Chapter 4 The Live-in Landlord

  With a sense of reluctance and unwillingness, Yang Mu bid farewell to the beautiful leader who embodied both nobility and beauty. Then he faced Jia Jia's fierce gaze, which was no surprise given his careless behavior earlier, completely sticking out like a sore thumb, it would be strange if Jia Jia wasn't angry.

  Jia Jia's red eyes and the dark circles around them were enough to make Yang Mu feel guilty, which was sufficient to explain that she had been keeping vigil day and night by her bed for several days.

  Maybe Jiajia is a good girl, but she and he really don't quite match, Yangmu has been comforting himself like this all along.

  Suddenly had a desire to smoke, looked at the tired Jiajia Yang and asked:

  "Can you give me a cigarette from your pocket?"

  Jia Jia put down the unpeeled apple and replied with a gloomy face:

  "When will you take your own body seriously? Do you think it's suitable for smoking now?"

  Although Jiajia made a lot of sense, Yangmu still insisted that she bring the cigarettes to him. In the end, Jiajia almost stormed out because her kind words were not understood by Yangmu, who instead listed all her shortcomings.

  Watching Jiajia leave, Yangmu's face had a satisfied smile, perhaps only this way could make Jiajia go home and sleep comfortably in bed.

  Yang Mu was thinking about how to get cigarettes when the hospital room door was pushed open again, and he looked up to see that beautiful female leader standing in the doorway staring at him.

  "May I come in?"

  "Of course."

  The beautiful leader walked in with elegant steps after getting Yangmu's consent and asked after a glance around:

  "Where is your girlfriend?"

  "What? Who?"

  "That girl named Jiajia."

  Although Yang Mu's expression was enough to indicate that Jiajia wasn't his girlfriend, the beautiful leader still firmly believed that only a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship could make Jiajia so attentive and devoted, constantly guarding his bedside.

  Seeing her disbelieving smile, Yang Mu could only helplessly shake his head, after all she wasn't the first person to think that way.

  "I've come back to ask what you need, I'll try my best to satisfy you, after all, you saved my life."

  She didn't need to use Yangmu saving her as a reason at all, it's just that from the start when everyone was present, Yangmu's gaze had already made her feel extremely embarrassed, but due to good upbringing she hadn't expressed it.

  Of course, this also led to forgetting to ask if Yangmu had any requirements and pretending to be calm before escaping from here, but now he's back again.

  Yang Mu shook his head without thinking, how could he let such a beautiful woman help him, where would his male self-esteem go.

  The beautiful leader asked Yangmu to confirm again, and Yangmu shook his head again. Then she stared at him straightly, making Yangmu feel dizzy. What if she found out that he was the one who took her money when she wasn't paying attention? If she came to ask for her money back later, he would be in trouble.

  "Don't you really recognize me?"

  Yang Mu asked coldly, and the beautiful leader was completely confused about what was going on. Later, it seemed to be true but also seemed to be false that she said:

  "Yang Mu, huh, this name does seem a bit familiar."

  "Right, right, I'm Yang Mu, that's me..."

  At this time her phone rang, and she smiled at Yang Mu and said "excuse me" before standing up to answer the call.

  After a while, the beautiful leader rushed into the house again and asked if Yang Mu needed any help. Yang Mu thought that as long as he could get along with her, it would be good, and since he didn't have a place to live after leaving the hospital, he might as well let her help him rent an apartment.

  The beautiful leader agreed without thinking, then said goodbye to Yang Mu and disappeared from his sight, leaving Yang Mu alone to sigh at the door.

  In the following tens of days, under Jiajia's careful care and Lezi Bangbang's stimulation in pairs, Yangmu finally endured the day of discharge from the hospital, but not with them, but with the beautiful leader.

  Yang specially instructed Lezi and Bangbang not to come to the hospital for a few days, most importantly, to keep Jiajia under control, and not let her come to the hospital. As a result, he suffered their genuine disdain.

