Chapter Four: Cohabitation at the Three-Meter Line

Gu Yanchen pays rent, shares chores, and knocks before entering a bedroom. Monitoring requires advance notice. Bedrooms and bathrooms are absolute exclusion zones. Anyone who objects can explain why the city's speakers were calling ghosts at midnight." Gu Yanchen turned to the final page and signed. "How much rent?" "Three times market rate." "Reasonable." Gu Chengyue left with a cold huff. Passing Xu Zhi, Gu Jingheng lowered his voice. "Do you think stuffing the heir into an attic makes him ordinary?" "At least he'll learn to sort recycling." That evening, Yaochuan's priceless heir arrived beneath Between Gardenias's leaking eaves with two black suitcases.