Chapter 1424: Chapter 1008: Full-time Mother’s Counterattack 16 (Four Thousand)_3
But this ultimately isn’t a real Beijing Household. The residency policy is rigid, and even if you want to use connections, it’s difficult to succeed. So, even though she has her own house now, she’ll have to endure several years before obtaining residency.
The one advantage is that she finally doesn’t have to rent anymore. Although having such a large house for just mother and son seems wasteful, since the house is meant for them to live in, renting it out would be too regrettable. So, she and her son moved into the house, which costs as much as 170,000 yuan in rent every month.
The car is affordable, but the license plate is unachievable, not even having the qualification to line up (non-Beijing Household). Luckily, there’s a subway line at the door, and also buses, making it very convenient to go anywhere, plus she can take a taxi when going out and has an electric scooter. If she insists on having a car, she should queue for a new energy vehicle, which is a green plate car. This isn’t urgent; she can wait until the first half of next year to pay off debts.
The new place is very close to the company, only two or three stops away. It’s located in the North Fourth Ring, and the community’s name is Hejing Yingyue.
It’s a bit farther from the university, roughly needing thirty or forty minutes by bike, and seven stations by subway.
Fortunately, her child and she study in the same place, eliminating the need to run around.
Cleaning the large house is very troublesome, but seeing the results of her three years of hard work, she laughs even in her dreams!
Mother and son both live on the ground floor; the bedrooms aren’t big. She converted the small study into Qi Yang’s little room.
Initially, the little guy was scared to sleep alone, coming over to her every midnight. But later he gradually got used to it and found sleeping alone more comfortable.
The second floor’s rooms aren’t entirely idle; one was transformed into a yoga studio and calligraphy practice platform, and another into a live-streaming studio.
With these changes, if help is needed, outsiders coming over will find it very spacious.
The first floor has a living room, while the second only has a narrow Tatami reception platform.
The entire winter vacation Qi Qi spent remodeling her home. The small garden at the door is very large, a full twenty square meters. The previous owner had great taste, mainly focusing on ornamentation. She might dismantle it to plant vegetables.
The basement also spans twenty square meters; the previous owner gifted complete furniture and appliances, so they moved in with just their bags. Useful ones were kept outside, while unused ones filled the space. The truly ridiculous ones were directly discarded.
Clothes can be dried in the yard; the home has adequate heating. It’s a highly suitable community for living because several buildings were initially designed as garden-style houses. Comparing with surrounding high-rise structures, it’s naturally much more expensive, while their prices stand at around 80,000 or 90,000.
The community’s greenery is impressively done—nice for living and sightseeing, comfortable and natural. She likes it very much. Actually, although it’s called a dual-school district, compared with Beijing’s many good schools, it’s only average, not considered a top school, but not bad either.
Her home now has a house, and the school at her doorstep is available in the future. Without a house and household, the queue would be a bit further behind. Having a house but no household ranks behind those with both, regardless of whenever or wherever. The utility of a property certificate and residence booklet in school enrollment is unbeatable.
Li Xingchen, who’s a local in Beijing, once joked about marrying her to his soldier cousin, which would facilitate the child’s and her household transfer. However, Qi Qi declined politely; she isn’t afraid of hardship but of marriage. She’d rather endure a few years, relying on her ability to obtain residency, instead of relying on a man. Especially marrying into such a situation, no matter how great your capability, you’ll always be looked down upon by the in-law’s house.
The big city people despise folks from small cities, even more rural folks. This has been an immutable point for many years. No matter where these customs don’t change, even in ancient times it was the same. So, if you want others to respect you, you must earn respect yourself.
As someone from a single-parent family, Qi Yang may be looked down upon in marriage in the future. But having a house and household makes her an object of competition among countless women. So, it depends on how you view it.
Now that the major issue of housing is resolved, it’s time to wholeheartedly repay loans, buy a car, and study.
At the start of the second semester of the sophomore year, Qi Qi is full of energy; the entire winter vacation she busied herself at home, making about 300,000 yuan from calligraphy and embroidery works and partly from yoga class promotions. In total, she earned 300,000, used 170,000 to repay loans, and the remaining 180,000 (previously left) will be saved for future repayments.
Entering March, she live-streams products on weekends and simultaneously does yoga class live-streams at six in the morning while promoting goods. On weekdays, after school, she goes to the company, returns home before nine at night, washes, and does yoga for an hour before entering the space to practice calligraphy. The daily and monthly schedules are packed, fulfilling yet exhausting, but the results are great.
