When Xiao Churan left the Xiao Group, she was bursting with excitement.
Tomorrow, Grandma would officially announce her new appointment. She could finally hold her head high!
At the thought, she couldn't help saying to Ye Chen, "Ye Chen, thank you! If you hadn't encouraged me, I wouldn't have dared take on this assignment."
Ye Chen smiled. "Honey, you deserved all of this."
Then Ye Chen added, "Oh, right, honey, this is such wonderful news. Shouldn't we celebrate?"
Xiao Churan nodded. "How do you want to celebrate?"
Ye Chen smiled and said, "Our third wedding anniversary is coming up soon anyway. Why don't we celebrate both together? I'll make the arrangements, so you don't have to worry about a thing."
Xiao Churan asked in surprise, "Are you planning a surprise for me?"
"That's right!" Ye Chen nodded and smiled. "I'm going to prepare a surprise for you!"
A sweetness filled Xiao Churan's heart. "Then I won't ask what it is!"
Ye Chen said, "No need to ask. Just wait and see!"
To prepare a special wedding anniversary celebration for his wife, Ye Chen considered many different plans.
They were all mainly about making it up to her. After all, he had been poor before, with no money to buy his wife gifts, and he hadn't even given her a proper wedding. Now that he had money, he had to make it up to her properly.
After parting ways with his wife, Ye Chen went alone to a jewelry store called the Jade Pavilion in downtown Jinling.
The Jade Pavilion was the most famous jewelry store in the area.
Gold, platinum, diamonds, jade and jadeite-it had just about everything.
Ye Chen wanted to buy his wife a gift first, then go to the best hotel and book a long-overdue wedding.
When Ye Chen arrived at the Jade Pavilion, the sales assistants saw that he was wearing Adidas with four stripes and couldn't be bothered to pay him any attention.
Ye Chen browsed on his own for quite a while and took a fancy to a jadeite necklace locked in a display case.
The necklace was made of the finest ice-type jadeite. Elegant and exquisite, it suited Xiao Churan's temperament perfectly.
Ye Chen checked the price: thirteen million. That was nothing to him.
He called over a sales assistant and said, "Hello, sorry for the trouble, but could you take this necklace out so I can have a look?"
The man glanced at Ye Chen and said, "I don't have the key. Our manager has it."
Then he spoke into his walkie-talkie. "Manager Wang, someone wants to see our store's prized treasure!"
Soon, a woman dressed in a particularly seductive style came hurrying over, excited. Her name was Wang Yan, and she was the sales manager here.
"Which distinguished guest would like to see the store's prized treasure?"
The sales assistant pointed at Ye Chen. "Manager Wang, it's this gentleman."
"What?" When Wang Yan saw Ye Chen, her face twisted in disgust, as if she had swallowed a fly.
How could a loser like this possibly afford the store's prized treasure?
At that thought, she immediately said to the male sales assistant, "Xiao Liu, are you fucking kidding me?"
He said, "No, this gentleman really does want to see the store's prized treasure."
Wang Yan cursed, "A loser like him can afford the store's prized treasure? Are you fucking blind? If you're blind, keep your mouth shut and get lost before you piss me off!"
Wang Yan prided herself on being an excellent judge of people.
She could tell at a glance what kind of person someone was and what they could afford.
So, with a single glance, she concluded that Ye Chen was nothing but a penniless bum, a stinking loser.
Never mind the thirteen-million-yuan store treasure-even if it were an ordinary necklace costing thirteen hundred, he definitely couldn't afford it!
Wasn't this a fucking waste of her excitement?
The male sales assistant was too cowed by her scolding to speak. Ye Chen frowned and asked her, "Aren't you open for business? I want to see this necklace. What's the problem?"
Wang Yan sneered. "We're open for business, but we don't do business with idiots. If you can't afford it, don't come here just to gawk!"
Ye Chen frowned and said, "What makes you think I can't afford it?"
"Heh!"
Wang Yan said with utter contempt, "This piece of jadeite is worth more than ten million. You're a stinking loser dressed in street-stall clothes. It'd be impressive enough if you could scrape together a thousand yuan. How are you going to buy it?"
Ye Chen sneered, pulled out the black card Tang Sihai had given him, and said, "Open your dog eyes and take a good look. The money on this black card of mine wouldn't just cover one of your jadeite necklaces. I couldn't spend it all even if I bought ten, a hundred, or a thousand."
"Oh, a Citibank black card worth ten billion, is it? Who would've thought a stinking loser like you would know to do his homework before showing off? Too bad you overdid it. Who would believe a stinking loser like you could produce a black card like that?"
Wang Yan folded her arms across her chest, looking haughty and utterly contemptuous.
Quite a few people nearby pointed and whispered contemptuously, "Aren't people like him shameless? He can't afford it but insists on showing off, and he even got himself a fake black card. How utterly embarrassing!"
"Exactly. He should know his place before showing off. Dressed like that, how could he be worthy of such exquisite jadeite?"
"I'm telling you, there are far too many idiots like this these days!"
Ye Chen glanced at Wang Yan behind the counter and saw her sneering at him with contempt written all over her face. He had made up his mind to teach this stinking bitch, who looked down on people through dog eyes, a good lesson!
Ye Chen took out his phone and called Tang Sihai.
"Come to the Jade Pavilion. I'm going to show them what it means to look down on people through dog eyes."
"No problem, young master. I'll be right there."
Wang Yan curled her lip and laughed. "You stinking idiot, you're addicted to this act, aren't you? Calling someone over now? Who do you think you are, some young master from a rich and powerful family? Hahaha, you're fucking hilarious!"
Ye Chen nodded and said, "I really am a young master from a rich and powerful family."
Everyone around them began talking at once.
"There's nothing wrong with being poor, but don't slap your face till it swells to look rich..."
"Haha, one look and you can tell he's no rich man, yet he's pretending to be a young master from a wealthy family. If he can get someone to come, I'll call him Dad!"
"I just want to see how this loser embarrasses himself!"
Hearing everyone take her side, Wang Yan couldn't help smiling. When no cash appeared, she wanted to see how that pauper would get himself out of this.
A few minutes later, several Rolls-Royces suddenly pulled up outside the Jade Pavilion.
Immediately afterward, eight bodyguards in black suits stepped out of the first two Rolls-Royces.
Each bodyguard had taut muscles, a solemn expression, and a cold, murderous aura. Even the atmosphere around them grew more oppressive.
The sight sent a wave of shock through the entire Jade Pavilion!
What important person had arrived with such a grand entourage?