Reborn as a landlord in Shanghai

Chapter 1 Rebirth in 2005

Around 7:30 in the morning, at a barbershop in the Qujiang Road community of Hongtian District, Shanghai.

Liu Dong looked at himself in the mirror, left and right. He saw that his hair had been shaved into a buzz cut, with the three sides completely straight and without a single stray hair, making him look very clean and capable.

"Xiaoyu, I didn't realize you were so skilled... You've only been here a few months... and your hairdressing skills are already better than your parents'. It seems your Mao family's ancestral craft has a successor."

Liu Dong couldn't help but touch the back of his head, praising Mao Xiaoyu, who was standing behind him shaving his head. After all, Mao Xiaoyu was only 18 years old, and to be able to shave a buzz cut so well was not something that could be done by ordinary people.

"Uncle Liu, don't laugh at me. I only started shaving your head because you were in such a hurry. If you hadn't been so anxious, I wouldn't have dared to do it. Now that you're satisfied with my skills, I'm relieved." Mao Xiaoyu, standing next to Liu Dong, said with a smile.

"You've got some skills, kid. Haven't I seen you shaving heads before? You're so good now. I'll come back to you next time."

Liu Dong felt that Mao Xiaoyu's haircut this time was even better than his father Mao Jun's, and couldn't help but praise Mao Xiaoyu again.

"Then thank you, Uncle Liu. Since you appreciate my skills, I promise I'll come again next time. But it's already past 7 o'clock. Weren't you in a hurry earlier, Uncle Liu? Aren't you in a rush now?" Mao Xiaoyu quickly agreed and then asked with apparent concern.

"Oh right, right, I'm in a hurry. Here, here, here's 10 yuan. Keep the money safe, we'll talk again next time."

When the topic of being in a hurry came up, Liu Dong suddenly remembered that he had something to do today and was running out of time. So he quickly took out 10 yuan from his wallet, slapped it into Mao Xiaoyu's hand, and hurriedly walked out of the barbershop while talking.

"Take care, Uncle Liu, come again next time."

Mao Xiaoyu stood at the shop entrance and called out to Liu Dong, who was hurrying away, once again.

After greeting Liu Dong and seeing no sign of him, Mao Xiaoyu casually put 10 yuan into her pocket, then went into the shop. Humming a little tune, she swept her freshly shaved head clean with a broom, put the tools back in their place, and then turned on the stereo in the barbershop, playing the latest popular songs.

After finishing all that, he slowly carried a stool to the shop entrance, sat down, and stared blankly at the crowds coming and going on the street, unable to help but sigh.

"Sigh, it's been almost a month since I was reborn. I'm secretly saving 20 or 30 yuan every day. When will I be able to save enough to make big money?" Looking at the crowds walking outside the store and thinking about her income over the past month, Mao Xiaoyu couldn't help but complain in her heart.

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Yes, that's right. Our Mao Xiaoyu is no longer just one of the masses; she's now a high-class reborn individual.

Just last month, on March 15th, Mao Xiaoyu celebrated his 18th birthday. Since turning 18 meant becoming a man, Mao Xiaoyu's parents threw him a family birthday party and even made an exception by letting him drink a bottle of beer. When he woke up the next day, he had memories of 20 years in the future, which made him think he was a middle-aged man.

Perhaps because of the alcohol from the beer she had just drunk on her birthday, Mao Xiaoyu's head was a little fuzzy when she woke up. So when she opened her eyes, she saw a familiar yet unfamiliar environment and thought that her memory was a bit confused. She didn't know what had happened and ended up sleeping at her parents' house. After all, the living environment of her parents' house hadn't changed much in twenty years.

Little did she know that when Mao Xiaoyu, feeling a bit dizzy, stepped out of her room and saw her parents and sister who looked 20 years younger, she was completely stunned!

Imagine what it would feel like for a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties to see his parents who are about the same age as him.

Anyway, at that time, Mao Xiaoyu felt that time and space were a bit disordered, and there was a sense of unreality!

To determine if she was seeing things or dreaming, Mao Xiaoyu couldn't help but pinch her little sister's chubby cheeks, causing tears to stream down her face. After a good beating from her mother, Mao Xiaoyu realized that she hadn't mistaken her parents and little sister; she had actually returned to her home when she was 18.