  Followed the beautiful leader to a old-fashioned residential area in the city center, it's probably harder to find such an old residential area in this good location in the city than climbing to heaven, and I don't know how she found it.

  Like a vagabond, he trailed behind her and climbed six floors of stairs to arrive at the house she had rented for herself. When he opened the door, what was inside matched the ancient image outside.

  In the small living room, apart from that 50-inch TV screen which can prove this is a modernized living room, there's nothing else to prove it.

  An old-fashioned square table lies in the middle of the living room, four dark chairs stand quietly around the table, and the stiff sofa gives people a feeling of a tiger bench.

  She followed her to the bedroom, and when she arrived at the bedroom, Yang Mu only knew what it was like to be in a world of ice and fire. The decoration of the bedroom was all cartoonish, completely out of place with the classical elegance outside.

  "This room is yours."

  Yang Mu seemed not to have understood her words, so he asked for confirmation:

  "What does this room mean to me?"

  "This bedroom is your private space, the living room outside and the kitchen and bathroom are shared, by the way, the kitchen can also be your private space."

  Yang Mu had never thought of co-renting, he would rather live in a single room than co-rent, there were too many troubles when co-renting together, this had been fully verified in the university dormitory.

  "Room for rent?"

  "It's not like that, I'm your landlord, I just occasionally stay here, but when I'm not around you can't enter my private space."

  She didn't hear what Yang said afterwards, only remembered that she was her landlord, and before when looking at it, always saw something about beautiful female landlords.

  Yangmu is already brewing various "coincidences" of cohabitation, the beautiful leader pretended to cough a few times when she saw Yangmu walking in a daze.

  Yang Mu pretended to be deep in thought and asked:

  "How is the rent calculated?"

  "You look at it and give it away, I don't make money from rent either."

  She actually arranged for Yang Mu to stay here out of helplessness, firstly because she didn't have the time to find him a place to rent, and secondly because using her own identity to rent a house would instead become an opportunity for subordinates to curry favor.

  Anyway, I rarely come back here, so I might as well bring Yangmu over and also avoid the trouble of coming to clean every week.

  Yang Mu carefully priced the house in his mind, this location is absolutely the best in the entire city, and the floor is not too high, plus there's a beautiful female landlord. So Yang Mu readily proposed a monthly rent of one thousand, she agreed without hesitation.

  "By the way, I still don't know what your name is?"

  Dong Yurou.

  "Good name."

  After finishing the sentence, the two fell into silence. If it were another woman, Yang Mu would have had endless words to say, but in front of her, he was always worried that he would be too reckless.

  "I'll leave first, your injury hasn't fully recovered yet, take care of yourself. Later I will ask my assistant to come and cook for you regularly, consider it as my compensation to you."

  "There's no need to be so polite, I can handle it myself."

  Before Yang Mu could finish speaking, she picked up her handbag and walked towards the door. Yang Mu had no choice but to see her off.

  A person's time is always so lonely, Yang Mu had to light a cigarette to kill the boring time. Since Dan Ya left, tobacco has replaced her position and became the closest thing to himself.

  Only tobacco can calm itself down, temporarily forgetting the troubles of the world, forgetting the pain brought by elegance.

  A wisp of smoke drifted in the living room, through which Yang Mu seemed to see his degenerate self, with a full beard and dull eyes.

  He viciously stomped out the cigarette butt, making an unsettling noise.

  "What kind of life has this mother lived."

  Just then, a call from the stick came to invite Yangmu to attend the meeting. The agenda of the meeting mainly includes three items: one is to celebrate Yangmu's first birthday after rebirth and discuss his crime of valuing color over friendship; two is that Lezi will bring her girlfriend to meet everyone as promised last time; three is that Lezi bought a guan (a type of Chinese zither) and it will be clear what it is when the time comes.

  Yangmu thought about the first thing and got a headache, and didn't know how they would count their own moral character at that time. What's even more hateful is that Lezi didn't say the third thing, which made it unclear whether to go or not to go.