Although it was the innocence of a child’s words, Li Manni was clearly at a loss as to how to respond.
Yang Hao held his forehead with one hand and quickly took back the phone to change the subject, “Manni, you haven’t gotten off work yet, have you?”
“Yeah, I’m still on the road for an interview. I guess it’s going to be very late today,” Li Manni replied.
“If it’s too late and you can’t make it back to the dorm, just come over to my place. Call me if you need a ride,” Yang Hao offered warmly.
“Hmm, I know.”
“Auntie, I’ll wait for you at home.”
Xixi chimed in at this moment.
“Xixi, be a good girl and listen to Daddy. Remember to review the English that Auntie taught you. Auntie is going to quiz you…”
“Oh, goodbye Auntie.”
Xixi quickly stretched out her index finger and tapped the red button on the phone screen.
As the voice call ended, Xixi let out a sigh of relief.
Yang Hao rolled his eyes, saying that daughters were often more like their fathers. He couldn’t comment on other aspects, but Xixi definitely inherited his strong genes when it came to studying.
Yang Hao had always been quick-witted since childhood, but he would get sleepy as soon as he hit the books. During his school years, he spent almost no energy on studying and always ranked in the lower-middle in class. It wasn’t until his mother forced him to study during senior year of high school that his grades improved, and he ended up getting into a second-tier university.
Yang Hao felt that his precious daughter was most likely not destined to follow the path of academia. However, unlike himself, the little girl was fortunate. At the age of five, her father activated a system, and her life was destined to be filled with endless glory and wealth…
At the same time.
In the rental apartment in Wangjiang Neighborhood.
Zhao Yingying, wearing the LV bracelet that Yang Hao had given her, excitedly took photos from various angles.
“Xinyi, let’s take another selfie together, the BFF kind!”
Sun Xinyi, too, was wearing a bracelet and had taken a few shots. She was thinking about whether to post them on her social circle.
This was the first time she owned such expensive jewelry, and it was from luxury brands like LV. What she didn’t realize was that her vanity was quickly taking root.
Previously, Sun Xinyi had been indifferent to luxuries. Firstly, because she wasn’t interested, and secondly, because she felt that such things were far removed from her life.
But now things were different. She owned a Prada handbag and an LV bracelet. When you don’t possess such items, you won’t feel that having them really means anything. However, once you truly do, an inexplicable sense of superiority grows within you, changing your views on consumption and the world.
So one way to ruin a person is to expose them to the finer things in life, let them live a life they didn’t dare to dream of, and then suddenly strip it all away.
The psychological impact and descent from that high is unimaginable, leaving many people’s worldviews completely shattered and their behaviors radically changed, turning once well-mannered and sensible children into reckless and capricious individuals.
Sun Xinyi did not yet realize that her mentality had already changed.
Following Zhao Yingying’s suggestion, they took a few more selfie pictures, with the focus, of course, being the bracelets on their wrists rather than the two of them.
After taking the pictures, Zhao Yingying did some beauty retouching, and then directly posted a nine-square grid on her social circle, with a caption: BFF style, thanks to Big Brother Yang ꒰⑅•ᴗ•⑅꒱
The text was followed by an extremely affectionate emoji and made a direct reference to the source of the bracelet: Big Brother Yang.
Only girls understand what it means to mention a man’s name in their social circle.
It should be noted that Zhao Yingying’s pond was stocked with “fish,” and these fish occasionally gave her gifts, which she would post on her social circle, but she never mentioned their names.
This time, however, she publicly disclosed the identity of the gift-giver and didn’t even bother to hide this from the people in her pond, showing she was determined, even if it blew up the pond.
After this post went live, her fellow salesgirl friends were naturally envious. In addition to liking the post, several of them sent her Kuaiyin messages.
“Yingying, congrats on landing ashore!”
“Wow, you caught a big fish this time!”
“Yingying, that bracelet must cost tens of thousands, right?”
“Yingying sis, when you’re living the high life, don’t forget us!”
Reading the Kuaiyin messages from her friends, Zhao Yingying’s lips curved into an involuntary smile, her face beaming with pride.
