Chapter 156 - 132: Is She Really Just a Rich Woman?
Chapter 156: Chapter 132: Is She Really Just a Rich Woman?
She reached out and took the watch in her hand. The dial looked like a starry sky.
The time was now exactly four in the afternoon, and the watch in Xiao Xiao’s hand suddenly chimed.
Xiao Xiao took Gao Yuan’s hand and put the watch directly on his wrist.
Gao Yuan hesitated for a moment but didn’t refuse.
He recognized this watch. He’d seen it before while scrolling through watch videos on TikTok and vaguely remembered it was worth several million.
’But right now, I don’t want to spend my money on this kind of thing. I clearly don’t have the status for this!’
’To wear a watch worth several million, don’t I need a cash flow of at least a few hundred million!’
However, this was a kind gesture from Xiao Xiao, which was why he hadn’t just refused.
’I’ll just try it on. I can pick out a watch worth a few hundred thousand later, and that’ll be fine.’
"It looks great."
Xiao Xiao admired it for a moment before taking the watch off Gao Yuan’s wrist. She turned to the salesclerk and manager and said, "We’ll take this one."
"Please size it properly."
As she spoke, Xiao Xiao handed the manager a black card.
Seeing the card in Xiao Xiao’s hand, the Jaeger-LeCoultre store manager respectfully took it with both hands and turned to handle the payment. The female salesclerk, meanwhile, took the watch and began fitting it to Gao Yuan’s wrist again.
Gao Yuan paid no mind to the manager’s attitude, his gaze fixed on Xiao Xiao with a questioning look.
Xiao Xiao simply gave him a charming smile in return, patted his arm, and whispered, "We’ll talk when we get back."
About ten minutes later, Gao Yuan walked out of the Jaeger-LeCoultre boutique with Xiao Xiao, wearing the five-million-yuan watch.
Buying a multi-million-dollar watch in such a short time really felt like buying a pack of cigarettes.
Even when he used to buy cigarettes, his eyes would dart back and forth across the counter.
’Which one should I pick, this brand or that one?’
’And should I get the regulars or the slims?’
Gao Yuan lost all interest in shopping. One question kept turning over in his mind: ’Just how much money does Xiao Xiao have?!’
She had already spent six or seven million on him during this little shopping trip.
He knew Xiao Xiao owned two properties in Hang City, worth over a hundred million combined.
Her apartment at Tangchen First-class in Shanghai was estimated to be worth around three hundred million.
The supercars in her garage were worth at least another hundred million.
And this was only what he’d seen. What about the things he hadn’t?
Could this all be just the tip of the iceberg?
Was Xiao Xiao just some rich heiress, or was she a financial titan?
Seeing Gao Yuan’s lack of interest in shopping, Xiao Xiao had a good idea why.
She hadn’t expected that her simple desire to do something nice for Gao Yuan would cause her new boyfriend to have second thoughts.
"Come on, let’s go home."
Once in the car, Gao Yuan lit a cigarette and smoked slowly. Xiao Xiao sat in the passenger seat, also silent.
"VROOM!"
After finishing his cigarette, Gao Yuan started the Bugatti and headed toward Tangchen First-class.
The car was moving slowly, and inside, Xiao Xiao began to speak, her words unhurried.
"My family’s home was part of the urban redevelopment projects. We got in on the ground floor of the economic reforms."
"My parents are ordinary people. When that huge sum of money suddenly fell into their hands, they kind of lost their way."
"My dad dove headfirst into the stock market."
...
「In the underground garage of Tangchen First-class.」
After listening to Xiao Xiao’s story, Gao Yuan let out a long sigh.
He never imagined Xiao Xiao had been through so much.
After entering the stock market, Xiao Xiao’s father not only made money, but he multiplied their assets several times over.
He even established a financial clique known as the Shencheng Gang.
But Gao Yuan had never understood finance and had little interest in it, so he didn’t know much about the subject.
He knew even less about this Shencheng Gang.
He did know, however, that when the domestic stock market first opened up, the early players really did make a fortune.
When Xiao Xiao was eighteen, she went overseas to study finance.
That was the same year her father began to expand from the stock market into real-world industries.
As for why she was so wealthy, in her own words, her allowance from childhood to adulthood alone added up to tens of millions.
Every holiday, and especially on her birthdays, the cash gifts she received from relatives and her father’s friends amounted to an astronomical figure.
So while she was studying, she was also playing the stock market.
By the time she returned from overseas, her personal assets had already exceeded a billion.
After returning, she spent a few years in the domestic financial market, and her assets multiplied several times over.
During this time, she also invested in some real-world projects. For example, she held shares in the Jinjiang Group, which owns the J Hotel where Gao Yuan stayed last night.
Listening to Xiao Xiao, Gao Yuan felt like he was reading a novel, and she was its protagonist.
This life story was even more incredible than Gao Yuan’s own Money Power System!
"So you’ve never failed?"
"Of course I have!"
Xiao Xiao’s answer was matter-of-fact. Of course she’d failed before.
But after Xiao Xiao finished recounting her experience with failure, Gao Yuan was left even more speechless.
While she was overseas, her single largest investment was for over a hundred million yuan, and she lost every penny.
When she ran home, heartbroken, and cried to her parents for comfort, her dad simply gave her two hundred million.
He even told her that spending a hundred million to learn a lesson was a great deal!
Gao Yuan was rendered speechless by what Xiao Xiao described as failure.
’If what she said is true, then her spending today really can’t be called extravagant.’
’How much money was that, really?’
’It wasn’t even half the cost of this car. In her eyes, it really was just pocket money.’
At that moment,
Gao Yuan really felt like giving up the struggle.
He felt that even with the Money Power System, he might never earn this much money in his entire life.
’An ordinary person is still an ordinary person, even with a Money Power System. I don’t have the genius-level IQ to play these high-stakes business games.’
’While I’m growing, other people’s wealth is increasing at an even more insane speed.’
Unless...
’Unless the system gives me a mission to increase my IQ and EQ, allowing me to handle everything perfectly.’
Thinking of this, Gao Yuan suddenly recalled a system reward he had completely overlooked.
It was the High-Efficient Learning Ability the system had rewarded him with.
He had once thought this reward was as amazing as his High-Efficient Execution Ability, but as he had since sunk into a life of pleasure and comfort, he had completely forgotten about it.
If Xiao Xiao hadn’t given him such a shock today, he truly had no idea when he would have remembered it.