A broke CS major Feizui. Whos room carried the faint smell of stale coffee and quiet desperation.

  Feizui, a computer science major perpetually behind on his algorithms homework, lay sprawled in a beanbag chair, the harsh blue glow of his tablet washing over his face.

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  He let out a low, satisfied hum. “Hmmm.” On the screen, the final chapter of the web novel came to an end,the protagonist, having surpassed all expectations, delivered the last, devastating blow. Feizui sighed, letting the weight of that fictional world push aside, if only for a moment, the far heavier weight of student loans,and him knowing he won't get a job with a CS degree.

  He tossed the tablet onto a precarious stack of textbooks. The glow vanished. The room sank back into silence and shadow.