Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

"Actually, I kind of admire Xue Kai. His mouth is really silver-tongued."

"Back in school, he'd already dated several girlfriends. In front of girls, he was totally open and at ease, nothing like me, all timid and shrinking."

"I never thought that even in front of a woman in her forties, he'd still be so relaxed, chatting and laughing. He's really good at conversation!"

"While they were talking, I had nothing to do. I looked down and noticed my shoelaces were untied, so I crouched down to tie them, and that's when I saw this scene."

"Manager Wu Meiling was interviewing us at a desk. She sat on one side, we sat on the other. The space underneath was completely open. So when I crouched down, I saw it."

"Her right leg was wearing black stockings. She stretched it forward and pressed it against Xue Kai's right leg, then her right foot kept rubbing back and forth against Xue Kai's calf."

"Even I, who knew nothing about matters between men and women, understood what that meant. In an instant, my eyes went wide. My heart was pounding like crazy. I never thought that a scene I'd only seen on TV could actually happen in real life, and with Xue Kai sitting right next to me. I thought Xue Kai was in for a lucky treat, a really lucky one."

"Finally, the interview ended. Both of us added Manager Wu Meiling on WeChat. She told us to go back and wait for news; we'd get a reply within two days."

"We didn't go back to the city where we went to school. Instead, we checked into a hotel near Alice Apartment."

"In the evening, we went out to eat. I noticed he was constantly on his phone, like he was chatting with someone. After we finished eating, we went back to the hotel. I saw Xue Kai whistling excitedly as he took a shower."

"After his shower, I saw him getting ready to go out, so I asked him where he was going."

"He grinned at me and said, 'Going to fight for a future for both of us.'"

"Honestly, I'd already guessed where he was going. I just pretended to be clueless while knowing full well."

"He didn't come back that whole night. He didn't return until noon the next day. When he came back, he looked a bit tired, but he smiled at me and said, 'Alright, we both passed the interview.'"

"Xue Kai had a girlfriend. So, with him doing something that betrayed her like this, I felt that if his girlfriend ever did the same behind his back with another man, Xue Kai shouldn't get angry either."

"Then came our first official day on the job. I never expected that Alice Apartment, supposedly a high-end complex, would have so few security guards. Not counting us and that guy named Zeng Yan who started the same day, there was only the security captain, Xiang Shanfeng, alone. Even those old, rundown buildings or resettlement housing communities have at least two or three security guards."

"So, I really couldn't figure out what was going on with this Alice Apartment."

"But the five-day, eight-hour work schedule and the monthly salary of 8,000 yuan made me forget about all that."

"For the next few days, I worked during the day and stayed in the single-occupancy security dorm inside Alice Apartment at night."

"During those workdays, Xue Kai was always running over to Building No. 2. I knew he was going to see Manager Wu Meiling. I glanced at Captain Xiang Shanfeng, but he didn't care about any of it. I felt relieved for Xue Kai."

"Between Xue Kai and Manager Wu Meiling, I felt like they were getting crazier and crazier, like they were in the honeymoon phase of a relationship. Sometimes, when I passed by the first floor of Building No. 2 during the day, I'd even see the two of them coming out of the single room on the first floor where Manager Wu Meiling lived."

"Their hair and clothes were a bit messy, which clearly meant something had happened. But I pretended not to see."

"I still felt a bit emotional about it. After all, Manager Wu Meiling, age-wise, could easily be Xue Kai's mother. Yet the two of them, with an age gap of at least twenty years, were actually together."

"Unlike Xue Kai, who had his mind completely on Manager Wu Meiling, with her protection, he had a backing in the apartment. I was different. I could only do my duty as a security guard."

"But after a few days of working as a security guard here, I noticed some strange things about this apartment complex."

"According to what my captain, Xiang Shanfeng, said, our complex only had this one entrance and exit. Yet, over these past few days, I noticed that very few people seemed to be coming in or out."

"The ones coming and going the most were either delivery drivers or couriers."

"I mentioned this to Xue Kai, but he completely brushed it off. He was already completely bewitched by that Manager Wu Meiling."

"I didn't understand why Xue Kai was so infatuated with Manager Wu Meiling, so I asked Doubao why a guy in his twenties would fall into such a deep romantic whirlpool with a woman in her forties."

"I thought Xue Kai might have an Oedipus complex. But Doubao gave me other answers, all about things like practical needs, different emotions, maturity and charm, and so on."

"Based on the answers Doubao gave me, I thought about it for a long time. Eventually, I came to one conclusion: if Manager Wu Meiling, this woman in her forties, was like other women her age—wearing ordinary clothes, not bothering to dress up, not taking care of herself, or even ugly—then Xue Kai definitely wouldn't have fallen for her."

"When it all came down to it, appearance still played a huge role."

"Alright, he was a lost cause, completely captivated by a woman."

"So, I brought this question up to Captain Xiang Shanfeng. But Xiang Shanfeng gave me an answer: don't worry about it too much, just do my own job."

"I was still pretty curious, so I went and asked another new colleague named Zeng Yan."

"Zeng Yan was very enthusiastic, but his answer was, 'I usually don't pay that much attention to it either. Besides, isn't it a good thing that not many people come in and out? Our workload will be much lighter.'"

"In the end, I summed it up myself. I felt like there probably weren't that many residents in this high-end apartment building. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been just a single security captain as a lone commander here before."

"Sigh, the benefits here are really good. No wonder people say online that becoming a security guard when you're young saves you decades of detours. I'm really experiencing it now."

...

It was now a little past five in the afternoon.

Zeng Yan sat in the security room, feeling extremely relaxed.

Damn, this job was really nice. When he worked at the garment factory, he was busy all day long. It was the same at that cheese restaurant, except that place was even worse than the garment factory, dealing with crazy customers all day long.

Now that he was a security guard here, besides patrolling, he didn't have to do much else.

Comfortable and carefree, with a high salary to boot.

"I really need to thank Jiang Ran properly. I should invite him out for a meal sometime."

Just as Zeng Yan was thinking this, he saw a delivery person in a purple delivery uniform stopped at the main gate.

Zeng Yan immediately walked out of the security room to open the gate for him.

At the same time, he said, "From now on, all food deliveries for our complex only need to be dropped off at this delivery rack here. They are no longer allowed to be brought to the door."