Chapter 5

Chapter 5

The car belonged to the beauty salon. Yu Shu only found out that high-end beauty salons provided pickup and drop-off services when she was researching travel tips online.

The beauty salon was open 24 hours and had chains all over the country. Yu Shu signed up for a membership card without hesitation, depositing 500,000 yuan upfront.

500,000 yuan...500,000 yuan...

Just two days ago, her frame of monetary reference was still "yuan". Now it had suddenly turned into "10,000 yuan". Thinking about this made her heart thump wildly in her chest again.

All the customers in the beauty salon were famous socialites and ladies of high society. Yu Shu walked in with her back straight and eyes looking straight ahead, trying her best to give off an air of having seen the world, not revealing a hint of timidness.

The professional beauty technicians came up with a full set of skincare and weight loss plans for her, with 3 courses in total, each course lasting 2 months. She could continue the treatments at their chain stores in other cities.

When she heard the estimated cost, her eyebrows jumped a little, but she didn't agonize over it too much and nodded in agreement.

She was completely fed up with her enlarged pores and acne-scarred face.

While enjoying a full body aromatherapy oil massage, Yu Shu thought to herself that the massage felt so comfortable that she should bring her mother here to enjoy it too.

It would probably take quite some time to erode away Madam Ye’s iron will. As for the money’s origins, she would have to come up with a reasonable excuse to explain it - heh, it seemed like that was her only worry at the moment!

Money is so wonderful.

"If one day I become very rich

The first choice I make

Won't be to travel the world

Lying on the biggest, softest sofa in the world

Eating and then sleeping, waking up and eating again, living like this for a year...”

With music playing in the room, Yu Shu hummed along to the song while swinging her wine glass, utterly content in body and spirit as she soaked in the bathtub.

Do you see the bubbles in the bathtub? They aren’t from bath foam - they came from Yu Shu, who was so happy that she was bubbling over with joy.

She spent a week eating, sleeping, repeating this lazy routine. Alarm clocks disappeared from her life and she slept until she naturally awoke every day. She didn’t have to get up early to squeeze onto buses and subways or work herself to exhaustion. If she wanted to go out in the morning she could stroll around scenic spots, check-in on social media at various fancy restaurants. If she didn’t want to go out she would order room service or delivery food, watch TV shows and dramas and read novels or play games in her room. Otherwise she’d watch livestreams and shop online, take a nap after lunch, then head to the beauty salon later in the afternoon.

The amount of money she was spending in the beauty did not go to waste. After just one short week, the skin on her entire body became smoother, more delicate and fair. Her face hardly ever got oily anymore too.

For the 1,387th time, she marveled to herself that money is so wonderful!

After her bath, Yu Shu received a WeChat message from a shop assistant at a luxury boutique saying that two bags perfectly suited to her had just arrived and asking when she would have time to come take a look in the store.

Since Yu Shu didn’t have plans for the day anyway she readily decided to go shopping, following along with what the shop assistant wanted.

This time Yu Shu did not obediently purchase everything the shop assistant recommended to her like last time. Instead she chose items that she truly liked and suited her personally.

Yu Shu browsed a bit more around other shops in the mall. Over in the menswear section, she spotted the exact down jacket Shen Gege was wearing. She thought the jacket looked quite warm and decided to get the same one for her dad and younger brother too. She asked for the price and it was 28,000 yuan.

“You...you’re forbidden from...going out to sell...anymore. I have money now...I’ll support you.” Hiccups punctuated Yu Shu’s words as she wept.

“Oh really, how much money is it? Let your rich lady mother take a look at how wealthy our little heiress has become!”

Yu Shu took a screenshot of the remaining balance in her “petty cash” account and sent it over: “This much. If you stay home and be couch potatoes I’ll spend however much you want. But if you still insist on going out to hawk your wares, I’ll squander every cent on eating, drinking and being merry until the account’s wiped clean!”

She had spent a portion of the 2 million yuan, leaving around 1.2 million in that account still.

*sob sob*...

This was the “petty cash” account.

The thought made Yu Shu burst out laughing through her tears. She reached for some tissues to wipe her nose.

Her sudden movement revealed a glimpse of the hotel suite’s luxurious view behind her but her parents were far too shocked to notice such details. Their attention was completely captured by the bank account balance she had sent.

“One...ten...hundred...thousand...ten thousand...hundred...million...”

“One...ten...hundred...thousand...ten thousand...hundred million...”

“One...ten...hundred...thousand...ten thousand...hundred...million...”

They counted the digits several times over, reading it once then rubbing their eyes before counting again. Were their old eyes failing them? Was this a hallucination?

Ye Ping asked tremulously, “Darling daughter, this picture...it’s photoshopped, right?”

Yu Shu maintained a numb expression. “It’s real.”

Ye Ping and Yu Feng looked even more numb than she did. “Did you do something illegal?”

“No, I earned this money writing novels.” Yu Shu lied glibly, reciting the excuse she had mentally prepared countless times.

A few days ago while reading a wildly popular novel, Yu Shu chanced upon a post analyzing how much income famous authors make from their writing. Inspiration struck and she researched deeply into the industry.

Authors who earn millions per month are few and far between, as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. But so what? Her parents didn't understand, so she could fool...cough cough, as long as she could get them to accept this well-intentioned lie.

Yu Shu simply explained to them that in her spare time, she wrote novels on a website, and they suddenly became popular a few months ago. This money was the manuscript fee.

Yu Shu talked for a long time, talking until even she believed it herself. Her parents finally believed it too.

"Very good, very good, really good!" Ye Ping wiped away her tears. "You've written good compositions since you were little. I didn't expect that when you grew up you'd become a novelist."

Yu Shu felt guilty. "I don't dare, I'm just a small-time writer."

Yu Shu transferred 200,000 to Ye Ping's card. "First pay back all the debts. Keep the rest for you two to spend slowly. From now on I'll give you 20,000 per month. Yu Yang's school fees will also be paid by me. Don't worry about it anymore."

The family owed about 100,000 yuan. That was the year her dad got into a car accident and they had borrowed money from relatives. Time had flown and it had already been six or seven years.

Ye Ping glanced at her soft-hearted idiot of a husband. "No need to give us money. The rest is enough for us two for a long time. That hard earned money of my daughter's, no one else should expect to get any of it."