Chapter 82

“Sorry, I thought there was nobody here…”

The waiter hurriedly apologized and scampered away.

“Hahaha…” Qin Yanan immediately laughed so hard she bent over the table, tears streaming from her laughter.

Tang Feng sat back down, feeling a bit disgruntled, “What’s so funny? Don’t even think about skipping on the bill. Hurry up and transfer the money.”

Qin Yanan finally managed to contain her laughter, “Thirty million is not a small sum, you have to give me some time to come up with the money.”

Tang Feng glared at her, visibly unpleased, “Don’t play that game with me. You’re worth over four billion, are you telling me you can’t come up with thirty million?”

“Didn’t you calculate all my assets before? Most of my assets are in real estate and shares, so I actually have very little liquid cash,” Qin Yanan reasoned quite convincingly.

“So how much money do you have right now?”

“Hold on, let me check.”

Qin Yanan took out her phone and checked her account balance, eventually offering a number, “Right now, I can only come up with twenty-seven million at most. I’ll have to owe you the remaining three hundred thousand.”

Tang Feng finally sighed in relief. If she owed too much, he would consider finding another buyer.

“No need to pay me the remaining three hundred thousand,” he immediately said with a grand wave of his hand.

“Are you so generous now?” Qin Yanan was somewhat surprised.

Three hundred thousand was not a small amount, and he just wiped it off?

But then she saw Tang Feng shake his head, “That’s not it. I was wondering, for a woman like you, is three hundred thousand enough for a betrothal gift?”

Qin Yanan’s mouth fell open in shock, staring at him blankly, “You want to marry me?”

Tang Feng gave her a once over twice, “Yeah, would you be willing?”

“Dream on,” she scoffed.

Qin Yanan brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, “Sister here is a billionaire worth over forty billion, a top-tier beauty with both wealth and looks. Do you think just anyone can marry me?”

Tang Feng didn’t like the tone of her voice, “Ever heard of ‘the wheel of fortune turns’? Today you may not care for me, but tomorrow you might not be able to reach me.”

“I’m a stock with potential. If you ignore me today, maybe tomorrow you won’t be able to afford me.”

“Heh, isn’t that still thirty years from now? By then, if you’re not poor anymore, I might consider marrying my daughter to you,” she replied with an expression that closely resembled that of a disdainful, wealth-obsessed mother-in-law from the TV dramas.

After more laughter and joking, she transferred the twenty-seven million to him.

Having just emptied his account, Tang Feng revived with full health and even gained an additional fifteen million.

Furthermore, Qin Yanan wrote him an IOU for three hundred thousand on the spot, clearly stipulating that the debt would be repaid within a month, with an interest of ten thousand.

“Mrs. Nan, do we really need to be so clear-cut between us? Even if you could run away from a monk, you can’t run away from a temple,” Tang Feng said, feeling a bit awkward as he held the IOU.

“Everything has its place. If we want our relationship to last, our financial matters have to be clear, or they will certainly become a hidden problem,” Qin Yanan warned seriously, evidently having learned from past experience.

Seeing her insistence, Tang Feng didn’t put on any airs and pocketed the IOU.

When they left Lu Yu Tea House, it was already past five in the afternoon.

Qin Yanan first returned to the antique shop to place the invaluably precious bracelet into the safe.

By then, the other employees had already left, so they didn’t linger and went straight home.

Qin Yanan volunteered to cook dinner again that night as a treat for the stamp he helped secure for the shop in the morning.

Truth be told, although she loved cooking, her talent in the area was quite mediocre.

The food wasn’t bad per se, but it was far from delicious.

Tang Feng wondered if he should redeem a Cooking Mastery, to show off his skills someday?

After all, to capture a woman’s heart, you must first capture her stomach.

But after thinking it over, he decided against it. A Cooking Mastery would cost several hundred thousand anyway.

Let her repay the money she owed him first.

He spent the night restlessly.

The next day, he awoke early again and went for a morning jog. Returning, he also brought Qin Yanan breakfast, hanging it on her doorknob.

After he got back to his own room and finished freshening up, Qin Yanan came looking for him. She quietly told him that Wang Bo hadn’t returned until the middle of the night again.

This immediately heightened his alertness.

The bracelet was now in Qin Yanan’s possession.

There was no telling if those desperados might shift their target and start to make moves against him and Qin Yanan.

So, he had to boost his self-defense capabilities before anything happened.

“Mrs. Nan, you head to the shop first. I have some things to handle and will come later.” He had decided to upgrade his Martial Arts Mastery to LV2, which would take some time.

“Sure, late on the second day of work? Are you asking me to dock your pay?” Qin Yanan raised her fist teasingly.

“Dock away, you still owe me over three million anyway,” Tang Feng now had the upper hand as her creditor and sounded quite confident in his response.

Qin Yanan, left speechless, had no choice but to leave silently on her own.

After she left, Tang Feng turned and sat back on the couch, accessing the system’s marketplace.

“Does the host wish to upgrade Martial Arts Mastery to LV2? This upgrade will cost ten million. After upgrading, the host will have the strength to take on a hundred enemies. Confirm upgrade?”

Seeing this system prompt, Tang Feng gasped.

It had cost him only a hundred thousand to redeem Martial Arts Mastery LV1.

And now, upgrading to Martial Arts Mastery LV2 required spending ten million.

This was robbery.

It was absolutely robbery!

But when he thought about the danger that could come at any time, he felt the ten million was still worth it.

Money is good but it’s useless without life to spend it.

He had to secure his life first in order to make more money in the future.

Once he had grasped this simple truth, he gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, finally clicking the “confirm” button.

“Martial Arts Mastery Skill is upgrading, the process will take 1 hour…”

The system interface immediately displayed a progress bar.

As the progress bar was too slow, he logged out of the system and picked up a book about porcelain identification from the coffee table to read.