Chapter 12: Kicked Out

As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, the hall erupted in an uproar.

Zhang Lu stared wide-eyed: "What nonsense are you spouting?! Xiao Lian's family is the owner of 1701; she's always lived here!"

The middle-aged man ignored Zhang Lu directly, took out a document from his briefcase, and opened it:

"I am the owner holding the property deed, Liu Tong."

The two property staff exchanged a glance: "Liu? Our property records also show the surname Liu, not Chu……"

Actually, they had already found it strange earlier.

It was just that Chu Lian's demeanor as the homeowner was so convincing that they subconsciously assumed she was a relative of the Liu-surname owner, so they didn't question further.

Chu Lian and Chumu stood dumbfounded on the spot, both looking at each other in astonishment.

They of course knew the owner wasn't surnamed Chu, but it shouldn't be Liu either—it should be Shu!

The house was left by the late mother of Shu Lingchen!

"Where did you scammers come from?! Is the property in cahoots with you?!' Chumu rushed forward first: "If you don't leave, I'll call the police!"

The middle-aged man showed no fear, calmly gesturing: "Please."

Chumu: "……"

Hearing themselves being slandered, one of the two property staff decisively pulled out his phone and called the police.

Less than ten minutes later.

The police arrived.

The officer in uniform said: "After verification, this property deed is genuine, and the owner of Yujingyuan F1701 is indeed Mr. Liu Tong."

Then.

The middle-aged man raised his hand slightly, and the people in work uniforms behind him sprang into action.

First they went to the figure cabinet.

He entered the code smoothly, and the figure cabinet door popped open.

Then the game cabinet, following the same procedure, was opened.

Finally, the Moutai wall: the middle-aged man took a small box from his briefcase, removed a fingerprint from it, and carefully placed it on the sensor.

With a beep.

The two glass doors, long unused, slid open to the side!

All that was heard was the middle-aged man's command: "Pack, move."

Everyone watched this scene, all stunned.

"……Xiao Lian, what's going on? This isn't your family's house?' Zhang Lu trembled as she tugged at Chu Lian's sleeve: 'How could this person have the property deed to your house?!'

Chu Lian was also in shock at this moment.

"This… this person really isn't a swindler……?"

"Definitely not—the police personally confirmed the deed is genuine, and how could a swindler possibly know all the cabinet passwords in the house, and even open the Moutai wall?!"

"By contrast, the campus belle Chu, just now she said the game console was broken or the figures were too precious; now it seems she might just be making up an excuse for not knowing the passwords and not being able to open them?!"

"So this mansion isn't Chu Lian's family's?!"

"Then her fumbling over the property fee earlier—was it because she had no money to pay?"

"And she's brought people here so many times before……"

At once.

Everyone's gazes toward Chu Lian became complicated.

Seeing her mansion about to be taken away, Chumu could no longer restrain herself and shouted at the middle-aged man:

"Impossible! You must be mistaken! The owner can't be you, can't be Liu! The owner of this house is clearly called Shu——"

Chu Lian, quick-eyed and quick-handed, covered Chumu's mouth in a flash.

She almost let Chumu utter Shu Lingchen's name.

She was about to break into a cold sweat.

If everyone found out that this house belonged to Shu Lingchen, and that she had been living in his mansion all along, rejecting his advances while letting everyone call Shu Lingchen a poor ghost,

then her Eldest Young Lady persona…… would collapse.

…

Two minutes later.

Everyone was politely asked by the middle-aged man to leave 1701, and then he kicked out two boxes.

They were the packed luggage of Chu Lian and her mother.

The door shut mercilessly in front of them.

Chu Lian trembled with pale lips, forcing herself to say: "……There must be some misunderstanding; I'll contact my father to find out what's going on!"

Saying that, she pretended to be angry as she opened her phone.

The atmosphere at this moment was downright embarrassingly awkward.

Especially those six or seven classmates, who had originally come eagerly to tour the mansion, never expected to be driven out like this.

Now each of them stood awkwardly in the hallway, their faces not looking good.

It was utterly embarrassing.

Only Shu Shu remained relaxed from start to finish, pressed the elevator, and prepared to return to 1600.

She said she would take the house back, and she would.

Take it back, then sell it.

This unit 1701, according to current Yujingyuan housing prices, if sold as a second-hand property, should easily fetch around ten million.

Although, she doesn't lack this mere ten million.

Nobody wanted to stay here any longer.

Seeing this, they all said goodbye to Chu Lian:

"Chu Lian, I haven't finished my homework—I have to go home!"

"My aunt's at my place, and my mom told me to hurry back for dinner!"

"Well, I suddenly have something urgent!"

"……"

Then, the elevator arrived quickly, and a crowd surged into it.

Zhang Lu also felt the atmosphere awkward, and she whispered: "…… Xiao Lian, I'm heading back too, see you Monday."

Waiting for the last person to enter.

Shu Shu, standing by the door, pressed the close button, then stuck a sensor on the back of her phone and lit up the elevator button for the sixteenth floor.

"Hey Shu Shu, you pressed the wrong button—you should have pressed the first floor——"

Before that person could finish speaking, they suddenly stopped.

"Wait! The sixteenth floor isn't that big flat that requires a card swipe, right? Shu Shu, how——"

Shu Shu: "I'm going home."

"What do you mean?! Your home…… is on the sixteenth floor?!"

The elevator reaches each floor in three or four seconds.

The elevator doors opened, and Shu Shu walked out.

Everyone saw the capable female designer they had seen when coming up, quickly walking toward Shu Shu with an eager smile: "Miss Shu, you've arrived."

Everyone gasped in unison.

"Holy shit…… Shu Shu really is the owner of unit 1600! She wasn't lying!!!"

The air fell silent for two seconds in disbelief.

The person most shocked was Zhang Lu, who stared dumbfounded.

At this moment, Shu Shu seemed to suddenly recall something, turned around, and said to Zhang Lu: "Classmate, would you like me to find you a public restroom, or are you going to handle it yourself?"

——"If you're the owner of unit 1600, I'll eat shit!!!"

Zhang Lu's firm words still rang in their ears.

Everyone immediately turned their gaze toward Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu: "……"

"My face hurts so much!"

Zhang Lu had also been calling Shu Shu poor and sour.

But now it seems that, compared to Shu Shu, Zhang Lu is the real poor and sour one.

No, wait, there's also them.

So, Chu Lian had never seen Shu Shu in this building because Shu Shu's family had only recently begun renovating the sixteenth-floor flat, and Chu Lian naturally hadn't run into her.

Shu Lingchen, who had rushed over, saw the Chu mother and daughter on the street near Yujingyuan.

At this moment, the Chu mother and daughter could only be described as "embarrassed."

Standing by the street, two suitcases stood beside them.

The suitcases were obviously packed haphazardly, with clothes and pants sticking out from the edges.

One look and it was clear they'd been kicked out.

Upon seeing Shu Lingchen, Chu's mother's eyes were filled with resentment and accusation:

"Xiao Chen, if you don't want me and Xiao Lian living in your house, just say the word and we'll leave—why go to the trouble of staging a charade to drive us out?!"