Chapter 6: I Don't Want the House

Shu Lingchen left a deep impression—

When he had just started kindergarten, there was a chubby kid in his class who constantly targeted him, always leading the mockery that he was a fatherless wild child; the chubby kid's parents didn't discipline him at all, and even joined in with their sarcastic remarks.

Upon hearing the news, Shu Shu didn't waste a word and rushed to the kindergarten.

First she fiercely slapped the chubby kid's dad twenty times, then she pulled off most of the chubby kid's mom's hair, scratching her face, and finally she stripped the chubby kid down to his underwear and made him stand punishment at the school gate.

Seven or eight teachers couldn't stop Shu Shu.

That scene was quite spectacular.

Finally, the unharmed Shu Shu picked him up, domineeringly flung down a bank card as medical expenses, and said with a smile:

"You don't discipline your kids, so I'll discipline them for you; from now on, if I find out anyone bullies my son again, I won't kill them!"

The next day, the chubby kid transferred to another kindergarten directly.

Hearing Shu Lingchen say that, the little brothers couldn't possibly connect 'especially good at fighting' with the transfer student's pretty, harmless face.

But Brother Chen never tells lies.

"Brother Chen, could it be that you suddenly left the gathering yesterday to go find the transfer student and fight? And then you lost?"

Shu Lingchen: "..."

He was about to say, if they had personally witnessed that kindergarten brawl, they would definitely not doubt his words.

But if they accidentally exposed that Shu Shu was his birth mother…

Rebirth itself is already unimaginable; being reborn into the future is even more unfathomable—Shu Shu would probably be treated as a test subject or a ghost and be taken away.

Thus, Shu Lingchen hesitated, then reluctantly admitted: "... uh."

The little brothers were stunned.

Even Brother Chen lost and backed down—this transfer student must be incredibly awesome!

Looks like from now on, whenever we see her in class we'll have to take a detour.

Just as we were thinking that.

Suddenly, a little brother saw a push notification on his phone, opened it, raised his head, and said: "Brother Chen, the school belle Chu Lian is again inviting classmates to her home at Yujingyuan community this weekend!"

Last night, after Chu Lian posted that Maotai selfie photo under the post, the replies exploded.

Whether lower or upperclassmen, they flooded the screen with talk of Chu Lian's wealthy home, wanting to see the whole wall of Maotai bottles with their own eyes.

Chu Lian agreed.

But fearing too many people would disturb the upstairs and downstairs neighbors, she only invited seven to eight classmates to her home for the weekend.

Bo Luo Zai eagerly asked: "Brother Chen, do you want to try to get in this time? I heard Yujingyuan is very luxurious."

Shu Lingchen shook his head: "No, I don't want to go."

His own home—he's lived there for over ten years, sees it every day and is sick of it; what's there to see?

But Bo Luo Zai looked at Shu Lingchen with a seemingly seeing-through gaze, squinting and waggling his eyebrows as he said:

"Brother Chen, why are you putting on an act in front of your own brothers? You're not unwilling to go; you can't go, right?"

Shu Lingchen snorted: "I can't be bothered to explain to you guys."

Thus, his attitude in the little brothers' eyes was clearly just him being stubborn.

Sigh.

Forget it.

They still didn't expose it, giving Brother Chen some face.

But within a day, the news that Chu Lian would invite classmates to her home for the weekend spread throughout the school.

The after-school bell rang.

The Class 12 classroom emptied out.

Shu Shu sat in her seat, arms crossed, looking at her son with a queenly aura, demanding: "How many times has Chu Lian brought people to her home now?"

Shu Lingchen hesitated, then said: "Starting from sophomore year, off and on..."

Hmph.

In other words, the number of times is uncountable.

"So many times, she's told everyone that the Yujingyuan house is hers?"

Shu Lingchen said: "Because they're being chased by creditors, Aunt Chu and Chu Chu can't go back to their former home, and Chu Chu also has social needs, so they can only stay in Yujingyuan..."

"Why aren't you within her social circle?"

Shu Lingchen scratched the back of his head: "My reputation isn't great; how could such an outstanding girl like Chu Chu be friends with someone like me?"

Shu Shu had a question mark above her head: "Then are you pretending to confess at the school gate?"

