While Liu Qing was still deep in thought, what Huo Zhenzhen saw on her end was the WeChat screen indicator that the other party was still typing, but no reply came through. After waiting for more than 10 minutes, she finally lost her patience and sent another message.
"Why didn't you answer me? You should at least tell me whether you are willing to do it or not. What do you mean by being like this?"
Liu Qing was about to send his reply when, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Manager Zhou from the property management office walking over. He quickly put his phone into his pocket.
Although the security guards of the Jiayi apartment complex all played with their phones at work, they were actually not allowed to do so under the company rules. If they were discovered doing it, three points would be deducted from their score each time. One point was equivalent to 15 dollars, which meant that 45 dollars would be deducted from their salary.
Even though rebirth seemed to be an awesome thing to happen, he still had to live his life after rebirth. After being reborn, Liu Qing was still just a building security guard. He did not want 45 dollars to be deducted from his salary for no reason.
Manager Zhou reached the sentry post and even flipped through the visitor registration book, but he did not say anything.
Of course he knew that the registrations were done in a perfunctory manner, but this was a two-shift job paying about three to four thousand dollars a month, so how good a job could the staff be expected to perform?
It was an industry that was always hiring and always short of people.
It was already good enough that Liu Qing had bothered to get the registrations done, even if perfunctorily. It was already much better than those security guards who did not even bother to put on a show of doing their work.
Although Liu Qing played with his phone and took naps at work, Manager Zhou knew that he was a good security guard.
This was because Liu Qing never napped or played with his phone when his superiors were doing their routine checks. It was the greatest respect that a staff could give his superiors .
Otherwise, how awkward would the superior feel?
They could deduct points but if the staff decided to leave, it would be difficult to hire a replacement.
It would be even more difficult to recruit someone as young as Liu Qing.
If they did not deduct points, then the superior would appear weak and no one would take the rules seriously, leaving the apartment complex in chaos.
He patted Liu Qing on the shoulder. "Be more alert. Don't let random strangers enter the apartment complex. A bicycle was stolen from the bike shed last night."
Liu Qing grunted his acknowledgement.
He suddenly remembered something in passing—it seemed that the person who stole the bike would be caught at the end of June. The thief was a fourth-grade kid from a city village near the apartment complex.
The kid had classmates living in this apartment complex and often came over to play with them. He liked to hang around in the bike shed and whenever he found a bicycle that was not locked, he would push it out and ride it out of the apartment complex.
He had clear memories of this because the whole incident was too bizarre.
A fourth-grade kid had stolen seven or eight bicycles from this apartment complex before being caught and it was not even the security guards who caught him. What happened was the kid had bumped into the owner of the bicycle when he was riding it out of the apartment complex.
He still had some impression of what the kid looked like and an idea came to his head. He thought that perhaps he could catch the child thief and claim the credit.
After this thought flashed across his mind, he felt that he was being too low class. Which other reborn person did not carve out a great career the second time round? At the very least, the person would buy a lottery ticket and become rich overnight. Yet he only wanted to use the advantage from his rebirth to catch a petty thief.
He was such an embarrassment to the reborn people.
Unfortunately, the period over which he was reborn was too short. It was only a period of slightly over two years. He did not pay much attention to the economy during that time, and he did not know what kind of opportunities he could seize.
He also did not have a habit of buying lottery tickets. He did not know the winning numbers of any draw, so he could not depend on this to get rich overnight.
Still, he had great faith in his future.
A huge opportunity would come to him in the near future. It was a much greater opportunity than becoming rich overnight by buying lottery tickets.
In that life, due to various reasons, he chose to give it up.
In this life, he would not give it up at all.
During this brief moment, he had recovered from the confusion of his rebirth and made plans for his future.
One can have anything except feelings.
One can lack anything except money.
After Manager Zhou left, he took out his phone, opened the WeChat chat page with Huo Zhenzhen and sent his reply.
"The manager came over for a spot check."
This was a habit he had developed over the years. Every time Huo Zhenzhen lost her temper, he always gave her an explanation first.
This was a quality that a proper simp must have.
After sending this reply, his face flushed and he cursed himself for behaving in such a lowly manner.
He had already seen this woman's true colors and decided not to simp for her, so why did he still explain to her?
Huo Zhenzhen asked, "Then are you going to buy it for me?"
"I'm not buying it."
This time, Liu Qing's reply was very straightforward.
Huo Zhenzhen did not reply to him immediately. She was probably waiting for him to explain why he did not want to buy it.
Based on his usual behavior, Liu Qing would have given her countless reasons for not buying it by now.
Then she would refute the reasons one by one.
A minute passed.
Liu Qing did not offer an explanation.
Three minutes passed.
Liu Qing still did not give any explanation.
Ten minutes passed.
The WeChat chat page was just frozen there. There was not even an indication that the other party was typing.
Huo Zhenzhen finally could not hold back and sent a message.
"I've had my eye on that dress for a long time. I really really like it. Can't you give me what I want?"
"If you like it so much, then buy it yourself," Liu Qing replied. "You're an adult. You should learn to pay for things that you like."
Huo Zhenzhen said, "If I have to buy everything myself, then why do I need you as my boyfriend?"
Liu Qing said, "Does the law stipulate that a boyfriend has to buy this and that?"
Huo Zhenzhen replied: "Is this a matter of law? This is a matter of whether you love me or not and whether you care for me or not!"
Liu Qing said, "If the only way to show love is by buying gifts, then I think you've never loved me."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Literally."
"What do you mean literally?"
"It means exactly what you understand from it."
"Do you find this meaningful?"
'Then what do you think is meaningful?'
"Since it's not meaningful, then let's break up!"
Even through the screen, he could feel that Huo Zhenzhen had lost her temper.
They had been together for a few years now, and Liu Qing had always pandered to her as much as he could and tried his best to please her. He had never been as confrontational as he was today.
In Huo Zhenzhen's opinion, this was disobedience, treason and rebellion!
Therefore, she simply unleashed her ultimate weapon—break up!
Looking at the two words that appeared on the chat page, Liu Qing laughed.
Break up?
Then let's break up!
With so many additional memories of the future, he had no other emotions left for this woman except hatred.
He remembered clearly how deeply he had been hurt and how badly he had been humiliated by this woman in that life. It was already imprinted in his heart and impossible to forget.
In this life, there was no way that he would go down that old path again when he knew that the other party was a person who was mean and heartless to him.
Who would want to be a simp if not for being too much in love?
I am willing to lower my status to the level of a piece of dust to please you, not because I am lowly, but only because I love you.
But now I have no love for you, only hatred.
Why should I degrade myself to please you?
If you want a break up, then let's break up!
He texted her back.
"If you think that this is meaningful, then let's do it your way."