Chapter 49 - Sneaking Into His Own Home (2/2)

How much he hoped to be able to just appear here for the mere reason of ‘coming home’ as he had done countless times in the past instead of only temporarily staying like a thief?

ZhouXiang sniffed his nose and didn’t dare to think more. Although YanMingXiu is in another city, he still didn’t dare to stay here for too long. This is likely what’s called a person’s guilty conscience.

He wrapped the plastic bag on his shoes and gently walked in. The flashlight flashed through the dust on the shoe cabinet. It wasn’t thick, just a thin layer of dust, which proves that there are people who came to clean from time to time. Maybe YanMingXiu still felt a bit of their former affections toward him so would occasionally have people come to clean it. That way the condo is not abandoned.

He walked through the familiar small porch straight into his bedroom where he put his cash.

He had a habit of putting spare cash in the bedside table. It wasn’t much, just four to five thousand yuan which was still better than his monthly salary. He was ready to take the cash and go back to the living room to get his bank card.

When he got into the bedroom, it looked just the same as before… even the bedding was the one he bought with YanMingXiu. ZhouXiang couldn’t help but walked over and touched the neatly folded silk blanket, that soft and smooth feel. ZhouXiang could even remember that comfortable feeling on his bare skin, especially when YanMingXiu turned over and wrapped the both of them with the blanket.

ZhouXiang smiled bitterly as he gently put the corners of the blanket back in place. He quickly opened the bedside table. Sure enough, the money that he casually threw in there was still there.

ZhouXiang had a pretty good life before. Four to five thousand was not a lot of money to him. At that time, he was able to flauntingly casually drive his car, take a boy that he had just met for a meal and gift him little presents. There was hardly any worries in his life until he met YanMingXiu.

But now, even if it is ¥4 to ¥5, he will save it. In order to save the bus fare money, ChenYing will walk half an hour home in the blazing hot sun holding a bunch of groceries. ZhouXiang is also forced to change his habit of buying things without looking at prices. Instead, he’d diligently tried to save all the money he could.

This ¥4,000 to ¥5,000 is already a pleasant surprise for ZhouXiang.

He quickly put the money into his pocket and then returned to the living room. But what he didn’t expect was that the flashlight would malfunction. The light flashed a few times and then stopped working. ZhouXiang was angrily annoyed. He could only use the light on his cell phone to get his bank card from the closet. The cell phone’s light would always turn dark after a short while so it was frustrating hard for ZhouXiang.

When he went to GuangXi, he only brought a card for emergency use. In fact, following the crew, they were responsible for providing the meals. Adding on, there was no place to spend money in the mountains so he actually brought too much. He couldn’t remember how much was on the card, it certainly wasn’t much. The card with more money is place in the drawer. There were pile of his bills in the drawer, including documents and passbooks, etc. even his parents’ marriage certificate were in there.

Just as he turned around, he sensitively heard the security door’s lock turning.

All the fine hairs on ZhouXiang’s body stood upright.

Is there someone? YanMingXiu? That’s impossible! Isn’t he in Chongqing! How could he be so unlucky as to be openly caught like this!

If YanMingXiu sees him here, how would he be able to explain this? Even with ten heads, he didn’t know how to explain it!

In his moment of desperation, ZhouXiang was at complete loss on what to. He grabbed a few things like his bank card and stuffed into his pocket. Then, he quickly closed the drawer. Panicking, he planned on sneaking into the study room to hide but didn’t expect to have a little mishap as he was rushing. His tripped over the small stool near his foot and fell onto the ground with a loud thump.

The front door was opened and the shadow of a tall figure appeared at the door, yelling, “Whose there?!”

End of the chapte