Tenant's Secret Love

Chapter 48: I'm going crazy with pain

When I accused Renee of lying and cheating, her emotions didn't change much. She remained calm and said to me, "I remember telling you last time that there are too many inconveniences living together with someone, and our lifestyles and habits are very different. Why do you keep making things difficult for me and getting involved with me endlessly?"

I calmly responded, "Don't say that. Am I pestering you? I'm just worried about the house. If you move out, I'll never bother you again."

Renee nodded and said, "I believe that, but the property ownership certificate clearly states my name. What's the point of you worrying?"

I said to Renee very seriously, "Can we put ourselves in each other's shoes? If you had lived in a house for more than two years and suddenly moved out, how would you feel? In Suzhou, a city where we don't own a home and live a drifting life, we really long for a place to call our own, especially at night... You will never understand the panic of having nowhere to go. It's very depressing and helpless!"

Renee was silent.

I was also silent. At this point, what caused us to clash was not just a house, but also the barrier of class. This barrier made us unable to understand each other, and we each held fast, torturing each other in the process.

After a long time, I said to Renee with a question: "In fact, if you really wanted me to leave, you could have called the police to resolve the situation. I had to go, so why didn't you do that?"

Renee looked up at me and said after a long silence, "You're not bad enough to warrant the police."

I smiled and said, "Then I'm really glad, glad that I'm not bad enough!"

It was clearly a sarcastic remark to Renee, but she said to me again, seriously, "You can help CC to keep the restaurant, and you can become friends with a woman like CC, so you must not be too bad. It's just that life and relationships have given you too much pressure, so you seem like a person who does evil without restraint. In fact, your cynicism is just to make yourself feel better."

I looked at Renee in a daze. Over the years, she was the one who had seen me most clearly. At least Harlan, Natalie, Robben, and CC, my closest friends, had never said that to me. The knot in the deepest part of my heart seemed to be gently tugged by Renee, but it was not completely untied. However, it was enough to touch my sensitivity.

I finally said to Renee, "Are you going to affirm my character and then make me feel embarrassed for pestering you so that you can have peace and quiet? Stop playing games with me. I went to school, I know about the soft-power policy."

Renee was silent, her expression helpless. Helpless that I would not be swayed by her soft tactics. I already knew her bottom line. If I just hung around, she would be unable to do anything about me. Naturally, I would not give her the opportunity to lock me in the house again. How could someone as smart and alert as me lose out three times to the same woman?

I'm not ashamed of my behavior of pestering Renee. At least she still has a mansion in this city. If I force her out, she won't experience the kind of wandering with nowhere to go. And of course, I won't move into that old house for free. I will pay the rent as usual.

At this time, this was my plan: If Renee could compromise, it would be a happy outcome for us. It is true that she is beautiful, rich, and the CEO of Zhuomei, but that doesn't mean I have to like her or want anything from her, so there is really no need for me to pursue her. As long as she is willing to rent me the house, I will never bother her again for the rest of my life.

After thinking about it for a while, I said to Renee, who had been silent all along, "Why don't you rent me this house? Don't you have another house in Willow Bank Garden? You can go back and live there. Just leave me a bank card number, and I'll transfer the rent to your card every month. We won't even have to meet, how great is that!"

Renee didn't accept my proposal at all, and said with a scowl, "You were so determined to move out last time, why have you changed your mind now?"

"I'm a scoundrel, I live a life of constant vacillation. Besides, I thought moving out would help me find a suitable apartment, but either they were too expensive or too far from my workplace. I'm not happy being a drifter, so of course I want to move back in."

Renee looked at me with a mixture of amusement and sadness, and said, "Your reasons are really very good, both subjective and objective!"

"Of course, I'm a person who always does things to the last detail."

"But don't you think you're being a bit too much? Who forces someone to rent their house to you!" Renee said to me, still trying to be patient.

I said, "Over the top? Why don't I just call all my friends over right now and let them decide who's over the top, you or me? Honestly, you're just like those old bullies, using money to rape the lives of the poor."

Renee finally lost her patience, grabbed her handbag off the table, and then got up and said to me, "I don't have time to argue with you. I definitely won't rent you the apartment, so don't even think about it."

I followed Renee out of the noodle shop, wanting to continue talking with her, and it would be best to settle the matter of the house tonight.

Renee walked quickly, afraid that I would catch up with her, her high heels clicking on the concrete floor. I was not slow, taking a few big steps to get in front of Renee, and then stopping her, saying in a threatening tone, "Are you going to rent or not..."

Before I could finish speaking, my stomach suddenly gave a sudden, cramping pain that made me twitch. I immediately covered my abdomen and crouched down. I hadn't eaten all day and had just overeaten, so my stomach, which wasn't in the best of shape, couldn't take such stimulation.

Renee took advantage of the fact that I was crouching on the ground and walked past me, not caring whether I lived or died.

"Do you have a fucking...conscience? My stomach hurts, and you just stand there and watch me die?"

Renee stopped and looked back at me: "What, are you going to play the martyr with me again? I've already made it very clear to you that I won't rent you the house."

I was writhing in pain, and could even feel the fine sweat breaking out on my forehead.

Renee finally returned to my side, crouched down and looked at me, still asking with disbelief, "What's wrong with you?"

"I just told you... I have a stomachache. How can you... just stand there and watch me suffer? Last time... when you had a fever, did I not make you ginger tea and go buy you medicine? I frowned and twisted my face.

"You're still being petty at a time like this? Did I say I was going to stand there and watch you suffer? ...I'll call an ambulance," Renee said, taking out her phone from her handbag.

"What planet did you drop from, demon? Do you have any common sense? I just have a stomachache, why are you calling an ambulance? There's a pharmacy 100 meters to the right across the street. Go buy those quick-acting stomachache tablets. I'll be fine after chewing a couple.

Renee gave me an unhappy look and said, "You can't just keep quiet and save your strength when you're in this much pain? Fine, I'll go now, you wait here for me."

I grinned and said, "Hurry up, I'm going crazy from the pain!"

Renee nodded and then trotted across the road... Watching her back, I sat down on the ground, and another wave of pain shot through me.