Recollections｜Chapter 1283: It Would Be Nice to Make a Friend

He Xiyan returned to her dormitory, her face still slightly flushed.

She was the only one in the dormitory at this time, her three roommates might have gone to dinner.

She sat at the desk, her crystal-clear eyes blinking constantly.

After a while, she took out her sketchbook from the box and found two paintbrushes.

When she started to write, there was a faint smile on the corners of her mouth. She drew the way he looked when he was reading a book just now. He was sitting on a red wooden chair with a book as thick as a dictionary on his legs.

He was serious and focused, as if the noise around him had no effect on him at all.

It was a very simple pencil drawing, but He Xiyan spent almost forty minutes drawing it. She carefully considered every stroke, fearing that the drawing would not look like him, and that she would not be able to draw his temperament and charm.

It would be great if she could make friends with him.

He Xiyan suddenly wanted to meet him, although she knew it was unlikely.

It was almost seven o'clock in the evening when He Xiyan finished painting. There were only some dishes that didn't look good in the cafeteria, but she didn't mind. She ordered a pumpkin soup for 2 yuan, a potato shreds for 2.5 yuan, and another 50 yuan rice.

She almost always kept the cost of each meal within 5 yuan, so that her monthly food expenses would not exceed 500 yuan.

She had to earn her own living expenses and tuition fees, so she never dared to spend money lavishly.

She rarely bought clothes, shoes, and skin care products, and might only buy them once or twice a semester.

Of course, she had other expenses, such as phone bills, Internet fees, transportation fees, the cost of buying brushes and paints, occasional expenses for participating in school activities, and the property fees for her house, etc.

She had to spend at least 1,200 to 1,500 yuan a month even if she saved money.

She had to earn every penny of this money herself.

In the evening, her roommates went out to play, and Yang Jing called her and asked her if she wanted to go singing. They were in KTV. She wanted to go, but she couldn't.

Because she has to draw pictures and study at night.

In addition to the knowledge and skills learned in class, she also spent more than 300 yuan to buy a set of online video courses to learn mobile UI interface design and animation design.

Her major is graphic design, and she will basically draw pictures and retouch pictures after graduation. She asked some seniors online, and they were not paid well after graduation, many of them only a few thousand yuan a month. She hopes that she can master more skills and find a better job after graduation.

She wants to buy a house and a car in the future, and have her own place to stay in the beautiful and prosperous city of Night City. And find a boyfriend who works and lives in this city, and the two can work hard together.

He Xiyan clicked on the online course she bought, and then put on headphones again, listened to the class carefully, and took notes from time to time. After listening to the class, he would try to put the knowledge he just learned into practice and design some patterns or logos by himself.

She also applied for an account on a part-time job website today and successfully registered as a part-time designer.

In this way, she may have the opportunity to take orders online in the future and do some simple page designs such as menus, promotional pages, posters, etc. for some small shops or small organizations.

She didn't have much experience, so her charges were very low. Others charged 150 to 300 yuan per page for making promotional pages, but she only charged 50 yuan per page. She wanted to gain more experience, so how much money she could make was not particularly important to her.