172: Prepare to sign the contract

After working for over an hour, he made a cool 260,000.

By the time Ye Su returned to the rental, Chen Xinyi finally heard the noise, got out of bed, and left the room.

Seeing her slightly awkward gait, Ye Su felt both heartache and guilt, though for some reason, he also wanted to laugh.

But seeing the look on Chen Xinyi's face that seemed ready to devour someone, Ye Su immediately stifled his smile, his conscience suddenly flaring up.

"Look at you, if you're tired, just rest properly. We're moving today, so just leave the rest of the stuff for me to handle."

Chen Xinyi didn't want to be so easily coaxed, but the moment she saw the fawning smile on Ye Su's face, the resentment in her heart instantly vanished:

"You still have to cook for me!"

This was the greatest difficulty Chen Xinyi could think of to impose on Ye Su.

"Sure—" After Ye Su agreed, he suddenly remembered: "There's no food left in the fridge. If I go out to buy some now, I probably won't have time to cook. We'll have to order takeout for lunch, and I'll cook in the evening."

"Hmm—" Chen Xinyi tilted her head, thought for a moment, and nodded in agreement: "That works too."

Ye Su realized that this girl was truly becoming easier and easier to coax.

"You were out for so long, where did you go?" Chen Xinyi only now noticed the square plastic bag Ye Su was carrying in his hand.

"I went to the bookstore to pick up a few books and cultivate my literary aura."

"You, buying books?" The confusion on Chen Xinyi's face was completely genuine.

Ye Su proudly lifted the plastic bag in his hand: "The books are all right here. Why would I lie to you?"

Chen Xinyi walked over and took out the four books from the bag.

"《The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber》, 《Wisely's Map》..."

After seeing the titles of the four books, Chen Xinyi shoved the plastic bag back at Ye Su and turned to go to the bathroom.

"Hey—what's that supposed to mean? These are books!"

The sound of the bathroom door closing was Chen Xinyi's final answer to Ye Su.

...

Keeping his promise, after finishing their takeout lunch, Ye Su spent the afternoon packing the remaining items, including bedding, into storage boxes and hauling them to the new apartment with a handcart.

Buzz—

Before he could even take the things out and put them away, his phone in his pocket started vibrating.

Ye Su thought he had forgotten something and that Chen Xinyi was messaging him, but to his surprise, the screen displayed [Li Mengyao].

[Li Mengyao: The internal group meeting is over, and the project has been approved. You can find some time tomorrow, bring your ID card, and come over to sign the contract.]

Seeing that Li Mengyao wanted him to sign the contract, Ye Su excitedly raised his hands and danced around the room alone:

"One million, one million! I won't be able to spend it all in ten days or half a month!"

Ye Su was certain that a ten-percent profit share would definitely amount to around a million.

This was also the largest profit he had made from intelligence in the past three months.

The only downside was that this million-plus couldn't be withdrawn yet; he had to wait for Poyun Group to finish their marketing and sell the finished jewelry.

[Received!]

[Thanks for the contract, Miss Li!]

Ye Su also sent two [Heha] emojis of a hand raised to the sky.

[Li Mengyao: Don't think you can just get away with it like that. Remember, you still owe me one favor.]

When it came to his own interests, Ye Su didn't let his mouth run wild, making big claims like "I'll do three favors" or anything like that.

[Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. I'll go find a tattoo shop later and get it tattooed on me.]

[Li Mengyao: You better keep your word. When you come to sign the contract tomorrow, I'm going to check your tattoo.]

[But I'm worried that if I take the civil service exam later, I won't pass the physical, so I was planning to get it tattooed on my butt. Are you sure you want to check?]

[Li Mengyao: Pervert!]

[What pervert? I'm an ambitious person who wants to take the civil service exam and serve the people in the future. Is that wrong?]

[Li Mengyao: If I say you're wrong, then you're wrong!]

After bantering with Li Mengyao for a bit, Ye Su continued with the moving work.

Fortunately, thanks to several enhancements to his [Physique] and [Strength], Ye Su found the work twice as easy.

After putting the bed cover on the new mattress, he moved the mattress onto the bed by himself, then pulled the handcart back to the old apartment, ready to move the last item: the washing machine.

"Do you need any help?"

Seeing Ye Su working by himself, Chen Xinyi felt a bit embarrassed and offered to lend a hand.

Ye Su played the role of the good man to the end:

"It's fine. Just rest easy today; let me handle the work."

Ye Su went to the balcony, nimbly dismantled the washing machine, easily lifted it onto the handcart, gave Chen Xinyi a smug wink, and dragged the handcart out the door.

Although Chen Xinyi showed a look of disdain, she was secretly happy about Ye Su's "considerateness" today.

Following that, Chen Xinyi was once again impressed by the Physique of a college student:

"How is this man still so full of energy?"

Thinking about last night, when the bed frame almost broke, and yet today Ye Su was still going out and moving things without any issues, Chen Xinyi no longer believed those online comments about [fragile college students].

"No way, I need to exercise too!"

After making up her mind, Chen Xinyi immediately opened JD.com, used the remaining dongdong e-card from yesterday, and took advantage of the 6.18 promotion and national subsidies to buy a 65-inch TV and a pile of fitness equipment, planning to exercise while watching the TV.

Worried that she might exercise too hard and accidentally disturb the neighbors downstairs, Chen Xinyi also thoughtfully bought a rug for the living room of the new apartment.

After a spree of crazy ordering and swearing that she would definitely work hard at exercising, Chen Xinyi got up to check if anything had been left behind in the apartment.

Confirming that everything was secure, and since they had only lived in the apartment for half a month and both she and Ye Su were clean people, there wasn't much that needed cleaning.

Chen Xinyi then left Room 1101, Building 12, and moved into Room 1301, Building 7, waiting to sublet the apartment later.

As she left, Chen Xinyi felt a bit gleeful.

"Although we only lived here for half a month and lost 12 days of rent, I found a string of beads in the wardrobe. If you add it all up, renting this place actually made us over sixty thousand!"

Whenever she thought of [money], Chen Xinyi felt full of energy, and even the exhaustion from last night was swept away.

"Ah—"

After returning to Room 1301, Building 7, Chen Xinyi didn't continue to slack off. She helped Ye Su organize everything, then comfortably lay down on the sofa and let out a long sigh of relief:

"Uncle Jun probably won't kick us out after we've only lived here for a while. At the very least, we won't have to move again for a short while!"

Renting and moving will always be the eternal pain for those drifting in Guangzhou, and indeed for all migrant workers drifting away from home.

Sometimes it's not that they want to move.

But besides changing jobs and having to move, sometimes they also have to face rent increases from landlords.

Someone who doesn't raise the rent for over a year can already be considered a good landlord in Guangzhou.

Now that they had moved into the apartment provided for free by Ye Kaijun, Chen Xinyi at least didn't have to worry about being kicked out by a landlord for some reason and being forced to look for another place again.