E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 175 Expensive Recycling The Starting Place of Dreams 2

Chapter 175: Chapter 175 Expensive Recycling The Starting Place of Dreams 2

Once the fifth day of the new year passed, the landlord started urging Zhou Xueyin to pay the rent.

Zhou Xueyin took this opportunity to arrange a meeting with the landlord at the rented house.

The landlord was a woman in her fifties, looking quite well-off, "Are you comfortable living here? Or is that why you wanted to meet? Because you don’t want to rent anymore? I see you four girls living here quite nicely, keeping things clean. Even though you have a cat, there’s no smell at all. I’d actually miss you if you decided to move out."

Before Zhou Xueyin could open her mouth, the landlord rambled on. It seemed that the landlord really hoped that they would continue to live there...

"No, no, you’ve misunderstood. We don’t want to cancel the lease..." Zhou Xueyin hurriedly explained.

"Oh, not cancelling? So you want to lower the rent? Young lady, to be honest, isn’t my rent reasonable? It hasn’t increased much since you moved in, has it? Ask around, the rents in the next building, which one isn’t more expensive than mine?" For an ordinary landlord, a tenant requesting a meeting usually meant either they wanted to terminate the lease or negotiate a lower rent.

Since Zhou Xueyin wasn’t looking to terminate the lease, it was bound to be about lowering the rent, something the landlord obviously wouldn’t agree to easily.

"Sister, no, no, the rent here has always been very economical! The value for money is also very high, and it’s particularly close to my company. It’s not that we want you to lower the rent." Seeing the landlord’s attitude shift abruptly, Zhou Xueyin quickly tried to soothe her.

"As long as it’s not about lowering the rent, that’s good, that’s good!" The landlord breathed a little easier. "So why did you ask to meet me? You know, it’s quite a hassle for me to come all the way from Tiantong Garden..."

"Are you willing to sell this house?" Zhou Xueyin asked confidently.

"What?" The landlord wasn’t unable to hear Zhou Xueyin, but she was completely taken aback. She hadn’t expected that the other party wanted to meet to buy her house.

"I would like to buy your house, just name your price..." Zhou Xueyin was indeed straightforward.

She had done her homework. Their current residence was worth at least 1.5 million, but because it was an old building, on the top floor, without an elevator, and parking spaces were scarce, the usual selling price was around 1.2 to 1.3 million.

Selling this house, the landlord could buy a two-bedroom with an elevator on the edge of Southwest Third Ring, and swapping North Fourth Ring for South Third Ring wouldn’t be a loss.

"Are ambitious, young lady..." The landlord was genuinely startled. She hadn’t anticipated Zhou Xueyin’s intention to buy the property, "This house isn’t cheap, you know..."

"I know, it’s a school district house, well-facilitated, and it’s in the Zhongguancun commercial area, right on the Fourth Ring, convenient transportation, right? It surely won’t go for less than 1 million, will it, big sister?" Zhou Xueyin preempted what the landlord was about to say.

"You’re quite knowledgeable. So, in fact, I don’t really want to sell the house," the landlord smiled a little, "If you really want to buy a place around here, I can ask around to see who else is selling. Something with the same layout as this one!"

"If I really wanted to buy someone else’s house, I wouldn’t have specifically asked to meet you..." Zhou Xueyin smiled, "This room means a lot to me, and to our company as well, because it’s where our company was founded. It’s where our dreams began... that’s why I wanted to buy it, to keep it as a memento."

After hearing Zhou Xueyin’s words, the landlord didn’t know what to say. She wasn’t planning to sell, but the other party was sincere, and it seemed the house had special significance for them. If she insisted on refusing, she might come across as unreasonable.

"Actually, this house was allocated to us by my unit. We only lived here for a short while before moving to a larger place in Tiantong Garden... How about this, I won’t ask for too much from you, 1.8 million? What do you think?" Judging by her talk, Zhou Xueyin had her own company—when else to ask for a hefty price if not now?

"Okay! Then, let’s wait for the Real Estate Bureau to open, and we can transfer the paperwork, how does that sound?" Zhou Xueyin readily agreed. She had initially expected something within 2 million, but they just tossed out a price, and to her surprise, the landlord was quite kind asking for 1.8 million.

However, seeing how quickly Zhou Xueyin agreed, the landlord started to regret it, wishing he had asked for another 200,000... After all, with 2 million, he could buy another house in South City and still have some money left over.

But the words were already spoken, and there was no turning back now, 1.8 million it was—either way, he wasn’t at a loss.

The top price for a house in this old neighborhood was just 1.5 million, so asking for an extra 300,000 was nothing to complain about, was it?

So, on the eighth day of the lunar new year, the two completed the property transfer process, money was paid, and the property deed was handed over.

The Zhongguancun apartment finally belonged to Zhou Xueyin’s name, and now Li Jixiang and the others could live there at peace, without worrying about paying rent every quarter.

Now that she had bought a house, all that was left was a car. Thinking it would be convenient to drive for outings, Zhou Xueyin slapped her forehead and straight away bought an SUV.

"Jixiang, what do you think, should we expand into the car business?" Zhou Xueyin asked after coming back from the 4S shop. She always felt that cars, something both men and women need regardless of gender, indeed could be advertised on their forum.

"Sure, absolutely, especially since in recent years there’s been support for the car market. Haven’t you noticed more and more people buying cars? Though the roads are also getting more congested..." Li Jixiang chuckled, "Don’t look at me, I haven’t even learned to drive yet, but my folks back home have already bought a nice car... More and more people will be buying cars in the future, we might as well start hanging ads, there’s nothing to lose!"

But it was easier said than done. 51buy currently lacked a specialized automotive section, and there was no shortage of established car forums online. Attracting automotive brand advertising clients was not going to be an easy task.

[Yinyin, there’s something I want to talk to you about alone...] Just as Zhou Xueyin and Li Jixiang were looking at each other, Zhang Jingwan sent a message.

Zhou Xueyin looked up and saw Zhang Jingwan already waiting for her at the conference room door.

"Let’s put off considering the market expansion for now, I need to deal with something... employee-related," Zhou Xueyin smiled at Li Jixiang and then stood up to enter the conference room with Zhang Jingwan.

"What’s up? What happened to you? Who bullied you? Don’t cry, don’t cry..." As soon as she entered the conference room, Zhou Xueyin noticed Zhang Jingwan’s eyes were red and she was sniffling from time to time.

"No one... no one bullied me. I just, I’m finding it hard to let go of everyone..." Zhang Jingwan said, choking up.

"Hard to let go? Are you resigning?" Zhou Xueyin was taken aback.

Completely out of the blue, and it hadn’t even been a week since work resumed, Zhang Jingwan brought up resignation, which indeed was rather sudden.

"Did another company poach you? Or do you feel the salary is too low? Your current salary is 4,500, how about we raise it to 6,000? What do you think?" Zhou Xueyin anxiously suggested.

Zhang Jingwan was counted as an employee who had grown with the company, with business and personal abilities both above standard. If she were to suddenly leave, it would truly be a big loss.

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