I became financially independent right after entering college.

Chapter 128 The Season When Snow Falls
After the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped, they made the bed, took a bath together, and then Li Xue nestled in Bai Chou's arms while watching TV, whispering sweet nothings like lovers.

Suddenly, Li Xue's bright eyes darted around mischievously as she asked Bai Chou, "Darling, between me and Jin Xiaozhou, who do you find more comfortable with?"

Bai Chou was instantly drenched in sweat.

"Xiao Zhou is more athletic, while you're more business-oriented," Bai Chou vaguely replied.

"Oh dear, I don't understand any of that business or sports stuff. Just tell me who you feel more comfortable with, just be honest!"

"It's more comfortable with Xiaozhou." Li Xue insisted on asking, so Bai Chou told the truth.

Kim Hyo-joo's figure is generally more voluptuous and sexy. Lee Seol's figure is not bad either, but it is obviously more visually appealing. In terms of actual performance, it is slightly inferior to Kim Hyo-joo's.

Besides, this was Li Xue's first time doing this.

Bai Chou, while not entirely without outlets for his energy, at least restrained himself somewhat, and frankly, didn't quite get his fill. Jin Xiaozhou, on the other hand, was different; as an old married couple, they didn't need to restrain themselves as much.

"Humph!"

Having received the answer, Li Xue pouted her delicate lips, snorted coldly, and turned away, leaving Bai Chou with her smooth, jade-like back. She was ignoring him!
The cold war lasted less than five seconds before Li Xue turned around again, raised her slender arm and placed it on Bai Chou's chest, saying with a fighting spirit, "This is my first time, it still hurts a little, but I will definitely perform better than Jin Xiaozhou in the future!"

Bai Chou thought that this was indeed the case.

After cuddling together for a while, Li Xue began to feel anxious again, asking Bai Chou if he would leave her, or if he would dump her after he got what he wanted...

Li Xue had asked similar questions many times before. At first, Bai Chou would try to explain to Li Xue rationally and logically how low the probability was that he didn't want her...

Later, Bai Chou gradually stopped explaining. Every time Li Xue asked, Bai Chou would say, "How could that be? Our Li Xue is so good, so cute, and so sensible..."

In short, it was all about coaxing and appeasement, and this time was no different.

Just like every time she heard Bai Chou's sweet words in the past, Li Xue narrowed her eyes into slits, snuggled against Bai Chou like a spoiled ragdoll cat, and made a happy purring sound in her throat.

This is what she wanted.

Kim Hyo-joo is the kind of girl who is very intelligent. She understands everything, clearly knows what she wants, what the other person wants, and what she can offer them...

In anything related to romance, Kim Hyo-joo can provide near-perfect emotional value to her partner, with just the right amount of coquettishness, just the right amount of jealousy, and just the right amount of being easily swayed...

Li Xue is a different kind of girl. She's much less bright than Jin Xiaozhou and can't do things as perfectly as Jin Xiaozhou most of the time...

But Li Xue is genuinely easy to coax. She says she wants to compete with Jin Xiaozhou, and her true thoughts are ambitious, but because she is timid and often insecure, she is surprisingly easy to coax most of the time.

After chatting quietly with Li Xue for a while, Bai Chou finally picked up his phone to chat with his girlfriend, Jin Xiaozhou.

Kim Hyo-joo reported to Baek Choo on her progress in learning accounting knowledge today, saying what she learned...

Bai Chou replied that there was no need to work so hard. His current business was not even a makeshift operation. Knowing basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division was enough. He could learn slowly and there was plenty of time.

“It’s enough for now, but it might not be enough for later. I want to be your good wife, my husband.” Kim Hyo-joo’s voice reply was full of ambition and a sense of crisis.

Essentially, she's the kind of girl who's calculating and highly driven to succeed. The reason she acted so gentle, mild-mannered, and unassuming before was simply to appease Bai Chou.

Baek Choo is as indifferent as a chrysanthemum and has no ambition, so Kim Hyo-joo also acts as indifferent as a chrysanthemum, accompanying Baek Choo in a sweet romance.

Now that Baek Choo is ambitious and wants to start his own business, Kim Hyo-joo naturally has to change his strategy to catch up.

"It's unnecessary, really unnecessary." Bai Chou continued to advise Jin Xiaozhou not to work so hard, not to study finance and business management so diligently.

Does he really have a strong sense of career ambition and drive?
Bai Chou knew that wasn't the case. His logic hadn't changed at all; he was still essentially following his own ideas, using his interests and hobbies as the core driving force.

He started his business not because he was ambitious, but simply because he treated it as a game or a hobby. Essentially, he was just having fun, just like he used to enjoy cars, music, and basketball.

