CHAPTER 169: CHAPTER 38: ROYALTIES RECEIVED, RENTING AN APARTMENT, AND HOUSE HUNTING WITH RONG XIYI

Xu Lin saw the royalty payment arrive, and quickly opened the message.

His savings now amounted to over 570,000, and suddenly increased by 630,000, several thousand more than his original savings.

For a man with a "golden finger," it’s been over four months since he bound it, and his savings just barely reached a million. If it were the wealthy system next door, he would have reached a billion in four months, with various company shares and fixed assets, and he’d be embarrassed to go out without driving a Lamborghini!

Xu Lin’s progress can be considered low-profile.

Seeing the transfer, Xu Lin clicked on the ICBC app.

Logged in with face recognition.

Xu Lin counted the digits.

Six figures!

In one go!

Xu Lin was quite excited inside.

He took a look at his current wealth.

[Wealth: 1,208,364.68 yuan.]

Total savings of 1.2 million!

Now that he had money, Xu Lin immediately opened a car app to start looking at cars.

Then Xu Lin went from looking at cars worth 400,000 to supercars costing over a million.

"Forget it, I’ll save buying a car for later!"

Xu Lin looked around. Initially, he wanted to buy everything, but after about ten minutes, he felt he wasn’t really in the mood to buy a car now. He missed his electric bike back in Jiangzhou, which he could use to take girls around, rather than the four-wheelers that don’t offer the same experience.

Xu Lin is also a man who has driven a Maybach s680 and a Panamera.

"Checking out houses is an option!"

Xu Lin planned to rent a house, so he could stay over on weekends or other holidays and wouldn’t need to find hotels all the time. He could just go straight to the rental place.

So, Xu Lin opened the house-hunting app and clicked on the rent section.

Then Xu Lin started searching for duplexes.

Xu Lin always had an idea of one day living in a house with stairs.

We won’t talk about self-built houses in rural areas, and villas are naturally out of the question, as he can’t afford them. Even if he had money, there’s no need to rent one.

In the city, houses with stairs, loft-type, or duplex apartments, are worth a try.

Xu Lin specifically looked for rental listings of duplex apartments.

Soon, he contacted an agent and asked her to recommend some listings.

Rent?

Xu Lin demanded anything over three thousand.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. How can a five hundred a month downtown village house compare to three thousand a month places?

Xu Lin thought about having over a million in his pocket right now, and highly likely receiving a few million in royalties next month, so he figured he should at least live somewhere decent.

A duplex is more expensive than a regular apartment, and Xu Lin also wanted a larger area. The total area of the two floors should be at least sixty square meters, otherwise it wouldn’t be comfortable to live in. Too small feels a bit claustrophobic.

The psychology class had ended, and there was no need to switch classrooms for the next class, which would continue here.

Rong Xiyi, bored from watching short videos, glanced over.

"You want to rent a house?"

Seeing Xu Lin discussing rental matters with an agent, Rong Xiyi couldn’t resist her curiosity.

"Yes."

"Why rent a house? Aren’t you staying at the university?"

"Just to stay over during weekends or other holidays."

"Oh."

Rong Xiyi continued, "So are you planning to live with Ning Yuhuan?"

"Isn’t cohabitation normal when you rent a place?"

"Tch!"

Rong Xiyi didn’t want to deal with Xu Lin anymore, but she felt a bit irritated inside.

In the following two classes, Xu Lin asked the agent to recommend five duplex listings, then Xu Lin selected three that he planned to check out that night.

Xu Lin messaged Ning Yuhuan: "Are you free tonight?"

"No, I have an important assignment to work on tonight!"

For a top student like her, it would be strange if she wasn’t busy.

Rong Xiyi, sitting nearby, glimpsed at their chat but didn’t say a word.

It wasn’t until just before the noontime break that Rong Xiyi finally spoke, "Going to check out houses tonight?"

"Yes."

"Want me to accompany you tonight?"

"What are you up to?"

"Maybe I want to seduce you, okay?"

"Really?"

Rong Xiyi reached over and pinched Xu Lin’s thigh.

"You’re incorrigible!"

She glared at Xu Lin.

The first class in the afternoon was political economics, discussing Marx’s ideas.

Xu Lin flipped through the book and memorized it all.

In fact, this course was quite straightforward.

Soon it was time for the physical education class.

As the first university PE class, everyone was quite looking forward to it.

Probably because they’d been cooped up in the classroom for too long, they finally had the chance to relax in PE class.

Liu Longsheng changed clothes, donning a Kobe jersey, and as soon as political economics ended, he executed a handsome shooting pose in the classroom.

"Liu Longsheng, so cool!"

A girl shouted.

In fact, there were several girls in the class who liked him, one of whom was quite pretty. However, Liu Longsheng wasn’t interested.

The person he liked was Rong Xiyi, but Rong Xiyi didn’t care for him at all, not even having him on her chat list.

In short, it was a sad story.

Since it was PE class, many people changed into sportswear.

Especially among the girls, a lot of them changed clothes.

For example, Li Sinan, second only in looks and figure to Rong Xiyi, wore a t-shirt on top and yoga pants below, but also a pair of ultra-short sports shorts over them, which was very eye-catching.

She also had an excellent figure, and several boys in the class liked her, with even more across the whole major.

Moreover, Li Sinan knew how to present herself, so now quite a few people were familiar with her, and even more boys liked her.

In terms of university reputation, Li Sinan was more famous in Finance University than Rong Xiyi, currently just slightly behind those dozen or so girl internet celebrities.

Finance University had a dozen or so girl internet celebrities, each with over 200,000 followers, two of whom had over a million followers.