Chapter 14: Shenhao System (14)

In the past, Bai Mu might not have been this hysterical.

But just this morning, she was still mocking Xie Shuling for having a useless daughter who squandered the family's savings, only to be slapped in the face in the blink of an eye—

That daughter might be a spendthrift, but she has money, having snapped up over five hundred apartments in Wanhua Residential Quarter in a matter of minutes. Now that the residential quarter is being demolished, Xie Yang, as the sole owner, can earn several hundred million just from this quarter alone.

Not tens of thousands, not a hundred thousand, but hundreds of millions!

Looking at her own family, where they will move next is an unknown.

The only three hundred thousand in savings was taken by her husband to play the stock market and is now completely trapped; if word of this reaches Xie Shuling's ears, who knows how she will be mocked!

"You spendthrift, you spineless coward! I must have been blind to marry you back then! A perfectly good life ruined by you! First, you lost money in business, causing us to lose our house. We finally managed to save a little money, and you went and got it trapped in the stock market again..."

"If you don't understand stocks, why are you blindly trading? Others have the ability to buy houses by trading stocks, do you? You just want to squander it as soon as there's a little money in the house, right? You'll only be happy when we're so poor we can't even afford rent, right?"

Bai Mu wailed while scolding, and finished by throwing and smashing things, making enough noise for the whole building to hear.

Bai Xuanxuan tried to persuade her a few times but couldn't stop her, so she ran out of the house in frustration.

Her father had taken all the family's money and tied it up in the stock market.

Now, let alone buying a house, even renting a decent commercial apartment was unlikely.

Perhaps her family would have to move to an urban village to live in a peasant house; what would her boyfriend think of her if he found out?

Other families were living better and better, so why was her family's situation reversed, getting worse and worse?

It would be one thing if they couldn't afford a house; after all, she was the woman's side, and it wasn't required that the dowry must include a house, but she couldn't stand the idea of renting and having to go to an urban village to find those cheap peasant houses.

Upon reaching the first floor, she found a corner and dialed her boyfriend's number.

"Xuanxuan?" Wu Tianyu seemed busy, his tone somewhat impatient, "What do you want?"

"Tianyu, I..."

Bai Xuanxuan had a lot she wanted to confide in her boyfriend, but she was interrupted just as she started:

"By the way, do you know Xie Yang? I remember your family lives in Building 6 of Wanhua Residential Quarter, so you must have been neighbors upstairs and downstairs; if you know her, help me introduce her, I have a project I'm urgently looking to cooperate with her on."

"..."

Xie Yang was currently at the most high-end shopping center in Nancheng selecting gifts for her grandmother's family.

After parking the car, she first went to a branded eyewear store on the first floor of the mall to pick out two pairs of sunglasses, one for each of them.

Now that she was a wealthy woman with a net worth of several billion, safety was the top priority when out and about.

She would find a reliable security company tomorrow to hire a professional team of bodyguards, but until then, she would wear sunglasses to cover her face.

Xie Shuling had never worn sunglasses and felt very uncomfortable for the moment.

But hearing her daughter say that it was easy to be recognized if she didn't wear them, and if someone had bad intentions and kidnapped one of them to extort money from the other, the money was a small matter, but if they killed the hostage...

She was so scared that she quickly held onto her sunglasses, determined not to take them off until they got home!

Xie Yang was amused by her reaction: "Mom, there's no need to be this nervous."

"How can I not be nervous!" Xie Shuling patted her chest.

Thinking that her daughter's assets now had to be counted in the hundreds of millions, her heart couldn't stop racing, and she stumbled over her own feet several times.

"Then shall we go eat first? You won't be nervous once you've had something to eat," Xie Yang suggested.

"Let's buy things first; it's not convenient to eat while wearing sunglasses. If it really doesn't work, we'll buy some deli food to take home after we're done shopping."

"That works too."

The mother and daughter took the escalator upstairs and went to the clothing section first to buy clothes.

The A Grade-A Office Building worth three billion that the Shenhao System rewarded Xie Yang with was right nearby, only a hundred-meter Walking Street away from the shopping center—truly a core location where every inch of land was worth gold.

"Hello, may I ask if this is Ms. Xie? I am Secretary Zhou to General Manager Guo. May I ask when you are free? General Manager Guo would like to meet with you to hand over the current leasing situation and relevant contract documents for Huanyu Guoji."

While picking out clothes, Xie Yang received a call from the secretary of the building's former owner, General Manager Guo.

She checked the time: "Is around eight o'clock tonight convenient?"

"Convenient, convenient. General Manager Guo is right on the 28th floor of Huanyu Building A. I won't disturb you further, see you at eight tonight!"

Xie Shuling was just about to pick out clothes for her parents, but seeing the price, she recoiled in fright. After her daughter finished the call, she asked in a low voice:

"The things here are too expensive. Why don't we go stroll through the night market instead?"

If it weren't for her daughter saying she would accompany her back to her maiden home the day after tomorrow, she would have wanted to buy them online.

Used to the convenience and affordability of online shopping and the cheapness of the night market, she hadn't come to a mall to buy clothes in many years. Just seeing the price earlier made her feel panicked—how could it be so expensive!

Xie Yang couldn't help but laugh: "Mom, if you don't like it, we can change to another store, but don't worry about the price. You forgot, once the demolition contract is signed, I'll have several hundred million coming in immediately. Buying a few pieces of clothing for Grandpa and Grandma at a night market stall—that wouldn't be appropriate!"

"Then I'll buy it?"

"Buy it!" Xie Yang said generously.

Xie Shuling picked out a set of silk-fabric Tang-style summer clothes for each of her parents; they were light, breathable, and had texture. Aside from being expensive, she was satisfied with everything.

"Let's pick out a silk scarf for your aunt and each of your two aunts-in-law. I won't buy things for your uncle and the others here; I'll go to the supermarket later to buy some Tobacco and Alcohol..."

"Mom, let's buy a bag for Aunt and the aunts-in-law each, and you pick one out for yourself too," Xie Yang suggested. "I'll buy the Tobacco and Alcohol for the uncles, and I'll buy them each a watch as well."

"..."

Before Xie Shuling could even think, she was dragged by her daughter to the luxury goods counter for a tour.

In a matter of minutes, they selected four popular women's handbags, and for the men in the family, they chose a Rolex watch for each that would hold and increase in value.

Seeing the long string of zeros on the price tags of the bags and watches, Xie Shuling's eyes widened:

"Yang Yang, this is too expensive..."

"It's okay, Mom. When we were poor, Aunt and the uncles supported us quite a bit. Now that we have the ability, of course we should repay them a little; that's what it means to have give and take."

After selecting the gifts for the elders, Xie Yang took her mother upstairs to the digital products section and bought the most expensive foldable screen phones for her cousins, as well as a high-performance laptop for each of them.

Passing by the smart watch counter, she bought a smart watch that could monitor blood pressure at any time for each of the elders in the family.

She had the receipt printed, paid the bill, and had the mall help deliver the goods to their door.

The mother and daughter then went to the food court on the basement level and picked out a few snacks that interested them for dinner.

"Mom, I need to go somewhere in a bit. Are you coming with me, or are you going home first? If you're going home, I'll call a car or find a designated driver to take you."

"I'll go with you." Xie Shuling was worried about her daughter, so she agreed to accompany her without even asking where they were going.

Thus, after eating and drinking their fill, Xie Yang took her mother to Huanyu Guoji, which was a hundred meters away.

Yep, she went to collect an office building!