After seeing her best friend’s social circle post, Sun Xinyi first hit the like button and then posted one herself. However, she only shared three photos, not creating a nine-square grid as her last act of defiance.
The copy for Sun Xinyi’s post was simple: Such a beautiful bracelet, thanks to Brother Yang (๑╹ꇴ╹)ｸﾞｯ!
The text was followed by an excited emoticon.
Ding ding…
Not long after posting to her social media, Sun Xinyi’s messages started buzzing nonstop—two of her college roommates had sent her messages.
Xu Ting: “Xinyi, you’ve been dating behind my back, hurry up and tell me what kind of conditions he has.”
Zhao Lulu: “Xinyi, your boyfriend is way too generous, a LV bracelet!!”
At the same time, several more comments appeared beneath her social media post.
[Sis, you’re not in a relationship now, are you?]
[Who’s this Yang guy??]
[Heartbroken, my goddess has a boyfriend!]
[Damn, a bracelet that’s over 50,000, poverty has limited my imagination!]
[…]
Sun Xinyi had only hidden her parents and relatives from this particular social media post; everyone else could see it.
Bolli Fitness Center.
Zhou Ling, who was idly sitting at the front desk, suddenly exclaimed, “Lili, quick, look at Sun Xinyi’s social media.”
“What happened?”
Yu Lili was scrolling through Kuaiyin and actually had some news to share with Zhou Ling too. She found an interesting Kuaiyin post: a gorgeous woman with a great figure sitting on the back seat of an electric scooter, with the caption: “I smoked a whole pack of cigarettes in the BMW and still couldn’t figure out where I went wrong?”
The video’s angle wasn’t the best; one could only see the side profile of the rider and the long-legged beauty, but Yu Lili still felt these two looked way too familiar—it was definitely Yang Hao and Sun Xinyi!
However, Zhou Ling’s reaction was so intense that she exited Kuaiyin and opened WeChat, where she saw Sun Xinyi’s social media update from a few minutes ago.
“This…”
“A LV bracelet??”
Yu Lili’s face was a picture of shock, her eyes widening considerably.
“It’s from Yang, this bracelet is definitely not cheap, probably around ten or twenty thousand!” Zhou Ling said.
“It should be, but LV jewelry isn’t exactly best-selling…”
Regaining her composure, Yu Lili spoke with a hint of sourness in her voice. First, it was a Prada handbag, and now a LV bracelet; she just wanted to smack herself hard for having pushed such a god of wealth onto Sun Xinyi that day.
“What are you talking about?”
Just then, Meng Yuyu, who had just finished a personal training session with a male member, came over with her insulated mug. She was originally going to the rest room to get some water when she saw the two of them gossiping and naturally grew curious.
“Yuyu, you’ve arrived just in time, how much do you think this bracelet is?”
Zhou Ling enlarged one of the photos and showed it to Meng Yuyu.
“This is LV’s new model, I think it’s over 50,000!”
“Who’s this rich guy?”
Meng Yuyu, the tea ceremony master, was very knowledgeable about luxury goods, and would also visit stores when she had the time. She happened to remember this particular bracelet.
“Over 50,000??”
Zhou Ling and Yu Lili exchanged glances, both mouths agape in astonishment—they had thought it would only be around ten or twenty thousand.
“Although LV jewelry isn’t as popular as Cartier or Bulgari, it’s still a top-tier luxury brand, so over 50,000 is quite normal!”
Meng Yuyu said cheerfully, then asked again, “Lingling, do you have any more rich friends like this?”
“It’s Sun Xinyi’s social media update!”
Zhou Ling exited the photo enlargement mode, and Sun Xinyi’s social media post appeared on her phone screen.
After Meng Yuyu saw it, she was completely shocked.
“Yang again, it was Yang who gave it!”
“Lili, you’ve misled me!!”
Meng Yuyu let out a long sigh, she had worked at the Bolli Fitness Center for a year and a half and had met some wealthy people, but she had never seen anyone as lavish as this Yang guy.
In just a few days, the amount he spent on Sun Xinyi had already exceeded one hundred thousand!
She couldn’t even imagine what kind of fairy tale life it would be to have such a boyfriend!!