Finally, Bai Yuyou chose a money tree. It was about half an arm's length tall, a small potted plant. There were also ones over a meter tall nearby, but they didn't catch her eye.
"How much?" Ye Shuang asked.
"Eighty-eight," the boss said with a smile.
Hearing this, Bai Yuyou took out her phone to pay, but the next second, Ye Shuang gently held her hand. Ye Shuang smiled and said to the boss, "That's a bit expensive."
"The weather hasn't been good lately, and these money trees aren't growing well," the boss sighed. "Eighty-eight, let's all get rich together for the New Year."
"Forty." Ye Shuang cut the price in half right away.
"It costs me over sixty just to get the goods, how can I sell it for forty?" The boss immediately shook his head.
"Forty-eight," Ye Shuang said.
"I really can't. At this price, I'll lose money."
"Alright, then I'll leave." Ye Shuang pulled Bai Yuyou's hand and walked away, while Keke trotted to keep up.
Bai Yuyou looked at Ye Shuang curiously, seemingly wondering why he wouldn't just buy it for a few dozen bucks.
Ye Shuang just smiled faintly.
One step, two steps—
"Forty-eight it is, come back here, handsome." Finally, the boss called Ye Shuang back.
They successfully bought the money tree for just over forty.
"Oh..." Bai Yuyou carried the bag, seeming to understand Ye Shuang's intention.
"You can haggle for half price at the stalls here, and the bosses will still make a profit," Ye Shuang told Bai Yuyou. "Their cost price is very low, so you don't need to worry too much."
"But why didn't it work with that duck plushie last time?" Tang Keke asked from the side.
"You tried to haggle five thousand down to a few hundred. Even a bone-breaking discount isn't that drastic, right?" Ye Shuang said helplessly.
At this time, Bai Yuyou took a fancy to a flower. Perhaps because the pot was a woven style and paired with a small metal tag, it looked very fresh and elegant.
"How much?" Bai Yuyou asked the boss.
"Little sister, this one is sixty," the boss said with a smile.
"Twenty," Bai Yuyou said.
"Twenty? That price won't do." The boss immediately shook his head. "I don't even make money on this flower. My cost is over fifty. I can give you five bucks off at most."
"Alright, I'm leaving," Bai Yuyou said softly, then pulled Ye Shuang's hand and walked forward.
However, after the three left, the boss did not call out to stop them.
"Failed." Standing not far away, Bai Yuyou looked at Ye Shuang. "Why?"
"It might be because you communicated with the boss too quickly, and he didn't even see that you actually wanted to buy it," Ye Shuang said with a smile. "You just asked the price and left, so the boss thought you didn't want to buy it at all. And it's also possible that your offer was too low. The boss felt there was no profit, so he just didn't sell it."
Hearing this, Bai Yuyou thought for a moment.
Then she trotted back to the boss. "How much?"
Seeing the customer run back, the boss was stunned for a moment, thinking she wanted to buy it. "Little sister, if you really want to buy it, I can take ten bucks off for you."
"Twenty-five." Bai Yuyou held out her fingers.
"No, no, I'll lose money on this."
Then Bai Yuyou turned around and left, leaving behind a bewildered boss.
"Ye Shuang, he won't give it," Bai Yuyou returned to Ye Shuang's side and said.
"Your attempt can only be considered ineffective haggling." Ye Shuang smiled and reached out to pinch her cheek. "You have to give the other party a price that is surprising but still acceptable. That way, they will be more willing to negotiate."
"Surprising."
"Right."
Hearing this, Bai Yuyou quickly returned to the boss once again.
Looking at the pretty girl in front of him, the boss felt an emotion called speechlessness for the first time, but he still asked, "Have you decided?"
"How much?" Bai Yuyou asked yet again.
The boss fell silent for a moment. "Sixty."
He planned to just sell it if Bai Yuyou made another offer.
"Seventy," Bai Yuyou said.
"I'll lose money at this price, but... huh?" The boss froze, dumbfounded for a few seconds.
"Are you surprised, boss?" Bai Yuyou asked.
Boss: "..."
I am quite surprised.