When they get tired of it, they will withdraw most of their energy from entrepreneurship and business and throw the game aside.

Therefore, Kim Hyo-joo's actions were unnecessary.

Just as Bai Chou was about to explain the reason to Jin Xiaozhou, her phone was snatched away by a small, fair hand.

"I forbid you from talking to her!"

Seeing the man lying next to her chatting with another woman, Li Xue was furious. She snatched Bai Chou's phone and held it to her chest, yelling, "I won't allow you to chat with Jin Xiaozhou, at least not today! You can only stay with me today!"

"Hyoju is my official girlfriend, of course I have to reply to her messages, right?" Bai Chou coaxed Li Xue helplessly, "Sweetie, give me your phone..."

"No, I don't want you chatting with Kim Hyo-joo!" Lee Seol clutched her phone tightly, her eyes slightly moist and brimming with tears.

Bai Chou was frantically grabbing his hair. Under normal circumstances, he would have definitely started fighting with Li Xue, but this situation was quite special.

Seeing that Bai Chou didn't try to take the phone from her, Li Xue, who had successfully protected it, felt no joy. Instead, she was worried about being disliked and pleaded with tears in her eyes, "Please stay with me, okay? Please don't chat with Jin Xiaozhou, okay? Just for today..."

As long as Bai Chou doesn't chat with Jin Xiaozhou, Li Xue doesn't care what she does. Scrolling through Douyin, reading novels, and chatting with others are things people do when they have free time.

But I can't chat with Kim Hyo-joo.

This would remind Li Xue that she wasn't Bai Chou's official girlfriend. He could take her virginity and immediately chat with Jin Xiaozhou, but he would never chat with her after he had finished with Jin Xiaozhou.

The difference between a legitimate girlfriend and a mistress is just that big.

"Okay, okay, I'll reply to Xiaozhou with just a few more sentences, just the last few. I'll tell her I'm a little sleepy, okay?" Bai Chou had no choice but to compromise.

Suppression is necessary to prevent Li Xue from becoming arrogant. However, refusing even this request would be rather heartless.

Li Xue then returned the phone to Bai Chou.

After chatting with Kim Hyo-joo for a few more minutes, seeing that Lee Seol was getting increasingly anxious and tears were about to fall, Bai Chou casually told Kim Hyo-joo that she felt a little tired and had been quite busy these past few days...

Kim Hyo-joo knew that Baek Choo had indeed been very busy these past few days, so she didn't suspect anything and politely said goodnight to Baek Choo.

After ending his chat with Kim Hyo-joo, Bai Chou started clearing up other messages on WeChat and QQ. Li Xue, meanwhile, nestled silently in Bai Chou's arms, watching him play with his phone tenderly.

They didn't fall asleep in each other's arms until after 11 p.m. The next morning, Bai Chou woke up very early and patted Li Xue's bottom: "Time to get up, class starts in an hour!"

Li Xue hesitated for a moment, then hugged Xia Liang tightly, refusing to budge: "Darling, you go to class by yourself. I'm not feeling well. I'll ask Xiao Zhou and the others to help me ask for leave later."

"Are you sick?"

Bai Chou's expression instantly turned serious. He touched Li Xue's forehead; she didn't seem to have a fever...

"It doesn't feel right there..."

Li Xue's cheeks flushed slightly as she whined and said coquettishly, "It still hurts a little down there. If I go to class today, Xiao Zhou and the others might find out something."

Besides, you've torn all my clothes, so I can't go out even if I wanted to..."

"Then you should take leave and rest at home. I'll come back to see you at noon. There are some snacks and milk that I just bought in the refrigerator. Don't forget to eat breakfast..." Bai Chou naggardly instructed.

"Mmm-hmm." Li Xue nodded obediently.

After Bai Chou drove away, Li Xue suddenly threw off the covers with a "whoosh" and jumped up, running around the villa barefoot.

She was indeed feeling a little unwell, but only slightly, not to the point of being unable to move. She was just trying to feign weakness and stay in bed a little longer than usual...

After rummaging through drawers and cabinets, finding a bunch of drinks and snacks in the kitchen refrigerator and living room cupboards, Li Xue, full of energy, finally lay down on the bed and contacted Jin Xiaozhou to ask her to take leave for her.

Actually, Li Xue's three roommates all had a decent relationship with her, but he just wanted to contact Kim Hyo-joo for a thrill. Hmph, not only will I sleep with your boyfriend, but I'll also make you ask for leave for me afterwards!
"Why would you need to take leave?" Kim Hyo-joo asked, somewhat puzzled.

"I had the air conditioning set too low last night, and I got a fever," Li Xue lied without batting an eye.

