Chapter 180 Moving

Zhou Yi successfully persuaded his parents to come to Dortmund and live with him for a while, but next he had to worry about where to live—he still lived with Kotana, although Kotana didn't come back to live every day. But in this environment, there was no way for his parents to move in, otherwise, what would he say if he met Kotana?

Just say that he lives under the same roof with a single beauty?

Who knew what his parents would think, and Kotana might not be willing to "meet the parents" like this.

So Zhou Yi had been considering this issue, and he was hesitating whether to tell Kotana to go home for a while, or to go to a hotel with his parents.

Just as Zhou Yi was hesitating, Kotana made a decision first.

When Zhou Yi finished training and returned to his residence, he saw Kotana packing her luggage in her room.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Yi asked in surprise.

"Moving," Kotana said without raising her head.

"Why...are you moving?" Although Zhou Yi hoped that Kotana would go home for a while, looking at her posture, it definitely didn't seem like the things she would need to bring for a few days...

"Are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid?" Kotana finally stopped what she was doing, looked at Zhou Yi, with a teasing smile on her face.

Zhou Yi looked blank.

"You're a big star now, right? You're about to become the best player in Europe..."

"It's not settled yet..." Zhou Yi waved his hand.

"In my opinion, if you don't get it, it's a black curtain," Kotana said very definitely. "With your current fame and status, your private life will definitely be scrutinized by the public. Don't you know why I often go home for a while now?"

Of course Zhou Yi knew.

More and more paparazzi were chasing him, and more and more reports about his life were being published. Even if Kotana was more careful, she would be caught by reporters if she appeared in this house again. What if there were deviations in the report at that time?

Kotana is his girlfriend?

A man and a woman have been living together for several years!

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Once reports like this came out, Zhou Yi felt that it would be impossible for him and Kotana to continue living in this house. It was too embarrassing.

So it was normal for Kotana to move out. Since Mark was seriously injured, she had moved back to live for a long time. After Mark recovered from his injury, she often went home to live, unlike before when she lived here every day.

Anyway, she could take a car to training with Mark. Now, the advantage of this residence being close to the training base was gone.

No matter how you analyze it, it was normal and correct for Kotana to move out.

But when Zhou Yi really saw Kotana starting to pack her luggage, a feeling of "reluctance" suddenly surged from the bottom of his heart.

They had lived together for so many years, even cats and dogs would have feelings, right? Not to mention people.

Although they still quarreled, the meaning of the current quarrel was different from the quarrel when they first met. The current quarrel was more of a habit, or a kind of adjustment in life. Zhou Yi would not be angry because of quarreling with Kotana. On the contrary, he enjoyed this tit-for-tat quarrel.

Zhou Yi was rarely matched in terms of verbal skills, and Kotana was the only opponent who could make him feel motivated. Both of them had times when they made the other speechless, and this made him feel very accomplished.

It was like two little lions fighting, but they were not fighting, but playing.

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Seeing Zhou Yi stunned and not speaking, Kotana knew that he had guessed why. Zhou Yi was a smart person. If he didn't understand, Kotana would be disappointed in him instead.

This was normal.

Kotana lowered her head and continued to pack.

But she heard Zhou Yi say: "Don't move."

"Don't be闹," Kotana thought Zhou Yi was joking again.

"I'll move."

Kotana's hand stopped.

"Actually, I wanted to move too. I called my parents before and invited them to come to Dortmund and live with me. At that time, I was thinking about finding a place to live, because it's inconvenient for my parents to come here like this," Zhou Yi said with a smile, spreading his hands.

"Besides, as a rich man, continuing to rent a house is not like me. Aren't you always saying that to me? I just want to buy a house. This place is close to the training base, which is very suitable for you to commute to and from work. You should continue to live here. As for me, I have a car, so it doesn't matter where I live."

Zhou Yi gave an impeccable reason, and Kotana looked at him, not knowing how to refute it.

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Zhou Yi was a very motivated person, or rather, he didn't have much time left.

