When Jiang Wan returned home with a bag of fresh vegetables, as she climbed up the stairs to her floor, she heard the quarrels from House No. 203.

They quarreled once a week on average.

Usually on Mondays.

While today was Friday.

She turned around and walked downstairs, planning to wait a while before going back up, but unexpectedly, she heard her name amidst the quarrel.

“Wei Jiyuan, are you fucking shameless?! Ah!? I ask you, are you shameless!? Jiang Wan went to jail before! She can’t even find a proper job! What do you like about her?! Are you planning to be with her?! Ah?! I’m asking you! Would you like me to make room for you!?”

“Stop yelling. She’ll be back soon…” It was Wei Jiyuan’s voice.

“Fine! She’ll be back just in time! I’ll move out to make room for you! Wei Jiyuan, just you wait!”

The door opened, and as He Yingtong rushed out with tears streaming down her cheeks, she saw Jiang Wan standing in the corridor.

Without saying anything, she ran down the stairs.

Jiang Wan chased after her with the plastic bag in her hand.

He Yingtong hadn’t run far. She stopped beside the garden just outside their apartment.

She took out a cigarette from her pocket and lit it, calming herself down while smoking.

After a while, she said to Jiang Wan, “Please move out.”

“Mhm.” Jiang Wan nodded.

He Yingtong glanced at her and asked, “What are you thinking about?”

“Thinking of a place to live.” Jiang Wan answered honestly.

He Yingtong turned around and looked Jiang Wan in the eyes as she asked, “You don’t like Wei Jiyuan?”

Jiang Wan shook her head.

He Yingtong didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. “Do you know? You only have to go up and tell Wei Jiyuan that you like him too, and I’ll be the one who gets kicked out of the house.”

Without any expression on her face, Jiang Wan simply patted He Yingtong’s shoulder to comfort her. “I don’t like him. Don’t worry, I’ll move out later.”

“Where are you moving to?” He Yingtong put out the cigarette.

Jiang Wan was He Yingtong’s housemate who had moved in half a year ago. Because Jiang Wan had never had a stable job and loved cleaning, doing the laundry, and cooking, plus He Yingtong saw how frugal she had lived, He Jingtong had waived her rent and only asked her to do some housework in exchange.

However, when she got up this morning, she caught Wei Jiyuan secretly sniffing Jiang Wan’s underwear in the bathroom.

The two of them got into a fight.

He Yingtong felt as if her world had come crashing down on her. At that moment, she hated Jiang Wan and hated herself even more.

She shouldn’t have rented out the second bedroom to save on rent, otherwise she would never have met Jiang Wan.

“I’ll search online,” Jiang Wan said quietly.

He Yingtong exhaled. “I know a place. It’s a friend of my client who is recruiting for a housekeeper, but I’ve heard that he’s a little weird.”

“Is accommodation provided?” Jiang Wan was more concerned about this.

He Yingtong: “……”

“You’re weird, too.” She reached for her phone and dialled the number. “I’ll ask if accommodation is provided.”

“Okay,” Jiang Wan said sincerely to He Yingtong, “thank you.”

“Don’t thank me.” He Yingtong rubbed her reddened eyes. “I don’t want to see you. That’s the truth.”

“I know.” Jiang Wan continued to smile.

He Yingtong took another glance at her.

When Jiang Wan first moved in, she had really short hair, only one or two centimeters longer than a buzz cut. She had worn a mask, and she appeared very haggard with her sallow skin.

At first, she disliked Jiang Wan for being too ugly and didn’t want her to move in. But when she saw how fast and hard working Jiang Wan was, she put up with it in the end.

But in the span of six months, Jiang Wan’s hair had grown long, and her skin had lightened. When the mask was removed, her face was cute and delicate. She wasn’t a stunning beauty, but her face was quite attractive.

He Yingtong was still happy for Jiang Wan at first, complimenting her for becoming beautiful. Until today, after witnessing the nasty thing her boyfriend had done, she realized how ridiculously wrong she had been.

Jiang Wan went to the address given by He Yingtong.

The phone call didn’t go through.

No one answered the door.

She squatted at the door and waited for an hour until the door was opened, and a tall man stood inside.

He was dressed in a white T-shirt and a pair of khaki-coloured cropped trousers, revealing his sturdy and hairy calves.

His skin was fair, his eyebrows arched, and his pupils were dark, but there was no expression on his face. His love bands were prominent, making his eyes appear particularly charming. 1

“Housekeeping Aunty?” He sized her up, his voice didn’t quite match his appearance.

It was one of those deep bass voices.

His voice was low and slightly hoarse.

His voice…was really nice.

“Yes, He Yingtong introduced me here,” Jiang Wan replied. “Hello, nice to meet you. My name is-”

“There’s a room inside,” The man interrupted her. “Clean it up by yourself. You can stay in that room if you want, or you can find a place to live on your own. The contract is on the table. You can sign it if there’s no issue and send me a message if you have any questions. My phone number is on the table.”

“…Okay.” Jiang Wan smiled.

The man had already turned around and returned to his room.

Jiang Wan followed him into the house, carefully closing the door and changing into house slippers.

The living room and rooms were not too messy, only that there was quite a large area of sticky juice stains on the floor.

She went to read the contract first. After confirming that she had objections, she took the pen on the side, signed the contract, and placed it on the coffee table. She then put on gloves and a hat before she began cleaning.

She was very efficient at her job. After spending two hours cleaning the house, she even took a bunch of keys hanging on the head of a deer in the entryway and went downstairs to buy groceries and kept them in the refrigerator.

