Chapter 1714 - 1715: It Really Is Quite Little

The key thing is, these clothes aren't just good-looking, they're actually super comfortable to wear too.

In the milk tea shop in the mall

The two sat face to face on the sofa, each holding a cup of milk tea.

They'd been shopping all afternoon, chatting all afternoon, so they were indeed a bit tired.

Mu Wanqing was drinking her milk tea sip by sip, her attention on her phone, seemingly scrolling Weibo.

Lin Xian was also holding his phone, except he was pretending to play around while actually staring at the system interface the whole time.

That 2.02 million in spending completely maxed out his XP bar, and his permission level reached lv9.

From this moment on, his daily income would hit 500,000.

An annual income of 180 million.

Strictly speaking, it's a lot of money, because it's cash; whether at home or abroad, you can buy most things.

But on the other hand, it's also really not that much.

At least right now, he definitely couldn't afford any of the king units in the major villa districts in Jinling.

In recent years, Jinling housing prices have skyrocketed, and the king units in all the villa districts have risen along with them, one after another breaking through the 200 million

threshold.

Not to mention, if you put this money into the financial sector—in the crude oil trading market or a quantum hedge fund—it wouldn't even make a tiny splash.

Aside from the income increase, his level-up XP requirement was refreshed again.

To reach lv10, he'd need a full 100 million XP, which meant spending 100 million yuan.

That much money, just relying on buying luxury goods is nowhere near enough.

Looks like it's time to buy a villa!

Only this kind of high-ticket spending can quickly boost his XP.

Plus, he genuinely needed a villa now.

Zhang Mengyao's illness was going to be cured soon, and the Purple Gold Mountain District was already Zhuang Tong and Nie Chunqing's little nest,

he couldn't keep going to the Shangri-La Hotel to open rooms, right?

At that point, the value of a villa would immediately show.

He could totally use it as their love nest, then buy another one in Shanghai later—one villa per girlfriend, perfect!

Thinking of this, Lin Xian couldn't help but ask, "Senior, what's the price on the villas in your villa district these days?"

"Villas?"

Mu Wanqing was stunned for a second, then thought about it. "I haven't really paid attention to that. The price mostly depends on location and size."

Lin Xian asked, "Mm, about 450 square meters—roughly how much?"

Mu Wanqing answered, "Around 6 million, I guess."

Hearing that price, Lin Xian nodded.

Not bad, about what he'd expected.

Jinling barely counts as a first-tier city, but compared to the real four first-tier cities, it's still quite far behind.

A 450-square-meter villa in Shanghai would start at at least 100 million.

Honestly, a 450-square-meter villa is more than enough.

It was just him and Zhang Mengyao living there; if the villa was too big, it'd just feel empty.

Of course, the Jinling villa was just a transitional place.

Lin Xian planned to buy an island in the future, then turn the entire island into a villa—that's real style.

Your villa has an artificial lake?

Sorry, my villa includes a few hundred nautical miles of surrounding sea, plus an airport and a dock!

That would instantly put some distance between him and everyone else!

Mu Wanqing asked curiously, "Junior, you're planning to buy a villa in our district?"

Lin Xian laughed. "That's the idea!"

Originally, Mu Wanqing wanted him to compare a few other villa districts first, but then she remembered this junior's yearly pocket money could practically buy a building, so she shut her mouth.

For now, he only had the plan; actually buying the villa would take at least another half a year or so.

It's not like you can move in right after you buy a villa.

Of course, if you don't mind the previous owner's taste, or the developer's, you can just make do.

But in reality, anyone who can afford a several-tens-of-millions villa isn't short on money, and they all have their own taste and preferences.

So generally, after buying a villa, people will renovate it.

And renovation is another bottomless pit; for a 60-million-yuan villa, spending another 100 million on renovation is totally normal.

Lin Xian remembered seeing online that some tycoon from an oil-rich country had an entire wall in his living room made of Swarovski crystal as the entrance hall, and the cost was in the tens of

millions of US dollars—enough to buy several king units in China.

So when it comes to renovation, there really is no upper limit.

You can do it for a million, or you can do it for ten billion—it all depends on you.

Lin Xian wasn't planning to renovate too extravagantly; 60 million for the villa, 40 million for renovation, nicely rounding it up to 100 million.

Oh right, he almost forgot about the privilege gift pack.

Every time his permission level rose by one, he'd get a privilege gift pack as a reward.

Judging from the system's usual crappy personality, the higher the level of the gift pack, the higher the chance of pulling something good.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian glanced over at Mu Wanqing.

Seeing her still looking down at her Weibo, Lin directly opened the gift pack.

"Open gift pack!"

"Ding!"

"Congratulations to the host for opening the [lv9 Privilege Gift Pack] and obtaining an item—"

Tool?

For a moment, Lin Xian was a bit disappointed.

In his opinion, the best reward was without a doubt a skill. Tools are always consumables, while skills are more like innate talent; they're completely different concepts.

Forget it, an item is an item.

Anyway, the privilege gift pack was a freebie from the system; he'd just treat it as getting a free item!

With that mindset, Lin Xian looked at the item bar.

[Sandwich Cookie]×2: After eating, your height will increase by three centimeters within a month! (Only the first time is effective; repeated use has no effect!)

Huh?

You can grow taller after eating it?

This…

kinda awesome!

Because with modern technology being so advanced, if you're not good-looking you can get plastic surgery, and if you don't like your figure you can get a boob job.

But if you're short, there's nothing you can do.

From a medical perspective, once a person's bones have completely fused, the possibility of growth stops entirely, and there's no way to keep getting taller.

In other words, you can make yourself better looking, and improve your figure, but you can't make yourself taller.

Lin Xian seemed to remember seeing online that apparently there's a technique abroad that lets people get taller.

The specific principle was to break the ankle bones, then implant special medical steel pins, using the pins to replace part of the bone so they'd have a height-increasing effect.

Setting aside whether that info was real or fake, even if it was real, Lin Xian felt it wasn't worth it.

Having your bones shattered and steel pins put in—just thinking about it was enough to make him shudder.

The key point was, from then on, your skeleton would have two extra steel pins, and that would definitely affect your daily life.

But now, he didn't need that.

With the [Sandwich Cookie], he could safely and painlessly increase his height by three centimeters, with no side effects at all.

Not exaggerating at all, if Lin Xian put it up for sale, plenty of rich people would probably fight to the death over it.

Especially those tycoons under 170cm…

Thinking of that, Lin Xian felt this pull definitely wasn't a loss.

He was 178cm tall—not short, but definitely not tall either. In China he'd only count as average height.

If he ate one cookie and went up to 181cm, that'd be absolutely perfect.

As for the remaining one, he could save it for Ling Youyu.

The little girl's 1.5-meter short legs really did make your heart ache a bit.

Just then, Mu Wanqing looked up and saw the smile on his face, and couldn't help asking curiously, "Junior, what are you thinking about that makes you so happy?"

Lin Xian put down his phone and asked with a smile, "Senior, if you could increase your height by 3 centimeters, how much would you be willing to pay?"

"Three centimeters?"