Chapter 116: One Thing is One Thing

Returning to the East Lake villa, only Sun Xiaorui was sitting on the living room sofa, scrolling through short videos and occasionally letting out a laugh.

“You’re back.”

Seeing Chen Feng, Sun Xiaorui happily stood up from the sofa and trotted over to hug him.

Chen Feng teased, “So happy, did you find some money?”

“I’m just happy,” Sun Xiaorui said, her arms around his waist, looking up at him with a smile on her lips, like a fox that had successfully stolen a chicken.

Chen Feng guessed her thoughts and asked, “Where are the other two?”

Sun Xiaorui’s smile faded. She tried to say as naturally as possible, “They went out. They said they were going to look for a house, to move out.”

Hearing this, Chen Feng’s brow furrowed slightly. Although he didn’t want to continue dating Wu Mengting, he had no intention of making her move out of here.

Moreover, Chen Feng still wanted to keep in touch with Wu Mengting. After all, he had recognized her as his sister and had to take care of her. To do what he said, he would definitely have to see her often.

“You didn’t push them out, did you?” Chen Feng looked at Sun Xiaorui with some suspicion.

Sun Xiaorui was startled and quickly shook her head, “I didn’t. It was Mengting who insisted on dragging Lin Wan out to find a house. I even tried to make them stay. I told them that I would be moving out in two days, and this place would be empty anyway. They could stay here for now and we could talk about it when the lease was up. It was Mengting who insisted on going out to find a house. Lin Wan couldn’t persuade her, so she had to go with her.”

“You didn’t tell them about me buying the villa, did you?” Chen Feng asked with a frown.

Chen Feng tried to be as low-key and “poor” as possible in front of the two of them, in order to avoid their normal relationship from changing, and also to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Especially Lin Wan, who looked like a money-grubber. If she knew he was worth tens of millions, who knows what she would do.

Sun Xiaorui quickly said, “Of course not. You said to keep it a secret from them, I definitely wouldn’t say anything.”

“Then why are they in such a hurry to move out?” Chen Feng frowned.

“It should be… probably because of Mengting’s pride,” Sun Xiaorui said weakly.

Chen Feng thought about it and figured that was probably the reason. He had rejected “getting back together” with Wu Mengting. Even though he said he recognized her as his sister, it had clearly dealt a severe blow to her pride.

Naturally, she no longer wanted to accept help from Chen Feng, her “ex-boyfriend.”

“I’ll give her a call.”

After saying that, Chen Feng took out his phone and walked to the side to call Wu Mengting.

The phone rang for a while before it was answered.

“Mengting, why are you moving out? I’ve already found another place for Xiaorui. If you move out now, won’t this place be empty? The lease is up in two months.”

Wu Mengting finally spoke, “I don’t want to accept your charity.”

“What charity? This house is empty anyway. Besides, you’re my sister now. Shouldn’t a brother take care of his sister? Also, it’s not easy to find a good house now. A good landlord is even harder to find. What if you run into another weird landlord? Won’t you two girls suffer? Be good! Come back, don’t look for any more houses. Just live here from now on.”

Lin Wan’s persuasive voice came from the other end of the phone, “That’s right! Tiantian, the few houses we’ve seen now are really not suitable. Even if there is a suitable house, if we run into another weird landlord, it will be really annoying.”

Wu Mengting ignored Lin Wan’s persuasion and just asked Chen Feng, “Do you really see me as your sister?”

Chen Feng immediately said, “Of course, I will take care of you like my own sister.”

“Then good, remember your words. You have to do what you say. From now on, you have to care about me in every way, and I will also care for and take care of you in every way, and be by your side.”

That sounded a bit off.

However, it seemed she wasn’t wrong. Siblings, it was normal to take care of each other.

Besides, even if Chen Feng had no romantic feelings for her, he still wanted to be able to see her often and keep in touch with her.

“Yes, don’t worry, I will definitely care for and take care of you. From now on, we’ll be like before, seeing each other often, chatting, and having meals together. Isn’t that great?”

“Alright then. I’ll go back now.”

“Okay, I’ll wait for you.”

After hanging up, Chen Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It was actually quite good to be siblings if they couldn’t be lovers. At least that’s what Chen Feng thought.

“How did it go?”

Sun Xiaorui asked with a slight flicker in her eyes.

“She agreed to come back and live here. From now on, I’ll treat her as my own sister. Don’t pick fights with her in the future, give in to her a little.”

Hearing this, Sun Xiaorui’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch slightly. His own sister, she held back the urge to retort and pretended to nod naturally, “Okay.”

“I’ve contacted the original owner of the Red Villa Bay property. He’ll move out tomorrow. I’ll take you there tomorrow.”

