"Lin Yue, you haven't even unraveled a single piece of fabric in two months. Although you're the most skilled technician in our workshop, this street is all about your 'one-cut collapse' reputation. From now on, no one will come to you for stone unsealing anymore. Our workshop is a small business and can't afford to support people who don't work, so settle your wages for this month and leave." Zhang Ge had to fire Lin Yue despite his fondness for the talented technician, as harsh reality dictated otherwise.

  "Zhang Ge, give me another chance, I'll definitely get it right next time, the next piece of wool will be done perfectly!" Lin Yue said with a pleading expression. Although the pay for this job was not high, he could only rely on the meager salary to buy medicine and treat his illness before he got better.

  Zhang Ge sighed and said: "Lin Yue, I want to give you a chance, but no one will come to ask you to interpret the stone, your reputation as a butcher is already well-known."

  Lin Yue lowered his head, feeling bitter in his heart. Indeed, Zhang Ge was right, no one would come to him for appraisal anymore. In the past, he was the best technician in the workshop, so people from all over the antique street came to find him, and he never refused anyone, which led to his current notorious reputation.

  But after getting sick myself, I couldn't afford to buy medicine anymore.

  Lin Yue nodded reluctantly in her heart and finally nodded.

  Seeing Lin Yue's decadent appearance, Wu Kaitian was very pleased and held his head high in front of Lin Yue.

  Lin Yue calculated his salary for this month, because last month he didn't meet the quota of unloading a stone, so he could only get the basic salary of 600 yuan. Last month was the same, because he had to pay for medical treatment and rent, he didn't have any money left over. This month he has to rely on the 600 yuan to survive, if he can't find work, not only will his illness not be treated, but he also won't be able to keep a roof over his head.

  Lin Yue let out a deep sigh as he walked out of the processing workshop.

  The future is uncertain!

  "Haha......"

  A sneering voice came from behind Wu Kaisen, getting closer and closer until it reached Lin Yue's back.

  "I thought I was good to you and treated you like a brother, why did you harm me?" Lin Yue didn't turn his head back, asking faintly, now he's already disheartened.

  "It's simple, because you're in my way, I need to push you down to climb up! You're really pitiful, I've never seen anyone as stupid as you, a few nice words and you're dizzy with confusion, haha..." Wu Kai Xuan was like a rooster who had just won a great victory, strutting around proudly.

  Lin Yue heard the words and silently sighed in his heart, then raised his head to stare at Wu Kairui's eyes, coldly saying: "Those who do evil will eventually be punished by themselves. You will one day regret what you have done today, definitely!"

  Lin Yue's tone was unmistakably affirmative.

  Wu Kexin was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing and sneered: "You think you can? A defeated general? I'm not afraid to tell you now, it was me who spread your infamous name 'One Slash Down', haha... One Slash Down, you'll never be able to shake off this name!"

  Lin Yue took a deep look at Wu Kexuan and then walked away into the distance.

  Wu Kai Xuan looked at Lin Yue's back with a satisfied expression, then walked into the workshop with a refreshed spirit...

  Back in his own small rented house with others, Lin Yue sat on the bed with a gloomy face.

  After losing his job, he went to find other jobs, but other workshops heard that he was the notorious "one knife collapse", even if his skills were good, others didn't dare to hire him. Originally, he wanted to find another job, but he found himself with only physical strength and no skills at all, having a useless third-rate university degree.

  After some deliberation, Lin Yue walked out of the house door. He and his housemates had agreed to take turns cooking meals, and today was his turn.

  Half an hour later, Lin Yue carried two dishes out of the kitchen, and at this time the door was also opened.

  A delicate and sweet-looking woman walked in, this was Qin Yaoyao who rented a house with Lin Yue. It is said that she works in a jewelry store, but Lin Yue has never met her on Antique Jade Street, so he still doesn't understand her work very well.

  "You're back just in time, dinner is ready." Lin Yue smiled, but it was a bit forced. Anyone who had gone through what he did today wouldn't be able to smile.

  "Of course, my nose is very sharp, I can smell the flavor of your dish from afar." Qin Yaoyao said with a playful tone, it's clear that she's in a good mood today.

  "Come on and eat." Lin Yue put down the dishes in his hand and went back to the kitchen to take out the steamed buns he had bought that morning.

