53: Chapter 53 Yang Xiaoli's Cousin

Hearing Zhou Zhengyi's question, Lin Yi calmly stepped forward and picked up the box of chocolate he had bought, which did not even have any packaging.

"Here, this is my gift."

Lin Yi wore a serious expression, not feeling that there was anything wrong with giving chocolate at all.

Zhou Zhengyi, however, seized the opportunity to burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, is this all the sincerity you have?"

"Li Tong invited you to a luxurious villa for a birthday party, and you only prepared this?"

"You are not planning on just coming here to eat and drink for free, are you!"

"I did not expect there to be such a tactless person nowadays."

"You do not even understand the most basic social etiquette!"

"But I can understand it, after all, you still have to work at a barbecue restaurant."

"Your living conditions must be quite poor, right!"

"I suppose you had to save up money just to buy this box of chocolate."

Zhou Zhengyi seemed to have regained his ground all of a sudden.

Although he was not exactly a wealthy person either.

But he felt that his circumstances were definitely better than Lin Yi's!

At this moment, he was completely blinded by his competitive spirit.

He just wanted to find some aspect in which he could surpass Lin Yi.

Lin Yi pursed his lips, just about to say something.

Li Tong stood out, taking the initiative to defend Lin Yi.

"Zhou Zhengyi, you misunderstood."

"Lin Yi is not that kind of person."

"Actually, he already gave me a gift yesterday!"

As she spoke, Li Tong rolled up her sleeve, revealing the Cartier watch on her wrist.

"This is what Lin Yi took me to pick out at the Cartier counter yesterday."

Li Tong's action was not only to defend Lin Yi, but also to take this opportunity to show off her new watch.

She could also casually let everyone know that Lin Yi was willing to buy her such an expensive gift, which meant that she was very important to Lin Yi.

To avoid Su Ming or other girls having any other ideas about Lin Yi.

It could be considered killing three birds with one stone.

Sure enough, after Li Tong revealed the watch, several girls gathered around.

Everyone knew the brand Cartier.

It is just that usually, they could only look at it online.

Unexpectedly, one of their classmates was already able to wear a Cartier watch.

Except for Su Ming, the other girls were extremely envious.

Su Ming came from a well-off family and did not place special importance on such things.

She had several such watches herself.

However, she was still quite surprised that Lin Yi could come up with so much money.

When she heard earlier while eating barbecue that Lin Yi was working part-time at a barbecue restaurant, she thought Lin Yi was struggling and needed to work to support his studies.

She did not expect that he was just a rich person experiencing life.

Su Ming would also do part-time jobs in her free time.

But she mainly did them to kill time when she was bored.

Her father gave her more than enough living expenses that she could not even spend it all.

But... did not Lin Yi say he was an orphan?

Then where did his money come from?

Could it be that he was already able to earn so much money on his own?

After all, Su Ming's family was in business, and she had been influenced since childhood by how to make money.

Naturally, her perspective on looking at and thinking about problems was different from everyone else's.

She immediately discovered what made Lin Yi most unique.

Having money was just a superficial appearance.

The ability to earn money beyond ordinary people was what made Lin Yi truly special!

Su Ming asked herself; when she first entered her freshman year, she could only earn one or two thousand yuan a month doing part-time jobs.

Not long ago, she interned at her father's company for two months, and the salary her father gave her was only ten thousand yuan a month.

And that was only because she was his own daughter.

For a normal person to reach that monthly salary, it would be impossible without a few years of hard work and accumulation.

But Lin Yi, as a freshman, had just finished the college entrance examination and had at most one summer vacation's time to earn money.

How could he have saved up over a hundred thousand to buy a watch?

No...

If he could give Li Tong a gift worth over a hundred thousand, it meant his net worth was far more than that...

How did he manage to do it? Su Ming suddenly became curious about the boy in front of her.

But what Su Ming did not know was that a girl's affection for a boy often started with curiosity.

Because this kind of curiosity would make a girl develop an uncontrollable interest in a man.

Su Ming: Favorability +10 points

Current Favorability 30 points

Hearing the system prompt, Lin Yi turned his head and glanced at Su Ming.

This increase in favorability was a bit sudden.

Was it because she saw the watch he bought for Li Tong?

Girls are indeed realistic.

I did not expect even the big school beauty could not be an exception...

Lin Yi sighed.

But thinking about it, this was also good.

He had been worried that if he gave Su Ming something, she would not accept it.

Looking at it this way, this worry should be unnecessary.

He could find an opportunity later to farm some cashback from Su Ming.

Maybe he could double his assets again!

Hehe, nice!

...

Seeing Lin Yi become the focus of everyone's discussion, Zhou Zhengyi felt increasingly irritable.

He had originally wanted to sow discord by saying the watch Lin Yi bought was fake.

But Li Tong herself said it was Lin Yi who took her to the counter to buy it.

If it was bought at the counter, how could it be fake?

But, where did Lin Yi get so much money?

Over a hundred thousand!

A college student might not even be able to earn that much money a year after graduation!

Could it be that Lin Yi was really a rich person playing the pig to eat the tiger?

Damn it...

Zhou Zhengyi scratched his head in frustration, feeling as if he had kicked a steel plate today.

And looking at how happy Li Tong was.

It was highly likely that his beloved goddess, Li Tong, was going to be taken by Lin Yi.

He knew Li Tong's character too well.

She was completely a gold digger who could not be more realistic.

Lin Yi was so generous to her, Li Tong would definitely be moved.

The reason he had not won Li Tong over for so long was because he had not been willing to spend much money on her.

Li Tong had previously hinted that she wanted a Louis Vuitton bag.

It cost over ten thousand.

Zhou Zhengyi certainly could not afford it.

Spending over ten thousand to woo a girl, and not even being sure if he could get her.

Who could accept that?

The little girls Zhou Zhengyi had deceived before probably had not even cost him ten thousand in total.

But Lin Yi started off by directly giving Li Tong a watch worth over a hundred thousand.

That was completely delivered right into Li Tong's heart!

Maybe the two of them had already... last night.

Damn it!

Zhou Zhengyi seemed to be able to imagine that sultry scene in his mind.

That bastard Lin Yi, he actually got the woman of his dreams so easily!

Zhou Zhengyi felt a surge of blood rising in his chest.

His gaze towards Lin Yi was filled with blazing jealousy.

...

Just at this moment, the living room door was suddenly pushed open.

"Everyone, sorry, I am late!"

The person who arrived was none other than Yang Xiaoli.

Behind Yang Xiaoli followed a girl with straight bangs, a high ponytail, wearing round glasses, and looking pure.

"Let me introduce everyone, this is my cousin."

"It is the weekend, she just came to Nanjing for school, so I brought her along to hang out."

Sun Xiaoxiao walked out from behind Yang Xiaoli, smiling and politely waving to everyone to greet them.