Chapter 41: Chapter 41

“Eh!!!?” The neighbors exclaimed at once.

Mr. Su didn’t even hide his intentions anymore. So that was what he wanted to do. He needed Annie as his mistress.

For Mrs. Lin, this was the most humiliating words she had ever heard. Someone saying it right to her face that they wanted her daughter to be a mistress!? This was like shaming her in front of the whole society.

The neighbors watched in shock as Mrs. Lin lost her cool. She slapped the man so hard that the whole apartment building seemed to be shaking with the sound.

“Mr. Su, I swear I’ll strangle you to death! Who do you think you are? Did we ever beg you to give us money? Apart from disrespecting the poor, you want my daughter to be your mistress! Have you no shame!?”

While Mrs. Lin gripped the man’s collar, the neighbors were able to separate them after much struggle.

Annie managed to hold her mother and take her inside the room, and Dylan shut the door in the man’s face.

Mr. Su stood outside with the neighbors, unable to recover from his shock. He didn’t expect the woman to suddenly attack him. His cheeks were red and his shirt was ruffled beyond repair. He looked as if he had just been poured a bucket of water.

“Tsk tsk tsk, men like this still exist.”

“I pity Mr. Su’s wife. What more humiliating thing can happen to a married man than this?”

“I thought Mr. Su had good intentions towards Annie. It turns out he’s only a pervert.”

“He even has the guts to look down on the poor. If I was Mrs. Lin, I wouldn’t have just stopped at slapping him.”

After seeing this man’s true colors, the neighbors felt disgusted by his actions. They gave him condescending looks before going back to their apartments. If he hadn’t been the caretaker, they would have joined Mrs. Lin to give him a good beating.

Shame washed over Mr. Su so much that he avoided everyone’s eyes. His ears were red and even his eyes. In his forty-five years, Mr. Su had never been this humiliated.

He glared hard at Mrs. Lin’s door, his anger rising. As he walked out of the apartment building, he brought out his phone and dialed a number.

“Am I speaking with Mr. Jiang?” He said to the other person.

“Yes, Mr. Su. What is the matter?”

Assistant Jiang was busy sorting out some documents. In the large living room of the Villa, he sneaked a fearful glance at his Boss whose eyes were closed as he relaxed on a couch.

Assistant Jiang knew better than anyone that his Boss wasn’t sleeping. The man was just waiting for him to make a mistake so he could kick him out.

“Mr. Jiang, it is about the apartment you put under me to look over. I want to complain to you that some tenants are causing trouble.”

Assistant Jiang’s attention came back to the phone. After hearing Mr. Su’s words, he lowered his voice and whispered, “Eh? If the tenants are being troublesome, what does it have to do with me?”

“It is not like that,” Mr. Su said in a respectful manner. “I am an expert in managing places like this. It is my sole priority to ensure peace among the tenants. So I would like to know from the landlord the proper way to punish them.”

Mr. Su was only allowed to communicate with the landlord’s assistant, otherwise, he would have directly given the landlord a call.

The man who ordered him to raise the rent out of nowhere should be a strict person, right? Mr. Su only needed his permission and he would deal with those people.

Assistant Jiang looked at his Boss fearfully. “Mr. Su, Mr. Lim doesn’t have time for such petty matters. Just do what is right.”

“But–“

“Also, I forgot to tell you.” Assistant Jiang stood up and quietly walked to a corner of the room. “About the rent, Mr. Lim wants you to return it to its original price. He also said you must refund the tenants’ extra money to them.”

“Huh?” Mr. Su was now in his car and he almost drove into a nearby lamppost. “Return the rent to its normal price?”

“Yes, you heard me right,” Assistant Jiang said. If Mr. Su hadn’t called him now, he wouldn’t have remembered his Boss’s order. It had been quite some days since his Boss gave him the order, however, it completely slipped his mind.

Mr. Su opened his mouth but he couldn’t say anything. Did he actually misunderstand the landlord? The man was confusing nevertheless.

How could he ask him to increase the rent then order him to reverse the price? Mr. Su was disappointed. He had gotten richer in a month after increasing the rent.

Because the landlord did not tell him a specific price, he tripled the former amount and took seventy percent for himself. And now, he had to let that money go!?

Were the heavens against him today that bad things kept happening?

Mr. Su wouldn’t let that kind of money go easily. How could he even think about not getting back at those people!?

Assistant Jiang waited for Mr. Su to speak again. After some seconds, he cut off the call, hearing no sound from the other end.

Quietly, the assistant turned around to walk back to the couch and resume his work. However, his eyes were met with his Boss’s piercing gaze.

“Assistant Jiang, you didn’t tell me you miss the other city.”

“Huh?”

“How about I send you back?”

“Ah! No no, Boss, please don’t.” Assistant Jiang hurried to the man and knelt down. “Forgive your humble servant for making such a messy mistake. I swear it won’t happen again. You are so generous, Mr. Lim, I know you’ll have mercy.”

The man had obviously heard his conversation with Mr. Su. Assistant Jiang knew he was in the wrong by not delivering his order on time.

If his Boss decided to punish him by sending him to the other city, how could he survive with those troublesome employees? He was just getting used to MystiArt Productions.