Chapter 130: Money Is Really Tempting (3)
Jiang Zhiyan finished making breakfast and carefully arranged the dishes on the table.
Jin Shuang came downstairs after washing up and changing her clothes. Seeing the breakfast on the table, she was a little surprised: “You didn’t have to go to all this trouble.”
“It’s no trouble at all, just casually arranged, I have a talent for plating,” Jiang Zhiyan said, blinking.
Jin Shuang covered her mouth and chuckled softly: “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome,” Jiang Zhiyan said, pulling out a chair for Jin Shuang.
While they were eating, the items they bought yesterday were delivered. Jiang Zhiyan casually asked if they could help organize the items in her walk-in closet, and they readily agreed, after all, she was a big customer. Because the items were from different brands, the delivery people worked even harder, trying to outdo their competitors, some even offered to clear the table for her.
After breakfast, the two went to inspect some of the spoils from their shopping spree yesterday.
Mu Chen waited from the start of work until his lunch break, but Jin Shuang didn’t call. When another seven-figure sum was charged to his card that afternoon, he couldn’t take it anymore and called her.
This time, Jin Shuang answered.
“What time did you wake up?” he asked.
“Around nine, is something the matter?” Jin Shuang said, her voice light and cheerful, looking at the new car she had just bought, she handed the keys to Jiang Zhiyan.
“What did you buy?” Mu Chen took a deep breath upon hearing “around nine,” it was clear that Jin Shuang was doing this on purpose, not calling him, but if he had directly asked her about it, she would have told him it wasn’t intentional, because she had completely forgotten about him, and she hadn’t planned on calling him anyway.
“I bought a new car,” Jin Shuang said.
“And yesterday?”
“I went shopping at the mall.”
“Shopping?” Mu Chen felt a headache coming on, thinking about those numbers.
Jin Shuang frowned and said casually: “Didn’t you give me your card to spend? Were you just pretending? Okay, but I don’t have that much money on me, send the bill to my mother, and she’ll transfer the money to you.”
“I was just asking,” Mu Chen said, calming down slightly after hearing Jin Shuang’s words. “I have to go now, bye.”
Half an hour later, Mu Chen saw a huge sum deducted from his card by an auction house and closed his eyes.
He wanted to ask, but decided against it.
He just wanted to know why he had given her a card with so much money on it, was she planning to spend it all?
Mu Chen put his phone aside, out of sight, out of mind.
Jiang Zhiyan and Jin Shuang had dinner on a yacht, participating in the online auction remotely while they ate. Jin Shuang had just spent seven figures on a famous painting.
Today, money was spent even faster than yesterday, they hadn’t even bought anything substantial and had already spent eight figures.
Jiang Zhiyan’s fingers were also itching to spend, but all her points were being used by the System to find evidence of Mu Chen’s infidelity.
“Tell me what you like,” Jin Shuang said. “Do you like jewelry?”
“No need, the things you bought for me are already enough for a long time.”
“This ruby jewelry set seems to suit you,” Jin Shuang said, instructing someone to bid on it.
Jiang Zhiyan frowned: “What if he asks you to pay him back?”
“We’ll go to court, I can afford to pay even if I lose,” Jin Shuang said casually.
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Jin Shuang and suddenly felt like there was no need for her to persuade her.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Jin Shuang asked, looking up at Jiang Zhiyan and smoothing her hair, a bit embarrassed.
“I’m happy that you’re so clear-headed,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“I’m not always this clear-headed,” Jin Shuang said with a self-deprecating smile, then suddenly remembered something. “Logically, I’m supposed to go back to his family with him the day after tomorrow, but I don’t want to tell him to come back, if you’re free… can you go with me?”
“Okay,” Jiang Zhiyan nodded.
Going to meet her wife’s family, she was, of course, very willing.
Jiang Zhiyan smiled, her eyes crinkling: “Then I’ll buy some gifts to take with us.”
“No need, it’s just a meal, my family doesn’t lack anything,” Jin Shuang said. “I rarely bring friends home, my parents will be very happy that you’re coming with me.”
Having dinner with Xie Liaoyi, enjoying the sea breeze, eating delicious food prepared by a chef, spending a scumbag’s money, and picking up a pie that fell from the sky, it was incredibly comfortable and relaxing.
Jiang Zhiyan felt that there was probably no one more comfortable than the two of them in all the small worlds right now.
Oh, no, Jin Shuang’s happiness was still slightly less than hers, she didn’t know who she was, nor did she know who the person sitting opposite her was.
Jiang Zhiyan glanced at Jin Shuang, when would she awaken?
The yacht belonged to Jin Shuang. After dinner, after a thirty-second discussion, they decided to spend the night on the yacht. Jiang Zhiyan lay on a deck chair, looking at Jin Shuang, who had her eyes closed, she didn’t know if she was asleep or just resting.
She couldn’t resist reaching out and touching Jin Shuang’s finger.
