110: Chapter 110 Using a Luxury Home to Pick Up Girls

The sales representative, Zhang Li, enthusiastically led the three of them on a tour while professionally explaining the layout of the luxury mansion.

This was a courtyard villa with a property area of 410 square meters and a usable area of over 600 square meters. It also included a private garden of about 130 square meters, though currently, in winter, only bare branches and white snow remained.

The overall structure consisted of two floors above ground and two underground, featuring 4 bedrooms, 4 living areas, 7 bathrooms, and 2 kitchens.

The first floor layout included one bedroom, three living areas, one kitchen, and two bathrooms. The largest living room spanned nearly ten meters, and several floor-to-ceiling windows provided an excellent view, looking directly out onto the private garden.

The second floor mainly consisted of the master bedroom, a children's room, two bathrooms, and a large terrace of thirty to forty square meters. On the terrace sat a wooden table large enough for six or seven people, also currently covered in snow, but he tested the view and found it quite good.

The first basement level featured one bedroom, two living areas, one kitchen, and two bathrooms. It didn't have many unique features, though one side overlooked the swimming pool.

The second basement level contained an underground garage that could comfortably fit three cars without feeling crowded; it could even squeeze in five or six if necessary. It wasn't overly spacious, but it was sufficient for most situations.

This floor also had many functional rooms: an audio-visual room, a bar, a gym, a billiard room, a sauna, and of course, an indoor heated swimming pool.

The pool was twelve meters long and nearly four meters wide, vertically spanning both basement levels. This was the most important reason Zhao Xiaoshuai finally decided to buy the place.

As the saying goes, a life of luxury needs a 'pool of wine and forest of meat'—how could it work without the pool?

Although this wasn't the most top-tier luxury mansion, it was of a size that the old Zhao Xiaoshuai would never have dared to dream of living in.

His previous thought was, 'One hundred square meters is enough. Wouldn't a two-hundred-square-meter house feel empty?'

But now, having seen this six-to-seven-hundred-square-meter house, it seemed like living here would be alright?

Listening to Zhang Li introduce each functional area, he even felt for a moment that the mansion was a bit cramped!

According to the house's original design, the second floor was for the master couple and children, the first floor had an elderly suite directly connected to the courtyard and dining room, and the basement levels were all for entertainment.

However, Zhao Xiaoshuai didn't plan on getting married, so there wouldn't be a mistress of the house. Therefore, the children's room on the second floor would likely be used as a nanny's room.

He wouldn't bring his parents here either; after all, various girls would surely be coming and going constantly.

He had bought his parents a more comfortable house better suited for the elderly. This place would likely become his dedicated spot for picking up girls in the future.

However, living in such a large house alone would indeed be lonely, so he would reserve the elderly suite on the first floor for his little girlfriend and Sister-in-law, so they could visit and stay whenever they liked.

Overall, this house perfectly satisfied all his current needs and fantasies.

As for the future, once his inner circle grew and if he could perfectly coordinate the relationships between them, he would consider buying a mountain estate to house everyone.

His little girlfriend and Sister-in-law clearly loved the house immensely. After the initial explanation, they spent every moment running up and down, touching and looking at everything.

"Miss Zhang, I've seen everything. I'm generally satisfied. Let's sign the contract."

With Zhao Xiaoshuai's current eyesight, he missed almost no detail, seeing things even more clearly than those professional home inspectors.

"Mr. Zhao is truly straightforward!"

"I heard that this particular unit was a collaborative project between President Xing and the designer when she was feeling inspired!"

"The renovations alone cost three million. Combined with the house's original price of over nine million, selling it for only 11.58 million is an absolute steal!"

"However, our President Xing gave instructions; since Mr. Zhao is her friend, she specifically gave you a 5% discount, bringing the final price to just 11 million!"

"Here are all the contracts, please have a look."

He scanned them briefly. These kinds of contracts usually didn't have any hidden traps, as the clients were essentially all wealthy or influential.

[cash-back card -1, multiplier silver card -1]

[Current Cash-back Rate: 109%, Final Cash-back Amount: 10,100,000 RMB]

This was the first time Zhao Xiaoshuai had lost money since obtaining the system.

His current main quest evaluation was still Bronze, and the base cash-back limit could only increase by one hundred thousand, while a silver card only had a ten-million-yuan limit.

So he had lost a full nine hundred thousand!

But considering he could buy such a luxury mansion for nine hundred thousand, and had luckily used up a very low cash-back multiplier from the system, it was still worth it.

'The current priority is still to upgrade the main quest evaluation as soon as possible.'

But the second main quest evaluation was a hundred times harder than the first.

Health and Charm were manageable; under Zhao Xiaoshuai's persistent exercise and enhancements, they were steadily rising and had already crossed the standard line.

Regarding the quality of partners, he currently had one gold, two silver, and two bronze, which already exceeded the system's three-silver standard.

He was far off in terms of assets; he needed at least 50 million in cash assets to qualify.

And the hardest part was Reputation.

When advancing to Bronze, he had a reputation among roughly a hundred people. Advancing to Silver required at least ten thousand.

This didn't mean just starting a social media account and getting ten thousand followers.

It meant having ten thousand people who genuinely believed in or respected him.

For a previously obscure ordinary person, this was truly quite difficult.

He currently had roughly two ideas.

First was to create a media account and attract fans by posting videos of pay-to-win games, or wealth-flaunting videos of luxury cars and mansions.

This world had always admired the strong. No matter how numerous or nasty the insults online were, some wealthy 'big brothers' would always have many people following them blindly.

Second was to do charity. Previously, his help for Guan Xiaosu and his exposure of that cancer, Lei, had gradually begun to ferment online, attracting many people's attention.

Guan Xiaosu's side had already received interview requests. When the time came, they would share the whole story, choosing the parts that could be told.

He would accept interviews as the benefactor behind the scenes. When the reports came out, he would be able to gain some fans.

However, whether being a streamer, flaunting wealth, or doing charity, these were actually somewhat high-risk professions.

In social media, those who hate the rich will mindlessly report you, slander you, smear you, and doxx you.

In charity, those with low self-esteem will nitpick your actions, dig for dirt on you, and attack your family.

As long as you aren't a saint, your reputation will eventually collapse. Moreover, Zhao Xiaoshuai had too much potential dirt for the future; his life would be significantly affected if that happened.

So both paths needed to be walked very carefully.

The media account had to eliminate all identifiers that could expose his real-world identity, forever remaining an online 'God-tier Whale.' The reputation received by the virtual persona would still feed back to him.

If doing charity, he would only seek influence in the beneficiary areas without pursuing mass exposure. This was the only way to minimize the number of mindless haters.

After seeing off the sales rep, Zhao Xiaoshuai checked the time.

He still had a gathering with his game group today, mainly to get to know two wealthy guys, Taowu and Qiongqi, to expand his network.

Furthermore, he could see his old rival Renyi Wushuang, the old guild leader Song Jiang, and some other former guild members he had played with for a long time. He was actually looking forward to it a little.

But for now, it was still early—early enough for him to have some fun.