Twenty Jin of Mount Wuyi Da Hong Pao, Worth One Hundred Million

Wang Meiqi nodded. "Perfect. I'll tell my family about us, too."

Lu Yuan didn't go straight to Wang Meiqi's home. Instead, he first stopped by the villa in the suburbs to pick up some Da Hong Pao tea as a gift for his future father-in-law.

About twenty minutes later, the two arrived at a rundown residential complex. Wang Meiqi explained to Lu Yuan, "The buildings here are quite old. Everyone living here is from a low-income household. People call it the welfare building. You can only live here; you can't rent it out or sell it."

Hearing this, Lu Yuan smiled. "It's fine! I don't have much else, but I have plenty of property deeds-enough to fill sack after sack. I'll give my father-in-law and mother-in-law two homes when the time comes."

The two chatted and laughed as they went upstairs.

Wang Meiqi knocked on the door. "Dad! I'm home!"

Before long, a kindly-looking middle-aged man opened the door and welcomed Lu Yuan and Wang Meiqi inside. Looking at the unfamiliar Lu Yuan, he couldn't help asking, "Meiqi, who is this?"

"Dad! This is my boyfriend, Lu Yuan." Wang Meiqi wore a blissful smile.

Wang Meiqi's father froze for a moment, his expression somewhat awkward, but he still invited them in. "Oh, oh, come on in!"

The apartment had two bedrooms and a living room. The sofa, coffee table, and everything else were somewhat old, while a dish of pickles and half a pot of thin congee sat on the kitchen table. Their living conditions were poor.

A refined young man wearing glasses and designer clothes was already sitting inside. He looked at Lu Yuan with some displeasure and complained, "Uncle! Auntie never told me Meiqi had a boyfriend!"

Wang Meiqi apologized. "Sorry, I never told my mom."

The refined man's gaze fell on Wang Meiqi as well.

Her long hair fell over her shoulders, framing a pure, lovely face. She had a pair of long, shapely legs and an exquisitely curvaceous figure. One glance was all it took for the man to find himself unable to look away. Today, no matter what anyone said, he would have Wang Meiqi as his girlfriend.

"Oh, well, it doesn't matter if you have a boyfriend. You're not married, so I still have a chance to compete fairly! Let me introduce myself. My name is Ma He. My family has practiced Western medicine for generations. In Magic City, everyone calls me Young Master Ma." Ma He held out his lecherous pig's trotter, intending to shake Wang Meiqi's hand.

Lu Yuan grabbed Ma He's hand and said, "Hello, I'm Lu Yuan. All the prominent figures in Magic City call me Chairman Lu."

Ma He glanced at Lu Yuan and the tea in his hand, then suddenly said sarcastically, "Oh? Chairman Lu? So you run your own business, brother? Bringing a few jin of lousy tea like that—you really don't take Meiqi's parents seriously, do you?"

"I'm only her blind date, but I'm more sincere than you. See that box of imported health supplements on the table? A lot of well-known Western pharmaceutical companies produced it together. It's imported, and one box costs hundreds of thousands. You're Meiqi's boyfriend, yet you brought tea worth only a few hundred yuan. Aren't you ashamed?"

He was comparing a box of imported health supplements worth a few hundred thousand to Lu Yuan's tea?

Lu Yuan snorted coldly. "This isn't ordinary tea."

"Oh, give me a break. There isn't even a name on the packaging. How good could it be?" Lu Yuan's explanation failed to convince Ma He, who shot back instead.

Lu Yuan was speechless. "Good tea doesn't need its name written on it for emphasis."

Ma He refused to let up. "I bet it's some no-name brand. As it happens, I have a friend in the tea business who's an expert in the field. I'll video call him and have him check whether it's genuine."

Seeing the tension in the air, Wang Meiqi's father hurriedly said, "Ah, forget it. At my age, what difference does it make whether I drink good tea or not? The young man meant well, and that's what matters to me."

But Lu Yuan had no intention of letting it go. He said casually, "Call your friend now!"

Ma He fiddled with his phone and soon got through to his friend.

"Uncle Qin, I'd like you to identify some tea for me. Please take a look at the tea in this plastic bag and see whether it's some no-name tea from a little workshop." As Ma He spoke, he shot Lu Yuan a provocative glance, as if to say he was about to expose him for what he really was.

Lu Yuan openly spread out the tea, then turned on his phone's video recording function and said to the middle-aged man on the video call, "Think carefully before you speak. I'll record your every word and action. If your appraisal is false, I'll post the video online and ruin your reputation."

The tea shop owner on the other end of the call immediately stopped daring to act recklessly. After examining the tea carefully, his expression grew increasingly grave, and cold sweat even broke out on his forehead.

Ma He pressed him. "Uncle Qin, is the tea that much trash?"

"Pfft! Trash? Do you know what kind of tea this is?" Mr. Qin, the tea shop owner, looked utterly speechless.

Ma He was dumbfounded. "Uh, wh-what kind of tea?"

"Tea leaves from the original Da Hong Pao mother trees on Mount Wuyi. Do you know what a mother tree is? Da Hong Pao from the mother trees is the highest quality, and they yield only one jin a year. A single gram of this tea costs a hundred thousand yuan, making one jin worth five million. And you're telling me it's trash? Besides, there must be a full twenty jin in that bag, right?"

"One more thing: Da Hong Pao from the mother trees can only be auctioned. It can't be sold on the market at all. It's especially prized by successful people of prominent social standing."

Uh...

Ma He's phone clattered to the floor. He was scared witless on the spot. Didn't that mean the bag of tea was worth a hundred million yuan?

Lu Yuan looked at Ma He with a faint smile. "Health supplements made by Western pharmaceutical companies worth a few hundred thousand, and you actually had the nerve to offer them as a gift?"

Ma He stared at Lu Yuan in bewilderment. "What do you do? How can you afford a hundred million yuan's worth of Da Hong Pao tea?"

Lu Yuan looked unfazed. "A friend gave it to me."

In fact, what Lu Yuan didn't say was that he had another 480 jin of Da Hong Pao mother-tree tea like this in his villa, all of it fine aged tea.

What did a mere twenty jin amount to?

"Heh, it's good tea, but unfortunately, you didn't pay for it yourself. Do you think Uncle Wang isn't worthy of something you spent your own money on?" Ma He pressed aggressively, still refusing to let up.

Seeing him target Lu Yuan like this, Wang Meiqi said angrily, "If you keep targeting my husband, get out of my home. I've only let you stay because I didn't want my mom to lose face in front of her old friend. If you keep harping on this, you're not welcome here."

Seeing Wang Meiqi favor Lu Yuan so openly, Ma He grew angry. "What exactly makes him better than me?"

"He's more handsome than you, richer than you, and a better person than you. What's more, we're childhood sweethearts. He's the one I've chosen for this life, and I won't marry anyone but him. Is that clear enough?" Wang Meiqi gave Ma He a cold look.