“That’s great!” Sun Xiaorui said happily, and quickly ran over again, hugging Chen Feng with a look of joy.

Seeing her happy, Chen Feng was also happy. He smiled and asked, “Is your luggage ready?”

“It’s almost ready. I don’t have many things. I can move them all in one trip in your car. As for your things, should I help you prepare them or will you do it yourself?”

“I’ll do it myself. I don’t have many things either. I’ll take some over tomorrow and move them slowly. There’s no rush.”

“If you don’t move all your things at once, it won’t be convenient for them to live in our room, right?”

Chen Feng shook his head, “Our room is not for them to live in. Just because we’re moving over there doesn’t mean we won’t live here anymore. We can come over and stay here for a day or two when we have time. So, there’s no need to take the bedding. There’s new bedding over there.”

When Sun Xiaorui heard that Chen Feng still wanted to come back and stay, her heart immediately became a little conflicted. If Wu Mengting wasn’t living here, it would be no problem for him to come back and stay.

But just now, Chen Feng’s meaning was that Wu Mengting would be living here in the future. If Chen Feng still came back to stay, then his relationship with Wu Mengting would undoubtedly be too close. This was really… sworn siblings!

She couldn’t object verbally, so she could only nod and say “mm.”

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The two didn’t wait long before Wu Mengting and Lin Wan returned.

“Brother Feng, thank you so much. If you had called a little later, Tiantian would have already paid the deposit. That neighborhood is old and broken, and parking is difficult. It’s only seventy or eighty square meters, but the monthly rent is actually 4,500. It’s such a rip-off.”

Chen Feng glanced at her and said, “Of course an old neighborhood can’t compare to here. The rent here is twenty thousand a month. From now on, I’ll sublet it to you. I’ll only charge you half, ten thousand a month. You two can split it, five thousand each.”

“Ah, aren’t you letting us live here for free?” Lin Wan looked shocked.

Wu Mengting didn’t say anything.

Chen Feng shook his head, “Mengting is my sister now, I’ll pay her five thousand. You have to pay your own five thousand. You can’t expect me to pay for you, can you? We’re just ordinary friends, I have no obligation to pay your rent.”
Lin Wan was suddenly dumbfounded. She looked at Wu Mengting with a pleading expression.

After hesitating for a moment, Wu Mengting finally spoke, “Brother, five thousand a month is too expensive. Why don’t you give her a little discount?”

Chen Feng gave her a helpless look, then said, “Alright then, four thousand. That’s the lowest. I’m only charging her this little because we’re friends.”

Lin Wan said with a resentful expression, “Four thousand a month is also a big burden for me. You’re a big boss, do you really care about this little bit of money from me?”

“That’s not how you should put it,” Chen Feng said with a straight face. “I told you just now, we’re just ordinary friends. I have no obligation or responsibility to pay for you. I’m already being very generous by giving you a discount on the rent. What do you mean by wanting to live for free? So, you must pay this rent. Otherwise, I can only ask you to move out.”

Hearing this, Lin Wan was a little angry, “Aren’t you deliberately trying to make me not live here? You’re so rich, is it interesting for you to be so stingy with this little bit of rent?”

“This is not a matter of being rich or not. It’s a matter of principle. One is one, two is two. Rent is rent, eating, drinking, and having fun is eating, drinking, and having fun. I must charge you rent. If we go out to eat, drink, and have fun together, as a friend, I can pay the bill and not let you spend money. You don’t understand this principle, do you?”

Lin Wan pouted but couldn’t refute. The principle was indeed this principle. But she really didn’t want to bear the monthly rent of four thousand.

Wu Mengting spoke up, “Wan’er, my brother is not wrong. He has no reason to waive your rent. After all, he also rented this house with money.”

Lin Wan rolled her eyes resentfully, “You’re not paying rent, so you can talk so easily. I’m the miserable one.”

Wu Mengting smiled bitterly, went over, and whispered in her ear, “I’ll pay a thousand for you.”

“Really?” Lin Wan’s face was full of surprise.

Wu Mengting nodded with a smile.

Chen Feng, who was standing by, also heard it. He was a little helpless. His original intention was not to let Lin Wan live here, but Wu Mengting obviously couldn’t bear to part with her.

“Alright then. Four thousand it is. We’ll stay.”

Lin Wan immediately happily expressed her position to Chen Feng.

Chen Feng looked at Wu Mengting and said to her in their hometown dialect, “I don’t like her, why are you paying for her? You probably don’t know, I easily bought her over with a raise before, to have her reconcile us, and then she told me all your thoughts and ideas…”

Wu Mengting nodded and said in their hometown dialect, “I know. She is a bit greedy for money, but her nature is not bad. She is the cousin of one of my college best friends. After I graduated and wanted to stay in Xiuzhou, she took me in and even accompanied me to job interviews, helping me a lot. She has her shortcomings, and so do I. There are some things we don’t need to be too calculative about.”

