Chapter 84: Chapter 84: The Secret of the System!
"Brother-in-law, you have no idea how famous you are online now. Countless people are after your contact information, and some wealthy lady even offered millions just to get in touch with you!"
Fu Bei said earnestly, "Sister, brother-in-law, could I ask you for a favor? Could you let your little sister earn that money?"
Song Yun felt awkward after hearing this, and Ye Qingqing, annoyed, punched Fu Bei in the back twice and said, "Are you short on money?"
"Short! My heartless dad is nearly cutting me off! I only get a little over a million each month, and after paying my rent, there's hardly anything left! Without money, where would I buy my figures, without money, how could I buy manga!"
"Serves you right! Why don't you live at home? Uncle Fu is nearly worried sick. You're all grown up yet you still hide in your room calling 2D characters 'hubby'. Embarrassing!"
"Hmph! As if there's anything in the three-dimensional world that could catch my eye. Oh, actually there is one person, but Qing Qing sis, you stole him away from me!"
Fu Bei was extremely aggrieved, her poor little face pleaded, "To you, they may just be 2D characters, but to me, they're vibrant living beings!"
Well, there you have it, the world of two dimensions right beside me.
Song Yun watched Fu Bei with interest, noticing that these kinds of young girls were becoming more common, yet they all shared one thing in common, a focus on looks.
"Pah, I'm warning you, don't you dare leak your brother-in-law's information, or else, hmm!"
Ye Qingqing threatened.
Fu Bei sighed, a guilty look on her face as she glanced at Ye Qingqing and said, "But with a high enough reward, there will always be someone bold enough! Let me find those posts for you, and show you just how in demand your brother-in-law is!"
Fu Bei scrolled through her phone looking for posts about Song Yun, but regrettably, there was not a single message about Song Yun on the internet.
It was as if his presence had been snuffed out as soon as it appeared.
Fu Bei furrowed her brow, her cute face full of confusion. It's the age of the internet; he had become a sensation—how could there be no trace of him at all! Stay tuned with m _v _lemp _yr.
"What's the matter, you didn't actually share your brother-in-law's information, did you?"
"No... No..."
Fu Bei held out her phone to Ye Qingqing's face and said, "Someone has taken down my brother-in-law's trending search and deleted all the posts..."
At that moment, Fu Bei suddenly recalled a similar incident from the internet where a young man became famous and many of his posts were deleted. She later heard from her father that the young man was actually the son of a bigwig from Forty-nine City. His family didn't want him to be exposed to the public eye, so they contacted the relevant authorities.
Could it be that brother-in-law is also...
Ye Qingqing, too, sensed something off from this, but she knew about Song Yun's family; his in-laws were all ordinary people. How could they have such influence to manage their son's affairs?
Her first thought was her father, but after making a phone call, Ye Qingqing's father had no clue about the matter. In fact, he even had a drink at noon after hearing Song Yun had become famous.
So who could it be?
Both of them pondered this, while Song Yun on the side was starting to get confused. What's up with these two?
"Honey, do you have anyone in the government bureaucracy in your family?" Ye Qingqing couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
"No, we're just an ordinary family. If you look back in our family tree, you might see something though."
"That's weird..." Ye Qingqing frowned and said seriously, "There must be someone who doesn't want you exposed to the public, that's why they're deleting posts on such a large scale, but only someone within the system could do something like this..."
"Don't overthink it, maybe some higher-ups decided to clean up the trending searches or something."
Song Yun didn't take the matter to heart. After all, becoming famous wasn't necessarily a good thing for him. If someone dug deeper, they would discover all his background, and then people would start questioning how a poor kid like him got rich so quickly.
But he also kept a wary eye, silently invoking the system in his mind to see if it was forcibly intervening.
However, the system answered that it did not participate in any of the matters.
And so it remained a mystery.
The three people, each preoccupied with their thoughts, fell silent in the room.
Just then, Fu Bei's phone rang, and she glanced at the caller irritatedly before hanging up.
Yet the other party relentlessly made a second, a third, a fourth call...
Finally, Fu Bei lost her patience, answered the phone, and shouted angrily, "I already said, I don't agree with you changing the contract!"
"Miss Fu, the market is not doing well right now, and we are also out of options. The price we gave you before was already low, and now we are just raising the rent a little. You are a wealthy young lady, so we hope you can understand us," the voice on the phone pleaded.
"I signed a two-year contract, and there is not a clause in it that says anything about raising the price, so I absolutely will not sign this contract!"
The voice on the other end of the phone persisted aggressively, "Then please move out of this apartment. I believe there will be a queue of people waiting to rent it."
"You..."
Fu Bei, growing increasingly angry but taking two deep breaths, clenched her teeth and asked, "How much more money do you need?"
"An increase of fifty thousand yuan in rent per month, of course, the price will also change according to market fluctuations in the future."
Fifty thousand yuan was a drop in the bucket for someone like Miss Fu Bei. She could simply buy one less collectible figure, and that might be enough, but the feeling of being treated like a pig for slaughter made her quite angry.
"We'll talk about it later."
"Heh, I hope you can give me an answer today, after all, we've already contacted the next tenant, and they are very willing to pay a higher price to rent the apartment," the caller said mockingly.
After hanging up the phone, Fu Bei rubbed her head and turned her hair into a bird's nest, exclaiming, "This is infuriating! Absolutely infuriating! Completely infuriating!"
"What's the matter?"
Ye Qingqing had never seen Fu Bei so angry before.
"I'm renting this place, usually paying 730,000 yuan a month. But that agency is now saying they want to increase the rent - isn't that treating people like fools?!"
Song Yun was very puzzled upon hearing this, as the entire building was his. Not to mention that the occupancy rate was already full, he didn't have any rental income. And now, where did this agency pop up from?
"Ding! Due to Huángbù Yīpǐn's apartments being in high demand and hard to find, we had to change the source. To maintain the world's logical continuity, all the apartments have been entrusted to the agency," the system provided an explanation.
Song Yun suddenly understood; it turned out that all the changes made by the system were intended to comply with the world's logical continuity, without forceful alterations.
"I'm sorry, Qing Qing, it looks like I will have to go and renegotiate the contract with that agency later..."
Seeing Fu Bei's eyes brimming with tears, Ye Qingqing couldn't help but feel sympathetic. Her foolish little sister had been pampered since childhood and had never faced the harshness of society. Faced with today's situation, she probably had no idea what to do.
"Then, let me and your brother-in-law accompany you. After all, we've seen more of this stuff," Ye Qingqing suggested.
"Yes, let's go together," Song Yun agreed while chiming in. He was curious to see which agency was so bold as to change contracts at will.