So that night, he called his agent Schulze and asked him to help him find a house, the kind that was decorated, with furniture and appliances, and could be moved into directly as soon as possible.

He told Schulze the news that his parents were coming to Dortmund.

Serving players like Zhou Yi was what Schulze, as an agent, had to do. There was no reward for finding a house, but Schulze had to do it. Many trivial matters in life were actually left to the agent to do.

Schulze was a very motivated and capable agent, and he found a house for Zhou Yi in just one day.

After the training, Zhou Yi was taken by Schulze to take a look. He was very satisfied with the house because it completely met his requirements—decorated, with all furniture and appliances, and he didn't even have to clean, so he could move in directly.

The house was in the city of Dortmund, not in the town of Brackel. But for Zhou Yi, who had a driver's license and a car, this was not a problem. It was only a twenty-minute drive, very convenient.

Now that he had taken a fancy to it, the rest was to negotiate the contract.

Zhou Yi completely left this matter to Schulze. He was a lawyer, so he was definitely more professional than himself.

Schulze completed the house sales contract as quickly as possible, showed it to Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi thought it was okay, so he signed it.

Schulze thought that this matter was completed, but Zhou Yi gave him another task: "You help me buy another house. But this matter is not urgent, because it is inconvenient for me to come forward, you do everything, and this house has a lease, I don't want the landlord to drive out the tenant in order to sell the house..."

Schulze was a little confused, but he still understood, he asked back: "That is to say, you want to buy this house, and you want the people who originally rented it to continue to rent it without being affected?"

Zhou Yi snapped his fingers: "It's easy to talk to smart people!"

But Schulze was very puzzled: "Why is it so troublesome?"

"Cough cough, this..." Actually, the house Zhou Yi wanted to buy was the house he and Kotana rented together, but how could he explain it to Schulze without making him suspicious of his motives?

Zhou Yi suddenly thought of something. He had said before that if you stayed together for a long time, cats and dogs could develop feelings, and of course so could houses.

So he said to Schulze: "That's the house I've been renting all the time. After living in it for a long time, I think the house is good and I have feelings for it, so I want to buy it."

"There are other people living in it?" Schulze was very surprised. He didn't expect that the dignified superstar Zhou Yi was actually sharing a house with others...

Zhou Yi nodded a little embarrassedly: "In short, I don't want to disturb others, otherwise if people complain to the media, I will drive people out in order to buy a house, that's not good for my reputation, right?"

This explanation made sense, and Schulze didn't suspect it.

"I've lived in the house for a long time and I'm very familiar with it, so don't go to see the house. Just contact the intermediary and the landlord to buy it directly. The original lease remains unchanged, and the subsequent rent will be included in the house price," Zhou Yi was afraid that Schulze would go to see the house and meet Kotana. How could a player's agent not know the club's team doctor?

That would be embarrassing.

In the past two years, he met with Schulze to talk about things, either by phone or at a restaurant outside. He would not let Schulze drive to pick him up. He did not invite his teammates to his home, no matter how good the relationship was, let alone have a party at home and invite friends to participate in this kind of thing...

He was just afraid of seeing people and things he shouldn't see and misunderstandings that shouldn't happen.

Doing this was like hiding a beauty in a golden house, but unfortunately Zhou Yi was not really hiding a beauty in a golden house.

In the past, he was too lazy to do so. At that time, he was not very famous, and Zhou Yi's thinking had not yet deviated from the scope of an ordinary loser, and he didn't think so much.

Later, he became more and more famous, and more and more people paid attention to him, so Zhou Yi had to work hard to cover up and live like a secret agent.

Now it was good, he had a house that completely belonged to him, Zhou Yi could do whatever he wanted. He could invite Mark and his teammates to his home to play games and have parties, or he could call his agent Schulze directly to his home to talk about private matters. He was not afraid of paparazzi taking pictures outside.

Thinking of such a future, he should feel relaxed, right?

But when Zhou Yi stood at the door of the room that had been moved away from personal belongings, he didn't feel any relaxation. Instead, he felt a little lost.