She was only 18 years old, but her mind contained memories of the next 20 years. This made Mao Xiaoyu, who had read countless rebirth stories 20 years later, realize that she should be reborn.

After learning that she had been reborn, Mao Xiaoyu was initially quite excited (thinking about the various high benefits of reborn people, she couldn't help but drool).

Unfortunately, the imagination is rich, but the reality is harsh. It has been almost a month since she was reborn. During this time, Mao Xiaoyu tried all kinds of methods (knife, chop, fire, shout), and she was almost kneeling down to beg her father and grandmother, but she still did not get the protagonist's cheat (space, high technology, superpowers, etc.).

It can be said that Mao Xiaoyu's rebirth this time is the worst kind of naked rebirth.

Sigh, although being reborn naked is a bit disappointing, our Mao Xiaoyu doesn't mind. After all, she went from a nearly 40-year-old greasy uncle to an 18-year-old fresh meat, 20 years younger, and she even has a chance to start her life over again. No matter how you look at it, it's a win.

Of course, if there's anything to be dissatisfied with, it's that there's one downside: as a reborn person, even though I've been reborn, I have no money in my pocket!

In this world, even a reborn person can't do anything without money. In addition, Mao Xiaoyu was an apprentice at this time in her previous life. Now that she has been reborn, she doesn't have a good way to make money, so she still doesn't know how to get rich.

Although she can't make a fortune, it's easy to earn small amounts of money. So now, every morning, while her parents are still sleeping at home, Mao Xiaoyu sneaks into the shop early to open for business. She shaves one or two heads early every morning to earn some money and save up for herself.

Believe it or not, after a month, adding what she already had and what she earned this month, Mao Xiaoyu has almost 1000 yuan.

I'm so happy to finally earn 1000 yuan a month!

Sigh, Mao Xiaoyu couldn't help but shed tears.

If I had known I would be reborn at 18, I would have definitely remembered the lottery numbers before I was reborn, so that I could have won the jackpot!

Thinking back to when I graduated from junior high school last year, I learned hairdressing from my parents. When I ran out of money, I would ask my parents for some. As a teenager, I had no habit of saving money. When Mao Xiaoyu was reborn, she only had a meager one or two hundred yuan in her pocket.

Therefore, after being reborn, Mao Xiaoyu had no money and could only save money little by little!

Now, after a month, 1000 yuan isn't even enough to buy a toilet, let alone a house!

Thinking about this, Mao Xiaoyu sometimes couldn't help but complain. In her previous life, she had been shaving heads for more than 20 years. She finally got reborn and thought that reborn people could live a life of luxury. But more than a month after her rebirth, she still had to shave heads for a little money, let alone live a life of luxury.

Before being reborn, I shaved my head every day. After being reborn, I'm still shaving my head every day. After a month, thinking about how I'm still shaving my head every day, I wonder if I was reborn for nothing.

But the problem is that I don't have any other skills besides shaving heads!

Thinking about this, Mao Xiaoyu felt very depressed!

After all, in the memories of 20 years later, I know that I will continue to work in my parents' barbershop. I worked in my parents' shop for 4 years until I was 22 years old. Then I got some start-up capital from my parents, left my parents' barbershop, opened a barbershop with my friend, and then lived a carefree life.

Initially, because it was a new shop with a good environment and location, the barbershop was quite profitable. Every month, after deducting various expenses, the barbershop's net income was tens of thousands, and sometimes even hundreds of thousands. Even if they didn't split it all, the two of them could still earn a considerable amount of money each month.

In addition, the two of them work in their own shop and each receives a salary. With these two incomes combined, their monthly income is quite substantial.

However, Mao Xiaoyu had just left his parents, and young people tend to be extravagant. In addition, Mao Xiaoyu was dating a college student at the time, so he couldn't control his money.

After all, Mao Xiaoyu was only a junior high school student. He felt very proud to have a college student girlfriend. In order not to lose face in front of his girlfriend and to show that he was capable and could make money, he often bought bags that cost thousands or tens of thousands of yuan. Not to mention his daily food and drink expenses were like water flowing away.

