04 The tenant

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Yibo exhaled in relief when he had finally found himself alone in the safety of his apartment.
He locked the door, pulled closed the curtains and dropped his exhausted form onto the couch, checking his wristwatch.
It was almost 9AM, still had two hours ahead to prepare himself for the date.


THE!...date!


No matter the level of exhaustion, Yibo was so, so excited!
What should he wear?
Should he dress casually or maybe wear something more sophisticated?
Oh, wear...clothes!!
Sh!t!!!!
All of his best clothes are in a suitcase, flying to New York, dammit!

He did a quick internet research and made a call to request for his luggage to be sent back at his address from Beijing.

He was just ending the call, when his attention was caught by a noise.
Sound of a key shoved in the front door keyhole...

What a fu*king fu*k?!!!!


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He didn't have much more time to wonder about what a hell was happening, but Shen Yue's voice mingled with other unknown voices reached his ears, coming from the lobby direction.

Luckily the living room is a walk-through room to other two rooms of the rented apartment: a bedroom and a small storeroom, which Yibo had converted into his workshop.

His intelligent brain weighed quickly the situation, then he chose the second door.
He sneaked inside the workshop, locking carefully the door behind him, the bedroom door not being lockable.


Yibo plastered his ear against the wooden door, and listened to his sister's voice:
"I need to apologize in advance for the eventual weird stuff you might find, but I didn't have time to come and clean the apartment.
My brother has just left this morning and you, my dear Cheng Xiao, you should have contacted me sooner.
I didn't even have time to ask for my brother's permission to sub-lease his apartment.
Luckily it's only for a week, exactly for the time he will be gone.
I do this only because you are my friend and you seemed in that phone call pretty desperate, I wonder why?
Anyway, my brother would kill me if he would know!"

"You bet, I will kill you!
The f*ck, Jiějiě, how much money do you get from renting my sh!tty apartment, for one single week?
And who the hell is this Cheng Xiao friend, about whom I have never heard before?", Yibo growled, as silently as he could.


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