After walking a few steps down the street, Su Bai suddenly spotted an LV store.
LV—the famous brand he had heard so much about.
It was probably considered a pretty good luxury brand in girls' eyes.
Su Bai knew absolutely nothing about luxury goods. Before college, all he knew was studying, playing games, and scrolling through dumb videos.
Most guys in this era were probably like that, too. They were the basic building blocks of the hardworking masses.
But in girls' eyes, men like that were boring, even pathetic.
So furious. So shaken. So cold!
The reason Su Bai knew a little about LV was that, back in middle school, he had been bored out of his mind and read a Guo Jingming novel his deskmate had brought in.
The luxury brands listed off in it like dishes on a menu had shocked his young heart.
Since LV had the simplest name and logo, he remembered it. Besides, there was a girl his age who lived across from him back home. She had attended the same school as Su Bai since kindergarten.
They could barely be considered childhood sweethearts.
During summer break, she had nagged Su Bai for ages about getting a job to save up for an LV bag.
As for the outcome, he had no idea... That girl had fallen out with Su Bai over some inexplicable reason back in August. They had basically cut ties.
Su Bai felt nothing about it. He had not even remembered it until this moment, when he saw the LV store.
Su Bai also thought of the new function the system had unlocked earlier.
He had already tested it when buying pastries for his senior. He had spent a little over a hundred and received five hundred in cashback. It really worked.
He noticed that Zhou Jialu was looking in that direction as well, her eyes shining as she stared at the items on the mannequin in the display window.
"Senior, want to go in and take a look?" Su Bai wrapped an arm around her slender waist and got straight to the point. "I'll buy you a bag."
"Huh?" Zhou Jialu froze for a moment, then quickly waved her hands. "No need, right? My current bag works perfectly well, and I don't really have some urgent need to carry LV..."
"If there's no need, then we'll create one. Come on!"
Su Bai temporarily ignored his senior's opinion.
He took her hand and led her inside.
"Welcome to LV. Sir, are you shopping for your girlfriend?"
The saleswoman approached with a polite smile.
There was no clichéd scene of her looking down on them.
The main reason was that Su Bai carried himself with casual composure. He did not look at all like one of those poor students who came in just to gawk and bought nothing.
Although he was dressed simply, people could no longer judge someone's financial standing based solely on their clothes these days.
You had to consider everything.
Besides, the woman beside him was young, beautiful, and sexy. Even the saleswoman, who had seen plenty of beauties, could not help but brighten at the sight of her.
She was far better than those plastic-faced female influencers. She was practically a naturally born enchantress.
If a man could have such a stunning woman clinging to his side so affectionately, then logically speaking, he had to be quite capable.
"Yes, I'm picking out a bag for her," Su Bai said generously.
"Certainly, sir. What are you looking for? It would be best if you could tell me your budget as well. Our store has the most complete stock in all of River City, so we can find styles suitable for this young lady at every price point."
"What do you think?" Su Bai asked Zhou Jialu.
She thought for a moment. Not bothering to be pretentious, she said, "If we're buying one, it's best to get something with a high resale value, like a classic monogram style. It'll be easier to sell secondhand later. Haha, though I suppose you won't need to consider that, Junior."
"That's true." He added, "And if there happen to be any rare limited editions, we could get one of those too."
"Then let's go with limited editions. They might satisfy my collector's itch."
Su Bai had made up his mind. He turned to the saleswoman. "Show us the limited editions currently in stock with low market availability. As for the budget, anything under a million is fine."
"Certainly, sir."
The saleswoman did not take the claim of a million-yuan budget seriously.
But she did not show any contempt, either.
She merely kept her professional smile and led them over to look at several rare models that had recently arrived.
Their prices ranged from ten or twenty thousand to over a hundred thousand.
Customers had to be given a wide range of choices. Even if they ultimately chose the cheapest one and only claimed to have a generous budget to show off, you still had to satisfy their desire to show off.
The saleswoman thoughtfully reasoned as much.
After all, the man was the one paying. If he did not get his fill of showing off and turned around to shop at another luxury brand, would that not mean losing a sale for nothing?
This was the way of a gold-medal saleswoman!
The saleswoman estimated that this young man would probably buy his girlfriend something worth a few tens of thousands at most.
He was so young that he was surely a second-generation rich kid, maybe even third-generation. Since he was spending his parents' money, there was no way he could spend too much.
River City was just a standard second-tier city.
It was not like the capital or Magic City, where wealthy people were everywhere.
For so-called wealthy young masters, a monthly cash outflow of fifty thousand yuan was already considered proof of a well-off family.
And that "fifty thousand yuan" covered all their expenses. Only a portion of it could be spent on women.
The saleswoman's assessment was based on her many years of experience working at the counter.
However, Su Bai was destined to be beyond ordinary experience.
He leaned close to Zhou Jialu's ear and said, "Senior, listen to me. Don't worry about the price. Just pick what you like."
"...Junior, I know you're very pleased with me and very generous, but these are rare limited editions that only arrived by chance. They aren't the kind you can settle with twenty or thirty thousand. The good ones cost two hundred thousand..."
"Then two hundred thousand it is. As long as you like it, Senior. You know, aside from making me live frugally before college, my family had another requirement—never treat your woman poorly. Otherwise, it would be an insult to the family's honor."
Su Bai looked completely serious.
Zhou Jialu was left utterly stunned.
She could not help but start imagining things again.
Oh my God, this junior is even more unfathomable than I thought...
Honestly, Zhou Jialu had seen all of the rare limited editions the saleswoman brought out on Xiaohongshu before, and she had loved them dearly.
Clothes, bags, jewelry... They had always been things Zhou Jialu liked very much.
She admitted that she was a vain, shallow, materialistic girl.
There was nothing wrong with honestly admitting it. Most people in this world were like that deep down. They just refused to admit it because they were all too stubborn.
How many people were truly spiritually fulfilled and profound, anyway?
Material desires themselves were not scary, as long as they could be controlled.
As long as you kept yourself clean, did not mess around, respected yourself, loved yourself, and did not string people along, there was no problem!
That was more or less Zhou Jialu's outlook on life.
Now that she had already decided on Su Bai, when he told her to choose freely, she decided to listen even though she found it absurd.
"This one, this one... and this one! Mm, among these three, Junior, you can just pick one."
"You pick. The bag is for you to use, not for me to carry."
"Oh, come on. You'll have to look at me carrying it too, so I should let Junior enjoy the sight, right?"
Zhou Jialu held Su Bai's hand, her voice slightly coquettish.
That girlish manner of hers pleased Su Bai immensely.
He immediately waved his hand grandly. "I'll take all three. Charge the card."
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