When Lin Fan had gotten home, he had to do many things to make it up to Angela, but he still convinced her that accepting this store was the best choice.
After all, there was no other way that Lin Fan could think of that would allow him to get a store in the most famous street of Harmony City.
But in the end, Angela understood what Lin Fan was thinking and forgave him in the end. However, that wasn't before making him run around buying her all kinds of sweets and decimating savings that he did have.
Lin Fan didn't even have to wait long for the deed to the shop to arrive, Qiao Yi Fei contacted him the next day to tell him that her grandfather had already sent the deed.
Of course, when Lin Fan went to pick it up, he didn't get to meet Qiao Yi Fei since she felt that it was too awkward.
Both of them still thought that this was old man Qiao's way of getting Lin Fan to marry Qiao Yi Fei, so it was too embarrassing for them to meet to hand over this deed.
When Lin Fan came to the Seekers Union, the receptionist who was at the receptionist desk gave him the deed along with a message from old man Qiao that read, "The store's a bit beat up, so I hope that you don't mind cleaning up before using it."
Lin Fan of course didn't mind since he was getting this store for free and of course, he wasn't going to be the one that would be cleaning it.
While he was there, Lin Fan also asked the receptionist at the front, "Did Xiao Ling take a vacation?"
The receptionist said, "Yes, she suddenly asked for a vacation and she hasn't been in for the past few days."
Lin Fan slightly knitted his brows as he asked, "Did she give a reason for why she was taking this vacation?"
The receptionist looked at Lin Fan with a doubtful look and was thinking that this man was one of Xiao Ling's admirers, or rather her stalkers, so she was thinking about how to deal with him. However, at this time, another receptionist came over and answered for her. This receptionist was one of the receptionists that had been here when Lin Fan joined the Seekers Union and was one of the ones that were close to Xiao Ling.
The second receptionist said, "She said that it was a family emergency, but she didn't explain. However, based on how she said it, it should be quite bad."
Lin Fan nodded and then turned without saying anything else.
The second receptionist hesitated a bit before saying, "If you can, can you please check up on her?"
Lin Fan stopped and turned around before giving a nod. Then without saying a thing, he walked out of the Seekers Union.
The first receptionist looked at the second receptionist and asked, "Senior, should we have told that person about senior Xiao Ling? He looks like he's one of her stalkers."
The second receptionist tapped the first one on the head and said, "What nonsense are you saying? That person is one of the four people who passed the Hunters Exam this year and before that, he was one of Xiao Ling's seekers. It's normal for him to ask about her."
The first receptionist's eyes opened wide as she said, "He's one of the only four that passed this year? Wow, he was so handsome too."
The second receptionist saw the look in the first receptionist's eyes, but she didn't say a thing as she just shook her head with a helpless look. It was clear from her eyes that she was a shallow person, but still, she also had to admit that Lin Fan was just that handsome.
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After receiving the deed, the first thing Lin Fan did was head off to his new store.
As for the deed itself, naturally the safest place was to keep it with him since the only person he could trust here was himself.
There were things like banks in this upper realm that kept people's items, but they were all run by different organizations. There were also banks that were run by the twelve great factions, but Lin Fan still felt that the safest hands were his own.
Taking a carriage to Harmony Street, when he arrived, Lin Fan really felt crowded since there were just too many people here. There were even more people than the crowded cities on earth.
However, that wasn't strange at all since this was a city that had a greater population than any of the cities on earth. For there to be more people, it was just a natural thing as well.
In fact, looking around, Lin Fan was excited since all the people here were potential customers and not a single one of them looked like they were poor. That was the big thing since the prices of his store had never been considered cheap and that was just in the lower realm. Lin Fan didn't even want to think about how expensive the prices would be in this upper realm.
Following the signs that were all around him, Lin Fan quickly made his way to where his new store was. It didn't take him long to find it because it was the one store that was completely different from the others.
The other stores all looked bustling with plenty of customers inside shopping or waiting outside to get in, but the store that old man Qiao gave him was basically an abandoned building that was right in the middle of the other stores.
However, the strange thing was that no one said anything about it.
Neither the customers who were walking by or the guards that were standing all around even looked in that direction.
Normally, the customers who saw such a place would definitely point and whisper among themselves, trying to figure out why there was a place like this on such a busy street.
Normally, the guards would be trying to figure out what kind of owner would let their place become like this since this was considered bad for the image of the neighbourhood, so they would try to get the owner to take responsibility and fix their shop.
However, there wasn't any of that here.
Not a single person went forward to that abandoned store, it was almost as if it didn't exist at all.
But since everyone was treating this store like this, when Lin Fan made his way over to the store, naturally he drew plenty of attention.
As soon as he went over, the guards immediately came forward to stop him while everyone else pointed at him and whispered amongst themselves.
One of the guards came up to Lin Fan and said, "Stop, what are you doing?"
Lin Fan was confused why these guards had suddenly stopped him from going over to his new store, but since they were the guards, it wasn't right for him to ignore them and just go to the store. After all, these guards were hired by the twelve great families since most of the stores here belonged to them.
That meant that if he were to go against these guards, it would be equal to slapping the face of the twelve great families which he definitely didn't want to do right now.
So Lin Fan calmly said, "I'm the new owner of this store. I'm here to clean and fix it up today and I'm planning on opening a new store soon."
The guards immediately revealed looks of doubt since they knew what this abandoned store was and what it represented. There was no way that the person that owned the store would give it up that easily…
So the lead guard that had spoken earlier said, "Alright, enough of your tricks. You can come with us peacefully or we will take you by force."
As soon as he said this, the other guards all drew their weapons which they pointed at Lin Fan.
Lin Fan was surprised to see that they had escalated the situation this quickly and he said in a confused voice, "What do you mean? Why would I be tricking you? I'm really the new owner."
The lead guard said with a look of disdain, "Sure you are and I'm the leader of the Hunters Organization. You can tell us the whole story back at our barracks."
Lin Fan of course didn't want to be detained, so he pulled out the deed that he had in his Storage Ring for the guard as he said, "Look at this. This is the deed for this land, this shows that I own this store."
The guard looked over with a look of disdain on his face, but the moment he saw the deed, his eyes immediately narrowed. He moved in closer to get a better look and the shock in his eyes became even deeper.
This seal, could it be?
If this seal was real, then that would mean something truly shocking.
Another one of the guards saw that the lead guard wasn't saying a thing, so he came forward to say to Lin Fan, "Enough of this. Come with us now and we'll let you off with light charges, but if you insist on using this fake deed, we'll have to charge you with forged docu…"
But before he could finish, the lead guard suddenly turned around to slap this guard in the face.
The guard fell to the ground with a look of disbelief on his face as he looked at the lead guard, as if he couldn't understand what had just happened.