Don't Call Me Brother If You Don't Spend Thirty Million in a Month

The shop owner collapsed onto the floor, her eyes vacant and lifeless. She gathered up her shop's belongings in a sorry state and left Yida Shopping Mall, utterly miserable.

The other merchants in Yida Shopping Mall had no sympathy for her. She had brought it all on herself.

"Serves her right! That's what you get for worshipping foreigners and sucking up to them! Happy now? You can't run your shop anymore!"

"We were right to drive out someone who worships foreigners like that. Make her get out of Magic City and out of Yida."

"She even called our Chairman Lu a poor wretch. She has eyes but can't see! If she's blind and ignorant, she should just admit it. Do you know how much Chairman Lu's clothes cost? Just one of his socks is enough to buy several apartments in Magic City!"

"Is someone like Chairman Lu even qualified to be judged by an ant like you?"

After learning who Lu Yuan was, all the merchants spoke up for him. Taking advantage of the crowd, Lu Yuan addressed them all. "From now on, Yida Shopping Mall will no longer lease space to merchants selling Apple phones. As for those selling other foreign goods, if any of you are caught worshipping foreigners and sucking up to them, you'll all be thrown out!"

A group of merchants hurriedly assured him, "Chairman Lu! We'd never worship foreigners and suck up to them like that stupid bitch. Don't worry, Chairman Lu. We're all descendants of Yan and Huang from Huaxia. We love our country."

A few merchants who sold phones also approached Lu Yuan. "Chairman Lu! Did you bring your little sister here to buy a phone? You girls are so pretty. What kind of phones do you like? Tell Auntie, and I'll give you a few."

Lu Yuan rubbed his nose. "Wouldn't that be inappropriate?"

"Chairman Lu! What's inappropriate about it? All of Yida belongs to you. We all rely on your Yida to do business. How much could a few phones possibly cost?" The middle-aged woman was all smiles.

The other phone merchants were unwilling to fall behind. "Chairman Lu, Chairman Lu, take a look at mine. They're free too. Take whatever you like. We hope you'll let us keep running our shops in Yida Shopping Mall smoothly in the future."

Lu Yuan took it all in. This was the benefit of social standing: when people needed something from you, they would try every means to curry favor with you.

His sister Lu Shishi and her classmates could hardly take any more.

Lu Shishi's heart pounded. "Brother! Besides being the chairman of Tomson Riviera, you're also the chairman of Yida Shopping Mall? Doesn't Yida Shopping Mall belong to Young Master Cong's family?"

Lu Shishi's astonishing words left Yida Shopping Mall so silent that a pin drop could be heard.

A stream of astonished gazes fixed on Lu Yuan, all filled with disbelief.

What the heck?! Chairman Lu was also the chairman of Tomson Riviera?

Everyone in Magic City, rich or poor, knew something about Tomson Riviera. Naturally, the change in its chairman was old news.

Back then, they had heard that a mysterious tycoon had bought five hundred school district housing complexes across the country. The news had caused a sensation throughout Magic City.

But no matter how hard they racked their brains, they had never imagined that Tomson's chairman was their own new chairman.

With so many eyes on him, Lu Yuan rubbed his nose awkwardly and said to Lu Shishi, "Honestly, you! Can't you learn from your brother and be a little more low-key and modest? You go around telling everyone everything!"

Lu Shishi made a face and teased him. "Brother! Ever since you got rich, how can you say with a straight face that you're low-key and modest? Doesn't it go against your conscience to say that?"

Lu Shishi didn't think Lu Yuan was low-key at all. First, he had spent 1.83 million on a meal and ruined Zhang Jiaojiao's school admission celebration. Then he had donated six million to her school, bought 930,000 yuan's worth of cosmetics for her dorm, beaten Brother Long to a pulp, and trampled Master Tian underfoot. Which of the things her brother Lu Yuan had done was low-key?

Lu Yuan coughed and said helplessly, "I want to keep a low profile too, but my strength won't allow it!"

"Oh, get out of here. Give you an inch and you'll take a mile."

Now that the merchants present knew who Lu Yuan was, they were even less willing to pass up the chance to curry favor with him. "Chairman Lu! If you or your sister want snacks, clothes, pants, or a new computer in the future, just come to Yida Shopping Mall and get them from us. They won't cost you a cent. Take whatever you like."

Quite a few people there had already begun stuffing things into Lu Shishi's bag.

Lu Yuan knew they had an ulterior motive, but he wasn't stingy either. "All right! I won't let my sister and her roommates take your things for nothing. From now on, your annual rent will be halved. Everyone who runs a shop in my Yida Shopping Mall will receive a medical card allowance of 500,000 yuan a year."

Lu Yuan had no real concept of what the rent and those medical cards were worth. In any case, with the Chinese and Western Medicine Association, Yida Shopping Mall, and five hundred school district homes across the country, he had long since achieved financial freedom.

The rent he'd be giving up was just a drop in the bucket.

The merchants were all deeply grateful. "Thank you, Chairman Lu!"

Looking at the enormous mall, Lu Shishi felt as if it were all a little unreal. "Brother! Can I really come to Yida and take whatever I want from now on? That's amazing!"

Lu Yuan tapped her nose. "I put a hundred million yuan in your card as spending money, and you live in Tomson Riviera. Look at you, getting excited over this."

"Brother, I went from poor to rich. I... I'm still not used to it. I'm afraid that once I spend it all, it'll be gone... I feel safer keeping the money in my card. You spend money so freely every day, a little here and a little there. How will you ever afford to marry me a sister-in-law? I'm saving a little nest egg for you too!" Lu Shishi pouted, looking adorable.

Lu Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. All his assets combined were worth nearly tens of trillions.

Never mind this lifetime—he couldn't spend it all in his next life or the one after that!

Lu Yuan corrected her. "Shishi, money isn't for saving. It's for spending. The more you spend, the more you have. I have to give you a serious scolding for thinking like that. You're a tycoon's sister now, so you have to act like one!"

"I'm setting you a target: spend one million a day and use up thirty million in thirty days. If you can't spend it all, don't call me brother!" Lu Yuan kept a straight face, looking utterly serious.

If Lu Yuan didn't say so, his sister would probably keep being reluctant to spend money. He wasn't afraid of her spending too much, either. What was there to fear? If the money ran out, he could always go out and touch something. There was nothing he couldn't get for free with a touch.

Huh? What was that? If she couldn't spend thirty million in a month, she shouldn't call him brother? Was that something a human being would say?

Quite a few young merchants, men and women alike, joined in the fun. "Chairman Lu! Do you need another little sister? I can spend thirty million in a month."

"Chairman Lu, do you need a little brother? I can spend three hundred million in a month!"

Lu Shishi clasped her little hands together, cold sweat covering her forehead. Looking miserable, she said, "Brother! I... I'll do my best..."

Lu Yuan looked at his sister's roommate, Qiu Qianqian. "Qianqian! I have a task for you too. Keep an eye on my sister's spending and make sure she spends more each month. If she can't spend it all, you can help her."

"Ah, Brother, I... I..."