C16 You Should Buy It for Me to See

Zhang Yurou seemed completely unfazed as she swiftly added him as a friend. After sneaking a peek at Yang Ling, she murmured, "I'll take you out for a meal next time. Bye!" With that, she spun on her heel and strode away.

Yang Ling watched her retreating figure before glancing down at his phone, a subtle smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

He had just invested some newly acquired attribute points into Dexterity, and Yang Ling could immediately sense his speed had notched up a bit.

Later, he made a trip to the bank to cash a 100,000 yuan check. He kept a portion in cash and deposited the rest into his account, linking it to both WeChat and Alipay.

100,000 yuan wasn't a fortune, but it wasn't pocket change either. Now, he had a decent sum to his name.

Standing at the entrance of the bank, he paused, then decided against buying reference books. Instead, he headed to a shopping center.

That morning, he had realized just how powerful his Unforgettable Memory skill was. There was no need to pore over texts line by line; he could skim ten lines, even a hundred, and the words would be etched in his mind with crystal clarity.

He was like a supercharged scanner, capturing everything in a single sweep.

With this ability, there was no need to waste money on textbooks or exercise books. A visit to Xinhua Bookstore would do the trick.

The money, he decided, would be better spent on a new phone—not for show, but simply because his current one was frustratingly slow.

The shopping center he approached was one of the more upscale ones in S City, bustling with early morning shoppers.

As Yang Ling neared the phone counter, he stopped short. The group chatting ahead of him included some of his high school classmates.

A heavily made-up girl was taunting a plainly dressed young man, "Jiang Hua, you're buying that kind of phone for your girlfriend?"

"Can she even use a phone that's just 2,000 yuan?"

The face of another girl, plain in comparison, fell at the comment, but the young man, Jiang Hua, retorted, "Chen Ping, what business is it of yours what phone I buy for my girlfriend?"

"What, you think having a slightly wealthy boyfriend puts you above everyone else?"

Beside Chen Ping stood a hefty man, his body a testament to indulgence; presumably, her boyfriend.

With a smug look, Chen Ping clutched the fat man's arm and retorted, "I never said that. But any lipstick I pull out of my bag is probably out of your price range."

She chuckled at her own joke, the sound of her laughter filling the air.

Jiang Hua, a young man not accustomed to such mockery, impulsively addressed the sales clerk, "Let me see an Apple X. I want to try it out."

The clerk gave him a curious glance but remained silent.

The Apple X was among the priciest phones available, and as Jiang Hua held the box marked with an 8000, he fell silent. For someone fresh in the workforce, it was a staggering sum.

Chen Ping scoffed at his hesitation, "Going to buy it? If you could afford this model, why would you even glance at some two-thousand-dollar piece of junk?"

"Well, are you buying it or not?"

Her portly companion looked on with a sneer, his gaze filled with contempt for Jiang Hua. However, his eyes lingered when they fell upon Jiang Hua's girlfriend.

In a rush of bravado, Jiang Hua had momentarily lost control, despite the reality that the phone was well beyond his means.