Hearing her say this, what else could Chen Feng say? Thinking about it again, if she lived here alone, it would obviously be a bit inappropriate. Having Lin Wan as a companion, for now, the pros seemed to outweigh the cons.

In the end, Chen Feng could only remind her, “You still have to be on your guard against her in the future, lest you get sold by her and still help her count the money.”

Wu Mengting smiled confidently, “I’m not that stupid. Brother, don’t worry.”

Seeing her mood suddenly improve, Chen Feng couldn’t help but ask with confusion, “Why did your mood suddenly improve?”

“Isn’t it good that it has improved?” Wu Mengting smiled and said, “When I was looking for a house this afternoon, I slowly thought it through. Actually, it’s not bad for us to be a pair of close siblings first. As you said, if by any chance we develop feelings for each other again in the future, it’s not too late to become a couple. And, in the phone call before, you also promised me that you would care for and take care of me in the future. Why wouldn’t I be happy?”

In fact, the main reason was that she was unwilling. And she firmly believed that her fate with Chen Feng was destined by heaven, and it was impossible for them to be separated so easily.

So, for now, if they couldn’t be lovers, the next best thing was to be siblings first. Otherwise, she wouldn’t even have the chance to get close to him in the future.

Her words sounded a bit strange to Chen Feng. But it seemed she wasn’t wrong. He had said before that they could be siblings first, and he had also said he would care for and take care of her.

“Hey, you two, don’t just speak in your bird language all the time. There are other people here. It’s very disrespectful, you know?” Lin Wan expressed her dissatisfaction.

Chen Feng glared at her unhappily and said, “She was just pleading with me for you. Remember to be nicer to her in the future. Otherwise, we won’t even be friends.”

After a moment of surprise, Lin Wan glanced at Wu Mengting with a slightly guilty conscience and quickly said, “You don’t have to tell me that. When have I ever been not nice to Tiantian? I’ve always been very good to her, and I will be in the future. On the contrary, you, as her nominal brother, said you would care for and take care of her. You have to do what you say.”

Chen Feng rolled his eyes at her, too lazy to talk to her. He just instructed Sun Xiaorui, “Go buy some groceries. We’ll eat at home for lunch.”

Wu Mengting quickly said, “I’ll go buy the groceries. Let me cook lunch too.”

Sun Xiaorui quickly stopped her, “No, no, you’re Brother Feng’s sister now. How can we let you buy groceries and cook? I’ll do it.”

“I’ll go.”

Wu Mengting said and was about to walk out.

“I’ll go!”

Sun Xiaorui was also very insistent and went forward to stop her.

Seeing this, Chen Feng said directly, “You two go together.”

The two women looked at each other, then both smiled and said “okay.”

Then they went out one after the other.

Lin Wan glanced at Chen Feng and asked with a smile, “Aren’t you afraid the two of them will fight?”

“Do you think they will fight?” Chen Feng asked back unhappily.

Lin Wan said with schadenfreude, “You probably don’t know, Mengting used to practice Taekwondo. Even one or two ordinary men can’t beat her. If Sun Xiaorui really fights with her, she’ll definitely be beaten so badly that her own mother won’t recognize her.”

Chen Feng really didn’t know about this. Looking at the gloating Lin Wan, he found her very unpleasant. So he deliberately found fault with her, “You’re really thick-skinned. Didn’t you see just now that I didn’t want you to live here?”

Lin Wan rolled her eyes and said, “How could I not see? I’m not a fool. You waived Tiantian’s rent but not mine, and you even said one thing is one thing. Do you think I’m easy to fool? I also know you don’t like me now. It should be because of the previous matter of you helping me pass on information, and you think I betrayed Tiantian.

But I have to say, I’m really not that kind of person who betrays friends. I’m very optimistic about you and Tiantian, and I really want to set you two up. Of course, I don’t deny that I have my own selfish motives. If you and Tiantian get together, I can also benefit from it. Unfortunately, now you’ve gone from lovers to siblings, I have nothing more to say.”

“Alright. As long as you know. Be nicer to Mengting in the future, and I naturally won’t treat you unfairly.”

“Hmph, you don’t have to teach me that. She’s my best friend.”

“Best friends are for selling?”

“When did I sell her? I already said, I wanted to set you two up. Is that wrong?”

“Do you believe that yourself?”

“I believe it.”

“Fine, I’m too lazy to talk to you.”

Chen Feng shook his head and went upstairs.

Even if this woman, Lin Wan, wasn’t on his blacklist, she was close. Anyway, he wouldn’t believe her sophistry.