Chapter 3 This is my house! This is my home!
When you feel something is strange, it's often because you've overlooked a lot of details, like the creeping ivy on the walls of your villa, the tiles on the floor that sometimes lighten and sometimes darken, and the production date printed on the bottle of Coke in the refrigerator...
When the happy feet crossed the edge of the yard for the eighteenth time, the two people who had disappeared from each other's sight appeared again and again...
"Is it really 2014 there, ten years ago? So you're not a ghost?" After calming down for a long time, this was the first question that popped into Gao Xing's mind.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Shen Xingjian probably would never have believed in the existence of any supernatural phenomena in this world, but reality is often so unreasonable. A miracle happened to him, and in his home!
"If I'm not mistaken, this line is the boundary where time and space overlap..."
Shen Xingjian pointed to the cement edge beside the courtyard gate. As long as they crossed that line, they would disappear from each other's sight, and so would people and things.
Or perhaps it is not disappearance, but leaving the overlap and returning to its own time and space.
Gao Xing finally understood what was going on and responded, "So, you were the one who threw my suitcase out?"
Shen Xingjian: “…Is this the focus now??”
Of course not!
Gao Xing snatched back her phone and swiped her fingertips across the screen quickly. "Now that the misunderstanding has been explained, you can leave my house now."
"Your house?" Shen Xingjian's voice suddenly rose.
Gao Xing patted the suitcase beside him, and the metal shell made a dull sound. "I've already shown you the agreement between me and the resort. This is my house now. Any questions?"
Shen Xingjian was almost angry and laughed: “Just understand, this is my home!”
Gao Xing spread his hands and said, "How do you prove it?"
Shen Xingjian snorted and tilted his head: “I don’t need to prove it to you!”
Gao Xing simply took a step back and said, "Okay, just think of this as your home. But now it's 2024, and it's no longer your home!"
Shen Xingjian got even angrier when he heard this: "What do you mean by 'just treat it as'? This is my home! In my time and space, it's 2014! So, please, get out of my house!"
He was furious.
This house is the ancestral home of the Shen family. Shen Xingjian knows very well that he will never sell it to build a resort. Although he doesn’t know what happened in the past ten years, the most urgent thing is to get rid of this woman of unknown origin.
Since the time and space here can overlap to ten years later, perhaps it can also overlap to an earlier time, to the time when his legs were not yet trapped in the wheelchair like this.
Seeing his attitude, Gao Xing lost his patience and asked, "So what do you say we should do now?"
Shen Xingjian didn’t even think about it: “You go.”
Happy: "Why don't you leave?"
Shen Xingjian was speechless, "How many times do I have to say it? This. Is. My. Home!"
It never ends!
Gao Xing was getting annoyed. He scratched his ears and pointed to the nearby entrance door. "How about this? Whoever runs in first gets the house?"
Hearing this, Shen Xingjian doubted for a moment whether he had heard it wrong. He looked at the wheelchair under his feet, and then at her healthy limbs: “Are you kidding me?”
Gao Xing (with a forced smile): "Who's kidding you?"
Before he finished speaking, the woman in front of him pulled up her suitcase and ran towards the entrance door at lightning speed. When Shen Xingjian reacted and tried to control the wheelchair to catch up, the door had already been locked with a "bang".
Shen Xingjian: “???”
This was the first time in his 22 years of life that he encountered such a ridiculous situation, so much so that he stood at the door with his mouth open, unable to utter a word for a long time.
…
On a midsummer afternoon, in the quiet resort, the sound of "open the door" echoed.
Shen Xingjian was locked outside the door and pounded on it for almost two hours, but no one inside paid any attention to him. His throat was almost smoking from shouting.
"You bandit, robber! Open... ahem... open the door!"
Shen Xingjian leaned against the door, sweat soaking through his silk pajamas, leaving a dark mark on his back.
He leaned weakly against the door frame, still threatening unwillingly: "You won't open the door, right? If you have the guts, stay inside and don't come out for the rest of your life, or else—"
"Or what?"
The door suddenly opened, and Shen Xingjian almost fell in. He hurriedly grabbed the door handle, and the ruthlessness just now dissipated in an instant: “How about we go in and calm down first and then talk properly?”
The temperature in southern Beijing is 38 degrees Celsius today. Under the scorching sun, he has been able to hold on at the door until now purely by willpower. If he goes down on the kang again, he will be turned into a dried corpse!
Gao Xing hummed a sigh of relief and mercifully let him in.
Back inside, the cool air hit Shen Xingjian's face, and mist immediately rose in front of his eyes. He wiped the sweat from his head, grabbed the Coke on the island and poured it into his mouth.
"That's..." Gao Xing wanted to stop him, but suddenly choked.
If it is true as they just analyzed that this villa has undergone time and space folding, then the bottle of Coke she drank before was most likely not provided by the resort, but was from ten years ago.
I wonder if drinking Coke that's ten years expired will kill someone...
Gao Xing shook his head, not daring to think about it.
Shen Xingjian didn't hear her gradually weakening voice. He gulped down half a bottle of Coke and breathed a sigh of relief.
"You just said this house is yours. What evidence do you have?" Gao Xing stood in the living room behind him and started to question.
After learning a lesson, Shen Xingjian didn't dare to say anything like "I don't need to prove it to you", but immediately went to the room to get the property certificate and ID card.
Gao Xing compared the name on the property certificate with the name on the ID card, and then compared the photo on the ID card with the face in front of him. Only after confirming that he was not lying did he return the evidence to him.
"Okay, I'll just assume this was your home ten years ago, but..."
