Spending a million to buy a house is quite common in this day and age.
After all, in any city where housing prices aren't particularly low, buying a house of over a hundred square meters could easily cost more than a million in total.
Money nowadays really isn't worth as much as it used to be.
But renting a place is an entirely different concept. Buying a house, no matter what, is still an asset. The money spent on rent is purely gone, with absolutely no possibility of getting those funds back.
"Goodness, how luxurious must that place be... I guess even the long-term hotel suites that celebrities stay in are only about that level, right?" Guo Xiaoyan was full of envy, her eyes practically sparkling.
Her only source of knowledge about ultra-luxurious rentals came from entertainment news, where she would see how much money a certain celebrity spent per night staying at a luxury hotel.
Celebrities do have privacy needs, and luxury hotels tend to do a good job in that regard.
But there's actually a specific background to that. Nowadays, tax audits in the virtual economy sector are very strict, which means they can't secretly transfer benefits as easily. So, instead of officially paying a celebrity a massive salary and having to pay hefty taxes on it, it's better to legally spend the money under the guise of business reception expenses.
Who could have imagined that a wealthy person of a similar caliber would appear right beside them in the guise of a college student.
Moreover, to Li Xingya, Su Bai's most important identity right now was her boss.
This couldn't help but strengthen Li Xingya's confidence, making her even more expectant about the prospects of her internship.
A boss who spent money like water proved that the company had plenty of funds. If the boss was stingy, the company's prospects probably wouldn't be great either.
Li Xingya's thinking leaned much more toward this practical side.
How should one put it? Because she had spent a lot of time in work environments, she wasn't really in the same social class as these classmates who spent their days eating, drinking, and having fun. She had to understand the hardships of life much earlier.
However, when talking about the goddess dorm and Jiang U's Mysterious Guy, her roommates cared much more about the extravagant lifestyle revealed behind it all.
If they were all in love with the same man, wouldn't they be at the Ascott... Uh, just thinking about it felt so absurd!
Just how outstanding did a man have to be to pull that off?
"Not to mention anything else, wouldn't his body just give out? When the girls in our class who are dating talk about their boyfriends, they all say they're useless," Guo Xiaoyan complained.
She hadn't actually had any intimate contact with a man herself; she was just repeating what she heard the girls chatting about.
Miss Manicure rolled her eyes. "That's completely normal. Men nowadays are generally just useless!"
"Really? Isn't it a bit unfair to generalize like that? I think it depends on the person..." Guo Xiaoyan said weakly. Her way of thinking was still quite innocent and hadn't been influenced by certain mysterious ideologies.
However, Miss Manicure was clearly a martial arts master in this regard. With a look of disdain, she said, "Let me analyze for you why men nowadays are all useless."
"First are those homebodies who don't like to exercise. Whether they are fat or skinny, their stamina is too poor, so they're useless."
"Then there are those who hit the gym. They might look like they have great bodies, but they actually use steroids, which affects their function in that area, so they're useless."
Guo Xiaoyan interrupted, "Wait, not everyone uses steroids. What about those who do cardio? They surely don't need steroids, right?"
"The ones who do cardio are all middle-aged uncles. They're getting old, so they're useless!"
Good heavens!
To sum up Miss Manicure's philosophy: Men are useless!
No matter how Guo Xiaoyan thought about it, it sounded weird. But she had an agreeable personality, so she just figured, alright, whatever you say goes, and didn't argue back.
Li Xingya, however, used this to think of another layer. While working at the lab, she had accidentally overheard a bit of a phone conversation between Chen Yusheng and Su Bai. The content of their chat was... quite scandalous.
Perhaps because she was a girl and a work partner, Chen Yusheng didn't avoid her too much and just let her hear a bit of it.
According to what Li Xingya heard, Chen Yusheng had teamed up with another girl, yet both were very decisively defeated by Su Bai...
At the time, she thought she had misheard. Maybe they were talking about something proper like playing a video game, and Li Xingya was just having dirty thoughts.
Looking at it now, and comparing it with the gossip spreading around, it might actually be true!
Suddenly, several bizarre images popped into Li Xingya's mind. Her cheeks instantly turned crimson, and she looked like a timid little kitten.
"Xingya, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? I've noticed a lot of people catching colds and getting fevers lately, you need to be careful too!" Guo Xiaoyan reminded her. "I have some traditional Chinese medicine for preventing colds here, do you want to drink some?"
"I, I don't need it, thank you Xiaoyan."
"Hehe, no problem. I got a lot prescribed when I went to the hospital anyway, and I can't finish it all myself. If I leave it too long and it passes its expiration date, it'd be a pure waste. To be honest, once you get used to it, this medicine actually tastes pretty good..."
She was actually enjoying the traditional Chinese medicine prescribed by the school hospital. It had to be said that Guo Xiaoyan was quite a unique character, truly worthy of being the dorm's ray of sunshine...
Speaking of traditional Chinese medicine.
Li Xingya remembered that Su Bai had asked Chen Yusheng back then if he should prescribe her some medicine to help her recover, but Chen Yusheng sternly refused, saying she would improve herself through fitness!
If things had escalated to the point where she needed to rely on fitness to improve herself, then it seemed the boss really was quite formidable...
Leaving aside how other men were, at least the boss was absolutely top-tier in this regard.
A strange feeling couldn't help but well up in Li Xingya's heart.
How should she describe it? Although she was a girl who had faced the realities of society very early on, she had still looked forward to love. It was just that she only thought about it in her heart and wouldn't spend time and energy on it.
Her background was too poor, and her family couldn't offer any help. But she really wanted to settle down in Jiangcheng. It had the bustling feel of a big city, but it wasn't as exorbitantly expensive as a first-tier city. Overall, it was a very livable place.
Even so, as a student from an ordinary second-tier university, she had to put in a lot of effort to build a home here all by herself.
Tonight's dorm room chat managed to stir up a little bit of the young maiden's heart hidden within Li Xingya.
Whenever she thought about how the seemingly cold but actually very kind-hearted Teacher Chen Yusheng was so sweet with Su Bai behind the scenes, and played so wild, Li Xingya couldn't help but swallow hard, her whole body starting to feel hot.
This caused her to not sleep well the entire night. She tossed and turned in bed, and when she got out of bed in the middle of the night to pour some water, she was even complained about by Miss Manicure.
Miss Manicure was just like that. If she needed to stay up late or get up early and make a fuss, her roommates had to endure it. But if a roommate made a slight noise occasionally, she couldn't stand it at all. Li Xingya had long seen through her selfish nature, but there was nothing she could do about it.
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
