Chapter 1137
What to do when you encounter such a neighbor 24
Chapter 1137 What to do when you encounter such a neighbor 24
The client was already suspicious, mainly because the deliveryman had repeatedly confirmed that the other party only wanted to leave it where it was. She had been suspicious for a while and had been waiting at the door, catching Chen Mei red-handed when she came out to pick up the food.
Chen Mei has an ordinary appearance and seems to be a quiet and reserved person.
I got caught red-handed picking up takeout, and I probably knew I was in the wrong, because my eyes were glazed over at the time.
The client, having been in the workforce for many years, couldn't see that the address was intentional. So he stopped Chen Mei, who was about to return the address, and asked her why she had written down her address.
Chen Mei whispered, "Maybe it was written wrong. I didn't remember it clearly. Anyway, 1201 and 1202 are so close. The place where we usually put takeout is only so big, so it won't affect anything."
"Don't write my address anymore. Change it as soon as possible. Even if it's the last minute, it's still not appropriate." At this moment, the client was just unhappy and didn't realize how serious the consequences of the address issue would be. Mainly, she was completely unaware that a very awful couple lived next door.
Just then, a man's voice came from inside room 1201. It wasn't very friendly; he was urging Chen Mei to hurry up.
Chen Mei bowed apologetically to her client, saying sorry, and then went inside.
Her pitiful appearance did indeed soften the client's heart, reminding her of her own past, when she almost remained forever in that backward, cannibalistic place. Later, when she gained some ability, she always felt compassion and tolerance for vulnerable women. Over the years, she has also been doing her best to help others.
Little did she know that Chen Mei was different from those truly pitiful and vulnerable women. This person only appeared pitiful; in reality, apart from being completely obedient to Zhu Tianlang, she was cold and indifferent to everyone else, and could even be used and exploited.
The matter was left unresolved for the time being, as the client was usually busy and didn't pay much attention to it.
Several times after that, she came back and saw the takeout orders at the door. She checked the address and, sure enough, it was still 1202. So she went to knock on the door of 1201. Even though she could hear faint footsteps, the other person wouldn't open the door. There was nothing she could do in this situation.
But she wasn't someone to be trifled with. Since the address was hers, she simply took the takeout and threw it down the street with the trash later.
Unexpectedly, the neighbor next door was quite shameless and knocked on the door. It was Chen Mei again, and she cautiously asked if she had picked up takeout.
The client, unaware of Chen Mei's true identity, felt a pang of sympathy upon seeing her appearance and kindly asked her why she still needed to write down her address.
Chen Mei kept her head down, looking timid and easy to bully. This made the client feel that if he didn't return the takeout to her, he might get yelled at when he got back next door.
"I'll give it to you this time, but don't write my address again in the future."
Chen Mei thanked him several times and left with the takeout.
However, the address next door remained unchanged, still using the client's address. It seemed like a small matter, but it was actually quite troublesome to resolve. The client had many things to do and simply didn't have the time to get bogged down in this kind of thing, so they could only leave it at that for the time being.
In addition, she often travels for work and is not always at home, so she has even less time to manage those things.
Even after running into Zhu Tianlang next door a few times and mentioning the takeout address to him, he was always brushed off with words like "it won't affect anything anyway," "I'm too lazy to change it," and "it's too much trouble."
The client picked up takeout a few more times, and each time Chen Mei came knocking on the door. Her pitiful look always touched the client's heart, and she couldn't be cold to Chen Mei, so she could only sigh. Not knowing the inside story, she felt that apart from the neighbor writing her address, there wasn't any major conflict.
The situation remained deadlocked until six months later, when the client returned home from a business trip. As soon as she closed the door, a middle-aged man appeared inside, grinning strangely and saying odd things, asking why she ignored him. He said he had given her all his money; he had gone bankrupt for her, and she had to be with him.
The client couldn't understand any of this. Realizing that this wasn't a misunderstanding, he figured he'd encountered a madman and turned to run outside.
Just as the man inside was about to pounce on her, a knock came at the door, freezing him in place and making him hesitate.
Taking advantage of this moment, the client opened the door, thinking she had escaped to safety, but little did she expect that she would be greeted by another hell.
There was another man at the door, but this time he was holding a knife and had a ferocious expression. The moment the client opened the door, he slashed at her neck without any hesitation.
Immediately afterwards, the man outside with the knife, as if venting his anger, slashed her several more times.
In her hazy state, she heard the other person say, "I heard you really like returning items, just for a refund? How can someone like you still exist in this world? Go to hell!"
"You're perfectly fine-looking, why do you do such despicable things? No one else wants to take in trash like you, but I will. Go to hell!"
In her final moments of consciousness, the client finally understood what had happened; she had been tricked by the couple next door.
She didn't know exactly what the two people next door did, but she was certain they weren't up to any good, otherwise, why would she have encountered such a thing?
However, many things are unpredictable, and if we had known earlier, there wouldn't have been so many tragedies.
She was furious and regretful. She had finally welcomed a new life, and everything in the future seemed bright, but this had happened.
After her death, she was labeled a "borderline streamer" by people online. Even though she suffered a terrible fate, uninformed netizens felt that she really deserved it.
Even after the case was investigated and the police clarified her identity—that she had never done live streaming or anything like that, and was a legitimate senior white-collar worker at a listed company—many netizens still didn't believe it.
Even more so, there are rumors that she's obsessed with money, and that she's doing something borderline despite having such a good job, which shows how much money she makes from it.
The things Zhu Tianlang and Chen Mei did were, of course, discovered.
However, the punishment they received was insignificant to them; the most painful thing for them was probably having their live streaming accounts banned.
The client is truly innocent.
Even worse, in the end, her property benefited a group of bloodsuckers in her hometown. They took her inheritance, did not prove her innocence, and instead spread those slanderous things about her back home.
Another thing that angered the client was that Zhu Tianlang later used his own ID to register an account and became a gossip streamer, doing it with great fanfare, his voice a soothing lullaby for many viewers late at night. One of the stories was about the client, but it had been altered by him, making her extremely awful, with a satisfying ending.