05/22/25 - When cattle and horses get tired, they go to sleep. When we get tired, we just buy ourselves coffee.
#No one claims 1.57 million seized cash in Guangdong. “On the 22nd of May, Guangdong, Meizhou Police Station, Meijiang Branch made an announcement that they seized some property involved in a criminal investigation at Meijing District, Guzhou Road on the 30th of March, 2020. Investigation has not showed who the owner is. According to “Police Criminal Investigation Procedure Regulations”, rule 208, they would like to ask the owner of this property to bring their ID and proof of ownership to the Meizhou Police Station, Meijiang Branch’s Neo Crime Investigation Team to apply for the return of their property.
The details of the property is that it is 1,570,000RMB in 100RMB notes. If no one makes a claim on the property by the deadline, it will be considered ownerless and the Meijiang branch will turn it over to the Treasury in accordance with the “Ownerless Seized Property Disposal Instructions”.”
Comments say, “It’s not that it’s ownerless, it’s that the owner doesn’t dare to claim it.”
“Can you donate it to me?”
“Politicians: Well, if nobody wants it, I guess it’s mine. [doge]”
#Undercover reporter reveals backstage details of Myanmar human trafficking. “Metropolitan Local” joined with anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi to go undercover to investigate the behind-the-scenes details of a Myanmar women trafficking industry across Henan Shaqiu, Anhui Liu’an, Anhui Feidong, and other locations: young women are priced according to their looks to be between 200K to 230K. Married or older women are sold off cheaply. During the transaction, the traffickers will demand they write a proof of willingness, claiming that they’re “safe so long as they get pregnant”. They’re even taking advantage of the loophole that nursing mothers can’t be deported.”
Comments say, “Young women are priced according to their looks to be between 200K to 230K. Married or older women are sold off cheaply. Is this human speech?”
“These are the people the government needs to protect.”
“This guy is acting as justly as his name. [Zhengyi means “justice”]”
A discussion on waking up:
“Wine needs to wake for 15 minutes. Flowers need to wake for 4-5 hours. But people have to go to work as soon as they’re awake.”
“Wine is 3000RMB a bottle, and I’m 3000RMB a month.”
“Some people are willing to wait for wine and flowers to wake. Your boss isn’t willing to wait for you to wake.”
“When cattle and horses get tired, they go to sleep. When we get tired, we just buy ourselves coffee.”
“Organs which are each worth hundreds of thousands of dollars come together to form a me that’s only worth 5000RMB a month.”
“Wine is tasty when it wakes. Flowers are pretty when they wake. They both have beautiful futures. What can do you when you’re awake?”
“What’s the first thing you do when you get to work?” [photo of the inside of a toilet door.]
“Every time when I wake up, the first thing I do is sit on my bed for another two minutes to wait for my soul to come back.”
“Wine: You dare compare lowly humans to me?”
“You can wake up at 5AM.”
“That’s not right. You have to go to work when you haven’t even woken up yet, because if you leave after you wake up, you’ll be late.”
“We live worse than the birds and the bees.”
“The only difference between us and grapes is that we’re both juiced.” [压榨, a word that also means “oppressed/exploited”]
“Wine gets more valuable once it wakes. You can’t get promoted once you wake.”
“You think work is 9 to 6, 9 hours a day. But actually, you’re working the moment you leave your door in the morning and you only stop working once you get back home, so it’s actually 10 hours a day.”
“The worst part is, we’re not as expensive as wine or as pretty as flowers.”
“My friend just told me a story that was like, um…..
This expecting mom is getting progesterone shots to make her pregnancy more stable. Now that it’s warmer, she always comes into the clinic in a summer dress…
And now, the most important part!
She sits like that, with her panties showing, her belly all protruding, gripping onto her dad’s hand. Like, fingers intertwined like they’re dating!!!
Even though her husband is waiting right outside, she’d rather have her dad go in with her!!!
Oh my god, aren’t women supposed to avoid their fathers once they’re grown?
Like…if she’s in labour and she’s allowed to have someone accompany her, would she ask her dad to be there for that too?”
Comments say, “Is it possible that that’s actually totally her husband?”
“It feels so incest-y.”
“Is he a single dad? She grew up with just her dad? And he never established proper boundaries?”
A compilation of what it’s like when poor people try to write stories:
[A screenshot of a history of search terms that goes, “Are there lampposts inside a manor?” “How many calories in a banana?” “Can you exercise with a fan on?” “How to describe surprise.” “What’s in a manor?” “Descriptions of manors in novels.” “Manors” “Chinese-style manors” “Descriptions of roads.” “Descriptions of sleepiness.” “What’s wrong with real estate?” “What do you call places that sell houses?” “What do you call houses people build?”]
“I read a story once where every time the CEO goes to a 5-star hotel to eat, he’ll thoughtfully take the cutlery out of their plastic packaging for the female lead.”
“The female lead got sick as soon as she got off the private jet, and the CEO is like, “Quick, take her to the Los Angeles First People’s Hospital.””
“I read a story where the protagonist got the superpower to turn invisible, and he went to the supermarket to steal self-heating chicken rice meals, and I felt really bad for the author.”
“The CEO takes the female lead shopping and tells the agent, “Fork everything in the top row down for me.”” [Very low-end fashion brands will often have tiny stores where they don’t have room for racks or mannequin displays and will just put all their clothes up on the walls and pull them down with a big fork thing if you see one you like.]
“The male lead had a 3 million RMB house in downtown, oh my god XD”
“I read this novel a couple of years ago where the male lead was a CEO, the kind that shakes the whole city’s economy when he sneezes. And he went bankrupt paying back a 500K debt for the female lead’s dad.”
“I just came across one where when the protagonist was poor, she was dirt fucking poor. And then when she got rich and had billions to her name, she wears Swarovski??”