"Well, sixty is actually fine."
"Seventy. Boss, you're always losing money, that's not good," Bai Yuyou said seriously.
The boss fell silent again. Perhaps seeing Bai Yuyou's pure and innocent eyes, he actually couldn't bear to lie. He just coughed, "Just give me twenty-five. I can actually still make a profit, just a bit less."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
Finally, Bai Yuyou hugged the flower and returned to Ye Shuang. "It worked. The boss was indeed very surprised."
Ye Shuang looked at Bai Yuyou and was speechless for a few seconds. Actually, he was quite surprised too... Although Bai Yuyou did manage to haggle, her method was a bit unique.
"Ye Shuang, there's a nice smell over there."
"Hmm?" Hearing this, Ye Shuang looked in the direction of Bai Yuyou's gaze and noticed a Kenjiji.
These days, even Kenjiji is setting up stalls. Though calling it a stall was a stretch; it looked more like a shipping container decorated in eye-catching red and white, with a sign advertising strawberry sundaes for nine-ninety for two cups.
"It should be a nearby business trying to make some extra cash while the foot traffic here is high," Ye Shuang said. He then noticed that this side of the flower exhibition was mostly selling food, giving him the vibe of the food street during Yinshan Academy's school anniversary.
"Mmm..." Ye Shuang was suddenly attracted by the aroma of roasted nuts and noticed a roasted goods stall surrounded by people.
"Business over there is pretty good. Should we buy some sunflower seeds to take home?" Ye Shuang asked.
"Don't we have some at home?" Bai Yuyou asked.
"Keke snacked on all of them," Ye Shuang said. Beside them, Keke, who was holding Bai Yuyou's arm, suddenly looked up. "I only ate a tiny bit."
Chatting and laughing, the group still made their way to the stall.
"Alright, sunflower seeds are eighteen bucks, thank you."
"Over here, those wafers are ten bucks a pound."
The voice was very familiar. Ye Shuang looked inside in surprise and found a petite girl selling things.
And behind Taozi, there were a few girls of varying heights helping to sell the goods.
"Taozi?" Keke voiced her surprise.
"Ah?" Taozi also didn't expect to run into Ye Shuang and the others here. She was stunned for a few seconds, then wiped her slightly dirty palms on her pants, hid them behind her back, and smiled.
"What a coincidence! Brother Ye, are you guys visiting the flower exhibition too?"
"Yeah, Keke said she was going to mold at home." Ye Shuang looked at the girls behind Taozi. "Did you bring your sisters out to sell this?"
"It's the holidays..." Taozi didn't think there was anything wrong with this. She wanted to save up more money to buy an apartment in this city for her sisters. After all, with so many people, Taozi didn't want to trouble her mother too much.
Although housing prices in this city were very high, as long as her sisters were by her side, Taozi felt that nothing was a problem.
Where there is family, there is home.
"Do you still need an extra pair of hands?" Ye Shuang asked.
"Huh?"
] This is a dark fantasy-themed dating simulation game. The main gameplay involves containing various monster girls and investigating the truth of a world shrouded in mist alongside your companions. However, due to his love for the dark and bizarre atmosphere, Luo Wei ended up turning a dating game into a detective mystery game. Women? Women only slow down his quickdraw! To Luo Wei, the female leads in the game are more like tools to perfectly clear levels and squeeze out rewards. For Luo Wei, flirting with every girl he meets and then discarding them is standard procedure. Worried about characters losing affection points? No need. With his maxed-out charm stat, Luo Wei is practically a "human incubus." A little psychological manipulation and those points come right back. It's a bit scummy, but the paper cutout heroines in the game won't actually come at him with real cleavers. However... Luo Wei has transmigrated. He's accidentally entered the second playthrough of this game. His past actions have caused all the girls to transform into terrifying yanderes. Due to the game's setting, most of the heroines he once contained are "troubled girls." Obsessive, twisted, mentally unstable, all aggressive yanderes... The type who will kill you if they can't have you... Luo Wei wants to cry but has no tears left. "I really just want to survive..." In short, this is a story of battling wits and engaging in a love-hate relationship with yanderes.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
