In the end, despite a thousand objections, I managed to persuade Chen Yu to leave.
I told her I needed to change my clothes, and if she didn't leave right then, I'd report her for abusing her authority as an officer of the law.
After Chen Yu left, Shen Xuanrou said business was slow in the afternoon, so she rearranged the shelves in the shop and partitioned off a small corner in the back where she could set up a folding bed so I'd have a place to rest, though the issue of taking a bath remained completely unresolved.
Chapter 28