Hengxin Mercedes-Benz 4S Shop.
Meng Yuyu and Yu Lili had just entered the shop when the reception staff warmly greeted them, “Are you ladies here to look at the cars?”
“Picking up a car.”
Meng Yuyu replied directly.
“May I ask for your surname, miss?”
“It’s Meng, no need for formalities.”
The receptionist immediately checked the car booking information, then said with a smiling face, “Miss Meng Yuyu, right?”
“Yes.”
Meng Yuyu nodded slightly.
“The Mercedes-Benz GLC300L you’ve purchased is already at the delivery center, I’ll call the salesperson responsible for you, please wait a moment in the VIP area.”
With enthusiasm, the receptionist led them to the VIP waiting area and brought them coffee and some snacks before going to call someone.
“So Yang ordered a Mercedes-Benz GLC, this model is pretty expensive, it’s like over five hundred thousand for a high-end version on the road!”
Yu Lili couldn’t help but express her amazement after learning that Yang Hao had promised to buy Meng Yuyu a Mercedes. She had specifically looked up the Mercedes models currently for sale and knew the approximate price of the Mercedes-Benz GLC.
This model has two types, the GLC260L and GLC300L; the 260L costs more than four hundred thousand on the road, while the luxury version of the 300L costs over five hundred thousand.
On the way here, Yu Lili still wondered if there would be any surprises when they picked up the car, but it seemed there were none as the vehicle was already waiting to be delivered. So, at that moment, she could only feel envious.
“Yang really is so generous!”
Yu Lili once again expressed her amazement.
“He said it was just a car for commuting…”
Meng Yuyu said with a laugh, shaking her head. She had initially thought the commuting car Yang Hao mentioned was a Mercedes-Benz C-Class.
Because the C-Class is cheaper, its lowest-end model is less than three hundred thousand on the road now.
Yet, the so-called commuting car in his words turned out to be a fifty-thousand-level car!
The two chatted for a while until a saleswoman dressed in a work uniform approached with a smile, “Miss Meng, I’m sorry to have kept you waiting. I will take you to inspect the car now.”
“Okay, sure.”
Meng Yuyu nodded and followed the saleswoman to the delivery center.
The car was a classic white, and Meng Yuyu carefully inspected her soon-to-be Mercedes following the procedures she learned from the internet.
Yu Lili assisted at her side, her eyes filled with envy.
The Porsche 4S shop where Feng Lina worked was about a kilometer away from the Hengxin Mercedes-Benz 4S shop.
She hadn’t been at the shop for long when Yang Hao arrived.
“Hao!”
As she knew Yang Hao would be coming, Feng Lina had been waiting at the door early.
When she saw Yang Hao yesterday, she was somewhat looking down on him a bit, especially because of what Liu Zifeng had said about this ‘Hao’ being rather pitiful.
But today, her attitude had completely turned around; she was now looking up to him.
“Hao, what kind of car would you like to see? Let me show you around,” Feng Lina said as she accompanied Yang Hao into the shop.
Yang Hao, however, waved his hand, “No need to look, I want a Cayenne, red one!”
“I’ve sent you the buyer’s identity information via WeChat. I’ll pay in full in a moment, and you can take care of the procedures and licensing, thanks for your effort!”
“Huh?”
Feng Lina was taken aback, then realized that her boyfriend’s wealthy friend was actually just there to make a payment.
“Can you deliver the car?”
Yang Hao then asked, as he was in a hurry today, needing to check in at the fitness center later.
In the afternoon, he had plans with the old employees from Yang’s Hot Pot.
“Of course!”
“Hao, please wait for me in the rest area,” Feng Lina said as she called the receptionist in the shop to take care of Yang Hao while she went to get the contract.
“Nana, what’s up with your customer there?”
“Is that about to sign a contract?”
Feng Lina’s colleague, Xiao Wenhui, drew near her side and asked out of curiosity.
“Not really a customer, just a friend.”
“Just here to make a payment,” replied Feng Lina with a smile, feeling quite happy. In the morning, when Liu Zifeng called, she hadn’t taken it too seriously.
She hadn’t expected Yang Hao to actually come, and to do so readily.
“Uh, Nana, this friend of yours is so wealthy!”
“What’s his story? Is he single?” Xiao Wenhui became instantly interested.
Porsche is known to say that every car sold means the loss of a female salesperson. Although this is an exaggeration, it does suggest that Porsche female salespersons have a significant chance of hooking up with the wealthy.
Of course, these female salespersons seldom end up as the legitimate partners, mostly being kept as mistresses, and many of their stories do not end well. Nevertheless, this hasn’t stopped these women from dreaming of joining the ranks of the wealthy and privileged.
In fact, female salespeople at luxury brands are arguably the most objectified, as they deal with wealthy clients every day, which inevitably influences their values over time.
They are somewhat like the elastic bands tied around crabs; given enough time, they start to believe they can be sold at the price of a crab themselves.
“Stop dreaming!”
“He’s my cousin’s boyfriend!” Feng Lina replied offhandedly.
She believed that although the relationship between Guan Mengmeng and Yang Hao was fake yesterday, with her cousin’s conditions and some effort, it wasn’t entirely hopeless.
As for this colleague, she doesn’t deserve it.
“Oh, is that so?”
Xiao Wenhui was somewhat disappointed, but her gaze still drifted towards the rest area from time to time.
Just a boyfriend, after all, you can get divorced after marriage; there’s still a chance to make contact.
