The male was a lot older. He was in his thirties and had average looks, though one could tell that he was rich by looking at his branded clothing and accessories.
The two of them were walking hand in hand, and their gazes were focused on Han Yutong.
The female furrowed her brows, not sure if she got the right person. Meanwhile, the male was staring at Han Yutong passionately.
‘Masterpiece!’ He thought to himself.
“Lily, you… know this girl?” He asked the woman beside him.
“She looks familiar, like a classmate back in high school,” the woman said.
Han Yutong looked intensely at the woman, then said, “Ah! You’re Li Li?”
“Oh! It’s really you!” Li Li said as she looked at Han Yutong clothes. Her eyes flashed with envy.
They were indeed classmates in high school, but they had never shared a good relationship.
Women are easily envious when they see a more beautiful woman.
“So both of you were classmates! Introduce her to me, Lily!” The man smiled eagerly.
Li Li gave him a side-eye and knew what he was thinking about. She discreetly pinched his waist while feeling even more envious toward Han Yutong.
“Ouch!” The man yelped and learned to behave.
Han Yutong furrowed her brows. She did not look too happy.
Li Li was never her friend. Meeting her was bad news.
Chapter 188 - Buying Clothes
Li Li glared at the man next to her, then turned to look at Tang Hao.
She inspected him carefully, then furrowed her brows and looked elsewhere.
‘He’s too young to be her boyfriend. He’s probably her relative,’ she thought and did not mind him anymore.
Then, she looked toward Han Yutong and flashed a fake smile.
“Long time no see, Yutong! I haven’t seen you at the student gatherings!”
“I’ve been busy!” Han Yutong smiled obligingly.
“Oh!” Li Li replied, “I say, Yutong, are you here to shop? Didn’t I hear that your family isn’t very rich? Why, can you afford anything here?
“The things here are very expensive! They cost a few thousand yuan at minimum, and can easily cost five digits or more.” Her voice sounded mocking.
“This is my boyfriend! His name is Chen Bin and he runs his own company. He earns tens of millions every year!” She hugged the arms of the man next to her as she spoke.
The man smiled politely, though he was sneaking glances at Han Yutong’s beautiful and slender legs.
He became even more eager when he heard that she was not rich.
To him, girls like her were the easiest prey.
“Look at this bag and this dress. They’re all bought here,” Li Li boasted while holding up the handbag in her hands.
Han Yutong smiled stiffly. “The handbag looks nice.”
“It’s nice, right?” Li Li chuckled and said happily, “This handbag costs five thousand yuan! That’s about a month’s salary for office workers. My honey gave it to me as a present.”
“Five thousand yuan, that’s nothing!” Chen Bin added urgently.
“Isn’t that so!” Li Li said with a smile, “My honey is loaded. Five thousand yuan is nothing to him! Right, honey?”
“Yes, yes!” Chen Bin said with a wide smile on his face.
Li Li turned to look at Han Yutong again. “Where are you working now, Yutong? Do you have a boyfriend?”
Han Yutong looked awkward. “I’m an assistant in a company. The pay is alright, but I don’t have a boyfriend yet.”
Li Li was happier when she heard that.
Li Li was not as beautiful as Han Yutong, but she thought she was the far luckier woman. Ever since she became Boss Chen’s girlfriend, she enjoyed her life every day without needing to work.
Meanwhile, her high school classmate was still caught in the rat race. She had to work for a meager salary and did not even have a boyfriend. That was totally pathetic!
Her eyes oozed with pity as she looked at Han Yutong.
Meanwhile, Chen Bin began to look excited.
A beautiful lady like her did not have a boyfriend? That was his perfect chance!
He straightened his clothes and assumed a manly pose.
“What are you buying, Yutong? I can give you some recommendations. I’m very familiar with this mall and I know the prices of the things they sell here,” Li Li said, her tone of voice filled with arrogance.
