CHAPTER 36: CHAPTER 36 I GUARANTEE YOU’LL BUY A BMW WITHIN SIX MONTHS

"Qian Qian!"

"Why are you here?"

Su Zimo immediately pulled away from Su Xuan’s embrace. She wanted to wipe her mouth but couldn’t bring herself to do it.

"I came to get my living expenses from my dad!"

The newcomer was Ye Qianqian. She was wearing a loose cartoon T-shirt, tight-fitting jeans that hugged her figure, and two cute pigtails that made her look youthful and charming.

"Living expenses?" Su Zimo didn’t understand Ye Qianqian’s family situation.

"Yes." Being the straightforward person she was, Ye Qianqian didn’t hide anything. "I’m from a single-parent family and can’t earn money myself, so I have to ask my dad for it!"

"So, did you get it?" Su Zimo asked with concern, taking Ye Qianqian’s small hand. Ever since she first laid eyes on Ye Qianqian, the little girl who had cut her own wrist, she had felt an inexplicable sense of affection and pity for her.

"I got it!" Ye Qianqian smiled mysteriously and pointed to a sign in the shopping mall. "That’s my living expenses!"

"Ha!"

Su Xuan and Su Zimo both looked over. It was the sign for a movie theater.

Did Ye Qianqian ask her dad for a whole movie theater?

"It’s like this," Ye Qianqian explained. "Besides his main job, my dad also runs a cinema chain. He owns three or four theaters, and this is just one of them. Now it’s mine!"

"That’s incredible!" Su Zimo exclaimed. "You’re the boss of a movie theater now!"

"Hehe!" Ye Qianqian lifted her chin and announced magnanimously, "Come on, I’ll treat you to a movie!"

With that, she began pulling Su Zimo and Su Xuan toward the cinema.

"Wait a minute, I still have to pack up my things." Su Zimo quickly turned to grab the phone and voice recorder she had just used to interview Su Xuan.

"Qian Qian, I’m glad you and your dad have reconciled," Su Xuan said to Ye Qianqian while Su Zimo was busy. He knew a fair bit about her family situation.

Ye Qianqian’s father had fallen in love with another woman and divorced her mother. This led to her mother falling into a deep depression. She then went traveling alone, had an accident, and died. However, Ye Qianqian always said her mother couldn’t cope and had actually taken her own life.

"Hmph! I wouldn’t call it reconciling!" Ye Qianqian pouted. "My dad’s just afraid that vixen will swindle him, so he wants to transfer some of his assets. I just happen to be his safest choice!"

"In any case, you’re a little rich lady now!" Su Xuan smiled warmly and patted her shoulder.

"Hehe!" Ye Qianqian wrapped both her hands around Su Xuan’s arm and grinned. "Well then, can this little rich lady... *keep*... keep you in movies for a lifetime?"

"Sure thing!"

With happy smiles, Su Xuan, Ye Qianqian, and Su Zimo headed toward the cinema. Su Xuan walked between the two girls, with Ye Qianqian clinging to one arm. Su Zimo, who knew their history, understood Ye Qianqian’s affectionate behavior. And since she and Su Xuan had their own history, she quietly took his other hand.

The passersby couldn’t help but turn and stare with envy at the incredibly good-looking and affectionate trio.

"Don’t stare, everyone! It’s obviously an act!" scoffed an eccentric young man dressed in a childish cartoon-print outfit. "They must be filming a short video and recording people’s reactions to get more views. They’re just trying to trick fans into sending them gifts!" He was all too familiar with these kinds of stunts. He was a streamer himself and made similar videos every day, earning enough money to buy a BMW.

"Ugh!"

Just then, Yang Xinxin, who had gone shopping, suddenly appeared in front of them. She stood there, completely dumbfounded.

How long was I gone? How is there another beautiful girl with Su Xuan? And her looks... she’s a huge threat!

CRACK! In her shock, the Armani glasses she had just bought slipped from her hand, cracking as they hit the ground.

"Su Xuan, did you forget about me again? Where are you all going?" Yang Xinxin, ignoring her glasses, hurried to Su Xuan’s side. But with Su Xuan flanked by a girl on each arm, she could only trail doggedly behind them.

