Chapter 6 Fighting Poison with Poison

Jiang Jianni wanted to tell Lu Xiangyang, "Do you know how fiercely housing prices will rise in the future?"

Do you know how hard it will be to earn money and how difficult it will be to make a living in the future? How many people won't even be able to afford rent?

Do you know how many people will try to kill themselves over housing in the future?

However, it was no use; Lu Xiangyang wouldn't understand even if he explained.

Because this wasn't just Lu Xiangyang's idea, but everyone's idea at that moment.

No one is willing to take on debt to buy a house unless they are too crowded at home or can't find a wife.

Jiang Jianni's eyes darted around, and she asked, "Have you ever watched 'Animal World'?"

Lu Xiangyang was surprised by the sudden change of topic: "I've seen it, so what?"

Jiang Jianni said, "Have you noticed? In the animal kingdom, animals either build a nest before finding a mate, or they build a nest together after finding a mate. If they don't build a nest, the children will live with the woman and have nothing to do with the man."

Jiang Jianni looked at him with a smile: "You know, even animals know that if they want their offspring to take their surname, they have to build a good nest first. We humans can't be worse than animals, can we?"

Lu Xiangyang was stunned for a moment, then laughed and cried at the same time: "You really are something else. As expected of a cultured person, you openly talk about animals, but you're actually talking about me, aren't you?"

He finally understood.

Jiang Jiani is determined to buy a house.

He used to be a bachelor, with his own room at home and his own dormitory at work. He didn't understand why he needed to buy a house.

Almost every girl I went on blind dates with mentioned housing; if they didn't mention buying a house, they suggested renting one.

Jiang Jianni, on the other hand, would rather take on debt to buy a house than not own her own home.

He thought, why not just buy it? It's not worth much anyway.

Moreover, having your own house means you won't have to live with your parents after getting married, and you won't have to worry about your parents or siblings seeing or hearing things they shouldn't see or hear.

Furthermore, while his house wasn't small, it didn't actually have so many rooms that adding one more person would create an extra room.

It's fine now that they've just gotten married, but what if they have a child?

When the child gets older, they can't possibly still share a room with the couple, can they?

Just thinking about wanting to hug and kiss his wife while there's this little third wheel next to him makes him want to kick the little third wheel away right now.

Thinking about it like that made him feel terrible.

Jiang Jiani is right.

We have to buy a house, we absolutely must buy one; we can't wait for the housing allocation.

After dropping Jiang Jiani off at school, he said, "Don't worry about the house yet, let me go and inquire about it first."

He's a human being, a man, after all. He can't be worse than an animal, can he?

Jiang Jianni smiled as soon as she heard that, it seemed that the problem was not serious.

These past few days, Lu Xiangyang didn't have any shifts or tasks, so he came to pick up Jiang Jiani after get off work.

Jiang Jiani was very happy to see him.

She walked up to him, took his arm, and asked, "Why did you come here? Don't you need to train?"

Lu Xiangyang said, "I came over after get off work. I heard that a new restaurant opened on Bayi Road and the chef is quite good."

"Are you free tonight? If not, let's go over there and try something new."

Jiang Jianni looked him up and down as if she had discovered something new.

Lu Xiangyang felt extremely uncomfortable under his gaze: "What are you doing...?"

A man with a sour expression suddenly interrupted, "Jiani? Who is this person?"

As he spoke, he reached out to grab Jiang Jiani: "Jiani, you're a girl, you need to be careful."

"The men outside are bad; they use sweet talk and love to deceive innocent and naive girls like you."

"Be careful, he might scam you."

? ? ?

Jiang Jianni was speechless: "Whether I lie or not is my business, what does it have to do with you?"

"Besides, he's my boyfriend. So what if he lies to me?"

"I'm happy, I'm willing, I just like being lied to by him."

"This is none of your business, Teacher Gao, is it?"

Lu Xiangyang didn't know what was going on at first, and thought that since this was Jiang Jiani's colleague, shouldn't he be more polite?

Upon hearing Jiang Jiani's words, good heavens, she was full of impatience.

Lu Xiangyang immediately pulled Jiang Jianni behind him and looked at Gao Haoren:

"Comrade, what do you want to do?"

Lu Xiangyang is 1.88 meters tall, much taller and stronger than the average man. Coupled with the iron will he has developed over many years of military life, the sheer pressure he exudes when he stands in front of Gao Haoren forces him to take two or three steps back.

Gao Haoren's face turned extremely ugly after he stopped: "Who are you? I'm with Jia Ni..."

Jiang Jianni said, "Teacher Gao, we have no relationship other than being colleagues."

"Also, this is not only my partner, we've also registered our marriage and are discussing wedding details."

"Professor Gao is a cultured and refined person. He wouldn't deliberately say something nonsensical that would cause misunderstandings between me and my partner, would he?"

Gao Haoren's face paled even more, but he forced a smile and said, "Ah, is that so?"

"You never said that before, I misunderstood."

"Since everything's alright, I'll be going."

He left in a panic, his back view showing utter disarray.

Lu Xiangyang frowned as he watched Gao Haoren flee, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Why is your colleague acting so strangely?"

Jiang Jianni scoffed, "You're really giving him face. 'Strange'? He doesn't deserve the word 'strange' at all. He's a complete pervert."

Jiang Jianni felt like vomiting just thinking about Gao Haoren's actions.

Now that she finally had someone to listen to her rant, she couldn't hold back any longer and unleashed a torrent of venting: "You have no idea how disgusting he is..."

