When the other hoowners in the group saw this photo, they were exceptionally angry, constantly criticizing and complaining about the owner of Apartnt 401.
"Do you have any legal knowledge at all? If you want to renovate, why knock down a load-bearing wall?"
"Is the load-bearing wall yours alone? By doing this, you’ve practically destroyed an entire building!"
"This building has two units, with two elevators and six apartnts per floor, housing a total of 360 households. What you did is no different from murder!"
"@Owner of Apartnt 401, co out and explain yourself to us right now!"
"..."
These hoowners were about to explode with anger.
Their residential complex, Mountain and Water Garden, was an upscale complex in Zizhou. The price per square ter was 50,000 yuan. Many people had used their parents’ life savings just to scrape together a down paynt. They hadn’t even lived there for many years before encountering such a problem.
Now, the entire building’s walls showed obvious cracks. Who would dare to live there now? Unable to return ho, they didn’t even know where they would spend the night.
At the sa ti, during this critical mont, the property managent seed to be burying their heads in the sand. So much ti had passed, yet no one had co forward to address the issue.
"What exactly is the property managent of this complex doing?"
"I just went to the property managent office. They said such matters had to be reported to the property manager, and the property manager was on leave."
"They’re just passing the buck! At a ti like this, shouldn’t they contact the owner of Apartnt 401 first? Why hasn’t he shown up?"
"Our complex’s property managent—nowhere to be found when you need them, but they’re pretty proactive about collecting managent fees, going door-to-door to urge paynt!"
"What do we do now? Where are we supposed to sleep tonight?"
"..."
In the hoowners’ group chat, hundreds of hoowners discussed the matter, their anger palpable.
But hours passed, and the owner of Apartnt 401 never showed up to admit fault.
Instead, Manager Zhang from property managent popped up in the group and replied, "Regarding this matter, our property managent has already understood the specifics and communicated with the owner of Apartnt 401, Ms. Ouyang. She has acknowledged her grave mistake and promised to restore the load-bearing wall as soon as possible. She has also expressed her willingness to compensate everyone. Please be patient; our property managent is actively coordinating and addressing this issue!"
After speaking, he posted a 5,000-yuan red envelope in the hoowners’ group, one that Ms. Ouyang, the owner of Apartnt 401, had forwarded to him.
In the group, the ’King of Luck’ snatched 131.4 yuan, while the unluckiest person only got 7.48 yuan.
This series of actions infuriated all the hoowners all over again.
"Don’t tell this is the compensation from the owner of Apartnt 401?"
"Do I need your paltry red envelope? What good is restoring the load-bearing wall? My apartnt has cracked! Do you even know what ’cracked’ ans?!"
"Forget the apartnt cracking; I feel like I’m about to crack!"
"Co up with a reasonable solution quickly, or we’ll have no choice but to call the police!"
"Is there anyone in the group who knows the law? Can soone step up and take the lead? How do we protect our rights in a situation like this?"
"..."
In the hoowners’ group chat, ssages flooded the chat, and the hoowners were seething. With Ms. Ouyang, the owner of Apartnt 401, still refusing to show herself, combined with the property managent’s actions, it nearly made them explode with rage.
Qing Lan felt the sa. Seeing the alarming cracks in the building’s walls, she was also too scared to go ho. She could only stand in the complex’s common corridor, waiting for a solution from the owner of Apartnt 401 and the property managent.
However, a comnt from one of the hoowners suddenly gave her an idea. She blinked, and Qin Mu ca to mind. So she typed in the group: "I know... a friend. He’s an expert in law, a very capable one. I’ll ask him what we should do."
When ordinary people encountered such a situation, after finding property managent unhelpful, their first instinct was usually to call the police. However, few understood the procedures that followed a police report, and they still needed a professional to guide them. And the Up she had been following was skilled in handling such matters.
With that, she picked up her phone, opened Qin Mu’s account page, and sent him a private ssage.
「Jin City.」
Mountain and Water Garden District.
After work, Qin Mu made a special trip to buy so groceries downstairs in his residential complex, planning to cook dinner himself that evening. Ti to see just how amazing my ’Divine Chef Skills’ are, he thought.
Back in his kitchen, he picked up the ingredients. He imdiately felt a sense of mastery; the texture, structure, and flavor profile of each ingredient seed to appear in his mind.
However, just as he was about to start cooking, he suddenly realized he had forgotten to buy any seasonings. Oil, salt, MSG, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce—he hadn’t bought a single one. Not only that, but he hadn’t even prepared a wok for stir-frying.
Staring at the ingredients he had already prepped, Qin Mu fell silent once more. Eventually, he abandoned the idea of cooking. I’ll try again once I have all the tools, he thought, shaking his head with a sigh.
He picked up his phone and logged into a certain video-sharing site, intending to check his view count. After just one day, his video views had reached eight million, and his follower count had grown to 2.5 million.
Then, a private ssage in his inbox caught his eye. The sender was a strear nad Qing Lan. During the recent Liang Shuqi case, she had acted ’heroically,’ leading her viewers to speak out in his defense.
"Up, I’m a loyal fan of yours."
"It’s like this: my apartnt has cracked..."
Qin Mu was montarily stunned as he read the first part of the ssage, taking a second to process it. In the rest of the ssage, Qing Lan explained the whole situation.
"It’s not just my apartnt; our entire building has cracked. The exterior walls have a crack over ten ters long... An investigation revealed that a household on the fourth floor knocked down a load-bearing wall during renovations."
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