Living Together: My Landlord Is a Trillionaire CEO

The story begins with a scam on Yulin Road in Chengdu.

The sublandlord ran off with the money, and overnight I went from earning 8,000 yuan a month to being the sucker left bankrupt. On the most miserable evening of my life, when I was reduced to sleeping on the street, a black Porsche pulled up outside the rental house. The door opened. A woman in a white trench coat, her face expressionless. Her name was Gu Nianqing, CEO of Yunjin Group, with a fortune worth over a hundred million yuan.

That day, I thought I had hit the jackpot and become roommates with this icy female CEO.

Only later did I learn this was nothing like the opening of a romance drama. She had a technology patent in her hands that could upend the entire VR industry, while the company I had secretly founded three years ago was her biggest competitor.

She also had no idea that the “favor owed to someone” her recently deceased adoptive father had repeated on his deathbed was owed to me.

And the biological mother who had disappeared for a full twenty-two years was the true beginning of all this enmity.

A contract marriage brought about by a twist of fate, and two long-buried stories from the past. From an old Western-style house on Yulin Road to an international courtroom in Silicon Valley, from a wage earner making 8,000 yuan a month to the behind-the-scenes force driving a company valued at hundreds of billions: this earth-shattering reversal all began with 3,000 yuan in rent.