A full half an hour later, they reached the Tong Lin Estate. They strode towards the entrance, where the security guard looked up and swept a glance over them.
"What do you want?" He said in a tone of disinterest.
"I'm renting out one of the houses here." Si Chen calmly said, his eyes staring right towards the security guard's eyes.
Feeling the gaze on him, the security guard felt a little uncomfortable. His dark eyes seemed to be studying him without the slightest fluctuation within, and he had a sense of unease well up within his heart.
He had thought that they were merely two poor children accidentally walking to the wrong place, judging from their attire.
But it seemed like he was very wrong.
Normally, he would just chase away the random charlatans who wanted to enter, but in this case, he slightly nodded his head, as he allowed them to pass.
When they both moved out of their sights, he realised that on his head, a pool of cold sweat had formed.
Xiao Meng and Si Chen walked side by side to each other, with Si Chen's hands full with the luggage, while Xiao Meng was walking with a slight skip in her steps.
"Big Brother. The security guard just now was really kind. I thought he would not allow us to enter." Xiao Meng kicked a pebble on the ground as she casually muttered.
"Yeah. He is quite good." Si Chen replied.
A few minutes later, they stood aside a simple looking door. Si Chen lightly knocked on the door.
He had called the owner on the way here, so she should know of their presence.
The door slowly clicked open, as a simple beauty was appeared in their eyes. She looked like around 19 to 20, Hair tied up in a ponytail, straight nose, and big eyes.
She was not the heaven-toppling kind of beauty, but of a normal one.
Surprisingly, she did not seem like she was wearing makeup at all.
Si Chen managed to catch sight of all of these in the instant he saw her.
"Are you the one renting this apartment?" She revealed a smile as she glanced at both of them.
The little girl looked so cute! While the older one, was quite handsome, with a unique demeanour surrounding him.
"Yes. Hi, I am Si Chen, the one who had called you to rent this apartment. Could we go inside?" Si Chen politely smiled.
"Of course." She opened the door wide, as she let them both in.
At the instant when Xiao Meng entered the house, and saw the modernistic designs adorned around the house, as well as an eye-catching sapphire blue wall-paper surrounding the entire apartment, she excitedly squealed in delight, while she ran around the apartment, looking like a little kid who had been given an ice-cream that she always wanted to try
Si Chen's lips curled up to reveal a huge smile as he saw this scene, his heart feeling nothing but warmth and satisfaction.
It was a long time since he saw his younger sister so happy before.
Then, while Xiao Meng was exploring the entire apartment in exhilaration, Si Chen and the young lady at down to discuss the rental matters.
"The monthly rent here is at $1000. This does not include the water bill and electricity fee that you would also have to pay. Is that all right with you?" She asked while taking out a piece of document.
"I'm fine with that." Si Chen replied. The apartment here had surpassed their previous living environment in almost every way possible.
It was spacious, it was well-designed, and the kitchen was big.
Most importantly, his sister had liked it.
"Okay…" She paused for a while, then as if she had thought about something, and she slowly asked, "I have something else to say regarding this rental agreement."
"What?" Si Chen raised his eyebrows and asked.
"The apartment here has 5 rooms. With you and your sister staying, there will be still be 3 more vacant rooms remaining. I'm thinking of co-sharing the apartment instead of completely renting it out. Is that fine with you?" She carefully asked.
When she had rented out the apartment online in the first place, she had thought that a whole family would be renting it out, but who knew that it was only 16 and 13 year old, who could not even be considered as adults yet.
So with her astute mind, she had devised a plan instead to maximize her profits.
"You didn't mention that initially." Si Chen frowned his eyebrows, as the smile on his face slowly began to recede.
"But you see---"Before she could finish off her sentence, someone had knocked on the door and interrupted her sentence.
The expression on her face immediately changed. She knew who had knocked on the door, and she had not planned for them to come so early.
This had completely messed up her plans.
However, she still went up to open the door, and two youths stood there with their luggage.
They were still muttering amongst themselves.
"We came here a bit early today. Do you think the owner would mind?"
"Why would she? We came here to rent out the rooms after all"
"Hehe. Running away from home and renting out our own apartment feels really fun!"
"Exactly. Staying at home all day is really boring."
This conversations floated towards Si Chen's ears, as his expression darkened down, his smile completely disappearing.
At this moment, how could he possibly not know what had happened?
The owner of the place had tried to take advantage of them and use the apartment to the maximum potential, thus earning the greatest amount of profits.
If this was his subordinate, he would be totally impressed and praise them for their capabilities
But when this was used against him, he felt that he was being cheated, and could not help but be incensed, as waves of rage started to tumble around within his heart.