The Male Lead’s Villainess Stepmother

Chapter 259 – Only she could take advantage of the boss. She couldn’t possibly let anyone else take advantage of him. (1)

Yan Shuyu did not expect such a twist in the plot. She was the one who was going to move into the fancy apartment?

She must say, the boss’s suggestion was very tempting. This time, poverty did not limit Yan Shuyu’s imagination as she had just gotten a tour of Manager Yang’s place and knew how high-class and poise the layout was. Manager Yang’s place was very lively. He lived with his parents, his sister, and other elderlies. She heard that there were also nannies and maids, totalling over 10 people. But when they toured his place, Manager Yang even showed her his game room and home theater room. His niece, Tongtong, also had her own princess room and piano room. That ought to tell her how big the place was.

Never mind that Yan Shuyu had never seen such a luxurious house in her two lives combined, nobody had in the three generations above her. She couldn’t help but fantasize how wonderful it’d be to wake up in the 660 square meter bed every day. She thought she’d laugh in her dreams.

After her fantasy, she finally declined the boss’s offer. Her bottom line was clear and had never changed – she would do anything other than being the male lead’s stepmother.

Nevertheless, the boss’s intention was very suspicious. It made her wonder whether he wanted her and her instant son to move into his house first. Based on the theory that it’s easier to go from rags to riches rather than the other way round, once the two of them had gotten used to the corrupt lifestyle of the riches, he’d bring up marriage. By then she’d have no choice but to accept her fate of becoming his son’s stepmother.

That was a scary thought. For the sake of maintaining her bottom line and not to fall for the boss’s trap, she had no choice but to crush her dream of living in a fancy place.

That being said, Yan Shuyu thought about it some more and the boss’s reason that he had prepared a surprise for her was very loving. On the surface, it sounded like he had only arranged for it behind her back to save her the hassle. She has no proof of what she had speculated, so she didn’t want to sound too ungrateful.

Based on the other possibility, Yan Shuyu tried to choose her words carefully when she nicely turned down his offer. “Em, I have already toured Manager Yang’s place. The place was very big and had a lot of rooms. It would be very wasteful for Yuanbao and I to live in a place that size. Besides, I can’t afford the rent here either…”

Perhaps her last line sounded too disgruntled, Boss Zhou glanced over and smiled at her. “You know the rent here?”

“I’ve checked them out this afternoon,” replied Yan Shuyu truthfully. “In this same district, a 200 square meter, two-bedroom place costs 9,000 yuan. So a multi-level, single-family place will run around 30,000 – 50,000 a month?”

“A little on the low side, 80,000 yuan,” said Zhou Qinhe nonchalantly.

“80,000 yuan a month?!” Yan Shuyu struggled to sit up. She knew that houses like these could cost upward of tens of millions, but she hadn’t expected their rent to be so ridiculous. Poverty had, after all, limited her imagination.

That being said, while she was shocked by the pricing, she noticed something else from the boss’s words and asked, “Are you renting this place?”

She had assumed that when the boss said “Secretary Lu helped me find this place” meant she helped him find the best one from his list of properties. After all, the boss was so busy all the time that he couldn’t possibly keep track of all of his assets. But if that was the case, how would he know the rent for this place off the top of his head?

Sure enough, her speculation was correct and Zhou Qinhe confirmed her thought.

As much as she had guessed it, now she felt even more complicated. How did a domineering CEO stoop to the level of renting a place for his girlfriend?

“Why did you rent the place already?” asked Yan Shuyu reflexively.