Just as Wang Wenli was about to launch into a river-like, never-ending explanation,
Jiang Cheng gently raised his hand and cut her off.
"Which of those buildings still have units ready to move in?"
The abrupt interruption didn't upset Wang Wenli in the least.
On the contrary, an indescribable surge of joy welled up inside her.
People who sell homes adore this kind of decisive, straight-to-the-point attitude.
After receiving her cue, Wang Wenli quickly adjusted her demeanor, smiled and replied, "Mr. Jiang, only the newly-built Phase Four still has ready units for sale; every earlier phase is completely sold out."
As she spoke she pointed to the corresponding spots on the model so Jiang Cheng and Wang Yuyan could see them clearly.
Jiang Cheng beckoned to Wang Yuyan standing nearby. "Yuyan, come take a look."
Wang Yuyan stepped forward, studied the Phase-Four model and asked softly, a little curious, "What's the price here now?"
Wang Wenli jumped in at once, answering enthusiastically, "Miss Wang, the project's average is two hundred thousand yuan per square metre. Naturally, prices vary by floor; higher floors are usually a bit more expensive."
While speaking she used the laser pointer in her hand to circle several high-floor areas in the model, explaining further.
Hearing the figure, Wang Yuyan kept a calm smile on her face,
but inside she couldn't help yelling, Ridiculous!
She could hardly believe her ears.
In barely a year Cui Lake prices had jumped a full fifty thousand?
For years housing prices all across China had been skyrocketing like mad.
The most outrageous rises were in the first-tier cities.
Take the capital of magic, for example: prices along the Huangpu River had long since reached eye-watering heights,
yet they were still inching upward.
Thinking this, Wang Yuyan shook her head helplessly.
In a place where every inch of land was measured in gold, an ordinary family might scrimp and save for decades,
only to afford a two-or-three-square-metre bathroom here.
There really was an invisible wall between people.
For drifters like them, working steadily, they would probably never scrape together enough for a ticket into Huangpu District.
Jiang Cheng pointed at a four-bedroom unit. "Which layout do you think is best?"
When Jiang Cheng singled her out again, a faint puzzlement rose in Wang Yuyan's heart.
She quickly shook the unrealistic thoughts out of her mind.
Following the direction of his finger,
she saw he hadn't chosen any two- or three-bedroom units,
but had gone straight for the largest four-bedroom model.
Seeing this, she couldn't help exclaiming inwardly, Truly a Tycoon.
Collecting herself, she studied the model carefully.
"I don't really know; the important thing is that you like it. Any of them would be fine with me."
Watching Wang Yuyan's cautious manner,
Jiang Cheng, smiling the same way he had when they were renting, reached out and tapped her delicate nose. "Whether I like it doesn't matter. This flat is for you—pick the one you want."
Hearing this, Wang Yuyan's big beautiful eyes went round.
Unlike the bitter sweetness she'd felt the first time he tapped her nose, now a fierce joy and gratitude suddenly surged inside her.
Her watery eyes stared straight into Jiang Cheng's as she asked, voice trembling, "You're… buying it for me?"
When Jiang Cheng nodded, Wang Yuyan actually calmed down.
She said slowly, "But buying property in the capital of magic isn't easy. For outsiders like us you have to be married and have paid social security for five straight years. I meet neither requirement—I can't buy."
Jiang Cheng chuckled at the question.
With fond indulgence he said, "Just choose one. Leave everything else to me; I'll take care of it."
Although the other Girls had also been stunned when Jiang Cheng bought flats for them,
he felt a special tenderness toward Wang Yuyan right now.
The Mind Perception Skill let him sense what she was feeling inside:
It wasn't that she didn't want it; she felt unworthy of it.
Seeing Jiang Cheng's calm confidence, hope she had given up rose again.
Overwhelmed by the huge surprise, Wang Yuyan was dazed; the scene even felt unreal.
She wasn't sure why Jiang Cheng was being this good to her.
After all, women who actually married rich men didn't necessarily receive a flat.
The news she usually saw ran something like: So-and-so starlet gives birth to a son for so-and-so Tycoon and is rewarded with a ten-million-yuan luxury flat.
Ordinarily a woman like her could count on no more than food and clothing.
Usually you had to give him a son before you got a flat.
Some difficult Tycoons even registered the reward flat under the newborn son's name.
So never think that once you latch onto a rich man money and property come easily.
People aren't fools; nothing that good comes without strings.
At an average of two hundred thousand yuan per square metre, a four-bedroom—even the small 269-sq-m version—would cost more than fifty million.
Was she really worth that much?
Moreover she noticed a detail others might overlook:
Jiang Cheng was extremely careful of her feelings.
He hadn't asked her what size she wanted; he'd simply let her pick the four-bedroom layout.
If he had asked her how large a flat she wanted,
she probably couldn't have decided.
She couldn't very well blithely choose the largest four-bedroom, could she?
Among the available units were three-bedrooms and even ordinary two-bedrooms.
Though most people secretly longed for the grandest, the problem was that someone else was paying.
If she picked the biggest unit
wouldn't it look greedy?
Yet if she chose the smallest she might find the space too cramped later on.
That was why she said Jiang Cheng was considerate of her feelings.
Even while throwing money around he hadn't acted superior; instead he'd deftly spared her that embarrassment.
Tell me—who could not fall for a man like that?
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