I will never give in to Miss Death

I have lived in this small apartment for several years, and the only time I remember getting compensation was the "water pipe blockage incident" two years ago.

For some unknown reason, the water pipes from the first to the fourth floor of Building 30 were all blocked and needed to be checked one by one. As a result of that incident, all the people living on the first to the fourth floor of Building received yuan in electricity bills as "lost work wages."

In contrast, the fines at Snail House are quite high - there are fines for parking your electric bike in the wrong place, charging other people's electricity, leaving the first-floor door open after 12 o'clock at night, throwing garbage out of the window, and throwing garbage with odor into public areas at will...

As for the last one, if nothing unexpected happens, the drunkard outside my door will probably be charged with "randomly throwing smelly garbage into public areas". He will be fined 100 yuan, give 50 yuan to the cleaning lady to come and clean up, and give me 10 yuan as a consolation. The remaining 40 will either go into the property manager's pocket or be confiscated.

Although there are a lot of fines, I have never been fined over the years.

"How about I move to another place?"

After closing the door and taking one last look through the peephole at the house manager who was on the phone, I silently put the kitchen knife back in the kitchen.

Before, I was somewhat out of tune with the people in this apartment. I don't smoke or drink, and I don't have much in common with them. Now that I'm a girl, for safety reasons, I feel that I should find a quieter and safer place.

For example, a formal residential area.

There are usually security guards in the community, and the neighbors are mostly middle-aged and elderly people with children. This kind of place is better than a place full of young people who are squandering their youth and wasting their time - at least a formal and mature community will not have too many people who get drunk every day and can't find their way home.

At the very least, I would like to find a rental house similar to a staff dormitory where people can share a room, and the surrounding area should be relatively prosperous, at least not in an urban village or a youth apartment.

In the past, I was an uncle, alone, with no worries and nothing to be afraid of. I could rent a youth apartment in the city village. But that’s not possible now. It’s only a matter of time for a girl to live alone in such a remote place surrounded by “bad” people. Something bad will happen sooner or later.

But if it is an old neighborhood or a busy area, the rent would definitely not be as cheap as it is now.

I returned to the sofa with my phone in my arms and downloaded an app for renting a house.

There aren't many valuable things in the house. Apart from the computer and some clothes, many of my things are acquired for free. If I want to move, it doesn't matter if I don't take the furniture and appliances with me.

The main issue is rent.

It seems a bit difficult to find a rent that is within your budget and a safe house at the same time.

I looked at the dazzling array of rental housing information on my mobile phone screen, and my emotions were very complicated.

The vast majority of low-priced properties are similar to the "snail apartment" where I live, and there are positions such as "sub-landlord" and "property manager". There are almost no cheap houses that are truly your own.

On top of that, most properties that you rent out yourself… require a two to three month deposit.

Maybe they are worried that some tenants will cause damage when they move out, so many houses that look pretty good are "two deposit and one payment" or even "three deposit and one payment". For a house that costs one thousand yuan a month, I need to prepare at least three thousand yuan to rent it, but I am penniless now and simply cannot afford that much money.

It's really a question of money...

I used to think that earning a thousand yuan a day at a comic convention was a lot, but now it seems that a thousand yuan is not enough at all.

Various troubles in life can be said to happen one after another.

After turning off the software related to renting a house, I tried to look through some blog forums again.

By the way, I seem to remember that the recruitment conditions of the "Shangjing Cat Cafe" on the flyer mentioned "food and accommodation included"? Can I consider asking them what the accommodation they provide looks like when I go there to "apply" this afternoon?

Or... if it really doesn't work, I can just share the house with someone else. Of course, the roommate must be a girl.

I don’t have any bad habits usually. Now I’ve become a little girl. I feel so sleepy that I have to go to bed at a certain time. I guess no one will mind.

The most important thing is that no deposit is required for sharing a house.

If I remember correctly, the requirements for roommates in rental advertisements are basically "normal work and rest schedule", "stable job", "no bringing friends back", "no pets", etc. Most of them are people who rent a house and then feel it is too big, and it feels a waste to leave one or two rooms empty, so they post the house information online to recruit roommates.

The deposit for this type of shared housing has already been paid, and the tenant only needs to move in with their bags.

Well, let's see if there's anyone looking for a roommate.

I tried to expand the "address" of the rental conditions to Minami-nagi District and checked "shared rental".

"Monthly rent is 800 yuan, only for girls, no pets..."

