CHAPTER 97: CHAPTER 97 SPOILING

Suddenly, she grew nervous and stuttered like a child caught stealing candy.

"Wh-what’s wrong?"

"It’s nothing."

Xia Liang felt somewhat helpless. This girl is too thrifty, he thought. Her salary isn’t even low right now. Even as an intern, I’m already paying her an advance of 8,000 Yuan. Yet, she can’t even bear to spend money on snacks she likes. The thought gave him a slight headache.

"Let’s go."

"Huh? Where?" Xi Yiqian asked, her gaze full of confusion.

Without another word, Xia Liang grabbed her hand and led her toward the snack aisle.

"Pick whatever you want. It’s my treat."

"There’s no need," Xi Yiqian said, quickly waving her hands in refusal. "Eating these will make me gain weight."

"Cut the nonsense! Just pick something!"

Seeing that she was about to refuse again, Xia Liang’s expression turned stern as he shot her a glare.

Frightened, Xi Yiqian immediately lowered her head and meekly replied, "Oh."

She began to browse the items on the shelves. Xia Liang wasn’t in a rush; he simply followed behind her while she picked things out at a leisurely pace.

Finally, from among the vast selection of snacks, Xi Yiqian chose a single bag of White Rabbit Creamy Candy.

"Just... just this one," she said, placing it in the shopping cart.

However, when she looked up, Xia Liang spoke coldly, "Push the cart and follow me."

"Oh."

Although she didn’t know what was wrong with him, Xi Yiqian obediently pushed the cart and followed behind Xia Liang to avoid making him angry.

She then watched as he began to frantically select snacks, tossing them into the cart without even looking. Before long, she noticed that the cart was already filled with more than twenty bags of snacks.

Xi Yiqian hurriedly tried to stop him. "That’s enough, that’s enough! We don’t need to get any more! This is plenty."

Xia Liang turned his head and said nonchalantly, "We should get more to stock up at home. With you, me, and Luu Qi, is this even going to be enough?"

If it had just been for herself, Xi Yiqian would have definitely said it was more than enough. But with Xia Liang and Luu Qi included, she found herself actively grabbing snacks and tossing them into the cart. In her heart, both of them were far more important than she was.

「Ten minutes later」

Xia Liang returned home, his arms laden with bags.

"Alright..." He gave Xi Yiqian a gentle pat on the head. "Go cook and wait for me. I’m going to pick up Luu Qi."

"Mhm," Xi Yiqian replied, her face flushed as she carried the groceries into the kitchen.

Watching her retreating figure, Xia Liang sighed to himself. The road to training her is long and arduous. I already told her not to blush so easily.

"I’m off!"

"Mhm, be careful on the road."

"Got it."

Xia Liang gave a wave over his shoulder and left the house with Xi Yiqian’s words of caution still in his ears.

Before heading to the café, he first went and bought a BMW A8. After all, with both Qingxue and Luu Qi to pick up, the two-seater Lamborghini Poison wasn’t going to be big enough.

When he arrived at Yunni Cafe, Qingxue and Luu Qi were just getting off work.

"Xia Liang?"

"Cousin!"

Seeing Xia Liang standing outside was a delightful surprise for both of them. They never expected him to come and pick them up from work.

"Let’s go!" Xia Liang didn’t say much, simply opening the car doors for them.

"Ooh, new car?"

At Qingxue’s words, Luu Qi finally noticed that Xia Liang had driven a different car today. Although it was also a BMW, it looked much more expensive than Qingxue’s.

She couldn’t help but say, "Bro, even if you have some money, you can’t be this wasteful. According to Sister Qingxue, you already have another car."

Xia Liang got in and fastened his seatbelt. "My fault, is it?" he said. "I had to get this one because of you. The last one only seated two people."

"Seated two people?" Sitting in the back, Luu Qi seemed to realize something. "Bro? Was it a sports car?" she asked excitedly.

"That’s right," Xia Liang nodded.

Luu Qi grew even more excited. "Bro, you have to take me for a spin sometime! I’ve never been in a sports car before!"

"No problem," Xia Liang readily agreed.

Luu Qi, however, had already started counting on her fingers. "A BMW must cost at least a million yuan. Add a sports car and a house... that has to be several million!" she concluded, her eyes widening as she stared at Xia Liang.

"Hahaha." Hearing this, Qingxue couldn’t help but laugh at Luu Qi’s expression, leaving the girl completely baffled.

"Sister Qingxue, what are you laughing at? Did I calculate wrong?"

"You did. It seems you don’t know your cousin very well," Qingxue said, deciding to tease her. She pointed at the watch on Xia Liang’s wrist. "I was with him when he bought this watch. Guess how much it cost."

Luu Qi looked puzzled. "It looks like a Rolex. Maybe... two hundred thousand yuan?"

"Nope," Qingxue shook her head.

"A million yuan?"

"Nope!" Seeing how conservative Luu Qi’s guesses were, Qingxue blurted out the price. "Twelve million yuan!"

Luu Qi gasped. The reaction gave Qingxue a little boost of confidence, since she had reacted the same way on the day they bought the watch. Seeing Luu Qi’s adorable shock, Qingxue decided to continue the game.

"Now, why don’t you guess how much your brother’s sports car is worth?"

Seeing Qingxue’s expression, which screamed, ’You’ll never guess,’ Luu Qi steeled herself and threw out a much higher number. "Twenty million yuan?"

That was the highest figure she dared to imagine.

Qingxue didn’t answer immediately, instead patting her on the shoulder. "Not bad, that was a bold guess. But you’re still a bit low. It’s sixty-five million."

"What? Sixty-five million?" Luu Qi’s eyes bulged, and her shout nearly blew the roof off the car.

"Keep it down," Xia Liang grumbled.

Luu Qi paid him no mind, her gaze fixed on him as she took deep breaths. I originally thought Xia Liang had just come into a small fortune, but this... this is something else entirely. Good grief, a sixty-five-million-yuan car! You’d need assets in the billions to spend money so frivolously, right?

Thinking of this, Luu Qi couldn’t stop herself from asking, "Okay, Bro, what’s your actual net worth now? Give your little sister a ballpark figure!"

My net worth? Xia Liang thought for a moment. Right now, I have over 200,000 yuan in savings, a Lamborghini Poison, a mansion, a hotel, a five-million-yuan shopping card, ten buildings, and an entertainment complex. It’s not that much, really. Nothing worth showing off.

So he just said casually, "It’s not a lot. Just like you thought, my savings are in the five-figure range."

Five figures! A ten-thousandaire! Ten thousand!

The words struck Luu Qi like a hammer, making her head spin. This left her giggling foolishly for the rest of the drive.

"Hehe... my brother is a ten-thousandaire!"

"Hehe... a ten-thousandaire."

Seeing her like this, Qingxue couldn’t help but worry. "Luu Qi, are you okay?"

Xia Liang glanced back at her. "Don’t worry about it. She’s just a little too excited."

After a while, the car arrived downstairs from Qingxue’s apartment building. Luu Qi finally snapped back to normal, and Qingxue extended an invitation to them both.