“I once saw a female villain try to seduce the CEO in a Homeinns hotel.” [average 2-300 a night hotel.]
“Spent a couple hundred million on building a club where only the rich and powerful gather. And then the CEO told his mistress that the most expensive buffet there cost 298RMB per person.”
“You can’t tell much about rich people, but poverty can be specific down to the singles digit.”
“The CEO elegantly lights a Zhonghua cigarette and accidentally reveals his newest Casio watch.”
“I gotta mention the one where the male lead suddenly came by a couple hundred million and went to Saizeriya to eat steak and put a couple million towards membership there and became their Supreme VIP.”
“I read a story once where the CEO had a briefcase and he told the female lead there was a hundred million in cash in there, and I knew immediate the author has never seen how much space that much cash takes up in real life.”
“There was this novel where the protagonist got super wealthy and went and bought a whole bunch of iced red tea [a bottled drink from Kangshifu], and a reader finally couldn’t take it anymore and donated a bunch of money to the author and told him to buy some better drinks.”
“Night has fallen, the CEO and his tradwife change into their silk pajamas T_T”
“I remember this one part where the protagonist got super rich and bought himself a whole carton of Hongtashan [12RMB cigarettes] and a crate of iced red tea.”
“The CEO drove his luxury Chang’an CS75 [80K car] to the credit union to withdraw 500K in cash?”
“The CEO was very angry! He took out his Oppo A5 and called 10086 and asked customer service in his most severe tone why his internet was so spotty.”
”In a private room at Wallace, the CEO ordered New Orleans roast chicken, spicy chicken wings, spicy chicken rolls, a medium coke, small fries, and popcorn chicken. The CEO’s wife’s eyes went wide with shock. “Is all of this for me?” The CEO looked indulgently into his wife’s eyes and said, “My woman deserves the best food.””
“Eating at a three star Michelin restaurant with the CEO and he gently scraped off stray bamboo hairs from my chopsticks and lovingly rinsed all my cutlery in boiling water.”
A discussion on East Asian intimate relationships:
“The distorted East Asian family dynamics: treating your daughter like your husband, your husband (and son-in-law) like your son, your son like your lover, and your daughter-in-law like your rival.”
“Reminds me of this line again: In East Asia, mother and daughter pretend to be a couple, couples pretend to be mother and son, mother and son pretend to be lovers, lovers pretend to be father and daughter, father and daughter pretend to be mother and daughter. Why are people in a rush to get married? Because they need to find their “father” to birth their “lover” with.”
“This cycle is mostly the father feeding off of the mom and daughter, the son feeds off of the mother and his sisters, and the mother feeds off her daughter. Daughters are the bottom of the food chain and has to have their blood sucked by three people. If you want to advance, you have to turn into a mother yourself. That way, only two people, your husband and your son, feed off of you, and you can still feed off of your daughter, so you’re only taking on the burden of one person.”
“I don’t get how father and daughter pretend to be mother and daughter. I feel like that was shoved in just to create a closed loop.”
“You can look at all the poor single-parent girls in Japan who aren’t even in high school yet and still has to go home and cook and do all the housework for their dads.”
“9 constants for East Asian kids: deny your nature, suppress your emotions, ignore your needs, please other people, learn from suffering, endless competition, sociopathic schemes, be ashamed of relaxation, delayed gratification.”
“The delusions of all East Asian kids: I can change my dad and save my mom.”
“Supposedly, this is the three signs of awakening in East Asian kids: One is realising the importance of money. Two is becoming completely disillusioned in your parents. Three is the courage to get away from anyone and any place that makes you uncomfortable.”
“If someone wasn’t happy in their childhood and their parents aren’t happy, then he won’t dare to be too happy once he’s an adult. Because when he’s happy, he’ll feel like he’s a kite flying free, very high up and very insecure, like something bad is going to happen. He only feels stable when he’s unhappy. Unhappiness has become a comfort zone in his subconscious.”
“East Asian girls are getting stabbed in the back their whole lives. When you’re little, your mom is complaining about your dad to you every day. If it wasn’t for you, she’d have divorced him a long time ago. After you grow up, you fight your dad on her behalf and try to talk her into a divorce, and you mom says what kind of daughter wants her parents to end up divorced? She even tells you to apologise to your dad. If you ask, it’s because, “He’s your dad after all…”
Once you’re grown up, your best friend gets betrayed and comes to you to cry, and you diss the guy without a second thought, and your best friend turns around and goes right back to him and even asks you to be her bridesmaid at her wedding…
Once you’re married, you have a fight with your husband and go back to your mom’s in a fit of rage. After crying with you, your mom turns around and calls up her son-in-law to apologise on your behalf, and even tries to tell you, “All relationships have hurdles…”
Your mom doesn’t want to get divorced and wants you to kiss up to your dad just because she wants to satisfy her illusion of a “happy family”. She can’t change your dad, but she can control you.
Your best friend cries and talks about a breakup just to vent her emotions at you, and use your support as leverage to whine to the scumbag and demand he make it up to her.
Your mom apologises on your behalf because she’s afraid you’ll be abandoned by your husband and became the shameful daughter with a failed marriage. That’s worse than the world ending.
Don’t believe anyone’s tears or smiles.”
“There was this novel where the protagonist got super wealthy and went and bought a whole bunch of iced red tea [a bottled drink from Kangshifu], and a reader finally couldn’t take it anymore and donated a bunch of money to the author and told him to buy some better drinks.”
It seems reasonable that a character that hadn't been wealthy long would still like the drinks he used to. In the US at least, when they're not drinking alcohol or perhaps coffee or tea, the rich people drink the same Coca-Cola as the poor people; the expensive high-quality high-status version of that kind of thing just doesn't exist.