  The meal was eaten in a very oppressive atmosphere, with the two of them chatting intermittently. Qin Yaoyao could see that Lin Yue's mood was somewhat downcast, and although she wanted to ask him about it, she ultimately didn't ask.

  After dinner, Lin Yue washed the bowls and chopsticks clean, then carried a kettle of hot water into his own room.

  Qin Yaoyao looked at Lin Yue with some curiosity, every night he would bring a thermos of hot water into the room, and she didn't know what he was doing in secret. She had originally thought that he was taking a bath in the room, but even on cold winter days he did this, so it couldn't be for bathing.

  "What a strange person."

  Qin Yuyao helplessly shook her head and then turned on the TV to watch her favorite channel.

  Lin Yue walked into the room, picked up a washbasin from under the bed, and unlike other people's washbasins, his was covered with brown sediment at the bottom. It seemed that this basin had been around for some time.

  Lin Yue took out a brown paper package from the bottom of the kitchen, wrapped with twine made of cowhide. Lin Yue quickly untied the string and opened the package, pouring all the medicinal herbs into the basin, then poured in hot water.

  This is the medicine he has to soak in every day, from when he was ten years old until now, for a full fourteen years without interruption. Lin Yue got eye disease at the age of ten, and his eyesight dropped sharply since then, almost completely blind. Later, his family members obtained a prescription from a Taoist temple in their hometown, saying that soaking the medicine in the eyes can alleviate this condition, and maybe one day it will be completely cured.

  Later, Lin Yue soaked in the medicinal water every day, and unexpectedly, it really worked. His eyesight slowly recovered, and this lasted for fourteen years. That is to say, his eyes completely relied on this medicine; if he stopped using it for a single day, he might fall into complete blindness.

  When Lin Ming was in school, he always wore thick glasses. However, the processing workshop did not allow people who wear glasses to work as stone workers, so he switched to wearing contact lenses.

  Contact lenses are not his own eyes after all, if his vision is restored, Lin Ming is confident that he can take his own refining technique to a higher level. But everything seems within sight but out of reach.

  When the water temperature was suitable, Lin Ming took off his contact lenses and put them away, then picked up a thumb-thick straw and placed it in his mouth. This straw was for him to breathe through. After preparing everything, Lin Ming opened his eyes and submerged his entire face into the brown medicinal liquid.

  A familiar numbness and tingling sensation quickly filled Lin's entire eye socket.

  But soon he found something was wrong, the numbness used to last all the time, but today it seemed to be getting worse.

  Isn't the medicine I took today wrong?

  Before Lin Yue could think of anything, the numbness turned into a dull ache, and his eyes swelled up like they were filled with small particles, making his eyes hurt abnormally.

  It's broken!

  Lin Yue's whole body suddenly shook, he suddenly remembered that the last time he went to the pharmacy to buy medicine, he didn't have enough wrapping paper, because these medicinal materials were very easy to divide into three portions. So he packed the three portions of medicine together. Lin Yue originally wanted to go home and divide the medicine into three portions, but because something unexpected came up, he forgot.

  This package of medicine is three times the amount!

  That is to say he is using eye drops with three times the medicinal power of before!

  At this thought, Lin Yue broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't know what it meant this time, was he going blind or was everything normal?

  This wouldn't allow him to think any further, just as he was about to lift his face out of the water, an unprecedented sharp pain, like a venomous snake, transmitted directly into his brain through his eyes and nerves.

  Lin Yue's mouth suddenly opened wide to shout, but just as he did, a bitter medicinal liquid poured into his mouth, making it difficult for him to breathe immediately.

  Lin Yue struggled to lift the basin, coughing violently several times before he came back to himself, but the stinging sensation in his eyes made him close them tightly, and a low growl like that of a wild beast escaped from his throat.

  Lin Yue's hands covered his eyes, as if he wanted to dig them out to relieve the pain. However, his convulsing hands couldn't exert any strength.

  Time was passing minute by minute, Lin Yue didn't dare to cry out, he was afraid of disturbing Qin Yaoyao outside, and at that time, he couldn't explain it at all. He wanted to protect his own secret. But the gnawing pain made him unbearable and let out a miserable cry again, he could only suppress his voice to the lowest level.

  A wave of stinging pain caused Lin Yue's consciousness to gradually blur, and when the last wave of pain arrived, Lin Yue could no longer bear the agony and fainted.