Leng Xuan had been house hunting with Zhao Xiaoqing for nearly an hour, and it was already past three in the afternoon. Fortunately, they finally found a two-bedroom apartment in a neighborhood called City Garden. Though it was only a little over seventy square meters, the interior was pretty nice, with white walls, wooden floors, a sofa, refrigerator, air conditioner, and other fully furnished household amenities, most of which were relatively new, about eighty or ninety percent new.
The owner of the apartment was a woman in her thirties, Miss Li, a single woman who often traveled out of town for her foreign trade business. She was seldom home and wanted to rent out her place, but the price was a bit steep. After talking with the owner for a long while, Zhao Xiaoqing managed to get the rent down to a barely acceptable rate, Two Thousand Yuan a month, paid quarterly.