“There’s no need to. I’m just here to buy a dress,” Han Yutong said.
“A dress? I remember there’s a boutique over there that sells cheap clothes. But you should know that the shops here are all high-class, and the cheapest clothes will still cost you almost a thousand yuan.
“I can bring you there! I’m afraid you can’t afford clothes from other shops!”
“It’s fine, really!” Han Yutong said.
At that moment, Tang Hao opened his mouth and spoke to Han Yutong. “Let’s go upstairs and take a look!” Then, he turned around and prepared to head up.
“Ha!” Li Li grinned, her face filled with mockery. “Are you sure you want to go upstairs? The most luxurious brands are there. They’re too expensive. I don’t think you can afford it!
“Even I don’t usually go upstairs! And you think you can go there? It’ll be a shame if you go there and look without buying!”
Tang Hao stopped walking. He turned around and gazed at her coldly. “You don’t have to follow us if you think that’s a shame!” Then, he turned around again and continued walking.
“You…” Li Li’s eyes bulged out of anger.
Han Yutong quickly ran forward to Tang Hao’s side and they stepped onto the escalator.
Li Li gritted her teeth. A malicious expression flashed across her face.
“Why are you standing there? Let’s go up! I don’t believe that they can afford anything upstairs!” Li Li yelled at Chen Bin, then stomped ahead angrily.
They went upstairs and looked around. All of the shops there were famous luxury brands.
“Let’s go to that shop first!” Tang Hao pointed at the Chanel store, then walked straight inside.
“Ha! Does he think he can afford Chanel?” Li Li laughed mockingly when she saw that.
She found it incredibly funny. Would people like them be able to afford Chanel? That was a big joke!
One of them was an assistant in a company, while the other looked like a poor kid at first glance. Could they afford it? Pigs could fly!
Even she did not dare to step inside!
She continued following them, preparing to watch the drama unfold.
“Are you sure we’re going in?” Han Yutong hesitated at the store entrance. She knew that Chanel clothes were very expensive. Something normal would cost tens of thousands.
An evening gown there would cost at least a hundred thousand yuan.
That was almost a year’s salary for her.
“Of course. We’ve gone around the floors below, and we didn’t find anything interesting, right? This shop should have what we want!” Tang Hao said and went inside.
Li Li laughed out loud when she heard that.
She had thought the two people were there just to look. The kid sounded as though he wanted to buy something from there!
“Ha! Are you out of your mind? You won’t even be able to afford a scrap of cloth here, let alone an entire evening gown! They might even throw you out of the store judging by how shabby you look!” Li Li said as she followed them inside.
Then, she clung onto Chen Bin’s arm and said fawningly, “Honey… Since we’re here, why don’t you buy me a dress?”
Then, she looked tauntingly at Han Yutong.
Chen Bin’s face darkened and nearly cursed out loud.
‘Didn’t I buy you a handbag just a few days ago? And now you want new clothes? Can’t you be a little considerate toward me?’
He looked at the beautiful woman in front of them. He did not want to lose face i
n front of her.
He struggled for a while, then gritted his teeth and nodded. He looked around and found the cheapest dress. “How about this one, darling?”
Li Li was happy until she looked around and saw that it was the cheapest dress there.
“That won’t do! It’s the cheapest dress.”
“Darling, the cheapest dress here already costs thirty thousand yuan!” Chen Bin said painfully.
He cursed in his heart, ‘I wouldn’t have bought you such expensive clothes if not that I wanted to impress that beautiful woman!’
“Fine! This dress then!” Li Li said somewhat unhappily.
They called the sales clerk over and said, ‘Wrap this up!”
The sales clerk carefully took the dress and placed it in a shopping bag.
Li Li glanced at Han Yutong again and said shrilly, “Have you seen enough? If you can’t afford it, then get out! Don’t stand there and make a fool of yourself!
“I wonder who it was that said that they wanted to come here to take a look? You’re poor and you can’t afford anything here!”
