Fu Nanzhi had only been to this place twice at most.
In her past life, this apartment had been quickly given up, and she had come once with Shen Yi to move some things back.
In reality, this was her first time stepping inside.
On the other hand, Shu Yunyi was in a far less pleasant mood.
‘That Cheng Jun really lied to me…’
She fumed silently in her heart.
Shen Yi really did live in this unit—last time, she had been misled by Cheng Jun. Now, it was clear how cunning she was.
Setting down his water glass, Shen Yi waved at the two women standing at the door.
“What are you standing there for? Come in and sit.”
“No need to change shoes—I don’t care about that here.”
His tone had softened considerably. After all, he had to give them a way to step back.
“It’s a small place, so bear with it.”
Shen Yi bent down to clear the clothes off the sofa, making space for them to sit.
This rented apartment had originally been meant for him alone, barely spanning thirty or forty square meters.
To save space, it didn’t even have a kitchen.
Hearing him finally speak, Fu Nanzhi and Shu Yunyi both felt slightly more at ease.
Stepping inside, they saw only a reclining beanbag chair and a long sofa to sit on.
The two women each took a seat at opposite ends, leaving a wide gap between them.
Truthfully, both had a lot they wanted to say, but with an "outsider" present, neither could speak freely.
So they each resolved to wait for a chance to talk privately.
Seeing them finally seated without arguing, Shen Yi let out a quiet sigh of relief.
Being firm had its advantages—after all, they had lived with him for a lifetime in the past and knew his temperament well.
Shen Yi was, at his core, a gentle person who rarely lost his temper. But it was precisely because of that gentleness that his anger was all the more intimidating.
The room fell silent as Shen Yi took out two new cups, poured water, and set them in front of the women.
Then he turned, pulled out a chair, and sat down.
“Feeling better now?”
“It’s not convenient to rest here—I’ll take you both home later.”
The place was too small, with only one bed, making it impossible to accommodate multiple people.
Now that tempers had cooled and both women had calmed down, Shen Yi planned to send them back separately.
As for the idea of both women staying overnight—he didn’t dare entertain it. Even this current peace was only temporary.
Their lack of arguing didn’t mean they had accepted each other—it was just because Shen Yi was present.
He’d bet anything that the moment he left, they’d start fighting again.
When Shen Yi brought up the topic again, Fu Nanzhi stayed silent.
But Shu Yunyi, reminded of the matter with Cheng Jun, couldn’t suppress her frustration and jealousy.
“Inconvenient? But Cheng Jun was convenient enough, wasn’t she?”
At this, Fu Nanzhi finally broke her silence, turning her head in confusion.
“Cheng Jun?”
She didn’t understand why her cousin’s name had suddenly come up.
Shu Yunyi let out a cold laugh.
“You didn’t know?”
“That Cheng Jun lives right next door! And she even called herself his live-in girlfriend.”
“This has been going on for a long time.”
Shu Yunyi had long disliked Cheng Jun. Back when she had come looking for Shen Yi, Cheng Jun had infuriated her.
At the time, she had assumed Cheng Jun was an ex-girlfriend, and with the confidence of someone who had been reborn, she hadn’t cared.
But now things were different—she had no reason to cover for Cheng Jun.
“What?!”
Fu Nanzhi’s expression immediately shifted dramatically as she turned to Shen Yi for confirmation.
The moment Shu Yunyi spoke, Shen Yi had a sinking feeling. Now, under Fu Nanzhi’s piercing gaze, even he felt sweat trickling down his back.
But there was no avoiding the truth. He could only brace himself and nod.
“She did rent the place next door, but that was before.”
Neither Shen Yi nor Cheng Jun had ever mentioned to Fu Nanzhi that Cheng Jun lived right across from him.
Now, Fu Nanzhi was truly furious. Her face darkened as she pressed further.
“Before? How long before?”
Shen Yi thought for a moment before answering.
“Last month, she said she had a fight with her family and wanted to move out.”
“And… coincidentally, she ended up renting the place across from me.”
Fu Nanzhi scoffed.
“Coincidentally? What kind of coincidence is that?”
Shen Yi gave a bitter smile but didn’t argue. Of course, it wasn’t a coincidence—Cheng Jun had clearly used connections to track down his address and deliberately moved there.
He didn’t explain further. He couldn’t just say Cheng Jun had attached herself to him and it wasn’t his fault.
That would sound too scummy and irresponsible—better to say nothing at all.
Shu Yunyi, on the other hand, felt slightly better. Most of her resentment was directed at Shen Yi, and she was happy to see Fu Nanzhi giving him a hard time.
“So Cheng Jun is still living next door right now?”
When Shen Yi didn’t respond, Shu Yunyi wasn’t about to let Cheng Jun off the hook. She raised an eyebrow and continued.
“I… I’m not sure.”
“She moved back home days ago and hasn’t been back since.”
Cheng Jun’s whereabouts were unpredictable, and Shen Yi wasn’t entirely certain. All he knew was that after their last conversation, she hadn’t stayed at the apartment across from him.
“Hmph…”
Shu Yunyi didn’t believe a word of it. Determined to expose Cheng Jun’s true nature, she stood up abruptly.
“Then let’s go knock on her door and find out.”
“Wait—”
Shen Yi stiffened, realizing the situation was about to get much worse.
Things were already complicated enough—adding Cheng Jun into the mix might just cost him his life.
But he couldn’t outright stop Shu Yunyi without looking guilty.
Before he could think of a way to intervene, Fu Nanzhi spoke up.
“Hold on…”
Shen Yi’s heart lifted slightly—at least Fu Nanzhi still had some sense of reason. Knocking on someone’s door in the middle of the night wasn’t appropriate.
But his relief was short-lived.
Fu Nanzhi turned to him and asked,
“Does Cheng Jun… know about your situation?”
“About the ‘dream’ explanation…”
Cheng Jun did know—in fact, she had been the first to figure it out.
So Shen Yi answered truthfully.
“She knows.”
“?”
“She knew before we did?!”
“If we hadn’t run into each other today, how long were you planning to keep this from me?!”
Shen Yi’s response set off another explosion in the tiny apartment.
Fu Nanzhi and Shu Yunyi fired questions at him one after another.
Sensing the tension rising again, Shen Yi quickly raised his hands in defense.
“Cheng Jun is too sharp—I didn’t tell her.”
“She figured it out on her own…”
Cheng Jun’s situation was different from theirs. Though their history was shorter, her suffering had been prolonged, and she had endured no small amount of emotional turmoil. Shen Yi carried a fair share of guilt toward her.
“Hmph…”
Fu Nanzhi let out a cold snort, neither believing nor disbelieving him. But she stood up from the sofa.
After everything that had happened, her once-favorable impression of her dear cousin Cheng Jun had been shattered.
Pretending not to know him in public while secretly meeting him behind her back—how could Fu Nanzhi not be furious at such underhanded behavior?
She couldn’t resist the urge to expose Cheng Jun’s true face.
For once, Shu Yunyi found herself on the same side as Fu Nanzhi. She quickly stood as well, following her to the door.
Shen Yi had no choice but to follow behind, watching helplessly as Fu Nanzhi and the others crossed over to the opposite side.
He couldn’t intervene to stop them, so he could only pray that Cheng Jun hadn’t lied—that the person was indeed still staying at home.
Fu Nanzhi and Shu Yunyi approached Cheng Jun’s door one after the other.
Fu Nanzhi reached out and knocked several times on the door.
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he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
