Si Nan glanced at the mobile phone placed beside the bathtub. The time showed half past ten. Unconsciously, she had been soaking in the bathtub for more than an hour. The water had even turned cold, but she didn't feel a single thing.
She thought about it carefully, and it seemed like she heard the alarm of her mobile phone in her sleep, and she turned it off in a daze. However, she could soak in the bathtub for more than an hour, and the water was cold, and she still felt very comfortable. This was unreasonable.
Feeling that the temperature in the bathroom was much hotter than usual, she wiped her body with a towel, put on her clothes and walked to the living room.
Passing by the large rectangular thermometer she had deliberately placed on the dining table in the living room, she saw that the temperature on it showed 39 degrees, which is considered high in Xingcheng, where the average temperature in summer is only 30 degrees.
Sinan checks the weather forecast every day. This morning, the local TV station in Xingcheng said that there would be a short period of hot weather today, with the highest temperature not exceeding 36 degrees. How come at night, the temperature, which should have dropped, rose by several degrees instead?
Si Nan instinctively felt that something was wrong. The knocking on the door continued, so she focused her attention on the door.
She doesn't know many people, so when someone comes to see her, they will call in advance. For community surveys and the like, they will also greet her in advance in the owner group that Cheng Wei added her to, or conduct surveys during the day.
From the time she renovated the house to the time she moved in, which was nearly a month, she was always running around outside stocking up on supplies and had no contact with the other three families on the same floor.
Who was knocking on her door in the dead of night?
She walked to the door and stood at the entrance of the living room. There was a mini surveillance display board hanging on the left wall, through which she could see the situation outside the door.
There was no one outside the main gate because there was an iron gate installed outside the more than ten-meter-long passage outside the main gate. Looking through the surveillance camera at the door, one could only see a tall and thin man standing in front of the iron gate, knocking on it slowly, and his face could not be seen clearly.
Out of a cautious attitude, Si Nan took out a crossbow with five arrows from the space, hid it behind his back, opened the door, walked to the front of the passage, and looked at the man standing in front of the iron gate: "Who are you? What's the matter?"
"My name is Cheng Suming, and I'm the owner of house 1501. I just came back from abroad and found an iron gate at the door of my house. I just called my cousin Cheng Wei and she said she rented the house to you."
The man raised his head, revealing a handsome face.
He should be around 27 years old, wearing a black suit, no tie, with one button undone, revealing his slender neck and delicate collarbone. His facial features seemed to be carefully carved by God, with narrow eyebrows, a high nose bridge, thin lips, cold white skin, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face. His body proportions are almost perfect, like a gentleman from a movie poster, handsome and compelling, but also giving people a sense of being evil at any time, which makes women's hearts beat fast.
The man smiled and said to Sinan through the iron gate in a very gentle and polite manner: "This is the only house I have in China. My cousin rented it to you without my permission, and I am helpless. I will not leave China in the short term. Since my cousin rented my house to you without my permission, I can't say anything. I will waive the rent for you, but I have one request. I want to live in the master bedroom, and you can do whatever you want with the rest."
As he spoke, he stretched out his bony fingers and pointed at the mobile phone in his hand, indicating that Si Nan should call Cheng Wei and get to the bottom of it.
Si Nan called Cheng Wei with mixed feelings. Before she could say anything, Cheng Wei's guilty voice came from the other end of the phone: "Well, Sister Nan, I'm so sorry. My cousin hasn't been back to China for six or seven years. He bought a big villa in Country Y. I thought he was going to take root there and not return to China, so I rented the house to you on my own initiative. Who knew he would suddenly run back to China. He has a bad relationship with his parents and has lived alone since he was a child. He refused to live in a hotel or find another house. He just called me and talked about it. I didn't know how to explain it to you. Let me tell you, my brother has a good temper. You can talk about your renting of a house and he is determined not to move out. We signed a contract, and he can't do anything to you. Either find another place to live or live under the same roof with you. You are both single, if sparks are created by living together, hehe..."
Cheng Wei talked a lot, and Si Nan felt a headache after listening to her. He hung up the phone and thought in his mind that birds of a feather flock together. She recognized Cheng Wei's character. The Cheng Su Ming mentioned by Cheng Wei had excellent grades and good character since he was a child, so he should be a good person.
Moreover, as Cheng Suming said, the house was his and he had the right to cancel the contract and take back the house, but he didn't. He just said that he wanted to live in the master bedroom and waived the rent for her.
With two years of rent waived, she can get more than 40,000 yuan, which can be used to buy a lot of supplies.
The natural disaster in the dream was getting closer and closer. She didn't know how long she could live in this house. She couldn't give up the decoration she had spent a lot of money on. Besides, Cheng Suming was quite handsome and suited her taste...
Si Nan stood in the corridor and thought for a long time. Finally, he decided to accept Cheng Suming's opinion. However, before opening the door, he carefully checked his ID and called Cheng Wei on video to confirm that the person in front of him was not an imposter. Only then did he open the iron gate and let Cheng Suming in.
Cheng Suming watched her series of operations and couldn't help but sigh. She was still so cautious and careful. It was a pity...
There was a hint of tenderness and apology in his deep eyes. Who would have thought that a week ago he had a car accident in Country Y, hit his head and was sent to the hospital. After waking up, he found that he was reborn.
