Fawning Over Foreign Things, and You Want to Open a Shop in Yida Too?

Liu Dongfeng collapsed to the floor like a boneless heap, not a trace of life left in his eyes. It was over, all over. For the sake of his damned pride, he, Liu Dongfeng, had provoked Lu Yuan again and again, and his future was ruined.

Liu Dongfeng regretted it so bitterly that his guts were turning green, but no matter how much he regretted it, nothing could be done. His remorse had come far too late.

After Lu Yuan signed the contract for his shares in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, someone from the Western Medicine Association also brought him a contract. Once he had signed everything, Lu Yuan said to his sister, "Your roommates really helped us out this time. Come on, I'll take you to see them, and then I'll take them to buy phones."

Lu Yuan took his sister to the hospital where Qiu Qianqian was staying. Thanks to Young Master Cong's arrangements, the girls were all in a deluxe ward, and their injuries had been properly bandaged.

When Young Master Cong saw Lu Yuan arrive, he said, "Brother Lu, you're here? I've got something to do, so I'll be going!"

"Go on back, Young Master Cong. Sorry for the trouble this time."

"How are you? Does it still hurt?" Lu Yuan asked with concern as he walked over to the beds.

Qiu Qianqian shook her head and said to Lu Yuan, "Brother Lu, it doesn't hurt anymore."

"That's good. Come on, I'll take you all to pick out some phones."

His sister's roommates all turned their eyes to Lu Yuan's face and asked, "Brother Lu, how much can we spend on a phone?"

Lu Yuan said casually, "Any price is fine!"

With the assets of Lu Yuan's companies and the money in his bank account, he could buy an entire large phone factory without a problem. He was hardly short of that little bit of money.

The lips of one of his sister's roommates moved, and she said timidly, "I... I'd like an Apple phone. Is that okay, Brother?"

An Apple phone? It was a phone from Rice Country, and Lu Yuan wasn't particularly fond of them. But since his sister's roommate liked them, he agreed. "Sure, go ahead and pick one!"

Lu Shishi's roommate was a little surprised. She had thought Lu Yuan wouldn't agree, since a good Apple phone cost seven or eight thousand yuan, or even tens of thousands.

The woman at the Apple phone counter glanced at Lu Shishi and the others. Judging by how they were dressed, they didn't look rich. Cracking sunflower seeds and slurping down river-snail rice noodles, she spoke in an extremely nasty tone. "Girls, don't touch them if you're not buying. If you lay a hand on one, you'll have to buy it."

His sister's roommate hadn't even touched the phone yet. At those words, she withdrew her hand with a tremble.

Lu Yuan had brought the girls from his sister's dorm to buy phones so they could relax, not to be treated like this. The shop owner's words made his anger flare. "What do you mean by that? Are you trying to force us to buy something?"

"I wouldn't call it forcing you. Just look at how shabbily you're dressed. If poor people like you touch the phones, will the rich customers still want them? How am I supposed to sell them to anyone else?"

Lu Yuan couldn't help finding it a little funny. "The clothes I'm wearing are a top domestic brand. Don't you recognize them? You're calling me poor when I'm dressed like this?"

The fat shop owner didn't see it that way. She looked at him with a sneer. "How much can a domestic brand be worth? You're just some poor bastard who can't even afford foreign goods."

Lu Yuan was speechless. Sure enough, some people had long hair and short wits. A single pair of his socks cost more than many top foreign luxury brands, and his entire outfit was worth nearly enough to buy a whole foreign luxury-goods factory. Yet someone could still call him poor. It was utterly ridiculous.

A cold smile appeared on Lu Yuan's lips. "Heh! If you worship foreign things so much, why open a phone shop in Yida Shopping Mall? Get yourself abroad! What, couldn't get a foreign green card? Wouldn't they have you?"

"You were born in Hua Country. How dare you say things from Hua Country aren't good?" Lu Yuan pressed her with an icy stare.

The commotion also attracted quite a few shop owners from other stalls. They all looked at the woman with strange, disdainful, mocking expressions.

The shop owner felt uncomfortable all over under their gazes. "I... I... where I open a shop and make money is none of your damn business! Are you buying a phone or not? If you're not, don't stand there blocking my business."

Lu Yuan sneered. "You've offended me, and you still want to keep doing business here?"

Without another word, Lu Yuan picked up an Apple phone from the display counter and slammed it hard against the floor. Then came a second, a third...

Lu Yuan called to his sister's roommates, "Touch whatever you like. You can even smash them. I'll pay for them afterward!"

"Brother Lu, can we really?"

"Yes!"

With his sister's roommates joining in, they smashed more than fifty Apple phones in total.

When the shop owner saw so many phones being smashed, she acted as though someone had killed her own mother. She screamed hysterically at Lu Yuan, "You... you actually dare smash my phones? They're over ten thousand yuan each! Pay me five hundred thousand! Pay me five hundred thousand..."

"Everyone, come and stand up for me! Look at these young people, bullying a middle-aged woman like me and smashing my phones! Is there any law left in this world? Everyone, hurry and film him and post it online! Get him thrown in jail!"

The shop owner pounded the floor, crying and throwing a tantrum.

Lu Yuan transferred all the money from one bank card to his other cards, leaving only five hundred thousand yuan in it. Then he swiped the card through the POS machine.

"Card payment: five hundred thousand yuan!"

Five hundred thousand was nothing to Lu Yuan. It was worth that little bit of money to let off some steam.

After swiping his card, Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly and said to the Apple phone shop owner, "All right, I've paid you five hundred thousand. Now pay me the next five years' rent for your shop. And you've been cracking sunflower seeds and eating river-snail rice noodles here, seriously affecting the customers' shopping experience, so pay the fine too."

"Five years' rent comes to two and a half million yuan, and the fine is one million. You can choose not to pay, but if you don't, move out right now. Yida Shopping Mall won't rent to you anymore!" Lu Yuan's voice was ice-cold.

Unwilling to accept it, the shop owner said, "What gives you the right to make me move out?"

Just then, a voice rang out, leaving the shop owner utterly dumbfounded.

"Because he's Lu Yuan, the chairman of Yida Shopping Mall!"

Lu Yuan, the chairman of Yida?! Cold sweat instantly poured down the shop owner's forehead. Remembering how she had mocked and sneered at Lu Yuan earlier, she now felt like a complete idiot.

"Chairman, I... I really didn't know you were the chairman... I... I don't want the compensation for the Apple phones anymore. Please don't drive me away, all right?"

"Chairman, are you and the girls with you still buying Apple phones? I... I can pay out of my own pocket and give you a few."

Lu Yuan refused outright. "Heh, too late. Either pay the rent or get out of Yida Shopping Mall. You don't have a third choice."