Tenant's Secret Love

Chapter 9: Return good for evil

Renee drove 100 miles per hour for 20 minutes to bring me here, which means I am at least 30 kilometers away from my residence. I am depressed, how come I have been involved in all these unbelievable things recently!

I picked up my slippers from the ground, straightened my clothes, looked up, and was relieved to see the Big Dipper still twinkling. I found the brightest star, Yuheng, and determined the cardinal directions. Then I walked towards the distant, indistinct flicker of lights, as if in a lonely escape.

After half an hour, I finally saw a road with cars passing by. I fixed my eyes on it, and really wanted to strangle that vicious woman. In front of me was the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway (a highway in Jiangsu Province, China) at the border between Suzhou and Wuxi.

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It was almost dawn when I was finally driven to the city centre by a kind passer-by. I took a taxi to my accommodation, but as I didn't have my wallet with me, I couldn't pay the fare. I threw the half-finished packet of cigarettes to the driver and ran away.

Once I entered the residential compound, my anger flared up. I wanted to talk to Renee, not about life or ideals, but about why she had treated me like that.

Back in the house, I put my guitar on the living room table and went to Renee's room door. I raised my hand and pounded on the door like I was letting off steam. "Is it fun to play with me? Do you know I have to go to work tomorrow..." I looked out the window and saw the sky was already brightening up a bit, so I corrected myself, "No, it's today. You've been messing with me all night, in what state am I going to go to work? If my boss gets upset and fires me, are you going to support me?"

I kept talking, but there was no response from the room.

"If you want me to swear at you even more, just keep pretending you can't hear me," I said, and then I slammed the door again.

There was still no response from the room.

"Did she not come back?" I wondered, and twisted the doorknob, only to find that it was locked.

Renee already thinks I'm a scumbag, so breaking into her room at night is the least of my problems. I find her room key in the bunch and unlock the door. I don't care if she's asleep or not, I'm going to have a serious talk with her.

I turn on the light and finally see Renee lying on her side on the bed. She's covered up with the quilt and is facing away from me. She still doesn't say a word.

"You slept soundly. Have you ever thought about the suffering I endured? ...The wind on the way blew my nose running...ahem..." I sneezed, rubbed my nose, and angrily said, "I'll tell you, in the past 20 years of my life, I have never seen you do things like this. You're a thief, you're not honest!"

No matter how much I scolded her, she remained calm and unruffled!

Just as I was about to pull her up from the bed and have a face-to-face argument with her, she suddenly had a violent cough...

According to common sense, if my sneeze just now was a cold, then her cough definitely meant she had a fever and must have caught a cold last night.

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I froze for a moment, and then scolded, "God has opened his eyes! ...you've been punished!"

Renee coughed again, but didn't say anything to me. I don't know if she was too lazy to bother with me or if she was too weak from the fever to argue with me.

"Get out," Renee said coldly after a while.

"I don't need you to remind me. I like to see people die without helping them. I hope you die of this cough! You deserve it, you'll