Chapter 11

The poor female university student who had still been working part-time at the production team the night before was riding in Special Assistant Wu’s car, worth five or six hundred thousand yuan, early the next morning to look at a fairly decent residential compound in the capital.

If this were told to other people, probably not many would be willing to believe it.

At first, the saleswoman receiving Special Assistant Wu and Qin Ran thought the two of them were sisters. It was not until Special Assistant Wu called Qin Ran “Boss” that the way the saleswoman looked at Qin Ran became filled with shock.

No matter how she thought about it, the saleswoman could not understand how such a young student girl could be a boss.

If someone said she was a rich second-generation heir, that really would not be very convincing. Qin Ran stood inside the apartment, and she looked completely out of place against the entire room’s decor.

She was wearing a slightly oversized jacket on top, with jeans and sneakers below. There was even a backpack on her back. Salespeople all had sharp eyes. With just one sweep, the saleswoman could tell that this whole outfit cost at most one or two hundred yuan, and that was already estimating on the high side. If someone bargained, they might even be able to get it for one hundred.

Although she knew that some rich second-generation heirs would deliberately dress low-key to show that they did not have money, no one could be low-key to this extent. She looked downright poor.

All she could say was… don’t try to guess what rich people are thinking. There was truly no telling what exactly this girl was thinking.

Although the saleswoman silently complained in her heart, the smile on her face remained warm and enthusiastic. After all, this was a major customer. If Qin Ran bought one unit, her commission alone would be enough for her to live well for an entire year.

She was not worried about whether the two people in front of her had money. After all, their line of work was all about casting a wide net and catching more fish. Who knew? The person in front of her might really buy it.

Looking down on others with dog eyes?

What kind of joke was that? People like that should not work in sales. They would not earn much money.

The saleswoman gave an extremely detailed introduction of the apartment’s decor and the furniture brands inside. This apartment was located on the twenty-eighth floor. The view was open, and there was a commercial district nearby. The selling price was twenty million yuan, perfectly hitting the budget Qin Ran had given Special Assistant Wu.

Of course, it was not located right in the center of the commercial district. If it were right in the center, then with housing prices in the capital, there was no way they could get it for that price.

At the same time, Qin Ran also had to thank the fact that both her school and the filming base were located relatively close to the outer ring. The midpoint between the two was not an especially prime commercial district either.

Even in ancient times, people had said that the capital was vast, and living there was not easy. Looking at it now, that was indeed true. Qin Ran had been relying on the system to fleece benefits and had almost fleeced one “small goal” already. Ninety-Nine Interactive Entertainment had burned through eighty small goals for her in these two months, and only then had she saved up this much money…

But because the money was not truly her own, Qin Ran had always felt a little detached when spending it.

Now that the money had to be taken from her own account, shrinking her savings by one-fifth in an instant, Qin Ran did feel a little pained. If it had been in her previous life, she probably would not even have blinked. But things were different now. Qin Ran felt heartache, probably because she had gotten used to being poor.

The saleswoman was quite eloquent, and after Qin Ran looked around, the apartment was indeed rather good. Among twenty-million-yuan apartments in the capital, it counted as fairly decent.

Qin Ran had also viewed several other apartments recommended by Special Assistant Wu, but in the end, she still chose this one.

Because in its decor, there were some rabbit elements.

The little-rabbit handkerchief Yu Shuman had given Read on BaiLianTalesQin Ran back in high school was still kept by Qin Ran. She also knew that Yu Shuman had kept the one Qin Ran had given her, because Qin Ran had seen it before.

That discovery had delighted her, and she had foolishly enjoyed herself over it for half a day.

Qin Ran took a liking to this apartment and directly signed the contract with the saleswoman. She was just about to transfer the full payment when she heard the system speak inside her mind.

“Detected that Host is purchasing real estate for the bound target, Yu Shuman. Allocating twenty million yuan. Cashback—”

Before it could finish speaking, Qin Ran interrupted it inside her mind.

“I don’t want it. I’m buying this myself. I’m not buying it for Yu Shuman.”

Even if she had thought in her heart how wonderful it would be if one day the two of them could live together, she could not put that thought into practice by buying a house for herself under the banner of doing it for Yu Shuman.

That kind of behavior was too despicable.

Qin Ran could not do it.

The system felt very uncomfortable, but it could only silently retract the hand it had prepared to use for transferring funds.

Qin Ran was somewhat curious. Had the system ever regretted making her its host?

For nearly seventeen years, she had not bound herself to anyone. After finally binding someone with great difficulty, three years had passed, and she had still barely fleeced any benefits. Now that the wool had finally increased with great difficulty, ju​unauthorized copy​st when it wanted to perform, it had been slapped back by Qin Ran.

Being this system was honestly stifling.

To be honest, this Spending Cashback Tycoon System really was a pretty decent system. It did not have any forced requirements. It did not threaten to erase or punish the host whenever she failed a mission. Every day, aside from wanting to transfer money, it stubbornly wanted to do nothing else.

Strictly speaking, it was simply a feel-good-story system.

Right after Qin Ran paid the money, the keys were handed directly into her hands. The saleswoman’s smile widened so much she could hardly close her mouth, and she became even more enthusiastic toward Qin Ran.

This apartment was fully furnished. It had previously undergone special formaldehyde-removal treatment and had also been left vacant for a long time to air out the smell. As long as Qin Ran was willing, she could move in that very day.

