I Became a Landlord Because You All Left Me No Choice

My name is Zhou Xingxing. I'm a landlord. When my mother gave birth to me, the stars were shining brightly that night. She asked my father to name the baby. He looked out the window at the brilliant stars and said, “Let's call him Xingxing.” My father was an only child, I was an only child, and my mother was an only child too. I really was the star of the family. When I was born, my grandparents on both sides held me in their arms, afraid I would hurt, and treated me like I might melt if they put me in their mouths. I was the apple of everyone's eye. When I was one, my grandparents on both sides got apartments through their workplaces' employee housing programs. They put my name on the property deeds, so by the time I was one, I had four property deeds. In 1990, when I was ten, my father made money in business and built an eight-story building in Changning District. Each floor had eight two-bedroom apartments, and my father put my name on the deeds. In 1992, my mother's bank offered stock subscription warrants for 30 yuan each, but nobody wanted to buy them, so the bank organized its employees to purchase them. My mother was an enthusiastic employee at the bank, so she used money from my maternal grandparents and my father to buy a thousand warrants. My mother earned only 180 yuan a month. Then, as the saying goes, life is full of surprises: the stock subscription warrants soared to 6,000 yuan each. She sold them for six million yuan and bought a building on the Pujiang for 5.6 million. It was twelve stories tall, and she put my name on the deed too. I was only twelve that year. In 1999, my grandparents on both sides each received ten apartments of over eighty square meters in compensation for their ancestral homes, which were each over eight hundred square meters. They put my name on all twenty deeds. I never wanted to be a landlord. My family forced me into it.