"It's that Chu Chu reposted a moment saying she envies those who receive rose‑flower confessions, but with me around, Chu Chu doesn't need to envy anyone else!"

Shu Shu: "..."

She now reasonably suspects that only Shu Lingchen can see that repost.

After the confession ended, Chu Lian was rescued by the hero Shi Jin, everyone sympathized, Shu Lingchen was sprayed into a pile of shit, and she herself set up another good‑person persona.

Shu Lingchen probably isn't being used as a pawn by others, still cluelessly grinning.

Shu Shu fell silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: "What procedures are involved in abandoning a seventeen‑year‑old intellectually disabled child, and how many years would the sentence be?"

Shu Lingchen: "What?"

Shu Shu closed her eyes; she couldn't bear to look at this little intellectually disabled child any longer—just one more glance and she'd feel like throwing the child away instantly.

She decisively picked up her bag and left.

"Mom, where are you going?"

Shu Lingchen caught up: "You haven't told me where you stayed yesterday; you're a person unfamiliar with the world out there, and you have no money—it's dangerous."

Saying that, he pulled out an envelope from his bag.

There's some money here; take it and use it; if it's not enough, come ask me for more.

Shu Shu took the envelope, opened it, glanced inside, and roughly estimated there was a little over a thousand.

Shu Lingchen continued: "If you don't want to live in my small rental house, just go back to live in the house at Yujingyuan; I'll let Chu Aunt know——."

Shu Shu snorted: "So I have to tell the person borrowing my own house when I go back to my own house?"

I didn't mean that.

I can go back to live there; you first kick out the Chu mother and daughter, free up the house, then I'll go back.

"……" Shu Lingchen's face showed difficulty; obviously he couldn't do it.

Shu Shu asked again: "Then exactly how long do they need to stay temporarily?"

"……" Shu Lingchen remained silent, obviously also unable to determine.

Shu Shu was not surprised at all, so she straightforwardly explained: "I won't go back to live in that house; I don't want the house; I have a cleanliness obsession."

Having two such people living in her house for several years, she found it disgusting and felt uneasy.

Even if the Chu mother and daughter move out now, she wouldn't stay another night.

Shu Lingchen exclaimed in surprise: "What, you don't want it? Then where will you live? Rent a house yourself?"

Shu Shu looked at her son, suddenly filled with worry, and sighed:

"Don't worry about my son; just concern yourself with your Chu Aunt and Chu Chu."

"As for me, the streets are so vast; there will always be a place for me, using the sky as a blanket and the earth as a bed."

After saying that, Shu Shu admired her son's guilty expression, took the envelope, and left.

Twenty minutes later.

Shu Shu curled up on the sofa of the presidential suite, propping her feet, eating chilled fruit with a fork in one hand while fiddling with her phone to look up information.

The house she indeed no longer wants.

However, her not wanting it doesn't mean she's letting the Chu mother and daughter off easy.

Chu Lian clearly doesn't like Shu Lingchen; it's just because the house is holding Shu Lingchen hostage.

Since that's the case, she will take the house back.

The phone popped up a new message window——

"Esteemed Black Gold user, here is the property fee list for the past nearly four years for unit 1701 at Yujingyuan under a certain subsidiary account that you requested."

Shu Shu put down the small fork and opened the long image.

Since her "death", the property fees for Yujingyuan have always been deducted from the balance of one of her cards.

Because she found paying property fees troublesome back then, she simply made a dedicated card, deposited some money, and it automatically pays the property fees and water, electricity, and heating each month.

In other words, that Chu mother and daughter have always been enjoying her house for free.

"Respected Black Gold user, friendly reminder: the balance in this card is insufficient to pay the property fee for unit 1701; to avoid unnecessary trouble, you need to renew before the deadline, which is this weekend."

Such a reminder is noted at the bottom of the list.

This weekend?

Isn't that the day Chu Lian plans to bring classmates to her home as guests?

Shu Shu looked at the prompt and raised an eyebrow.

Oh, then she won't renew it.

Then Shu Shu switched to the long image interface and continued to view the renovation plan for her new house sent by the designer.

Yes.

New house.

Yujingyuan, unit number F1600.

Right below the house occupied by the Chu mother and daughter.