After going there and learning more about it, she realized she had indeed encountered a scammer.

The police told her there was a type of scammer known as an "emotional scammer."

These scammers could be men or women, and they specialized in finding people online to date.

Wang Qi's boyfriend was exactly that kind.

They met in person, and Wang Qi was very satisfied.

Not long after, the two got together and started living together.

The online boyfriend began using various excuses and reasons to borrow money from Wang Qi. After nearly emptying her pockets through deception, he started devising ways to make Wang Qi take out various online loans and act as a guarantor to get money.

Once the money reached the online boyfriend's hands, he would simply vanish without a trace, disappearing completely.

He played this game with masterful skill.

Wang Qi was not the first victim, and she definitely wouldn't be the last.

Besides, Wang Qi still remembered what the police officer told her back then.

People in this line of work, whether men or women, tend to have quite outstanding appearances.

After all, if they weren't outstanding and looked like ugly ducklings who couldn't survive a face-to-face meeting, how could they swindle people out of their money?

Moreover, many people in this profession are also very experienced, with masterful skills in handling romantic relationships with the opposite sex.

Wang Qi matched the description perfectly.

And she realized it was exactly as the police officer had said.

Her online boyfriend was indeed quite handsome.

Their first meeting completely captivated someone like her, who had never experienced such refined charm.

Furthermore, her online boyfriend's methods for sweet-talking women were absolutely top-notch.

Although that period was one of being swindled out of money, she had to admit it was also the happiest time she had ever had.

But, you can deceive someone's feelings, that's one thing; swindling her money and tricking her into being a guarantor is completely unforgivable!

She swore that if she ever met that online boyfriend again, she would definitely grab a kitchen knife and chop him.

If it weren't for him, she wouldn't have been chased by debt collectors with nowhere to hide, too scared to even go to her manicure shop.

And then, she inexplicably encountered someone, signed a bizarre agreement, and ended up living here.

"Speaking of which, do they really pay ten thousand a day for staying here?"

Wang Qi, currently using her iPad to watch the hottest historical romance drama, stared at the well-decorated bedroom and sighed deeply.

Even now, she felt it was somewhat dreamlike, truly a case of desperately grasping at any straw in a crisis.

She actually believed such a thing.

"Forget it, forget it. Even if they don't pay ten thousand, just treat it as hiding from debt collectors and staying in a free hotel!"

"Can't go home, can't go to work. Those debt collectors really want to drive me to death!"

Wang Qi stared painfully at the handsome male lead in the historical romance drama on her iPad.

She envied the female lead. If only she could also meet such a male lead who could shelter her from the wind and rain, how wonderful that would be!

Just as she was thinking this, her Fruit Phone suddenly dinged.

She picked up the phone.

She discovered someone had sent a friend request on WeChat.

It was... someone from the Alice Apartment residents' group chat?

Puzzled, she accepted the friend request. Not a few minutes after accepting, the other side sent a message:

"Wang Qi, I want to get a manicure. Is that okay?"

Seeing this message, Wang Qi replied: "Yes, both men and women can get manicures."

Immediately, the other side sent another message: "Great! I want to come to you for a manicure right now. Is that okay?!"

Wang Qi was stunned. She checked the time; it was already past 11 PM.

Getting a manicure at this hour???

Are you really here for a manicure, or do you want to do something else?

At this point, Wang Qi felt this man who suddenly added her as a friend was just a sex-crazed pervert.

The manicure was clearly just a pretext.

But she still replied:

"It's very late today. I'm about to go to sleep. How about tomorrow? Let's schedule a time tomorrow, and I'll do it for you."

After saying that, she sent over all the various style photos of manicures she had saved on her phone.

Then she put down her phone and continued binge-watching the drama.

Time passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was 12:03 AM the next day.

At this moment, Wang Qi was still watching the drama. The more she watched, the more energetic she became. After all, she usually watched dramas until past 1 AM.

Not to mention, now that she had been screwed over so badly by her boyfriend and owed a debt she might never repay in her lifetime, her heartbroken, giving-up-on-everything self desperately extended her drama-watching time even further.

Right at this time, her phone rang again.

She picked up her phone to check again.

She originally intended to just glance at it, then put the phone down and continue watching.

But this time, after glancing and preparing to put it down, before she actually did, she suddenly realized something.

"Huh..."

She let out a long, drawn-out sound of surprise.

Her body immediately sat bolt upright on the bed.

She stared with utmost seriousness at the text message that had arrived on her phone.

She repeated it, reading it word by word five times.

Only after slapping herself did she realize she wasn't hallucinating from staying up late.

Her bank card had suddenly received a transfer of ten thousand yuan?!

"Who sent it to me?"

Her brain short-circuited for a moment, but soon she remembered the strange agreement about ten thousand yuan a day.

"That... is real?!"

Covering her mouth with both hands, Wang Qi's two black eyes were completely filled with shock.

Just as the shock had fully taken over, another message arrived on her phone.

It was also a bank card notification.

The ten thousand yuan that had just arrived in her bank account had been deducted by something else.

It couldn't be helped; her debt was too high.

Once there was money in her card, it would be directly transferred away by the debt collectors themselves for repayment.

However, compared to the sadness of the money that had just arrived and then disappeared, she suddenly felt a bit scared.

Scared of what?

Scared of that agreement.

Because, ten thousand yuan a day—if it were payment for doing something very difficult, it wouldn't be such a big deal.

But this ten thousand yuan came too easily?!

She was even afraid that behind this agreement, there might be some other scheme?!

She somewhat regretted that back then, pressured too harshly by the debt collectors, she hadn't thought much and just signed it.

At that time, she was like a drowning person, desperately grabbing onto anything extended from above, no matter what it was.

Just as she was feeling remorseful, her phone dinged again.

She picked up the phone once more.

This time, it wasn't a text message.

It was WeChat.

Opening WeChat, she saw that the man who had added her as a friend after 11 PM had sent her a message:

"Why did you lie to me? Didn't you say you were going to sleep? Then why is your bedroom light still on?"

A spine-chilling, icy sensation shot from the soles of Wang Qi's feet straight to the top of her head.

Staring at this sentence, her entire body turned cold.

The surroundings in the deep night were utterly silent.

She looked somewhat fearfully out the window at the pitch-black night outside.

"Why... does he know I'm not asleep? That my bedroom light is still on?! Could it be... he's downstairs, watching me?!"

"At this hour, he's downstairs, looking at me?!"

Thinking of this, Wang Qi felt her hands and feet trembling violently.

She didn't dare get out of bed to check if there really was such a person downstairs.

She could only curl up under the covers.

Letting the bedroom light continue to shine alone in the dark night.