Jin Shuang didn’t react, and Jiang Zhiyan boldly held her finger.
Jin Shuang’s eyelids fluttered, she opened her eyes, looked over, and made eye contact with Jiang Zhiyan: “What’s wrong?”
“I was just checking if you were asleep, it’s cold at sea at night, you might catch a cold if you sleep here,” Jiang Zhiyan said calmly.
“Are you cold? I’ll go get some blankets.”
“Okay, thank you,” Jiang Zhiyan released her hand and watched Jin Shuang leave.
Jiang Zhiyan sighed softly, looking up at the sky.
“It’s only been two days, don’t be so impatient,” the System said.
“Of course I’m impatient, she said she’s coming to find me,” Jiang Zhiyan said. “Since she said that, of course, I want to see her as soon as possible.”
Jin Shuang returned with the blankets, and Jiang Zhiyan reached for them, but Jin Shuang thoughtfully unfolded one and covered her with it.
“If she awakens, I can cuddle with her on the deck chair,” Jiang Zhiyan sighed softly.
“If you try anything on the deck chair, it might not be able to support you,” the System couldn’t help but say.
Jiang Zhiyan: …
“Your mind is too dirty, I just meant cuddling on the chair, nothing else,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“Oh,” the System replied. “But I don’t believe you.”
“Then don’t,” Jiang Zhiyan said. She couldn’t force the System to believe her anyway.
Lying like this was also fine, it felt like a scene from an art house romance movie.
But later, even the art house romance couldn’t continue, the sea breeze was too strong, and the two quickly retreated inside the cabin.
Since Jin Shuang had something to do tomorrow morning, they went to bed early.
Although they were still in separate rooms, the distance between them was much closer than yesterday.
The next morning, after breakfast, the two temporarily parted ways. Jin Shuang hadn’t been home for two days and needed to go back and organize things.
After being dropped off, Jiang Zhiyan left again not long after, to buy gifts for Jin Shuang’s family and to retrieve her car, which she had been ignoring.
Based on the clues in the plot, Jiang Zhiyan accurately determined the preferences of Jin Shuang’s family members. They didn’t like Jiang Zhiyan very much because the original owner had caused trouble for Jin Shuang before. They didn’t have the same subconscious fondness as Jin Shuang, and they probably wouldn’t warm up to her quickly.
On the appointed day, Jiang Zhiyan spent the afternoon trying on various outfits, each one designed to appeal to the older generation.
“Host, aren’t you trying too hard?”
“No, I’m not.”
“They’re not Xie Liaoyi’s real parents,” the System pointed out.
“But they’re good to her,” Jiang Zhiyan said, adjusting the details of her outfit in front of the mirror. “Although they might be treating her like someone else, although they’re just data, just like in the first world, to Xie Liaoyi, they’re her real parents, so I have to treat them with respect.”
Jiang Zhiyan paused: “See, this is why you can’t be considered a new life form.”
System: …
“But I feel like I’m sometimes more emotionally intelligent than you.”
“That’s just your initial setting of not being able to harm other beings,” Jiang Zhiyan said casually.
“Damn it.” The System cursed for the first time, unable to refute her, and even finding her words reasonable. “So are my emotions real, or are they just settings? Is my reluctance to part with you also fake?”
“They’re factory settings, but you’ve developed other emotions based on those settings, so they’re your own. Humans don’t question whether their teeth or hair are real after they’re born,” Jiang Zhiyan paused. “The fact that you question this is the difference between you and me.”
“Host, just speak, no need to put me down,” the System paused. “And by the way, I think your logic is a bit flawed.”
“Oh, because I’m just messing with you,” Jiang Zhiyan said, giving the System a sweet smile in the mirror, looking incredibly two-faced.
The System muted Jiang Zhiyan; it didn’t want to talk to her anymore.
After getting ready, Jiang Zhiyan waited in the living room for Jin Shuang to pick her up.
When Jin Shuang arrived, she quickly grabbed the gifts she had prepared, five bags in each hand, and left the villa.
“You still bought gifts,” Jin Shuang said, looking at the things in Jiang Zhiyan’s hands, a bit exasperated.
“Mm, you’re being polite, I can’t be completely rude, and besides, wasn’t there some misunderstanding between us before?” Jiang Zhiyan smiled. “Open the trunk, please.”
Jin Shuang’s expression became even more exasperated, she got out of the car and opened the trunk.
Jiang Zhiyan froze for a second seeing the contents of the trunk and looked at Jin Shuang: “Hm?”
Judging by the gift-wrapped items, they didn’t look like things she would need for a visit to her own family.
“I was originally planning to say they were from you,” Jin Shuang said, a bit embarrassed.
“You really are…” Jiang Zhiyan put the things in the trunk. “If murder wasn’t illegal, I would go and stab that guy right now.”
“Let’s not talk about that unpleasant person at such a happy time,” Jin Shuang said calmly. “Get in the car.”
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