So he earned a lot of money back then, but he also spent a lot. When his girlfriend graduated from university after four years, Mao Xiaoyu realized that his friends who co-owned the barbershop with him had all bought a house and a car in Shanghai and settled down there. Meanwhile, he had nothing to show for it after four years, except for his barbershop.

Although it was painful to watch and I felt a little annoyed, Mao Xiaoyu also thought about his college girlfriend. After at least four years, his love was fulfilling. Thinking about his girlfriend saying that she would marry him as soon as she graduated from college, Mao Xiaoyu felt very happy.

Little did Mao Xiaoyu know that when his girlfriend graduated from university and he wanted to propose to her, she silently maxed out several of his credit cards, cashed out over 100,000 yuan, and then vanished from his life.

This drove Mao Xiaoyu completely crazy. She didn't even want to keep the hair salon business going, after all, she had invested so much money and emotion in it. So she started looking for people everywhere.

When the classmate finally found a girlfriend, he realized that the so-called female college student girlfriend was nothing more than a social butterfly.

Mao Xiaoyu is just a fish in the pond that the college student's girlfriend keeps, but there are many other fish of different sizes in the pond besides Mao Xiaoyu.

This time, Mao Xiaoyu's college girlfriend graduated and secretly applied to study abroad. To live a more carefree life overseas, she sold all the fish in her pond for a good price. If Mao Xiaoyu wants to find her, she'll have to go to the United States.

Hearing his girlfriend's classmate say this, Mao Xiaoyu was speechless. When Mao Xiaoyu found Fubole and asked for help, she realized that she wasn't the only one who had been deceived; quite a few other boys had also been scammed.

However, this problem is not easy for Fubo to solve either. After all, the woman has boyfriend-girlfriend relationships with all the men. This kind of financial dispute in cohabitation requires both parties to sit down face to face and talk things through before it can be resolved. But the woman has now gone to the United States, so there is no way to resolve it.

After all, this is a moral issue. It's not exactly fraud, since the man was acting willingly. The only thing to do is find the woman and talk things out properly. Since this is an international dispute, local authorities won't be of much help.

As for finding the woman's family, his girlfriend had already taken care of things; she had severed ties with her family years ago. Now, when he wanted to find her family and deal with them, they simply presented a clause severing all ties with their father, leaving the dozens of men who had been deceived by Mao Xiaoyu speechless.

Ultimately, there was nothing they could do. They couldn't find anyone to help them, so the dozens of men had no choice but to accept their bad luck. Mao Xiaoyu was too embarrassed to ask her parents to pay off her bank loan, and because of this incident, she hadn't been able to manage the barbershop for a while. Therefore, Mao Xiaoyu had no choice but to sell her shares in the barbershop, use the money to pay off the bank loan, and then return to work at her parents' barbershop.

Little did she know that after working there for less than a year, in 2015, her parents' barbershop was demolished. Mao Xiaoyu then had to take odd jobs here and there. The developer's compensation plan for her parents' barbershop was just a small storefront and two apartments, which she didn't receive until 2022.

It was from that time that Mao Xiaoyu's family acquired five apartments and one storefront in Shanghai. The family's total assets amounted to about 30 to 40 million yuan.

Such economic strength, while not much in Shanghai (where housing prices often reach millions or tens of millions), is already quite good for ordinary people. Therefore, even if Mao Xiaoyu didn't seduce women everywhere in her previous life, she would never lack women around her.

After the incident with her college girlfriend, Mao Xiaoyu was completely heartbroken and no longer believed in love. Therefore, even after being reborn, she had never seriously dated anyone.

As for Mao Xiaoyu's parents, they had long been disappointed in him. Fortunately, Mao Xiaoyu's younger sister had just graduated from university, so his parents focused their attention on his sister and worried about her affairs, which made Mao Xiaoyu feel a little better.

On the last day of Mao Xiaoyu's reborn memories, he spent the whole day drinking with some friends, then picked up a girl he had only known for half a day and enjoyed life. When he woke up, he found himself in his parents' house, and inexplicably, with 20 years of memories, he was reborn on March 16, 2005.