Kim Hyo-joo had no doubts; there had indeed been a lot of people with colds and fevers this season. While a fever wasn't enough to prevent them from attending classes, well, they were just lazy...

After asking Kim Hyo-joo for leave, Li Xue lay in bed chatting with her high school classmates and her "plastic besties," showing off her boyfriend and watching short videos...

Around 10 o'clock, after finishing most of the short videos, Li Xue officially began to tour the villa, messing around inside.

Li Xue had roughly taken care of the villa when she visited it a few days ago, but her status and mindset at that time were definitely different from now.

At the time, Bai Chou only had the intention to buy, and she was merely accompanying her. Now, however, she is the mistress of the house, even if it is only temporary.

A 24-hour constant temperature, humidity and ventilation system, an extra-large living room, a master bathroom even bigger than her bedroom, and walk-in closets on every floor...

The materials used in the decoration of this villa may not be as luxurious as those in Li Xue's house, but Li Xue just loves it no matter how she looks at it.

The decor is in the currently popular modern style, unlike her old-fashioned home filled with all sorts of wooden furniture. Most importantly, each room is spacious, and there's a rooftop garden with views of Fangshan Mountain and the university town…

This duplex villa has four floors above ground, which is the tallest in this community. The duplex villas and townhouses in Jiuxi Terrace are all four floors, while the detached houses are generally three floors.

The only pity is that this villa doesn't belong to her.

This "not belonging" doesn't mean her name isn't on the property certificate; Li Xue doesn't care about that. What Li Xue cares about is her status as the "female owner" of this villa.

She had to carefully block all her college classmates from seeing the selfies she took in the villa when she posted them on her WeChat Moments. Even so, she would have to move out of the villa in a few days.

Kim Hyo-joo is the actual owner of this villa.

Filled with jealousy towards Kim Hyo-joo, Lee Seol fussed around in the villa for over an hour. Only when she heard the roar of a Lamborghini engine did she dash back to the master bedroom and pretend to be asleep.

A few minutes later, Bai Chou, who had just finished class, came out of the small indoor elevator carrying several bags. As soon as he entered the bedroom, he saw Li Xue lying on her side on the bed, her long eyelashes fluttering slightly.

"Snapped!"

Bai Chou slapped Li Xue's round little bottom: "Stop pretending to be asleep. I saw everything you did this morning on the monitor."

"what?"

Li Xue suddenly woke up with a start: "You're such a pervert! You even installed a camera in your own home!"

"It's not like there are hidden cameras. Can't you see those big cameras on the robot?" Bai Chou pointed to something in the corner of the room that looked like a humidifier.

Li Xue couldn't hold back any longer. Didn't this mean that Bai Chou knew everything about what she had done that morning?

Bai Chou didn't dwell on Li Xue's feigned illness or sleepiness; after all, who hasn't pretended to be sick before?
He casually handed Li Xue the bags containing the phones, and then gave her a bank card: "I bought you some clothes on my way back; the size should be just right."

There's 500,000 in your card. Go to Deji Plaza this afternoon and buy yourself a few nice outfits.

Bai Chou still remembered how excited Li Xue was when he took her shopping at Deji Plaza last time. Besides, he did indeed have to compensate Li Xue with a Prada set after he tore it up yesterday.

Quack!

Half a million!
Li Xue's eyes lit up as she took the bank card and gripped it tightly: "Is this 500,000 yuan all for me to spend?"

"I'll give it all to you."

"Can I use all of it to buy clothes and spend it all at once today?"

"Whatever makes you happy." Bai Chou didn't consider himself a simp, but he felt it wasn't a bad idea to spend some money on a girl at the right time.

"Yay!" Li Xue was so excited she could hardly contain herself. Her brain was racing, trying to figure out how to allocate the 500,000 yuan. Should she buy more clothes from mid-range luxury brands, or big brands, or even spend it all on Hermès and horse breeding...?

In the context of many stories about super-rich people, 500,000 is nothing. A Van Cleef & Arpels or Patek Philippe piece can cost hundreds of thousands or millions, and any jewelry can cost millions or tens of millions.

But Li Xue is easily swayed. A designer outfit costing tens of thousands of yuan is enough to excite her for a long time, take many photos, and post them on her WeChat Moments. A shopping budget of 500,000 yuan is enough to overwhelm Li Xue.

As for Bai Chou, he could easily satisfy Li Xue's desires and pursuits in all aspects.

After pondering for a long time, Li Xue suddenly thought of something, looked at the bank card on her phone and hesitated to speak: "You're starting a business recently, are you short of money? Would it be too extravagant for me to spend 500,000 on clothes?"

I only need 50,000... um, 100,000 will do.

(End of this chapter)