My Neighbor Has No Manners, and Neither Do I

For the sake of convenience at work, I gritted my teeth and spent all the savings I'd accumulated since starting my job, 500,000 yuan, to buy a run-down 60-square-meter apartment near the second ring road of a fast-growing city.

I thought I'd gotten a bargain, but I never expected the tenant on the top floor above me to be an unreasonable old troublemaker who regularly made noise early in the morning and in the middle of the night.

After repeated attempts to talk things out failed, I called the police. Only then did I learn from the mediation officer that this elderly couple had harassed their neighbors for over a decade. They had no manners at all. Even the previous owner had refused to renew their lease, but they were relying on their age and claiming they'd lived in the apartment for over ten years to insist they were the owners and refuse to move out.

Because they were old and shameless, and the law constrained the authorities, neither the police nor the courts could do anything about them.

Anyone who's dealt with shameless people knows that the only way to beat people with no standards is to use tactics even more shameless than theirs.

Well, what do you know? I'm just the one-in-a-million type who, despite having a master's degree,