She looked up and down at the man in front of her, who was wearing an obviously expensive silk pajamas and an electric wheelchair, and asked sincerely, "Don't you have any other properties?"
If you could afford a villa and an electric wheelchair ten years ago, you should have had plenty of money, right?
Shen Xingjian (with a forced smile): “Do you have one?”
Happy:"……"
If she had it, would she still be fighting with him for the house?
Gao Xing was helpless, so he cleared his throat and took a step back, saying, "Now that things have come to this, since we both claim the house as ours and refuse to leave, why don't we each take half? Maybe when we wake up tomorrow, everything will be back to normal."
Gao Xing just wanted a place to stay, so the size of the place didn't matter to her. On the contrary, if the other party kept pestering her, who knows what would happen.
As for Shen Xingjian, after the confrontation just now, he has fully realized the lack of martial ethics of the woman in front of him. He has missing legs, and it will not benefit him to continue arguing, so he can only take a step back temporarily.
"Okay, we'll split it in half. The room on the first floor is mine, and the room on the second floor is yours. Keep your distance and don't interfere with each other!"
"make a deal!"
After the negotiations, both sides felt that they had made great concessions. After all, who could they turn to for justice when faced with such a fantastical thing? They could only grit their teeth and endure it.
“By the way, you are not allowed to enter the rooms on the west side of the second floor, but you can do whatever you want in the others.” As Gao Xing dragged the box up to the second floor, Shen Xingjian added from behind.
There are four rooms on the second floor of Villa No. 1, one on the east side and one on the west side, with a study and bathroom in the middle.
After going up the stairs, Gao Xing happened to find the east room right next to her, so she didn't bother any more and just opened the door and went in.
As soon as she entered the room, dust rose up from the room that had been uninhabited for a long time. She couldn't help but sneeze, and quickly covered her nose and opened the window.
The balcony of the room on the east side of the second floor faces the yard. When the curtains are drawn, the scenery of the yard can be seen in full view. A gust of wind blows, and the leaves of the camphor tree rustle, bringing with it a hint of fragrance.
Although this room has been uninhabited for a long time, the bedding and furniture are covered with white dust sheets, so after some cleaning it can be barely lived in.
I was busy for several hours dusting, mopping the floor, washing the sheets, and cleaning. I finally had time to stop and drink a sip of water. When I looked up, it was already dark.
She remembered that she hadn't eaten since noon, and her stomach was feeling a little uncomfortable with hunger.
There were still a few bags of instant noodles left in the suitcase. She took them out and was about to tear them open when she realized there was no pot.
She remembered that there seemed to be a pot on the stove in the kitchen downstairs, but she didn't want to go downstairs. She didn't want to see the strange man, nor did she want to say a word to him.
I was happy and endured it for a while, but I didn't want to resist in the end because I had to eat.
She took the instant noodles and prepared to go downstairs. Just as she reached the stairs, she happened to meet Shen Xingjian coming out of the bathroom.
During the day I was so busy with scares, quarrels, and house-snatching that I never really took a close look at what this person looked like. Now that I've settled down I realize that this person doesn't look bad?
He looked about the same age as Gao Xing, with short, messy hair, a high nose bridge, a three-dimensional outline, and smooth lines. When he looked up at people inadvertently, his eyes revealed a sense of unruly.
“Have you seen enough?” Shen Xingjian suddenly said, and the water droplets from the towel thrown over his shoulders splashed onto the floor tiles.
Of course, the premise is that he keeps his mouth shut.
Gao Xing immediately took back his wrong evaluation of him, and walked around the water stains he had created on the ground to go to the kitchen to get a pot to cook noodles.
“This is my pot!”
After hearing the sound behind him, Gao Xing put the pot back in its place and went to the cupboard to get a bowl.
“This is my bowl!”
She had no choice but to put the bowl down and get the kettle.
"The kettle is mine too!"
Gao Xing couldn't stand it any longer, so he just slammed the instant noodles in his hand onto the counter.
Shen Xingjian was startled and secretly wiped his sweat. The fear of being locked outside in the afternoon came back.
Although he had to make do temporarily due to the situation, but living under the same roof, he saw each other everywhere, so Shen Xingjian had to consider his own personal safety.
He quickly coughed twice and said, "It's not impossible to lend it to you..."
“No need!”
Gao Xing interrupted him unhappily, punched the instant noodles again, then violently tore open the package, chewed it dry, and returned to the stairs.
After returning to the second floor, the first thing she did was to order a split electric cooker online!
It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others. The heroines in other novels always have golden fingers when they encounter strange things, but she is different. She encountered a time and space folding, which did not bring any benefits except losing half of her house!
Thinking of this, Gao Xing lay down on the bed feeling angry and tired.
After a long day, she was really tired. As sleepiness came over her, a chaotic stream of thoughts came to her mind:
Not only did I lose half of my house, but I also had to live with a stranger. Luckily, he had a bad leg and was in a wheelchair, otherwise who knows what kind of danger he would have faced...
etc!
His legs... there's no way he can stand up again, right?
Gao Xing suddenly woke up from the bed, quickly got out of bed and locked the door. After locking it, he still felt uneasy, so he dragged a chair to prop up the door. After doing all these and making sure that everything was fine, he lay back on the bed.
She really hoped that this annoying overlap of time and space would disappear as soon as she opened her eyes tomorrow. She really wanted a house of her own, a place where no one could find her...
My remaining consciousness was gradually swallowed by sleepiness. At the same time, the person downstairs had just tightened the locks on the doors and windows of the room with a screwdriver. He was really concerned about his own personal safety. ^-^
The author has something to say:
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The two of you have a really strong sense of security [smirk]
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