She took the shopping bag from the sales clerk and said to her, “I say, you’re a luxury brand store. How could you let those people in? They can’t afford anything here anyway, might as well drive them out!”
The sales clerk was surprised. She turned around and looked at Tang Hao and Han Yutong.
She glanced over Han Yutong, but she was visibly shocked when she saw Tang Hao. Then, her eyes bulged.
“Mr. Tang!” She greeted him eagerly.
Then, she went over and bowed at him, as though the boy was an important guest.
Li Li was dumbfounded when she saw that.
Chapter 189 - The Best Boss
“What… What’s going on?” Li Li was dumbstruck when she saw the scene in front of her.
Why was the sales clerk so courteous toward the kid? He seemed incredibly important!
‘There must be a mistake! We’re the important guests here! Didn’t we just buy a thirty thousand yuan dress? She wasn’t even that friendly!
‘That kid looks so normal. He doesn’t look like a rich person at all!’
Even Han Yutong was clueless about what was going on.
“Hey, what’s going on here? I’m a paying guest, but you’re so impassive toward us. How can you be so courteous toward those poor losers who can’t afford anything? Don’t you appreciate our business?” Li Li grumbled.
The sales clerk nearly laughed out loud when she heard that.
‘Poor losers who can’t afford anything? What a joke! Mr. Tang bought a dozen handbags along with many more shoes and clothes in his last visit. He spent almost a million yuan.
‘Furthermore, he did not even look the least bit concerned.
‘Now, this woman only bought the cheapest dress and is raising a fuss. Isn’t she ashamed of herself?’
She was laughing up her sleeve but maintained a professional appearance. “You are our esteemed guest here, Madam. Mr. Tang is our esteemed guest, too.”
“Pah! He’s an esteemed guest too? Has he ever bought anything in your store before?” Li Li mocked.
“Yes!” The sales clerk answered briskly.
Li Li was at a loss for a reply.
“So what did he buy? It must be something cheap worth a few thousand yuan, right?” Li Li said condescendingly.
The sales clerk shook her head and replied, “You’re mistaken, Madam. Mr. Tang spent nearly a million yuan in our store the last time he was here.”
Li Li laughed out loud. “That’s just a million yuan!”
Then, her brain finally processed what she was told. Her expression froze and her body stiffened.
Her eyes widened in increasing incredulity. “What did you say? A million yuan?”
Chen Bin also went slack-jawed.
The sales clerk nodded with a gentle smile on her face.
Still in a daze, they turned stiffly to look at Tang Hao.
‘Don’t tell me that kid has rich parents? He doesn’t look like he’s from a wealthy family at all! His clothes are too normal!’ They still could not believe it, and even found it to be ridiculous.
“You must be mistaken!” Li Li said, grasping at straws.
The sales clerk smiled gently. “I won’t mistake him for someone else,” she said as her disdain toward the two people grew.
“Please pay at the counter!” She said, then turned around and ignored them.
Li Li’s face changed several colors as she stood on the spot.
She had thought that the kid was poor, but it turned out that he was incredibly rich. That was a slap on her face.
She felt even more envious than before.
Han Yutong was more beautiful than her. She thought she would be better than Han Yutong by having a rich boss as her boyfriend. Now, it seemed that her high school classmate was somehow related to the rich kid.
She had thought that might be relatives. Now that she observed them closely, she thought that they might be a couple.
She glanced at Chen Bin next to her, then at the boy, and became more envious than ever.
Chen Bin was already over thirty years old and looked rather plain. The boy was young, handsome, and was equally as rich. That was a hundred times better than Chen Bin!
She tried to find consolation in the fact that Chen Bin was a self-made man and was in control of his finances. The kid should be receiving pocket money from his parents and probably had at most two or three million yuan in his bank account.
The sales clerk glanced at Han Yutong briefly and smiled at Tang Hao. “Mr. Tang, are you here to shop for this madam?”