"Huh? There’s another actress! And her acting is pretty good! She almost had me convinced this was all real!" the eccentric young man muttered in admiration upon seeing Yang Xinxin’s performance. He felt a sudden urge to recruit her to make videos with him; he was sure they could make a fortune! He immediately started following them.

"They’re all my friends!" Ye Qianqian announced to the staff at the front desk. "Get us a private VIP theater and don’t let anyone else in! And bring us some good snacks!"

Yang Xinxin, who had no idea Ye Qianqian owned the place, couldn’t help but sneer inwardly. She found the girl’s behavior rude and a great embarrassment to Su Xuan.

"Right away, Boss!" the employee nodded respectfully. He quickly prepared a theater and, carrying a large armful of snacks, led the group to their private screening room.

"What?" Hearing the employee call Ye Qianqian "Boss," Yang Xinxin’s jaw dropped.

So, she’s the owner here! Oh, well then it’s fine! Perfectly fine! Hahaha! Su Xuan’s friends are all so amazing! A journalist, a cinema owner... and me? I’m just a housewife who lives off a man. I want to cry! Waaah! Why don’t I ever get a chance to show off? Just once would be nice!

Afterward, the group walked into the theater, and Yang Xinxin’s nightmare truly began.

"Su Xuan, have some popcorn!"

"Su Xuan, have some chips!"

"Su Xuan, drink some juice!"

Ye Qianqian sat next to Su Xuan, constantly offering him snacks from the massive pile. Su Zimo sat on his other side, laughing and sharing the food with him. Yang Xinxin, meanwhile, felt like a complete third wheel. She sat alone off to the side, with no food and no one paying her any attention.

Fine, I’ll just watch the movie! After all, a theater is for watching movies, not for watching people flaunt their relationships.

But when she looked at the screen, her heart sank even further. She wasn’t sure if Ye Qianqian had asked Su Xuan for his preference, but they were playing an old action film, *Ip Man: The Final Fight*. The entire movie was nothing but fighting. There was practically no romance, and even the women in it were formidable fighters.

Oh, heavens! Why must you make me suffer like this!

After sitting stiffly for half an hour, Yang Xinxin couldn’t take it anymore. She quietly stood up to leave the theater, planning to do some more shopping. Suddenly, she stopped, her foot having stepped on something. Using her phone’s light, she saw it was a voice recorder!

Isn’t this the recorder Su Zimo used to interview Su Xuan?

She furtively picked it up and slipped away to the restroom. She wanted to hear what Su Zimo and Su Xuan had talked about while she was gone. But listening to it sent a tremor through her entire body.

"...owner of a hundred-million-dollar hypercar, the sole owner of Lycar, the fifth-largest shareholder of Kangnai..."

"Your net worth must be in the tens of billions by now, right, Su Xuan?"

"I think I still have about a billion in savings in my account. I have no idea how to spend it..."

Utterly stunned, Yang Xinxin turned off the recorder with trembling hands. After taking several deep breaths, she walked out of the restroom and left the voice recorder at the cinema’s front desk. Then she wandered out of the shopping mall, completely devastated. She needed to find a quiet place to think.

Su Xuan is simply terrifying! We’re not from the same world at all! He’s like an untouchable god from the heavens, and I’m just mud on the ground. Pursue Su Xuan? Forget it! And just look at the women around him! In terms of talent or wealth, they are completely beyond my reach! Everything I own probably looks like a child’s toy to them, right? Maybe even worse than a toy!

A wave of self-awareness washed over Yang Xinxin.

"Hello, beautiful! I thought your acting earlier was impressive enough, but this is on another level! The look on your face right now... not even an award-winning actor could pull that off! Would you be interested in making videos with me? I guarantee I can have you in a BMW in six months!"

The eccentric young man from before had appeared in front of her again, looking at her with the appreciative gaze of a talent scout who had just found his star. He never expected her response. Yang Xinxin shot him a look and started screaming.

"You damn idiot! Dressed like a complete moron! Get the hell away from me! Get lost! Get lost! Get lost!"

...

「Inside the movie theater.」

Su Xuan watched as Ip Man unleashed his awesome power on screen, utterly invincible, as if he had activated a cheat code. He couldn’t help but shout in his mind:

System, come out!