After a short break, she started cooking lunch.

It was half past one, and the man still hadn’t come out of his room.

Jiang Wan did not disturb him. After she finished cooking lunch, she ate some by herself, and then went to tidy up the room she was going to stay in tonight.

The room, which was slightly smaller than the master bedroom, had quite a gender neutral design and was most likely used as a guest room. Since the room had been unoccupied for a long time, it was very dusty.

Jiang Wan opened the window to ventilate the room and bought a few pots of spider plants to place in her room.

After she finished tidying up, she went to wrap up her cleaning work. She tied up all the garbage, placed them at the door, and meticulously cleaned the floor

When she was done, she saved the man’s number on her phone and sent him a message:

【I’m going back to get my luggage. Lunch is on the table. 】

She didn’t have a lot of luggage, but she had a laptop and a set of recording equipment, which were rather expensive. Worried that her equipment might be damaged by the crowd on the bus, she took a taxi for the first time in a while.

When she returned, the food on the table had been eaten. She could tell that he was a picky eater because he only ate meat and not vegetables.

Jiang Wan took note of the few dishes that he ate, then cleaned up the dining table and kept her luggage in her room.

Her new room was slightly larger than the one she had previously stayed in.

After placing the laptop and recording equipment on the table, she changed her bedsheets before going to the bathroom to take a shower.

She had sweated a lot today.

After shower, she went back to her room to put her toothbrush in the bathroom, but when she opened the bathroom door, she saw the man standing in front of the toilet peeing.

Jiang Wan was about to close the door and pretend that she hadn’t seen anything when she saw the man pull up his pants and walk towards her with an expressionless face.

His eyebrows were furrowed, and his bass voice was very sexy.

“To avoid feeling awkward when we see each other in the future, now, it’s your turn to pee.”

Jiang Wan: “…”

At night, He Yingtong phoned to ask Jiang Wan how her new place was.

“It’s pretty good,” Jiang Wan replied.

“Really?” He Yingtong was confused. “According to my client, his friend is really weird, changing housekeepers four or five times in a month, but it’s not because he has a bad temper. It’s just that he’s weird. I don’t know the specifics, but there’s no problem with his character. He won’t use violence against others, and he won’t…force himself on you.”

“I know.” Jiang Wan thought to herself, she had already witnessed his weirdness firsthand.

“Jiang Wan,” He Yingtong said sincerely, “You can come to me in the future if you need anything. I still consider you my friend.”

“Thank you.”

After she hung up the phone, Jiang Wan went to the washing machine to dry the washed bedsheets. As she passed by the living room, she paused in her tracks.

It was already dark, and the living room was pitch black without the lights turned on.

In the darkness, the refrigerator door was opened, and the cold white light shone on the man sitting on the ground. He was facing the refrigerator while bending his long legs and lowering his head as he played chess on the floor.

Jiang Wan continued to walk without looking at him. Once she arrived at the balcony, she shook the sheets and hung them to dry.

On her way back to her room, she unconsciously took a glance at him.

His hair was long. He was wearing a headband that pushed all of his hair back, revealing his smooth and round forehead, and the love bands under his lower eyelids stood out even more in the cold white light.

His gaze was focused on the chess pieces on the floor.

His outstretched hand was slender and clean, with very fair skin and visible veins beneath.

He Yingtong had said that he was a retired professional e-sports player. Jiang Wan expected his fingers to be thick and coarse from excessive use, but she did not expect his hands to look like this.

Beautiful and delicate.

Jiang Wan didn’t disturb him. She went to her room and started live streaming.

The ASMR live streaming that she had been doing was without showing her face, only her voice.

One of her cellmates made a living by singing and dancing live on the internet. Jiang Wan heard that she had made a lot of money from it. After consulting her cellmate for a long time and doing a lot of reading in the library, the first thing Jiang Wan did after being released from the prison was to earn money to purchase a laptop and recording equipment.

She wanted to make money, a lot of money.

That way…her parents wouldn’t make her go to jail for someone else’s crime for the sake of money in the future.

She had wasted nine years of her life in prison. When she was released, she could hardly tell what day and year it was, and she had almost forgotten how old she was that year.

She entered prison at the age of nineteen, the age where she should have been in college and everyone her age was in school, the age where she should have been blooming like a flower, but instead she was locked up. On her birthday, she could only look up at the dark sky and silently make a wish.

I want to go out.

I want to have a good birthday.

I want to buy a big cake, preferably one with three layers.

In the past nine years, no one from her family had paid her a visit. Jiang Wan, disheartened, had never visited her parents after being released from prison. She had no money when she was released, so she had taken on part-time jobs that paid her on a daily basis. After working day and night for nearly a month, she finally saved enough money to rent a place to live, but every landlord required a deposit. After a long search, she finally met He Yingtong.

That was the first time she was grateful that there were still good people in the world.

He Yingtong had helped her a lot. She had taught her how to use a computer, how to dress, gave her beautiful clothes, reduced her rent, and even took her out to eat.

When Jiang Wan received her first earnings from livestreaming for the first time, she bought a very expensive perfume as a thank you gift for He Yingtong.

She had thought that they could always be good friends and live together for a long time.

She even secretly saved money in order to give He Yingtong and Wei Jiyuan an extra large red packet when they marry.

Unfortunately, things had not gone the way she had planned.

She put on her headphones, launched the streaming app, and began typing on her keyboard.