"What, since when did we start offering that kind of service?" Chen Fan asked, glancing at the displeased sales assistant.
The sales assistant snapped back to reality. "Sir, I… I didn't expect you to be so low-key. I was just joking with you earlier. Please don't take it to heart."
"Joking? But what if I can't afford to joke?"
"Sir, I apologize. I was truly joking with you before," the sales assistant said, bowing her head in apology to Chen Fan.
The other sales assistants who had previously mocked Chen Fan now kept their heads down, their mouths shut, no longer daring to look down on him.
"Either I report you, or I do as I say. I'm giving you only these two choices." Chen Fan was naturally not going to be polite to someone who judged people by their appearance and was so arrogant.
The sales assistant was on the verge of tears. She regretted her actions immensely, wishing she could slap herself. If she hadn't provoked Chen Fan earlier, she wouldn't be in this situation now.
Seeing Chen Fan's firm stance, the sales assistant had no choice but to slowly kneel on the ground.
It wasn't easy to get a job at an LV counter, especially with all the bonuses and commissions she was expecting. If Chen Fan reported her now, she would definitely lose all her bonuses and commissions, and might even lose her job over this incident. She had just bought a house, and her monthly expenses were so high; she couldn't afford to lose this job so easily.
Chen Fan glanced at the sales assistant kneeling on the floor and couldn't be bothered to engage further.
At this moment, the intern who had been with them earlier had already packaged the coffee-colored item and handed it to Chen Fan. Chen Fan took the shopping bag and walked straight out of the LV boutique.
Seeing Chen Fan leave, the sales assistant was helped up from the ground. However, as she looked at Chen Fan's retreating back, a hint of anger flashed in her eyes.
Chen Fan walked out of the mall and checked the time. It was getting late, and he didn't have time for dinner. He hailed a taxi and returned to the urban village.
However, as Chen Fan got out of the taxi, he noticed several fire trucks had arrived in the urban village, and many people were standing around, discussing something.
"Dr. Chen, you're back," the owner of the Sichuan restaurant greeted him proactively upon seeing Chen Fan.
"Yes. What's happening in the urban village?" Chen Fan asked, nodding.
The Sichuan restaurant owner replied, "I heard the fourth floor of building number 13 caught fire. The fire department has arrived."
"It's good that the fire department is here," Chen Fan said, preparing to leave. But as he turned, he stopped abruptly.
"Boss, which building did you say?"
"Number 13, that one over there," the Sichuan restaurant owner pointed in that direction.
Chen Fan's expression suddenly froze. Wasn't building number 13 the one they lived in? And the fourth floor was precisely the floor he rented!
"Oh no!" Chen Fan exclaimed and immediately ran towards the building.
When he reached the bottom of the building, he could still clearly see black smoke billowing out of a window. Chen Fan recognized it instantly as his rented room, and the window was from the kitchen.
Chen Fan quickly ran upstairs and found quite a few people inside the room – firefighters and the landlord.
"Shuran, Shuran!" Chen Fan called out as soon as he entered the room. He then saw Qin Shuran sitting on the living room sofa, her hair a bit messy, her face smudged with soot. Sitting next to Qin Shuran was a familiar figure – Liu Qianze, the new surgeon from the mental hospital.
*What is he doing here?* Chen Fan frowned slightly but still went to Qin Shuran's side and asked, "Shuran, are you alright?"
Qin Shuran shook her head, her emotions seemingly very low.
"Chen Fan, what's wrong with you? How could you let Shuran cook alone at home? Do you know she's never cooked in her life? Do you know how dangerous the kitchen is? If anything happens to Shuran, I will never forgive you!" Liu Qianze glared at Chen Fan and reprimanded him angrily.
"You were cooking at home?" Chen Fan was taken aback. He knew Qin Shuran had never cooked before, which was why she always ate out. But he was puzzled; hadn't he given her money to eat out?
"Are you tenants here?" At this moment, a firefighter walked over.
"Yes, I am," Chen Fan replied quickly.
"Be careful when cooking in the future. When the pot catches fire, stay calm and move the pot away from the stove. Don't throw blankets into it! And definitely don't pour water into it!" the firefighter admonished Chen Fan.
Chen Fan nodded awkwardly and couldn't help but glance at Qin Shuran again. *Throwing blankets into the pot? What kind of operation is that?!* Fortunately, the fire wasn't serious. Before the firefighters arrived, the landlord had already put out the fire in the kitchen. After the lecture, they left the room.
As the firefighters left, the landlord walked over with a grim expression. "Dr. Chen, Dr. Qin, tell me, how are we going to handle this?"
Chen Fan looked around the room. The kitchen walls were already charred beyond recognition, and even Qin Shuran's room was so smoky it was uninhabitable.
"Handle it? Hmph, what kind of shoddy house is this? It doesn't even have an alarm! Now that there's a fire, you're not concerned about the people, but asking how to handle it? Do you have any humanity?!" Liu Qianze turned to the landlord and accused him.
"Who do you think you are? This is my house. I can't even ask about it after it's been burned like this?" the landlord retorted, questioning Liu Qianze.
Liu Qianze revealed a look of disdain. "What's this house worth? I'll buy it. Name your price. I'll buy this whole building!" Liu Qianze said with an arrogant tone.
"What did you say? You want to buy my building? Dr. Chen, is this braggart your friend?" the landlady, Auntie Wang, asked mockingly.
"Auntie Wang, we don't know this person well," Chen Fan explained.
Landlady Auntie Wang sneered, "So he's just here trying to chase after Dr. Qin. Dr. Qin, you can't consider someone like this, or you'll have problems in the future."
"Braggart? I, Liu Qianze, never brag. Tell me, this house, how much are you willing to sell it for? If it's above market price, I certainly won't agree," Liu Qianze replied coldly. After speaking, Liu Qianze glanced at Chen Fan. He had already planned to kick Chen Fan out once he bought the building, so Qin Shuran would naturally not live with Chen Fan anymore.
"Alright. According to our compensation standards, this building is four thousand square meters. I can get twenty apartments and ten million in cash. Each of those twenty apartments is worth at least one million, so that's twenty million, plus ten million in cash, totaling thirty million. If you pay, this building is yours now," Landlady Auntie Wang calculated and stated the price.
However, as soon as Liu Qianze heard the figure, his mouth twitched uncontrollably!