[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-super-rich-by-doing-as-you-please":3,"chapter-super-rich-by-doing-as-you-please-super-rich-by-doing-as-you-please-chapter-40":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Super Rich by Doing as You Please",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1120608,1451,"Chapter 40: A Somewhat Guilty Li Jinshu","super-rich-by-doing-as-you-please-chapter-40",40,"\u003Cp>Li Jinshu left the hotel, still in her high heels. The discomfort from her first time made her walk a little unsteadily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She went to a nearby pharmacy, bought a box of morning-after pills and a bottle of water, then quickly swallowed one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are a million paths in life, but safety is always rule number one!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did she go to the roadside, hail a taxi, and rush back to Jinyuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood at the front door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinshu took a deep breath and checked her reflection on her phone screen. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, she opened the door and went inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as she entered, she saw Su Mu in sexy pajamas, lounging on the living room sofa and watching TV.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the coffee table sat a small but exquisite cake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was decorated with all sorts of diced fruits she liked—mango, strawberry, red grapes, cantaloupe, and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the noise, Su Mu turned her head. Seeing Li Jinshu was back, she smiled and asked, \"Why are you just getting back now? I tried calling you, but it wouldn’t go through. I was worried something had happened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, my phone died.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling a little guilty, Li Jinshu walked over to Su Mu’s side and said with a smile, \"Wow, is this cake for me? It’s beautiful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s your birthday today. You didn’t forget, did you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu smiled. \"There are still a few minutes until midnight. Quick, make a wish.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu helped her put the candles in, lit them, and then turned off the lights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinshu closed her eyes, clasped her hands together, and silently made a wish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she opened her eyes and blew out the candles in one breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu turned the lights back on and said, \"Happy birthday, Jinshu!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks, Susu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinshu smiled and asked, \"Do you want some cake? I’ll cut it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have it. I don’t want any.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, then I’ll have some myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinshu cut a slice for herself and, sitting next to Su Mu, began to eat it in large bites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all the exertion at the hotel, she was already quite hungry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You didn’t have dinner?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu asked curiously, \"You look starving.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinshu looked down and lied, \"Work was busy today, so I had to work overtime until just now. Then I went for some barbecue with my colleagues, but I didn’t get to eat much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You drank, too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu sniffed the air. \"I can smell alcohol on you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh, just a little.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anxious to change the subject, Li Jinshu spotted a shopping bag nearby and asked, \"Did you go shopping after work today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it was Su Mu’s turn to feel a little guilty. \"I felt like I had nothing to wear, so I just went to the mall and bought something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truth was, she had also forgotten it was Li Jinshu’s birthday at first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After following Xu Yun to the mall, she had pretended to go clothes shopping to get a look at that woman, Ning Qian, which had left her feeling rather unhappy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, she went by herself to the restaurant she had taken Xu Yun to last time, had a meal, and sat alone for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only on the way back that she remembered today was Li Jinshu’s birthday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then bought a cake, planning to come home and celebrate with her, but no one was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tried calling, but the call wouldn’t connect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next time you go shopping for clothes, remember to ask me to come along.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Jinshu said, \"Summer’s here, and I feel like I have nothing to wear either. I want to add a few things to my wardrobe.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, let’s find some time to go browse together soon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing her cake, Li Jinshu stood up and said, \"Susu, I’m a bit tired today, so I’m going to head to bed. I’ll clean this up tomorrow morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t worry about it. You go rest, I’ll take care of it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying that, Su Mu asked, \"By the way, you’re not going to shower today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nah, I’m too tired. I just want to sleep.\" With that, she faked a lazy stretch and a yawn before heading toward her bedroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Shower again?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I already spent an hour in the shower with a certain someone at the hotel.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If I shower again, my skin’s going to fall off.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From behind, the observant Su Mu noticed something unusual about Li Jinshu’s walk and asked with concern, \"Jinshu, what’s wrong with your leg? Are you hurt?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without turning back, Li Jinshu said, \"I was in a hurry walking back today, stepped on a watermelon peel, and accidentally did the splits on the spot.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"HAHAHA...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Su Mu couldn’t help but burst out laughing. \"Are you okay?\" she asked. \"How are your hips?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m fine, just a slight muscle strain. I’m sure it’ll be fine after a night’s sleep.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying that, Li Jinshu quickly escaped into her bedroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That was close. I was almost found out.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lying alone on her bed, she couldn’t help but recall the scenes that had unfolded between her and Xu Yun tonight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the bar, in the hotel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her face flushed red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’To think that what I’ve saved for so long was given to Xu Yun on my birthday, all because of a moment of impulse.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Susu, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to lie to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling a pang of guilt, she murmured, \"But I really couldn’t hold back. In my entire life, no one has ever treated me so well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pulling herself from her thoughts, Li Jinshu remembered she was supposed to send him a message to let him know she got home safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She picked up her phone, took a photo of herself on the bed, and sent it to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Xu Yun, I’m home. Good night!