Chapter 10: High-end Consumption

Chapter 10

Qiao Yi didn't dare to pick up such an expensive thing. He looked at it carefully to make sure it was a real phone, not a model phone. "Where did you get this?"

"I bought it."

"Where did you get so much money?"

"That's just the beginning." Qiao Ying raised her hand, and there was another phone in her hand.

Qiao Yi's eyes widened.

These phones cost nearly 10,000 yuan each. Ordinary office workers can't afford them. How could his poor student sister suddenly buy two of them?

20,000 yuan. Their family couldn't save that much in a year even if they scrimped and saved.

"Where exactly did you get the money?"

Could it be stolen, like those hooligans? But those hooligans only dared to rob students, and getting a few hundred yuan a day was considered a good income. Where could they rob so much?

Qiao Ying: "No stealing or robbery. It's legitimate income. Don't worry, use it. I'll buy another if it breaks."

Qiao Yi stared at Qiao Ying's familiar yet somewhat strange face in silence for a moment. Then, based on some kind of trust, probably because of Qiao Ying's calm and composed expression, or perhaps due to her earth-shattering change, or maybe he completely believed what Qiao Ying said about her previous stupidity and uselessness being an act, he murmured:

"Okay."

It's just a phone. Why make such a big fuss?

If he knew about her previous assets, let alone the 980,000 yuan left in her card, he would probably faint if she showed it to him.

"I'll take you shopping tomorrow." Qiao Ying said and went back to her room holding the new phone.

Qiao Yi carefully took the phone out of the box, held it in his hands and looked at it for a long time. He was so excited that his hands felt a little stiff. Then he remembered to take out the SIM card from his old phone and carefully put it into the new phone.

The moment he turned on the phone, Qiao Yi's heart beat faster and his breathing became heavier. He felt like he was dreaming.

Such an expensive thing was something he didn't even dare to wish for, let alone obtain. Even if his elders or relatives gave it to him as a gift, he wouldn't have dared to accept it. But now it was really in his hands, belonging to him, given by his eldest sister who had been scolded as useless by their mother for over ten years.

The next day was the weekend.

Qiao Ying came back from morning jogging, changed her clothes and went to call Qiao Yi to go out.

"You were studying late into the night?" Seeing Qiao Yi with panda eyes, Qiao Ying asked casually.

Qiao Yi answered evasively: "Yeah."

He didn't want Qiao Ying to know that he was too excited and happy to sleep last night.

Seeing Qiao Yi carefully and gingerly putting the new phone in his pocket, pretending to be indifferent, Qiao Ying didn't expose him.

Qiao Yi followed Qiao Ying out the door. "You said you'd take me shopping last night? Buy what? Do you still have money?"

Lowering his head to look at his own washed out, peeled shoes, then looking at the beautiful, expensive new shoes in the shopping guide's hands, his face grew a little hot.

When changing shoes, Qiao Yi inadvertently turned his body to the side, subconsciously not wanting others to see his left foot.

Qiao Yi quickly tried on the shoes. Before he could refuse or say anything else, Qiao Ying had already taken out her card.

Two pairs of shoes cost 23,000 yuan, even more expensive than the clothes.

Hearing the "payment successful" again, Qiao Yi's heart still couldn't help throbbing and he couldn't control his expression.

After buying for Qiao Yi, Qiao Ying also bought two sets of clothes and shoes for herself. Qiao Yi carried them.

The things in both hands cost nearly 100,000 RMB. Carrying them in his hands, Qiao Yi's mood was like carrying 100,000 RMB in cash. He held on tightly, afraid someone would snatch them away.

After going down a floor, Qiao Ying went to buy a laptop.

Only then did she take Qiao Yi and leave the mall.

Going in and coming out, Qiao Yi was in completely different moods.

Qiao Ying didn't go straight home, but took him to Yuncheng's most expensive five-star hotel, the Glan Yuntian International Hotel.

"Sis, what are we doing here?" Seeing the gilded "Glan Yuntian International Hotel", Qiao Yi quickly called out to stop Qiao Ying who was about to go in.

"To eat." Qiao Ying went straight inside.

"But..." He could only follow.

Qiao Ying directly booked the highest floor's private room.

Qiao Ying: "Order whatever you want."

Accepting the menu handed to him by the waiter, after Qiao Yi opened it, his expression became somewhat solemn and conflicted.

There were only French words he didn't recognize. The only thing he recognized was the price on it.

Although oblivious to the outside world, as a Yuncheng local he still knew about this hotel.

Whenever a classmate joined their family's reunion banquet here for a meal, it would make his classmates envy and talk about it for days.

He had heard that everything here was frighteningly expensive, with even a plate of vegetables costing three digits, not to mention the meat and seafood. Ordering just a few dishes would cost as much as his family's income for a month. Even the menu in his hand was gold-plated, with the design and materials used being exquisite.

Qiao Yi never imagined there would be a day he could sit here.

He silently closed the menu. Qiao Yi wanted to say something to Qiao Ying, but saw that she was browsing the menu and fluently ordering in French according to the French words.

Qiao Yi was shocked to hear Qiao Ying occasionaly utter several French words. Since when did she know French?

What's more, what was she saying about foie gras and what fish roe and black truffle to pair it with? What were those?