang is thirty-seven years old and he doesn't like to laugh.

Li Ang is a night shift security guard on the subway. After being divorced three times, he lives alone in Whitechapel. He goes home to sleep after breakfast every day after work. On holidays, he either fights in bars or wanders around Covent Garden.

He was a sprinter back then, but wine, women and other things made Li Ang give up running and himself.

That day, he saw a black truck parked in a narrow alley, with the rear cargo door fully open and pairs of sneakers neatly lined up inside. The driver was nowhere to be found. This was a good opportunity: Li Ang rushed to the back of the car, found a suitable shoe box, took it and ran away. The back streets extend in all directions. He walked left and right in the aisles. He was quite panicked at first and looked back from time to time. After his body adapted to exercise, he regained that "runner's feeling."

When he stopped by the river to catch his breath, Li Ang sat down on the ground, quickly put on new sneakers, and threw the old leather boots back into the river. The broken boots floated and sank in the water, and were swallowed up by the golden setting sun in the blink of an eye.

From then on, Li Ang would always put on his sneakers and run around in the subway station late every night. The light box is bright or dark, and the sound of footsteps echoes in the aisles. The station, which is filled with water during the day, becomes an arena of his imagination at night. Li Ang loved the one hundred and seventy-five steps the most and always challenged it once every night. He worked hard and moved forward, enjoying the pleasure of his thighs shouting for help.

A year later, Li Ang quit his job as a security guard and became a chef, carrying forward his mother's Italian cooking skills. I encountered someone stealing something while taking the subway to work today. After being defeated, the pickpocket ran into the passage that Li Ang was familiar with.

The passage leading to the one hundred and seventy-five steps.

Li Ang quickly caught up and couldn't help laughing.