SAG -Chapter 35 Do We Have a Home Now?

At 1:30 p.m., Zhang Sicheng and Liu Lu arrived punctually at the Property Registration Bureau.

Looking at the crowded lobby, both of them suddenly felt nervous.

Before they could calm themselves, Zhang Sicheng’s phone rang.

“Hello, are you Mr. Zhang Sicheng?”

A woman’s voice came from the other end.

“Yes. May I ask who this is?”

“I’m Xiao Meng from the real estate agency. Mr. Zhang Ran is inside waiting in line. It’ll be our turn soon. Have you arrived?”

“We’re already at the entrance.”

“I’m at the entrance too. Could you wave your hand? Alright, I see you.”

Meng Xin walked up to Zhang Sicheng.

“You must be Mr. Zhang Sicheng?”

“Yes.”

“Please follow me. It’ll be our turn soon.”

Meng Xin was curious, but she wasn’t foolish enough to ask questions she shouldn’t.

Everything could wait until the transaction was completed.

Zhang Sicheng and Liu Lu followed her inside.

For a moment, neither knew how to ask what was going on.

In the end, Liu Lu was the one who spoke first.

“Miss Meng…”

She asked anxiously, “Are we transferring ownership of a house?”

Meng Xin was surprised by the question.

“Of course. Didn’t Mr. Zhang Ran tell you?”

After receiving confirmation, Liu Lu first felt dazed.

Then came joy.

So Zhang Ran really had bought them a house.

It was actually true!

But after she regained her senses, she nervously asked, “Then… how much is the house? How much is the monthly mortgage?”

This was the real issue for them.

Neither she nor Zhang Sicheng earned especially high salaries.

They could get by in Shanghai, but they couldn’t save much.

If they had to add a large mortgage payment on top of that, their monthly living standard would drop sharply again.

Meng Xin became even more confused.

At this point, she began wondering if she had found the wrong people.

“Mr. Zhang Ran paid in full. There’s no mortgage.”

This time, Liu Lu and Zhang Sicheng were completely stunned.

They truly hadn’t expected Zhang Ran to pay the entire amount for them.

This was Shanghai.

Even a sixty- or seventy-square-meter apartment could cost three or four million yuan.

And since this transaction was being handled in this district’s bureau, that meant the house was nearby.

The prices here were definitely not cheap, easily around fifty thousand yuan per square meter.

Had Zhang Ran taken out all his money just to buy them a house?

For a moment, neither Zhang Sicheng nor Liu Lu knew what to say.

Their feelings toward this father—and father-in-law—who had suddenly appeared in their lives became indescribably complicated.

The sense of distance Zhang Sicheng had felt toward Zhang Ran seemed to fade slightly.

Part of it was indeed because of money.

But more than that…

It was because Zhang Ran was willing to take out what they believed were his entire savings to buy him a house.

And register it under his name.

How could Zhang Sicheng possibly remain unmoved?

People often said money wasn’t everything.

But no one could deny that money solved the vast majority of problems.

Next, Zhang Sicheng and Liu Lu barely understood how the transfer process was completed.

They simply followed Meng Xin and the others.

Whatever they were told to do, they did.

Their minds were completely blank.

Only after the entire process was finished, when Liu Lu held the receipt for collecting the property certificate and the house keys, did she finally begin to regain her senses.

On Zhang Ran’s side, the handover with the homeowner had also been completed.

From this moment onward, the house officially belonged to Zhang Sicheng and Liu Lu.

“The property certificate should be ready in about ten days.”

Meng Xin said to Zhang Sicheng,

“I’ll call you when it’s time to come pick it up.”

“Thank you.”

Zhang Sicheng didn’t even know how to express what he was feeling.

After Meng Xin and the others left, Zhang Sicheng looked at Zhang Ran.

His lips moved slightly.

But in the end, he didn’t know what to say.

Zhang Ran understood their emotions.

“Alright. Everything’s done.”

“You two should go back to work now. Don’t be late.”

After all, they had once believed they would never own a home in Shanghai in their lifetime.

They had already completely given up.

Then suddenly, a house had fallen into their hands.

How could they possibly remain calm?

And Zhang Ran himself didn’t quite know how to explain things to them either.

Should he tell Zhang Sicheng that he was actually a super-rich second-generation heir?

Of course, Zhang Ran would tell him everything eventually.

But not now.

As for making Zhang Sicheng feel grateful toward him…

That wasn’t what Zhang Ran wanted.

What he wanted was the bond between father and son.

After Zhang Ran left, Zhang Sicheng and Liu Lu looked at each other blankly.

Then they stared down at the receipt and keys in their hands.

Even now, they still didn’t know where their house was or how large it was.

They had been in such a daze earlier that they hadn’t even paid attention to how much tax Zhang Ran had paid.

Only now did they finally look carefully.

“Azure Garden?”

“143 square meters?”

When they saw the neighborhood and the area, both of them froze again.

They had thought it would probably be a small three-bedroom apartment of around ninety square meters.

They never expected it to be a large unit of 143 square meters.

Because only the official registered area was written on the document, they still had no idea that the property also included two basement levels and a 100-square-meter garden.

For some reason, neither of them rushed to see the house.

Instead, just as Zhang Ran had told them, they each returned to work.

When Liu Lu returned to the hospital, she finally came back to herself.

She really owned a house in Shanghai now.

She and Zhang Sicheng truly had a home.

For a moment, she suddenly felt like crying.

All these years…

Ever since she married Zhang Sicheng, she had never had a stable home.

She and Zhang Sicheng had always been drifting through Shanghai.

Over the years, they had moved again and again for all kinds of reasons.

Each time, they chose cheap apartments in old residential neighborhoods.

They wanted to save money.

They wanted a real home.

A place where they could sleep peacefully at night without worrying that the landlord might tell them to leave the next day.

Even though they knew that, with their salaries, settling down in Shanghai was almost an impossible dream…

It had still been their dream.

Even if distant and unreachable, it had always remained hidden deep in their hearts.

And now…

Suddenly…

They truly had a home.

That made everything feel unreal to Liu Lu.

As Liu Lu stood there in a daze, the head nurse happened to pass by.

Seeing the document in her hand, she glanced at it curiously.

All along the way, Liu Lu had clutched the receipt tightly, as if possessed.

She hadn’t put it away at all.

“Hm?”

The head nurse said in surprise.

“Liu Lu, you bought a house?”

That sentence jolted Liu Lu awake.

It also attracted several idle nurses nearby, who quickly gathered around.

Hadn’t she just been worrying about renting a larger place yesterday?

How had she suddenly bought a house today?

Everyone was extremely curious.

How had things changed so quickly?