Tang Hao nodded. “I want to buy an evening gown for her. The best one that you have.”
“Oh, evening gown! Coincidentally, an evening gown arrived at the store just a few days ago. It should fit her very well.”
Then, she turned around and went further into the store.
The store had several glass cabinets, each displaying a unique, exquisite evening gown.
Han Yutong stepped closer to take a look and exclaimed, “Wow, they’re all beautiful!”
Then, she saw the price tags and was shocked. Each one of them cost more than a hundred thousand yuan. The most expensive ones cost more than two hundred thousand yuan.
“What do you think about that one?” The sales clerk pointed at the dress in the middle cabinet.
In the glass display was a white low-cut evening gown. Even Tang Hao, who was not well-versed in modern fashion trends, gasped at its beauty.
“Not bad!” Tang Hao nodded and said.
The sales clerk looked at Han Yutong. “She has a beautiful body and a noble bearing. The gown should be a perfect fit for her.”
Han Yutong’s eyes sparkled when she looked at the evening gown. She loved it very much.
However, she balked when she saw the price tag.
That evening gown cost two hundred and twenty thousand yuan.
Meanwhile, Li Li became more envious when she looked at her.
“This one then!” Tang Hao said, “Right, we’ll need matching footwear and a handbag too. I trust you to pick whatever you think fits her best.”
The sales clerk led Han Yutong to another section of the store to look at accessories and soon they were done.
“That will be two hundred and seventy thousand yuan in total!”
Tang Hao took out a card from his wallet and handed it over.
Li Li and Chen Bin were stunned when they saw the card.
Especially Chen Bin, whose eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
He recognized that card all too well. It was the Black Gold card from Huaxia Bank. Even he did not have the qualifications to own one.
Li Li could not believe her eyes. She stood stiffly on the spot with a frozen expression.
‘Oh my god! That’s a Black Gold card! Even if the kid didn’t own it, it meant that he had access to a billion yuan!’
Her face turned pale as a shee
t.
She was mocking her high school classmate earlier, but she had realized that she had been the joke all along. She had utterly lost to Han Yutong.
Chen Bin also felt defeated. He had tried to flaunt his wealth in front of the beautiful woman, but it turned out that she had a richer boyfriend.
They two people paid and left defeatedly.
“She must be your girlfriend, right, Mr. Tang?” The sales clerk at the counter said enviously as she handed Tang Hao his card.
Tang Hao shook his head. “No, she’s my assistant and I’m her boss. I’m giving her her year-end bonus now!”
The sales clerk was stunned when she heard that.
“Year-end bonus?” Her jaw dropped.
‘Isn’t it only October? It’s still a long time before the year ends! Which company pays its employees such a big bonus anyway?
‘Mr. Tang must be the best boss in the world!’ She thought enviously.
After exiting the store, they continued walking around the mall. Han Yutong bought more accessories to complete her outfit, while Tang Hao bought himself another business suit.
“Alright, we’ll knock their socks off tonight!”
Tang Hao carried the bags full of clothes and accessories and left Zenith Plaza with Han Yutong.
Chapter 190 - Han Lu
Night fell.
In the countryside of Provincial City, a mansion was bustling with activity.
Cars regularly stopped in front of the mansion, and lavishly-dressed people stepped out of the cars. The males were all dressed in trim business suits and carried noble auras, while the females were dressed in elegant and beautiful evening gowns. Everyone was dressed for the occasion.
Soon, the entrance was packed full of cars and the scene became more crowded than ever.
The mansion was owned by Han Chenglin, the president of Yu Lin Group.
Yu Lin Group was a corporation with several billion yuan worth of assets. They might not be as big as the bigger companies like Tai An Group or Luo Enterprises, but they were quite famous and well-connected in Provincial City.
Many prominent people of the business world in Provincial City were invited to the dinner party that night.
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