The Tenant Downstairs

An unemployed drifter inherits a rental apartment building and puts up a notice looking for tenants near Donghai University. He doesn't want well-behaved students from respectable families, office workers with steady incomes, or frugal, hardworking families. He only wants “normal people”: anyone who fits the definition of normal and has the potential for chaos, someone whose dark side beneath the mask of normality will satisfy his voyeuristic curiosity. So Zhang, a PE teacher with a history of domestic violence; Boyan, a student glued to the internet; Mr. Wang, a divorcee, and Wang Xiaomei, as pure as an angel; Yingru, a mysterious writer; the gay couple Linghu and Guo Li; and Miss Chen, a stunning office worker, all move into the rental apartment. Eight tenants and one perverted landlord, six rooms and a heap of secrets. The hidden possibilities of human nature make it impossible to predict just how much privacy remains in each room.