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[1 Image]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she held her phone and waited for a few minutes, yet Xu Yun didn’t reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Did he fall asleep that quickly?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the living room outside, Su Mu had no suspicions about Li Jinshu’s strange behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She just thought she must have had a tiring day at work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Otherwise, why would a night owl like her go to bed so early, and without even showering?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had always felt a mix of admiration and sympathy for her best friend, Li Jinshu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since college, she had known that Li Jinshu’s family wasn’t well-off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, her family didn’t treat her very well, prioritizing their son over their daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for her freshman year, she had paid for her living expenses and tuition for the rest of college through her own hard work at part-time jobs, supplemented by some scholarships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After graduation, she was lucky enough to find a decent company and successfully stayed in Jiangcheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been at that job for five or six years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But despite working so hard, for some reason, she still hadn’t managed to save much money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also why she didn’t dare to casually date.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also the reason she wanted to find a very wealthy boyfriend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Mu understood this completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And besides, if you ignored her family background, her own abilities and charm alone made her worthy of an excellent man!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why she never thought of her best friend as a gold digger or looked down on Li Jinshu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Li Jinshu just wanted to change her fate and not have to live such a hard life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had also thought about helping her out a little, but her offers were always rejected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Li Jinshu said that once money gets involved between best friends, the dynamic changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From then on, she never brought it up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, if she were to think of someone suitable for Li Jinshu, Xu Yun was undoubtedly the best candidate right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had even considered playing matchmaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But ever since the incident at Xu Yun’s house and the one at the office, she had given up on the idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s more, just today she had discovered Xu Yun being flirty with a saleswoman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After observing the woman, although she felt Xu Yun was probably just playing around for the novelty of it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...she knew that Li Jinshu’s values about love might not allow her to accept it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She, on the other hand, having been through a divorce, felt it didn’t matter and was very open-minded about such things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Xu Yun’s words, all that mattered was being happy in the moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a couple wasn’t happy together, they should just separate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this world, anyone can live without anyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought left Su Mu a little exasperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That Xu Yun... since he can’t have me, he just goes and gets a cheap meal on the side. Isn’t he afraid of getting food poisoning!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then she had another thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Men are men. Who doesn’t have needs?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And it’s not like I’m giving him any.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I can’t really expect him to stay home and take care of it himself all day, can I?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she thought about it, Su Mu couldn’t help but chuckle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned her head and looked at the clothes she had just bought today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Hmph, I’ll wear this to the office tomorrow and see how he reacts.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「 ... 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in the hotel, just as Xu Yun was about to fall asleep after Li Jinshu left, he got a call from his mom, Zhang Sujuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yun thought it was something important, but she just went on and on about how wonderful some girl living across the hall from her was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was clearly a ploy to drag him on a blind date when he next went back to celebrate her birthday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yun was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Me, go on a blind date? Now?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If I wanted to, I could bring home a whole truckload of potential daughters-in-law for her in minutes—enough to fill a mahjong table.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he just held the phone to his ear, letting her words go in one ear and out the other, not really listening at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he drifted off to sleep to the hypnotic sound of his mother’s voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Gucci employee dorms, Ning Qian wasn’t asleep either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She lay in bed, holding the small gold bar Xu Yun had given her that day, turning it over and over in her hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>grams. It didn’t sound like much, but at the market price of over 500 yuan per gram of gold, it was worth more than 15,000 yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The purse from before, and now this small gold bar... the two gifts together were worth nearly 40,000 yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had to admit, Xu Yun, that rich young master, was truly generous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’ve definitely hitched my wagon to the right person!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsewhere, Jiang Peiyao was leaving a bar with her friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was also a little drunk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, how many people go to a bar if not because they’re feeling down and looking for a way to let loose and relax?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting alone in the car on the way home, Jiang Peiyao stared silently out the window, not wanting to go back to her own house at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The image of Xu Yun spending money extravagantly at the bar tonight, along with her friend’s casual comments, replayed uncontrollably in her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Maybe I should ask him out for a meal the next time we meet for work?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Yes, just a meal. I don’t have any other intentions.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He bought so much gold from me all at once last time. As the store manager, it’s only right that I thank him.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「 ... 」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PS: Are you all just reading without saying anything? If you’re here, let me hear an \"Ah~\". I want to see whose sounds the nicest.\u003C\u002Fp>",1981,"2026-06-03T11:41:56.865Z","2026-06-03T11:42:07.885Z",1,"novelbin.me","5e1bf1dc6169b7841596d227c90fc0ebdcc7d393b896eaa0aabf814e70377c5f","super-rich-by-doing-as-you-please-chapter-41","super-rich-by-doing-as-you-please-chapter-39",284,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsuper-rich-by-doing-as-you-please-cover.jpg"]