He sat in the hospital in a daze for a long time, thinking back to his previous life when he had struggled to survive various natural disasters. Although he had a skill and was accepted by the base and the country, his life was much better than that of ordinary people, but under the successive natural disasters, morality and laws continued to collapse, and countless dark things that were out of human nature kept happening, which were far more terrifying than natural disasters.
Si Nan, who had met him several times, became his neighbor by chance. After living with him for several years, Si Nan accidentally revealed the fact that he owned a space, which brought him disaster. During a night raid, he died trying to save him.
He woke up after being reborn, and recalled the pain, heartbreak and despair he felt when he held Si Nan's cold body. He knew in his heart that he had fallen in love with that woman who seemed timid and cowardly but was actually just a superficial appearance and was calmer and more ruthless than anyone else.
It was a pity that he didn't realize his own feelings in his previous life and never made it clear to Si Nan, so he had to watch her die in front of him.
After being reborn, he left the hospital directly despite the advice of his colleagues, sold all his real estate assets in Country Y, and rushed back to China as quickly as possible.
Unexpectedly, in this life, Si Nan actually saved Cheng Wei. The two women signed a rental contract behind his back, and Si Nan moved directly into his house.
Could it be that his rebirth caused the butterfly effect, changing the trajectory of everyone in this world?
Cheng Suming looked at Si Nan's back as she walked in front of him, feeling a mixture of joy and pain in his chest. Lost and found, dead and reborn, what others saw as absurd things, was an opportunity to make amends in his eyes. In this life, no matter what happened, he would not leave Si Nan and would protect her for the rest of her life.
Si Nan took a few steps forward, then belatedly realized that she had a crossbow hanging behind her back. She held the crossbow in her hand with dignity, and saw Cheng Su Ming close the door. She stood in the living room and looked around, and explained awkwardly, "I was injured and hospitalized some time ago. I always had nightmares, dreaming of all kinds of natural disasters. After waking up, I always felt uneasy, so I modified the house a little bit, and bought a crossbow for self-defense. In addition, I planted some vegetables on the balcony and raised some chickens and geese."
No one can stand the fact that a 'luxury house' has been turned into a farmhouse. Si Nan has prepared himself to be scolded by Cheng Su Ming.
Cheng Suming was a little surprised by the dream Sinan mentioned. A certain possibility emerged in his mind. He was a little excited and said tentatively, "What a coincidence. I had a car accident last week and had many dreams about natural disasters while in the hospital. After waking up, I felt uneasy and thought it was safer to stay in China, so I returned. You did the right thing. You raise some chickens and geese and grow some vegetables. It's good to be self-sufficient. If I hadn't come back, you, a single woman living here, would really need weapons to protect yourself."
Someone actually had the same dream about natural disasters as himself? Si Nan was also very surprised. While he felt it was incredible, he wanted to ask in detail. However, he felt that it was the first time that Cheng Su Ming and I met, and the two were not familiar with each other. It might be inappropriate to ask someone about the specific content of the dream.
Moreover, in her impression, a large number of people who have some money and power will look down on others and speak in a sarcastic and weird manner. Judging from Cheng Suming's clothes and the house he owns, his family should be well off. She changed the decoration of his house, planted vegetables and raised chickens and geese on his balcony, but he was not angry. Si Nan was surprised and felt a little good about Cheng Suming.
As expected, well-educated people have bigger tempers than the average person. Anyway, they will live under the same roof in the future, so if there are any questions, it is better to wait until they are a little familiar with each other before asking.
Cheng Suming put his suitcase in front of the master bedroom, walked up to Si Nan and said naturally, "Add me as a friend, and I'll refund your rent."
"Okay." Adhering to the principle of not letting others waste money, Si Nan immediately opened the largest social software on a certain platform on her mobile phone, entered the other party's phone number, and the two added each other as friends. Cheng Suming transferred 20,000 yuan to her.
"The platform's daily transfer limit is 20,000. The remaining amount will be transferred to you after 12 o'clock."
"OK."
The money was given so readily that Si Nan didn't hesitate to go to the master bedroom, packed all his things into a bag, and moved to the small bedroom on the right side of the large balcony next to the living room. He turned around and said to Cheng Suming embarrassedly, "The chickens and geese I raise may be a little noisy at night. If you can't sleep, you can play some soothing music. There is a new DVD player I bought on the bedside table in the master bedroom."
"Okay, I got it." Cheng Suming dragged his suitcase into the master bedroom and saw that the room, which was originally spacious and tidy, where everything from the bed and bedding to the wardrobe, clothes, shoes and socks, had to be neatly stacked according to his requirements, was now in a mess. If it were in the past, with his level of cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder, he would definitely not be able to tolerate it.
However, having experienced nearly seven years of natural disasters in his previous life, he had gone through all kinds of hardships and difficulties, so this little bit of dirt and mess was nothing in his eyes.
He took a set of clean clothes and went to the bathroom next to the master bedroom, ready to run the bathtub. He found that the water was not filled. He remembered that Si Nan's hair was wet when she came out to open the door. She must have been in the bath for a short time and heard him knocking on the door, so she didn't have time to fill the bathtub.
He had no intention of changing the water. He simply took off his clothes, revealing his slender body with inverted triangle abdominal muscles. He stepped into the bathtub with his long legs and started washing directly.
After the end of the world, there was a shortage of water and food. Many people couldn't take a bath for several months. Their bodies smelled sour and smelly, like biological weapons. He felt very good to have bath water that was ten times cleaner than sewer water.
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