"The monthly rent is 750, only for girls... Wait, you two men only want to rent with women? What kind of evil idea are you having?"

"Monthly rent is 500 yuan, only for females, preferably freelancers, and preferably able to help with cooking... Hmm?"

After staring at the rental information on my phone for a while, my eyes fell on a large two-story house that looked very nice.

房子面积180平，1楼主卧室已有1女生，2楼主卧已有1女生，现1楼次卧招合租人……

It’s cheap, but the conditions are so weird, having to be a freelancer and know how to cook?

Online novel writers are considered freelancers, and I can barely be considered "able to cook". Moreover, their rent is cheap enough, 500 yuan a month, with no deposit required. The location is on the top floor of an older residential area in Nannai District, only two kilometers away from the newly opened "Shangjing Cat Cafe", which can be said to perfectly meet my requirements.

But... why do I always feel weird?

Why not give it a try and call them? There's no harm in asking.

After realizing this, I copied the phone number of the person who posted the roommate advertisement, switched to the homepage on my phone, and pressed the dial button.

"beep--"

"Hey?"

The call was quickly connected, and a familiar, lazy voice came from the other end: "Hello?"

"Hello, are you Miss Ai?"

I tried to speak in a mature voice: "I saw the rental information you posted and would like to consult..."

Before I could finish my words, I was interrupted by the other party: "Are you an uncle?"

what?

I didn't react immediately: "What uncle?"

"Uncle loves Loli? That's your pen name, right?"

Why did this suddenly bring up the pen name...

"I...I am."

I asked cautiously, "Excuse me, who are you?"

"I'm your editor Elodie."

The girl over there seemed to yawn: "You want to rent a house?"

Elodie?

How could this happen?!

"Ah...right."

I suddenly didn't know what to say: "I... I want to find a new house recently, and the lease on my house may be about to expire..."

Actually, not really. I just paid the rent for May for the Snail House Apartment. It’s only May 6th, so there are still more than 20 days left.

But I really don’t dare to continue living there. After the “drunkard knocking on the door” incident just now, I am a little scared. Compared to these few hundred dollars, my own “life safety” is the most important.

"Okay, when are you coming over to see the house?"

To my surprise, Elodie didn’t seem to care whether I could cook or not. She said in a lazy voice, “I’m still busy working at the comic convention. I may not be able to go back until the afternoon.”

"It doesn't matter. I'm going to look for a job this afternoon as well."

I thought about it and continued to ask: "Do you already have a tenant there?"

"Yes, but she only comes back at night when it's almost time to go to bed. I don't know what she does all day. After she comes back, she falls asleep immediately and makes very little noise."

Elodie still had that lazy tone: "Don't worry that she will affect your writing."

Ah, I'm not worried about the impact or anything. That level of noise is nothing compared to what happens here.

The main thing is... as an author, if I go and share a room with the editor, will it feel like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth? If I get stuck in writing and delay the manuscript... will I be locked up in a small dark room?

"Xiao Ai!"

Just as he was hesitating, a voice that seemed to be Editor Rabbit came from Elodie's side: "Stop slacking off, come over and move this!"

"it is good!"

Responding to the rabbit, Elodie leaned closer to the phone again: "Our family bought the house five years ago, and the tenant has been renting it for several years. There is no problem with his personality, don't worry."

"This is my cell phone number. If you get there this afternoon, just call this number."

"..."

No. 077 Stop it, there are demons everywhere.

After lunch, I set the alarm and took a nap on the bed. At two o'clock in the afternoon, I woke up in a daze to the melodious sound of the alarm.

"Well……"

I sat up reluctantly and rubbed my eyes. I looked around the room which was much quieter than before, and silently said to myself, "I can't take a nap too long, otherwise I will not have energy in the afternoon." Then I yawned loudly.

It seems... the rain outside has stopped?

I got out of the cot, walked to the window, and drew open the curtains.

Outside, the entire city was drenched by rain.

You can see a construction site across from a few bungalows and a main road. Several workers wearing helmets are sitting on a big rock smoking and chatting next to the construction site.

In the alley below the window, two orange cats were glaring at each other with their fur standing on end, and it seemed as if a war was about to break out.

The rain really stopped.

However, although it was not raining anymore, it was still gloomy outside and the sun was not visible. It felt like "the rain had stopped, but not completely."

Generally, this kind of weather will last for half a day, until the sun comes out from the clouds, and then the sunlight will scorch the earth, drying up all the rain, and then... summer will come.

