"I'm busy."
'She hadn't been raised by the Xia Family, so why on earth should she be responsible for Xia Jiajiao's bad mood?'
Yun Zijin hung up and promptly blocked Xia Zhiyun's number.
Outside Xia Jiajiao's room at Kangde Hospital, Xia Zhiyun listened to the sweet, automated voice on the phone and quickly realized that Yun Zijin had blocked him.
"How did it go? When will she be here?"
Xia Zhengguang, who was also waiting outside the room, had been watching Xia Zhiyun make the call.
Xia Zhiyun's lips twitched. In the end, he told the truth. "She's not coming. She just blocked my number."
Xia Zhengguang was speechless.
He hadn't expected this outcome.
"How did the call go? When can she get here?"
Zhang Yiqin came out of the room, looking unwell and sounding impatient.
"She... refused."
There was no hiding it, so Xia Zhiyun decided to be upfront.
If he lied and said she was coming later, they would find out eventually when she never showed up.
"Why wouldn't she come? You, her own brother, personally called to ask her. What more could she possibly want?"
Zhang Yiqin couldn't muster much affection for the biological daughter she had never met. Hearing that her son had been rejected made her impression of Yun Zijin plummet to rock bottom.
Xia Zhiyun said no more. This was the situation, and it wasn't like he could go and kidnap Yun Zijin.
Meanwhile, Yun Zijin took a taxi back to Xingyu Mansion. The Hermes staff also delivered the items she had purchased earlier that day.
After the Hermes staff left, Yun Zijin finally had a moment to open her system inventory and look at the property deeds inside.
She had no idea how the system managed it, but inside the inventory, along with the deeds for every single office in Dingsi Building, there was also the deed for the entire Dingsi Building itself.
There were also the land use rights certificates, construction permits, and other related documents. It seemed there was nothing the Randomly Spend system couldn't do, only things Yun Zijin couldn't imagine.
Dingsi Building had 88 floors above ground, with each floor containing 100 office units. It also had a three-level underground parking garage for the convenience of the bosses and employees working there. Of course, there was still a management fee for parking, but it was slightly cheaper than public lots.
After examining the deeds, Yun Zijin put them back into her system inventory.
Then she began to organize the things she had bought over the past two days, sorting everything into categories. Kitchen items went to the kitchen, and clothes and accessories went into the bedroom's walk-in closet.
***
[Task Issued: Host must spend ¥6,000,000.00 before 00:00:00 tonight. (Requirement: The spending must take place at any Auto Expo Center in Dijing). Task Reward: To be unlocked.]
At 6:00 AM, Yun Zijin was once again woken by the sound of the Randomly Spend system issuing a new task.
Her vision went dark when she saw the day's spending mission.
All of Dijing's Auto Expo Centers were located in the suburbs. To complete this task, she would have no choice but to take the day off.
But she had just taken a day off the day before yesterday. If she asked for leave again today, her supervisor probably wouldn't be as understanding.
'I'll deal with it later. I'll go to work this morning and see how things are this afternoon.'
Yun Zijin got out of bed and quickly brushed her teeth, washed her face, did her skincare routine, and got dressed.
Since she was at Xingyu Mansion today, Yun Zijin hailed a cab to Dingsi Building.
Luckily, she had gotten up early. By the time her cab reached Dingsi Building, she still had half an hour before work started.
Yun Zijin ambled toward the employee elevators.
"Miss Yun!"
Just as Yun Zijin stepped into the main lobby, she heard an excited voice call out to her, the sound of footsteps growing rapidly closer.
'Isn't that... Xu Yuanfu, the General Manager of Dingsi Building's property management?'
"Miss Yun!"
Xu Yuanfu came running toward Yun Zijin, his potbelly that looked like a three-month pregnancy jiggling as he moved clumsily but quickly.
Yun Zijin blinked, then it hit her. 'Right, I'm the sole owner of Dingsi Building now.' That explained why Xu Yuanfu was seeking her out.
Just as Xu Yuanfu was about to say more, Yun Zijin quickly raised a finger to her lips in a "shush" gesture.
"Good morning, Mr. Xu. Is there something I can help you with?"
Being able to become a property manager meant Xu Yuanfu was an expert at reading people. He understood Yun Zijin's intention in a flash. 'She doesn't want to reveal her identity. A little game of "undercover boss" for the rich. I get it!'
"It's about my niece's tutoring. I asked you last time to see if any of your classmates were looking for a tutoring job. How's that going?"
Yun Zijin gave Xu Yuanfu an appreciative look. He caught on quick. "Oh! Right. Mr. Xu, add me on WeChat, and I'll send you the contact info for some underclassmen."
Yun Zijin pulled up her friend request QR code and showed it to Xu Yuanfu.
Xu Yuanfu obligingly took out his phone, opened WeChat, and scanned the code to add her as a friend.
"Mr. Xu, let's discuss any further business on WeChat."
"Of course, of course!" Xu Yuanfu knew exactly what to do.
"Well, if there's nothing else, I'm heading up to work." They had been talking for ten minutes already; if she didn't leave now, she'd be late clocking in.
"Please, go right ahead! Don't mind me." Of course, Xu Yuanfu wouldn't dare make Yun Zijin late for work.
Yun Zijin took the employee elevator to the 20th floor. As she entered her company's office space, she politely greeted colleagues on her way to her desk.
"Zijin, you're here!"
Her senior colleague, Sang Ying, greeted her warmly.
"Good morning, Sister Sang!"
Yun Zijin had just sat down when she received a message from Xu Yuanfu containing Dingsi Building's quarterly financial report and a list of the building's tenants. The list also included notes on certain tenants who received special treatment.
Things like rent discounts, deferred payment dates, and so on.
'However, those were arrangements made based on their relationship with the previous owner. That won't fly with me, of course.'
Yun Zijin quickly sent a message back to Xu Yuanfu. When it was time to collect the third quarter's rent this month, he was to strictly adhere to the amounts and deadlines stated in the contracts. For any tenants who refused to comply, she reserved the right to unilaterally terminate their lease and find new occupants.
Previously, Xu Yuanfu had to grovel and plead when collecting rent from those well-connected tenants. But now things were different. The entire Dingsi Building belonged to Yun Zijin alone, and as the general manager of property, he was essentially her official representative. Any issues the tenants had would have to go through him to reach her. The distinction was enormous.
Before, he had to act like a deferential grandson; now, the tables had turned, and the formerly oppressed was calling the shots.
Xu Yuanfu quickly composed a message and sent it out to all of Dingsi Building's tenants.
The message emphasized that Dingsi Building had a new owner. It stated that all the following directives were at the new owner's request. Tenants were free to have their opinions, but they would have to bear the consequences of not complying with the new rules.
Meanwhile, Yun Zijin had already switched into work mode. It wasn't until just before the morning break that she took a filled-out leave request form and went into her supervisor's office.
"Little Yun, you've been requesting a lot of time off lately. If you keep taking leave, it'll be hard for me to explain to upper management if they ask," the supervisor said, looking at Yun Zijin's request form with a troubled expression.
'I just approved a full day for her the day before yesterday, and now, just a day later, she's asking for another half day? What could be so important that she needs to take leave this frequently?'