บททั้งหมดของ But I'm the Landlord: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 8

The voices from the other side of the door continued."Anyway, the contract for this quarter is expiring in three days. We don't need to continue the lease with her.""Serves her right. That's what she gets for bossing us around all the time. She makes it seem as if she owns the place.""And she even said it was her relative's apartment, that it was rented to us cheaply, so we should be grateful. Who the hell would believe that?""I already contacted the landlord. He said he'd still rent it to us next quarter at the same price."The three of them quickly made their decision.But they seemed to have forgotten something.When we had just graduated from university, they had no money to rent a place close to our workplace, so they had crammed themselves into a remote suburb.Every morning, they had to get up at four o'clock, transferring between buses and the subway, with a three-hour commute.I couldn't bear to watch them suffer anymore, so I lied and said one of my relatives had

After getting off work the next day, it was already eleven at night.When I reached my front door, I froze.My luggage had been piled in the hallway like trash.After entering the password several times in a row, I still couldn't open the door. It was obvious they had changed it.My blood boiled instantly, and I dialed my dad's number. "Dad, call a courier and have something delivered for me..."After hanging up, I began pounding hard on the door.The noise echoed piercingly through the quiet night.The noise annoyed the neighbors, who came out one after another to question why I was disturbing everyone, and someone even called security.As more and more people gathered, there was finally movement inside the apartment.With a click, the door opened.Helen stood there in her pajamas with a face mask on, frowning. "It's the middle of the night, what are you wailing about? You're ruining my beauty sleep."Forcing myself to remain calm, I pointed at the luggage on the floor. "On

The blond punk snatched the property deed in one grab, flipped through it, and a mocking look appeared on his face."A fake certificate? This is really fucking interesting!" He sneered, tore the deed into pieces, crumpled them into a ball, and threw them straight into my face. "You think you can fool me with a fake document?"He let out an exaggerated yawn. "It's the middle of the night. I don't have time to play games with you here. Pay up! 40 grand, not a penny less! Otherwise, you can forget about being able to walk out of here alive!"The surrounding neighbors whispered among themselves. A few showed flickers of doubt in their eyes, but most were intimidated by the punk's arrogance and didn't dare step forward.Wendy, Helen, and Sharon clearly relaxed, smug smiles returning to their faces.Wendy stepped forward, squatted in front of me, and said softly, "If you kneel down right now and admit your mistakes to us, I'll talk nicely to this man and get him to ask for a little less

After the detention ended, they moved all their luggage out of my apartment.When they were about to leave, Helen craned her neck and shouted at me, "Don't be so full of yourself, Jessica! We can live just fine without you! We can still find a cheap, good place to live. Who cares about staying in your lousy dump!"Sharon also muttered under her breath, "Exactly, it's not like we can't live without her..."I only found it ridiculous and replied, "Suit yourselves."I thought the matter had ended there, but I still underestimated the malice of human nature.My supervisor secretly called me in and handed me a thick stack of documents.When I opened it, it vividly described how I had bullied three roommates throughout my university years."Jessica, there have been a lot of rumors about you in the company lately, and the impact isn't very good. Some of it has even reached our clients and damaged the company's image. How about you go home and rest for a while first, and come back to wo