With the arrival of summer, watermelon, strawberry, bayberry, lychee...all kinds of delicious fruits will become available.

"Kun!"

Just as I was about to close the window and return to my room, the two orange cats below the window made obvious movements. The orange cat on the right arched its body, its hair standing upright, and made an ambiguous threatening sound: "Yang Kun!"

I recognized that it was a cat that the property manager of Building 3 had raised freely. It often turned over on its belly and acted cute in the lobby on the first floor. It was said that the property manager raised the cat a year ago because tenants often complained about too many rats in the rental house. However, it was of no use. This cat usually only took care of the rats on the first and second floors, and was too lazy to even come up to the third floor and above.

What’s interesting is that the property manager of Building 3 is called Yang Kun, which has the same name as a famous star. People in the tenant group like to call him Brother Yang, and the only word that this orange cat in Building 3 can say, besides “meow meow meow” and “Old Wu”, is... Yang Kun.

Just like it is now.

"Kun! Yang Kun!"

When facing the orange cat on the left, which should be a foreign cat, the property manager's cat showed its bravery and fearlessness. It shouted "Yang Kun" and threatened the other party with "hiss" and "ha".

It looked like the quarrel would last another half an hour.

Ignoring the quarreling cats downstairs, I yawned, closed the window, went back to the bedroom, and folded the small quilt on the bed neatly.

It feels like... the pillow, quilt, and mosquito net need to be replaced. They have been used for several years.

My quilt and pillow are the most ordinary ones. I bought them from a nearby grocery store and daily necessities store when I rented a house here. The total cost was less than 100 yuan. The mosquito net is a "yurt" style that I ordered online, and it took me a long time to assemble it.

If I really have to move in the next few days, I don't think there is any need to move these things over. I might as well see if I can find a junk collector to sell them to.

Thinking of this, I walked to the floor-length mirror in the living room in my pajamas, combed my messy hair with a small comb, washed my face and brushed my teeth.

I turned on the screen of my new phone and opened the food delivery app.

Clothing store, women's clothing store, I'll look for it...I found it.

There are 8 women's clothing stores within three kilometers of my small apartment. After excluding those big-brand, expensive stores, those with delivery times greater than 40 minutes, those with too expensive delivery fees or those with too sexy clothing styles, I finally chose a clothing store that mainly sells casual women's clothing.

The clothes in this store all look pretty good, and judging by the reviews, most of the people buying them are high school and college students from nearby. The reasons for the bad reviews are mostly trivial and insignificant things.

The most important thing is that only this store’s style matches my current look. The others are either women’s clothing with pointed high heels and sexy skirts, or more “trendy” styles like ripped jeans.

There are quite a few small skirts in the store, mostly dresses and pleated skirts. Considering the temperature outside, I directly excluded dresses from the shortlist.

Then, my eyes fell on a set called "Comic Master" on the first page of their store with a "New Arrival" label.

Beret, sweatshirt with pleated skirt and round-toe casual shoes.

Wow……

I feel that this combination is so cute, fresh and beautiful.

I clicked on this group called "Comic Master".

There are a total of five items of clothing in the combination: a particularly cute sky blue beret with many small flowers inlaid on it. From the enlarged picture, you can see that the hat is very delicately designed. Then there is a hooded sweatshirt in the same color as the hat. The sweatshirt is a long-sleeved style. The overall color scheme is mainly sky blue and white. There are some sketches of blue sky and white clouds printed on the chest, as well as some artistic patterns, and a large pocket on the belly. I believe that no matter who sees this sweatshirt at first glance, they can probably feel that it should be created with elements such as "art students".

Apart from anything else, at least I really like this sweatshirt, and it seems that boys can wear it too, though it’s a little more delicate.

In addition, this outfit is also paired with a light blue pleated skirt. The skirt is a solid color style, and the blue is so light that it is almost invisible. It feels no different from white. I have never worn a skirt before, so I don’t know if this color can be considered an excellent design, but looking at the pictures of models in the store, it seems to be quite good. To put it simply, it is a very fresh, neutral, and delicate hooded sweatshirt paired with a pleated skirt. If you are a boy, you can also change the pleated skirt into shorts.

In addition to the hat, clothes and skirt, this set also comes with matching socks and shoes. The socks look like ordinary women's cotton socks from the example picture, with two blue circles at the opening of the socks, and the shoes...