At the start, I had to choose one of four options, and I immediately picked the Brahmin from the cou

She lowered her eyes, her gaze once again settling on the five bundles of bright red banknotes.

Fifty thousand yuan was enough for her to buy that bag in the boutique that she only dared to secretly admire without batting an eye, enough to keep her from feeling that secret sense of superiority when her roommates showed off their new clothes for a whole year...

As for shame?

Just like Manman said, can shame be exchanged for real money?

Last night, that man was young and handsome, high and mighty. Countless women would fight tooth and nail to get close to him. I went to great lengths to seize the opportunity and get a generous reward. What is there to feel wronged about?

She threw off the covers, endured the slight soreness in her legs, stood up, and picked up her clothes one by one to put them on.

The bathroom door was pushed open at this moment, and Manman walked out wrapped in a bath towel. While drying her hair with a towel, she looked up at Su Wan, who was already dressed, and her gaze lingered for a moment on Su Wan's fingers that were tightly gripping the bag strap.

"Take a shower before you go," Manman said, stepping aside to open the bathroom door. Her tone was unusually gentle. "A hot shower will make you feel much better. Besides, if you go out like this, everyone will know what you did last night."

She spoke with barbs because she couldn't stand Su Wan's awkward way of wanting money while trying to maintain a certain air. In this world of fame and fortune, the most taboo thing is not being able to recognize reality.

Now that she's come to terms with reality, Manman finds her much more agreeable.

Su Wan hesitated for two seconds, but finally put down her bag.

The bathroom was filled with steam, still carrying the scent of the shower gel that Manman had used. Su Wan took off her clothes and stood under the showerhead, letting the hot water pour over her head, washing away the soreness and fatigue of her overused skin.

Amidst the rising steam, she looked at her young but no longer innocent face in the mirror and suddenly felt that the image of herself kneeling in the corridor last night, pleading desperately, was as distant as a past life.

When she came out drying her hair, Manman had already put on a full face of makeup and was applying lipstick in front of the mirror.

"Let's go," Manman closed the lipstick cap, picked up the expensive chain bag, glanced back at her, and said, "Let's check out downstairs and go our separate ways. If we run into each other again, let's pretend we don't know each other."

Su Wan nodded without saying anything more.

The two walked out of the Ziwei Pavilion one after the other. As the elevator descended, Su Wan saw the faint red marks on her collarbone through the mirrored wall of the elevator car. Her ears burned slightly, but she did not look away.

The doors of the Golden Diamond KTV closed behind her. Su Wan stood by the roadside, the 50,000 yuan in her bag weighing heavily on her shoulders.

"What are you thinking about?" Manman had already hailed a taxi and rolled down the window to lean out.

Su Wan opened her mouth as if to say something, but in the end she just shook her head.

Manman gave her a meaningful look, didn't ask any more questions, rolled up the car window, and the taxi quickly disappeared around the street corner.

Su Wan stood alone in the morning breeze, taking a deep breath of the slightly cool air. She glanced down at the bank app on her phone, where the credit card repayment reminder that had been causing her anxiety for half a month could finally be completely cleared out with the money in her bag.

……

At 9:50 a.m., in the VIP customer room of the Jiangyang County branch of China Construction Bank, Li Xiao leaned back on a leather sofa, holding a cup of pre-Qingming Longjing tea that the lobby manager had personally brewed for him, looking relaxed.

Old Zhang waited quietly outside the door, while Zheng Hao, sitting opposite him, looked energetic and showed no signs of the lethargy one would expect after a night of debauchery at the Golden Diamond KTV.

Li Xiao looked him up and down with interest, and chuckled, "What's up? Didn't those two art school whizzes drain you dry last night? You're still up so early today?"

Zheng Hao scratched the back of his head, chuckled, and unusually became serious. "Brother Xiao, stop teasing me. I didn't stay upstairs much after you went up last night."

"Oh? You didn't touch them?" Li Xiao raised an eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised. Given Zheng Hao's usual spoiled and unreliable nature, why wouldn't he take advantage of an opportunity that was practically handed to him?

"I really didn't touch it!" Zheng Hao assured him confidently.

She then pointed to the thick stack of documents on the table, "Brother Xiao, you poured ten million yuan of real money into this, and you're letting me take 15% of the shares with zero investment. This huge investment has hit me like a ton of bricks; my heart is still pounding in my throat. How can I possibly be thinking about women?"

"Last night, after you left, I casually listened to them sing two songs, gave each of them a big red envelope, and that was it. This is the first serious thing I've ever done in my life, and I don't want to hold you back."

Upon hearing this, a hint of admiration flashed in Li Xiao's eyes.

He was right about Zheng Hao. Although Zheng Hao usually appeared to be a spoiled rich kid, he ultimately inherited the shrewdness of that old fox, Zheng Guodong. When faced with the choice between absolute profit and career, he could clearly distinguish which was more important.

"Alright, at least you're clear-headed." Li Xiao put down his teacup. "Get the documents out, let's open an account."

Because prior arrangements had been made, and given the Li family's prominent position in both the political and business circles of Jiangyang County, there were no unnecessary questions or cumbersome approval processes. The branch manager personally led two key business personnel in, pushing a mobile terminal in, smiling throughout.

The co-managed account was successfully opened in less than twenty minutes.

As Li Xiao casually entered the password and signed to confirm on the tablet, a huge sum of ten million yuan was instantly transferred from the Li family's account into the game. Looking at the long string of dazzling zeros in the account balance, Zheng Hao's palms were sweating with excitement.

"Don't rush to spend money. Let's get Zhou Pangzi on board first. Let's go. I've arranged to meet him at Guilan at noon today."

"Gui Lan? You said it yourself, Brother Li. I'm going to rip you off this noon." Deng Hao rubbed his hands together, a signature sly grin spreading across his face.

"Alright, stop drooling. I've already taken the ten million, what's one more meal?"

The two walked out of the VIP customer room side by side, with the branch manager bowing and scraping all the way until he saw Li Xiao and his companion out of the bank. Only after watching Lao Zhang open the back door of the black Maybach did he respectfully wave goodbye.

Xiao Zhou lay behind the bulletproof glass, watching the black Maybach disappear around the street corner before turning around, his expression as if he had just finished watching a Hollywood blockbuster.

"Sister Wang, tell me the truth, what kind of birth situation did this young master of the Li family have? He's eighteen years old! What was I doing when I was eighteen? I felt like I was rolling in money with fifty yuan in my pocket. And him? He transferred ten million yuan like it was nothing, and the bank manager was all smiles the whole time. He even bent down to see him off to the car door when he left. And that's our bank manager."

The woman called Sister Wang was a teller in her early thirties who had been working at the Jiangyang County branch of China Construction Bank for almost ten years.

"You're asking me? How would I know? They probably used a VIP recharge channel when they were reincarnated."

Sister Wang rolled her eyes and slammed a stack of unprocessed forms on the table. "Alright, put away your envy and jealousy. The Li family is a real Brahmin in our Jiangyang County, with deep roots. Get back to work, work more overtime this life, and try to be reborn into a better family next time."

Xiao Zhou swallowed hard and obediently sat back down at his workstation, feeling that the gap between people was sometimes greater than that between a person and a dog.