Kotana looked at his motionless back and asked, "You should be happy to move into a mansion, why do you look so down?"

Zhou Yi looked back at him, and then looked at the empty room again: "Leaving a place you are used to living in and going to an unfamiliar new environment will always make you feel a little lost."

"I thought professional players mostly like to pursue adventure and excitement."

"I'm not a Gypsy," Zhou Yi rolled his eyes at Kotana's back. "I'm Chinese, and we Chinese people pay attention to 'nostalgia'."

"Is this why you didn't choose to leave Dortmund this summer?"

Zhou Yi was stunned by Kotana's question, and then he realized - it seems that there really is some meaning in it...

He turned around, looked at Kotana, and said very seriously: "You are right. I like Dortmund, I like this team and the people here."

Kotana looked at the way Zhou Yi looked at her, and suddenly felt a little flustered - they had never used such serious eyes to look at each other. So she hurriedly turned her head and looked at the door. She found a topic to distract herself: "I thought you were going to find a moving company to move things."

"Hey, there's not much stuff, the trunk of my car can fit it," Zhou Yi no longer stared at Kotana.

What he said was true and not true. In the years he had been in Dortmund, because he was renting a house, he had not added any furniture. There were no large items, so he didn't need a truck to load and unload them. But it was not right to say that there were not many things. At least the clothes filled two large suitcases, not to mention the computer, books, and some miscellaneous things... Those two large suitcases could not all fit in the trunk.

"I really didn't know that the trunk of a C-Class could hold so much," Kotana teased.

Zhou Yi coughed: "Okay, plus the back seats, it can fit."

Kotana looked at Zhou Yi, who was a little embarrassed, and laughed silently.

Feeling a little embarrassed by Kotana's gaze, it was Zhou Yi's turn to change the subject.

He decided to say goodbye.

"Thank you for your care these past few years."

"I didn't take care of anything..." Kotana curled her lips and spread her hands.

"The pork chops were delicious."

Kotana didn't speak.

"Anyway, thank you for your care..."

"Hey, it's just moving, don't make it like a farewell," Kotana couldn't stand Zhou Yi's serious thanks, she felt that the atmosphere was wrong, so she forcibly interrupted Zhou Yi.

"Aren't we going to see each other again..." Zhou Yi shrugged and spread his hands.

"Who said that? Aren't you going to training?"

Zhou Yi coughed twice: "Cough cough! In that kind of environment, I don't want to see you again..."

Kotana was the team doctor. If the two met again, it was likely that he was injured and had to go to the team doctor for treatment.

Of course Zhou Yi didn't want to see Kotana again. Next year was the World Cup, and he didn't want to get injured or anything.

"Don't worry, I don't want to see you again either," Kotana hummed.

Zhou Yi could only smile foolishly. He originally wanted to say a warm farewell to Kotana, after all, they had some feelings for each other. But he didn't know if the habit of quarreling between the two of them was too great, and in the end it turned out like this.

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Zhou Yi started the car.

There was no reluctant farewell, and he didn't wave his hand without taking away a cloud. With just one step on the accelerator, the exhaust pipe made a unique roar and drove away.

Kotana did not see him off at the door. She stood in front of the window and watched Zhou Yi's car disappear from sight through the gap in the curtains.

Then she left the window and planned to walk back to her room.

But when she passed Zhou Yi's room, she stopped.

Standing at the door, looking at the empty room with only a bed, a table and a cabinet, there was no computer and piles of messy things on the table, and there were no dirty clothes thrown all over the floor. The cabinet door was tightly closed, and it was not propped open by the clothes piled up in a mess. There was only a mattress left on the bed, and there was no quilt curled up casually... The room suddenly became very clean.

This scene made Kotana a little uncomfortable.

After standing there for a while with some disappointment, Kotana suddenly snorted.

I don't know what this bachelor will turn the mansion into!

But Kotana immediately thought that Zhou Yi's parents were going to live with him. With his mother there, it wouldn't be as messy as a doghouse, right?

Kotana snorted again.

This boy who never grows up!