In the evening, Chen Cheng and Guan Juer returned to Ode to Joy together after having dinner.

He chatted with Andy for a while regarding the Red Star acquisition case.

Fearing someone might knock on the door, he only indulged in a bit of foreplay with his hands.

Chen Cheng washed his hands thoroughly before leaving Andy's home.

He turned around and knocked on the door of 2202.

Guan Juer looked at Chen Cheng with a dull expression. "Brother Cheng, are you finished chatting with Sister Andy?"

Originally, Guan Juer wanted to listen in, but she was delayed by Fan Shengmei, who pulled her and Qiu Yingying aside to talk about something else.

Chen Cheng raised an eyebrow. "What's going on?"

Guan Juer stepped aside to let him in. "Come in and let's talk."

Looking at the tightly closed doors of Fan Shengmei and Qiu Yingying's rooms, Chen Cheng guessed they had probably argued over something.

He walked inside and sat on the sofa.

Guan Juer poured a glass of water for Chen Cheng, glanced at Fan Shengmei's room, and whispered, ""

"Sister Fan got a raise and is planning to terminate her lease and move out to live on her own."

Chen Cheng's mouth twitched. A raise?

That seemed right.

With over a hundred thousand in cash a month, it was clearly unrealistic for her to keep squeezing into this small partitioned room.

The only reason she had endured until now was because she had overspent when buying the car.

Now that she had just received money from Father Chen, she was getting a bit impatient.

Chen Cheng smiled, pulled her into his arms, and asked softly, "If she wants to move out, let her. Why are you upset?"

Guan Juer pursed her lips. "The three of us share this apartment. The rent is eight thousand a month, plus the property management fee, it's nine thousand one hundred in total."

"My room is the largest at 4,000 a month. Of the remaining 5,100, Yingying pays 2,700. Sister Fan's is a partitioned room, so it's cheaper at 2,400."

"But if Sister Fan moves out, Yingying and I will have to bear her 2,400 share."

Chen Cheng thought about it. Although he didn't care about this small amount of money, for Guan Juer, who was still being subsidized by Mother Guan for her rent, this was a huge expense.

Chen Cheng glanced at Qiu Yingying's room. He had just given her 150,000; logically, she shouldn't be arguing with Fan Shengmei over this bit of money.

Suddenly, Chen Cheng's eyes widened and his mouth twitched. It was because she knew Fan Shengmei was knowingly being a 'third party' and was using this as a pretext to vent.

Chen Cheng was just about to tell Guan Juer, 'Why don't you move out too?'

When Qiu Yingying, who had been behind her door, rushed out and shouted loudly, "Bah! What raise? Even a ghost wouldn't believe that!"

"Who knows which man she swindled that money from!"

Chen Cheng's mouth twitched. This Qiu Yingying's combat power when she went crazy was really strong; she was doing indiscriminate attacks now.

Saying that, aren't you afraid of dragging your own sugar daddy into it?

Fan Shengmei's room was just a partition, so she could hear everything in the living room clearly. She immediately refused to take it, threw open the door, and glared at Qiu Yingying with eyes ready to burst. "What did you say, Qiu Yingying!"

Having been poked in her sore spot, she practically gritted out those last three words.

Guan Juer, unaware of the full situation, hurriedly tried to mediate. "Yingying!"

Qiu Yingying widened her eyes at Guan Juer. "Guan Guan, why are you still helping her!"

"I... I..." Guan Juer was rendered speechless by her words.

Qiu Yingying's vigor didn't diminish. "Qu Xiaoxiao was right, she's just a social climber. Now that she's climbed up, she's breaking her word and abandoning us."

Fan Shengmei's face turned red, and she panted heavily, wishing she could tear Qiu Yingying's mouth apart.

She looked at Guan Juer with a bit of a guilty conscience. "Guan Guan, don't listen to her nonsense."

Qiu Yingying's eyes bulged, her whole body seeming to inflate like a balloon. "I'm talking nonsense?"

"Why don't you tell us then, exactly how much of a raise did you get?"

Fan Shengmei glared at her. "Do I need to tell you how much my raise is?"

Qiu Yingying refused to be outdone, her face showing mockery. "I think you just have a guilty conscience."

"Enough!"

Fan Shengmei was about to explode with rage. She didn't know what was wrong with Qiu Yingying today, targeting her so inexplicably.

"You think you're so noble? Weren't you also letting a man eat and sleep with you for free?"

"And you were even stupid enough to lose your job."

"You!" Qiu Yingying's wound was ripped open, and her body began to tremble.

"Hmph! Hmph!" Qiu Yingying panted heavily. "It's still better than you going around begging to be a kept woman!"

Fan Shengmei suddenly realized something. Qiu Yingying must have found out something to be targeting her like this.

Guan Juer's eyes widened, and she rushed over to cover Qiu Yingying's mouth.

She had her own judgment about what kind of person Fan Shengmei was, but if they wanted to keep living together, such things shouldn't be said out loud.

Fan Shengmei's mind raced. She looked at Guan Juer, then at Chen Cheng, immediately thinking she might have accidentally exposed herself at some point.

But looking at the current situation, Guan Juer didn't know yet.

Fan Shengmei actually felt a sense of relief. But how did Qiu Yingying know? It shouldn't be; she had been very careful.

Fan Shengmei tried hard to recall the few 'friendly matches' she'd had with Chen Cheng.

In contrast, the person involved, Chen Cheng, had no intention of intervening in the argument.

He sat there calmly, considering various contingency plans in his mind.

He knew himself that this kind of thing couldn't be hidden forever.

The key was that these three still lived in one apartment, which made it even harder.

Since Fan Shengmei was taking the initiative to move out, that was even better; it would make future 'friendly matches' more convenient.

The problem now was Qiu Yingying.

Chen Cheng thought of Lucy again.

This seemed like an opportunity to have Guan Juer move to 1288 instead.

As for Qiu Yingying, at worst, he could give her a room in 1288.

Even the room from last time would do; there were plenty of rooms anyway.

Having thought it through, Chen Cheng no longer hesitated.

"Cough, cough—"

Hearing Chen Cheng's voice, the three of them looked over in unison.

"Guan Guan, since your Sister Fan is moving out, you and Little Qiu won't be able to find a suitable roommate for a while."

"Why don't you move over to 1288? It's sitting empty anyway, and you're just wasting money on rent here."

At this moment, Guan Juer couldn't care less about Mother Guan's words about not living together; her mind was only on the matter at hand. "Then what about Yingying?"

Chen Cheng secretly gave Qiu Yingying a look. "How about letting Little Qiu move over too? There are plenty of rooms there anyway. At most, Little Qiu can just pay a bit of rent."

Guan Juer, standing with Qiu Yingying, thought the look was meant for her and immediately agreed.

She turned to look at Qiu Yingying. "Yingying, what do you think?"

Go to that place?

Qiu Yingying's face instantly turned bright red. She found it hard not to think of those embarrassing scenes. "I..."

"I... I don't know."

Guan Juer's mouth twitched slightly. She took a breath and began to persuade her; they couldn't just leave things in this deadlock.

"Yingying, Brother Cheng is right."

"That place is empty anyway. If we move there, we can even help Brother Cheng subsidize the property fees a little."

Chen Cheng secretly gave Guan Juer a thumbs up.

Look at that, look at that, this is the art of speaking.

With the word 'we', she instantly pulled Qiu Yingying onto her side.

"But... but..."

Qiu Yingying looked at Chen Cheng shyly.