Feng Lina returned to the rest area with the contract: “Yang, I’ve given you the lowest price, the biggest discount for the Cayenne is 100,000, so we can’t reduce the price of the car any further, but we can try to compensate with more gifts…”
Since he came to patronize her, Feng Lina was very sincere; she offered him the lowest price she could, so Yang Hao didn’t need to haggle any further.
“Mhm, just give me a total,” he said.
Yang Hao nodded, feeling a bit sentimental; the Cayenne, which used to require a premium just to get one, now had a discount of 100,000 — something he wouldn’t even have dared to think about in the past.
And the fall in prices of these international luxury car brands couldn’t have happened without the rise of domestic cars.
It wasn’t just the Cayenne that was dropping in price; even the Mercedes G500, which used to be marked up by hundreds of thousands to get, now had a discount.
Feng Lina did some calculations, and the final on-the-road price including the license was 928,000!
Seeing this price, Yang Hao felt another wave of emotion; the Cayenne, once so glorious, was now landing for less than a million. It was noteworthy that ten years ago, this car sold for over a million, showcasing the astonishing profit margins back then.
Yang Hao swiped his card and then walked away directly, leaving the rest to Feng Lina.
“Nana, your cousin’s boyfriend is just too extravagant!”
“To buy a Cayenne in less than ten minutes…”
After Yang Hao left, Xiao Wenhui came up to Feng Lina again and began to exclaim.
“Mhm, he’s not short on money.”
In fact, Feng Lina was quite shocked as well; after all, hearing about it and seeing it are different things.
What shocked her even more was the name the Cayenne was being registered under; she remembered that yesterday at the Western restaurant, her cousin Guan Mengmeng had a confrontation with Yang Hao’s ex-wife.
After leaving the Western restaurant, Liu Zifeng mentioned the name of Yang Hao’s ex-wife several times; she was called Li Manshu.
And the name that the Porsche Cayenne was to be registered under was Li Manni!
If nothing surprising happened, these should be sisters!
Feeling like she had stumbled upon a sensational piece of gossip, Feng Lina went to a corner where no one was around and called her boyfriend, Liu Zifeng.
“Yang just bought a Cayenne from me!”
“Wow, worthy of being my millionaire brother, he’s truly made it big!”
“That’s not the point, the point is the car is being registered under the name Li Manni; do you know this person?”
“Li Manni? That’s Hao’s sister-in-law! Oh wait, to be precise, his former sister-in-law!”
“I thought so…”
Feng Lina’s expression showed she had guessed right.
A man divorces his wife and then spends a fortune to buy a luxury car for his sister-in-law.
The more she pondered it, the more horrifying the plot seemed…
Thinking about it made it even more melodramatic…
“Damn!”
“My brother is playing a very new kind of game, huh…”
Liu Zifeng’s shocked voice could be heard through the phone.
“Huh, men!”
Feng Lina hung up the phone, thinking that she would have to inform her cousin about this situation.
This seemingly dependable Yang, behind the scenes, seemed to be a playboy who had a thing for sisters!
Yang Hao really couldn’t think of what else to gift Li Manni, and since Feng Lina mentioned buying a car on the phone, he simply decided to go with a car.
A few days ago, during dinner at Li Manni’s place, Xu Wenqian seemed to mention in passing that their newspaper office’s car pool was insufficient. Li Manni often had to catch cabs for news assignments, which, although reimbursable, was inconvenient. If she had her own car, the newspaper would still reimburse her for 1,500 yuan a month for gas costs.
So Yang Hao thought gifting Li Manni a car would be practical, as for the level of surprise,
a Porsche Cayenne was after all a million-level luxury car, which most girls should like. Even if Li Manni wasn’t materialistic, it shouldn’t affect her fondness for this car.
On the other hand,
Meng Yuyu had already started driving her brand new Mercedes GLC. As a beginner driver, she was quite nervous on the road and drove slowly.
But this did not affect her delightful mood, especially when she was waiting for traffic lights, she couldn’t help but constantly touch the three-pointed star on the steering wheel.
She then would recall the congratulations spoken at the car delivery ceremony: “Congratulations on becoming the distinguished owner of a Mercedes-Benz, may the tri-star guide your path and career!”
Women, after all, like this kind of ceremony.
Nowadays, 4S shops are very thoughtful too; not only is there a full sense of ceremony when delivering a car, but they also offer photography and video shooting services.
Meng Yuyu had already sent the delivery video to Yang Hao immediately, thanking him with a touch of coquetry while letting him know she had got the car.
Yu Lili, sitting in the front passenger seat, took a few selfies, preparing to post a Friends Circle update with photos of accompanying her best friend to pick up the car, putting on a secondhand ‘B’ appearance!
“Yuyu, where are we heading now?” Yu Lili asked while editing pictures ready to post on Friends Circle.
“To a design company called Visual Decoration, I’ve arranged to meet their designer.” Meng Yuyu’s eyes stayed fixed ahead as she responded.
“Is it for Yang’s mansion? I remember you said something about making a Convince Me video series, right?” Yu Lili asked, puzzled.
“That doesn’t conflict at all, and besides, Convince Me is just a gimmick. For such a large house, we can’t really follow netizens’ advice on everything, it’s enough to consider one or two feasible suggestions occasionally…”
“True that.”
Yu Lili nodded, thinking her friend’s rationale made sense.
Soon they arrived at the design company named “Visual Decoration”.
In a consultation room, Meng Yuyu met the designer “Aimee”, whom she had added on WeChat, along with an assistant named Li Manshu.