As spiritual energy revived, I, having acquired certain attributes, gradually ascended to immortalit

"Okay, okay!"

Zhang Cuifang stormed into the living room, yelling, "I was saying I checked my card yesterday and suddenly 10,000 yuan was missing!"

Su Wan's face paled. "Mom, what brings you here..."

"Why did I come? If I hadn't come, I wouldn't have known your brother was secretly spending money out of his own pocket."

As Zhang Cuifang spoke, she reached into Su Wan's pocket, shouting, "Take it out! Give me the money! How dare you ask your brother for money?!"

Jiang Cheng frowned and stepped in front of Su Wan, saying, "Mother-in-law, let's talk this out."

"Speak properly? I'm talking to my daughter, what's it to you!"

Zhang Cuifang bypassed Jiang Cheng and went to rummage through Su Wan's other pocket, causing chaos in the living room.

"alright!"

Su Huan, his face flushed, roared, "Mom! My older sister didn't want my money!"

"No?"

Zhang Cuifang looked at Su Huan suspiciously, then at Su Wan.

"The money is right here with me."

Seeing Su Huanzhen take out the ten thousand yuan, Zhang Cuifang snatched it away, quickly counted it with her thumb moistened with saliva, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, you didn't want it? That's perfect."

She stuffed the money into her cloth bag, a sarcastic expression on her face, and then changed the subject.

"By the way, your little brother joined a big company, something like Heavy Industry."

"It's not that you're so useless."

Zhang Cuifang glanced at Su Huan and continued, "Since we're in the city, we should celebrate. As the older sister and brother-in-law, shouldn't you do something to show your support?"

She plopped down on the sofa, crossed her legs, and said, "Please arrange for us to stay here for a few days. It's not easy for us to come to the city."

"Su Yao works in the city, how come I didn't know?"

Su Wan frowned. She didn't like her pampered second brother, who had always had everything he wanted since childhood.

Zhang Cuifang replied matter-of-factly, "Don't you know now?"

"Hurry up and change into some decent clothes. Go book a better restaurant. Xiao Yao is a person of status now. We can't just find some roadside stall to fool him."

"Perfect timing! I've already found a hotel I like, something like 'Four Seasons'."

Four Seasons Hotel is a well-known hotel in Binhai City. It is not cheap, with prices starting at 1,000 yuan per person.

Su Wan instantly understood that this was probably Zhang Cuifang's original plan, and that the 10,000 yuan was just a coincidence.

"mom!"

She frowned. "What does it matter to us which company Su Yao joins?"

"nonsense!"

Zhang Cuifang stood up abruptly and accused, "That's your own brother. His success is a source of pride for you!"

"You still have money to buy new clothes, isn't this the time to borrow money?"

As she spoke, she reached for Su Wan again, but Jiang Cheng blocked her, saying coldly:

"Mother-in-law, our place is too small to accommodate everyone. I can treat you to a meal, but after lunch, please go back home."

Seeing that Jiang Cheng was being so blunt, Zhang Cuifang started throwing a tantrum again, sitting down on the ground.

"Oh my!"

"Su Wan, look at the man you found! He actually dared to kick us out!"

"And you good-for-nothing, what are you standing outside the door for? All you do is watch as your old woman is bullied! Marrying you is the worst thing that could have happened to me."

She howled loudly, cursing the middle-aged man outside the door, and then looked at Su Wan.

"If I had told you to marry that Mr. Li back then, you would have been living in a big house long ago, instead of suffering like this."

Su Huan finally couldn't hold back any longer, "Mom, that's enough!"

He shouldn't have come here.

"Shut up."

Zhang Cuifang jumped up and slapped him on the back of the head. "You're a traitor too, unlike your brother Su Yao, who only makes a pittance every month."

She finished her rant and glanced at Jiang Cheng, who had a cold expression on his face.

She was ultimately a bully who preyed on the weak. Seeing Jiang Chengzhen's unpleasant expression, she didn't dare to do anything more.

"Hmph, I'll leave in a bit, but don't even think about scraping by for lunch. We're going to the Four Seasons Pavilion!"

……

The Shanhe Heavy Industry Group building in the city center.

Xie Chong lay lazily on the sofa, swinging his legs, and said with a worried expression, "What should I give as a gift for saving my life...?"

Behind the desk next to him, a middle-aged man looked at the employee files in his hand and casually asked, "What is your friend interested in?"

"Those who are interested..."

Xie Chong thought for a long time, then slapped his forehead, "I really didn't know that. Shen Qing is a cultivation king, he's always cultivating..."

However, I have heard him mention envying big houses; he really should move!

He sat bolt upright, his eyes lighting up. "So, we'll give him a house?"

The middle-aged man finally looked up, sighed, and asked his son, "Do you think he'll accept it?"

Xie Chong scratched his head, then slumped back onto the sofa, "It's really hard to say... This is so troublesome!"

He hesitated for a moment, then checked the time. "Never mind, I'll go now."

"Wait a minute." The middle-aged man closed the file. "I'll go with you. I saved your life, you unfilial son, so I should at least thank you properly."

……

Noon, downtown.

After finishing his morning patrol, Shen Qing arrived at the location based on Xie Chong's information.

"Wow, that's a real tycoon!"

He looked up at the hotel in front of him, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes.

The Four Seasons Hotel, well, it's quite famous. It's not particularly high-end, but it's still one of the better hotels in the seaside area. A personal bill will cost at least a thousand yuan.

Since no one's treating him, he definitely wouldn't want to eat here.

"You're so slow."

Xie Chong walked out of the main gate, waved to him, and said with a look of disgust, "If it weren't for the fact that you made the first contribution, I wouldn't have waited for you to start eating."

Shen Qing shook her head. "You really are a tycoon. I thought it would just be a random restaurant."

"Damn, I at least got a third-class merit, and you got a first-class merit. How could you just find any random place to celebrate?"

Xie Chong put his arm around his shoulder, grinning, "Don't worry, everything's on me today, Young Master Xie!"

"Ha, it's all in the style of a dark-toned Chinese garden."

Behind the bamboo screen, the two chatted as they walked through the lobby toward the private room.

Meanwhile, in the corner by the window.

Su Xiaoxiao made a face, poking at the shrimp in her bowl with her chopsticks. "No, Jing Shi, I'm talking about serious matters. What are you thinking? Didn't you want to get back together?"

"Xiaoxiao, I won't say anything more, you don't need to worry."

Across from him, Gu Jingshi, with a calm expression, picked up another shrimp ball and said, "Here, I think this shrimp is pretty good, try some more."

Seeing that she was still unfazed by the impending doom, Su Xiaoxiao angrily started eating voraciously, "Fine, I can't treat myself badly."

After talking for so long, she still didn't take it seriously, and she was already exasperated.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing her puffed-up face, Gu Jingshi laughed and said, "Is it really that bad?"

"fine."

Su Xiaoxiao shook her head angrily and chewed the shrimp ball in her mouth hard.

"Don't worry, Little One."

Gu Jingshi shook his head helplessly, his gaze inadvertently sweeping across the lobby... Why does that figure from the back just now seem a little familiar?