Jiang Jianni is beautiful, highly educated, has a stable and prestigious job, and is the ideal marriage partner in the minds of most people.

Naturally, suitors kept coming in droves.

Most people care about their reputation; if they refuse once or twice, they'll revert to their normal behavior.

However, there were also some non-humans who couldn't understand human language and acted according to their own ideas no matter how much Jiang Jiani refused.

Gao Haoren is the kind of idiot who can't understand human language.

No matter how Jiang Jianni refused, he always treated her with an accommodating attitude, as if to say, "You're too young and speak too impulsively, it's okay, I forgive you."

Talking to oneself and forming one's own logic.

This kind of person is terrifying.

He's subtly invading and controlling your life in a slow, insidious way, like boiling a frog in water, but when you tell everyone about it, no one will believe you.

Your parents, siblings, colleagues, and friends all say you're overthinking it, that the other person is just being friendly. Even if you report it to the police, they might refuse because the other person didn't commit any actual acts of harm. They might even advise you not to be paranoid.

When Jiang Jianni first transmigrated, she didn't realize what Gao was doing; she just instinctively didn't want to deal with him.

Later, after digging out this part from the original owner's memories, I almost vomited from disgust.

Especially when she was being harassed by this guy later, Jiang Jianni almost grabbed a knife and attacked him.

Lu Xiangyang's expression grew colder as he listened: "Don't worry, I'll pick you up and drop you off whenever I'm not on duty."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "If anything happens to me, I'll have someone keep an eye on things."

Jiang Jianni laughed loudly: "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"That kind of person is a cowardly dog."

"I have plenty of ways to deal with him."

However, Jiang Jianni didn't plan to get involved herself, so she could only use money, but she didn't have much money on hand.

The only thing we can do is find a way to make money.

When it came to making money, Jiang Jianni quickly said, "Wait a minute, I'll go ask if there's any news about me."

The old man at the gatehouse greeted her with a smile: "Teacher Jiang, here to pick up your mail again?"

Jiang Jianni smiled and said, "Yes, is there any today?"

The old man took out a letter: "There's one here. See if it's from your friend."

Jiang Jianni smiled sincerely when she saw the word 'reader' on the letter: "Yes, thank you, sir. Please keep an eye out for the other letters as well."

"Okay."

The old man readily agreed.

Lu Xiangyang looked at the envelope in her hand: "A letter from your friend from out of town?"

Jiang Jianni waved the envelope: "Yes, it's from out of town, a friend who will give money."

She opened the envelope; inside were the acceptance notice and the royalty statement.

It says "25 yuan" on it.

The article she submitted was 2,000 words long, which means she was paid 12 yuan per thousand words.

Lu Xiangyang was a little surprised: "You, you, you can write articles?"

This is a royalty statement.

The idea that one can earn money simply by writing is a surprising thing for others, no matter when.

Lu Xiangyang subconsciously started calculating his salary, and what he did surprised him even more.

He discovered that if Jiang Jiani collected a few more royalties, they would exceed his own salary.

No wonder she wants to buy a house.

He felt that if Jiang Jianni had known about the house purchase beforehand, and if she hadn't married him, she probably would have bought the house herself.

Because she has that ability!

Jiang Jianni smiled slightly: "It's about applying what you've learned, otherwise what's the point of going to university?"

She studied archival science in her past life, and history in this life.

I can't say about other things, but it's quite helpful for writing novels and stories.

Lu Xiangyang laughed: "What you learn is yours to keep. There's no such thing as learning for nothing."

Jiang Jianni retorted, "If you can't use it for a living, then you've wasted your time learning it?"

Lu Xiangyang didn't argue with her about that: "You just said you had a way to deal with your colleague, what way?"

Jiang Jianni said, "It's simple, fight fire with fire. There's no other way to deal with this kind of person except to fight fire with fire."

The so-called "fighting poison with poison" means doing to Gao Haoren everything he had ever done, and doing it continuously, every day, until he can't take it anymore and has a mental breakdown.

Lu Xiangyang frowned deeply upon hearing this: "You can't do it this way. What if someone finds out?"

His first reaction wasn't that this was bad, but rather that he was afraid she would be discovered!

Jiang Jianni was overjoyed after discovering this: "What's there to be afraid of? I didn't hit anyone, I just had someone follow him. I'm a good person, I wouldn't do anything illegal."

She waved the envelope in her hand with great interest: "This is the first time I've received payment for my writing."

"Didn't you say that a new restaurant opened and the food was pretty good?"

"Let's go eat."

"My treat!"

Lu Xiangyang: "Who lets a woman pay for a meal? I should..."

Jiang Jianni patted his waist unhappily: "Don't argue with me!"

"I made money today, and I'm so happy to have money!"

"Besides, I'll treat today, and you can treat tomorrow, right?"

"Or are you planning to have this one meal with me and then never eat with me again?"

Lu Xiangyang: "..."

He was clearly quite eloquent, but he could never win an argument with Jiang Jiani.

The newly opened restaurant is a Hunan cuisine restaurant called Xiangshui Renjia.

After ordering, Jiang Jianni couldn't help but look around. As soon as she turned to the back, she was stunned to see the people at the next two tables.

She stared blankly for two or three seconds before quickly turning around, grabbing Lu Xiangyang's hand and squeezing it tightly, then lowering her voice to call out:

"Look, look! Isn't that woman at the table two tables behind me your blind date from the other day?"