06/05/2026
Happy Friday! ♡
I translated a part of my book into English.
Please enjoy reading it.
I’ll upload the this episode in two parts.
Take on a drug dealer 1
- I’ve never seen a woman with such guts like Mom,” the son said while sipping his wine.
“There are elegant women, wise women, and even very thin women… but of all things, why did it have to be a woman with such strong will? It feels a bit unfair.”
At the same time, there was something strangely surreal about it—my son now sitting with me, drinking wine together and casually talking about me as “that kind of woman.”
The reason my son probably calls me a “strong-willed woman” is this.
When I first came to Canada, the very first apartment I bought turned out to have a tenant who was a notorious drug dealer.
By the time I found out, the contract had already been completed, and neither the previous owner nor the realtor had ever mentioned it.
It was in a quiet, peaceful-looking residential neighborhood—but there, unexpectedly, was a drug dealer living in the building.
Even now, it still feels strangely unreal when I think about it.
We thought we would be able to find a solution.
We believed the police would surely help us—that if we simply reported the situation, they would remove a tenant who didn’t pay rent and refused to leave the apartment. Even though my husband’s English was far from perfect, he still made the report.
And to our surprise, the police arrived quite quickly. However, they kindly explained that there was nothing they could do about it. Instead, they directed us to the Rentalsmen the proper authority for tenant issues.
We had never even heard of such an institution before. Feeling completely overwhelmed, we ended up lining up at NB Service for over an hour, submitting documents that felt almost as complicated as immigration paperwork.
That was when it struck me—this is why the previous owner had rushed the sale. Was it because they saw an inexperienced Asian woman coming in and thought it was an easy escape?
The situation only made me feel more unsettled.
The building had four separate units that could each be occupied. Two of them were vacant, while the other two were occupied—but one was a drug supplier, and the other a drug use