However, Qin Ran still planned to go back and pack her things, intending to move in tomorrow.

When she returned to the dormitory and was packing her luggage, her roommates asked her why she had suddenly thought of moving out.

Before Qin Ran could answer, another roommate filled in for her. “What other reason could there be? It’s not like you don’t know Qin Ran’s situation. Sometimes her part-time work probably ends too late, and going back and forth isn’t convenient, so she’s just moving out directly.”

“But renting a place outside is so expensive. Qin Ran, why don’t you talk to the teacher about your situation and ask if you can still enter the dorm at night?”

Her roommates were sincerely thinking of Qin Ran, but explaining everything would be too troublesome. Qin Ran thought for a moment, then replied, “I’ll be staying in the staff dormitory.”

In a certain sense, this could indeed be called a staff dormitory.

Hearing her answer, her roommates relaxed.

“Then remember to come back and stay over when you’re free. Also, about evening self-study—last time, the teacher checked attendance. It was only after the class monitor talked to the teacher for a long time that the teacher didn’t record your name.”

Qin Ran nodded, indicating that she understood. After turning around, she brought some small snacks to the class monitor in the dormitory next door.

She was only socially anxious. She still understood the human relationships and social etiquette she ought to understand. Sometimes, she even felt that she was too worldly, too calculating. Compared to these simple students, she was the filthy adult.

When the class monitor saw her snacks, she refused to take them at first and pushed them back several times before finally accepting them.

After hearing that Qin Ran was going to stay in a staff dormitory, the class monitor also told her not to worry. She would definitely work hard to cover for her.

Qin Ran sighed emotionally in her heart. There really were far too many kindhearted people in this world.

She packed up all her things. Just like when she had come to school two months ago, there was one rolling suitcase and one backpack-style laptop bag, with nothing more than that.

She got into the car and went to the flat-floor apartment that had already been fully handed over.

Twenty million yuan could not buy a particularly large flat-floor apartment in a prime inner commercial district of the capital. But in the area Qin Ran had chosen, it was already enough to buy a very good apartment.

This apartment was on the twenty-eighth floor. Not counting gifted space, it was three hundred and sixty square meters in total.

For such an expensive apartment, even the entry security door was twelve centimeters thick. When the handover had been completed earlier, Qin Ran’s fingerprint had already been entered, the new password had been set, and the keys had also been handed over.

Qin Ran directly unlocked the door with her fingerprint and entered.

The first thing after stepping inside was an entryway foyer. Behind a flat storage cabinet was a wall of natural stone with emerald green and stone-like veins running through it. The outer surface had been polished smooth and coated with a film. It felt quite nice to the touch.

But what Qin Ran liked more was the little ornament placed on top of the storage cabinet.

It was a pink little rabbit. The chibi-style rabbit held an exaggerated white porcelain dish in its paws. After entering the door, one could place their keys on top of it.

Qin Ran did not have many keys at the moment, but she still specially took the apartment keys out of her pocket and placed them on the dish. The metal keys touched the porcelain plate, making a crisp sound.

Qin Ran reached out and rubbed the rabbit’s head, then walked farther inside.

Past the entryway was a turn. Once she reached the corner, she could see the full view of the living room.

This was one of the apartment’s biggest selling points. The entire living room had two-hundred-and-seventy-degree floor-to-ceiling viewing windows. It happened to be nighttime now. Looking out from the window, she could see the prosperity below and the high-rise buildings not too far away.

Qin Ran liked this kind of viewing position very much. It made one feel that their field of vision was broad and open.

But there were too many high-rise ​stolen content​buildings in the capital. The place she lived in was merely one among those many towers.

Truly rich people would not live in large flat-floor apartments. They could buy manors in the capital. And a single manor would always cost more than a dozen small goals.

She knew that the outside world had many guesses about the boss of Ninety-Nine Interactive Entertainment. After all, Ninety-Nine Interactive Entertainment had taken out at least five billion yuan in liquid funds in one breath over the past month or so. The assets represented behind that kind of cash flow had to be terrifyingly vast.

The big shots in the capital circle were always speculating about exactly what kind of divine being this person named Qin Ran was.

But they definitely would not imagine that buying a twenty-million-yuan apartment would cost her one-fifth of her entire fortune.

Poor.

She was still poor.

Qin Ran sighed, casually left her suitcase on the living room floor, then lay down on the wide sofa.

Since Qin Ran had spent twenty million yuan, of course the furniture she used could not be the old display furniture. This was especially true for things like the bed and sofa, which people might sit on during viewings. After the contract had been signed yesterday, the property developer had already replaced them with brand-new ones.

She lay on the sofa for quite a while and unexpectedly regained a little of the feeling from her previous life.

She rose from the sofa and looked at the huge apartment. For one moment, she fell into a daze. Immediately after, she wrapped both arms tightly around herself. A sense of loneliness spread outward from deep in her bones.

Perhaps it was because she had spent too long in cramped spaces in this life, but a house that was too Read on BaiLianTales spacious instead felt somewhat frightening.

While mocking herself for being pretentious, Qin Ran wondered what she should do.

This apartment had a full smart-home system installed. After she called out once, a huge television slowly descended from the ceiling. It automatically lit up and entered the home screen.

Qin Ran found a game console in a hidden drawer beneath the sofa. After connecting to the internet, she logged in and entered her account.