合租公寓302Roommates in Apartment 302

Mia is a 21-year-old international student from France who has had enough of dormitory life. She wants to experience real, everyday Chinese life — so she rents a room in Apartment 302, where three Chinese flatmates are already living by their own rules. There is Zhou Zhou, a graduate student who uses "I am writing my thesis" to dodge every chore while ordering takeout; Xiao Mei, a designer who treats the shared apartment like a management project with duty rosters and fridge zoning; and A Kai, a live-streamer who turns every moment of flat life into content and asks "can I stream this?" about everything. Mia brings her own stubborn streak too: she insists on French rituals — plating food, fork-and-knife for Chinese meals, la bise greetings, doing everything by procedure — and keeps trying even when it backfires. From the first meeting and the registration at the police station, to the kitchen, the duty roster, late-night noises, packages, water bills, falling sick, weekend dinners, and one roommate moving out, every chapter is a tiny comedy of clashes between four people with four ridiculous obsessions. A warm, light-hearted HSK5- graded novel about how strangers sharing a flat slowly become a family, and the third book in the "Living in Chinese" series.