Chapter 4 Bentley "800,000 for a bag..."

Chapter 4 Bentley "800,000 for a bag..."

Sunlight streamed through the clouds, casting golden glints on Ye Hantao's slightly curled hair.

Her eyes were slightly upturned, and the way she quietly made a phone call resembled a lazy cat basking in the sun.

[Disease progression: 97.1%]

Seeing that she had achieved her goal of maintaining her persona, Ye Hantao smiled, revealing a dimple. "I won't use it, I'll just open it and take a look. I'll return it to you after I'm done." Her crisp voice was refreshing and sweet.

[Disease progression: 96.8%]

Ye Hantao froze, a look of confusion flashing in her almond-shaped eyes. How could the words she had just added be considered as maintaining the control group's persona?

She was planning to lie and say it didn't work after she opened it.

Liao Jiayue's personal live stream room had already exploded, with the chat filled with insults.

[This is such an ugly way to eat! Are they treating Yueyue like a sucker?]

The phrase "I'll pay you back after I see it" is offensive; does the speaker even believe it?

[She's too greedy. She's only on this show hoping to find a sugar daddy, isn't she?]

The live stream room not only had Liao Jiayue's fans and passersby, but also her haters.

Seeing that Liao Jiayue's fans were unhappy made them happy, and they all started mocking her, saying things like, "Fans, don't be so rude. Didn't your sister offer to give away two sets?"

[The girl's request wasn't unreasonable, is it because Liao Jiayue doesn't usually make these kinds of requests?]

[How could she not use them? Liao Jiayue has all these brands in her bag. Is she just pretending to be generous but actually reluctant to spend money?]

Liao Jiayue stared at the barrage of comments from trolls on the tablet her assistant was holding up, a forced smile on her face, but her nails dug into her palms. "Going to university really broadens your horizons," she thought. "That country bumpkin who used to buy cheap stuff can now rattle off a whole string of high-end brands."

Her family background is not bad. After she became a popular actress with her previous drama, her endorsement fees also increased a lot. But would she really give Ye Hantao two sets of designer clothes?

For a moment, Liao Jiayue felt incredibly upset. Why?!

"Hantao, you're being too polite." Liao Jiayue suppressed her heartache and said gently, "I'm already in the RV. I didn't pack everything in my bag. Maybe next time. I'll bring you two sets of the winter plum blossoms and black bandages you mentioned."

[Are you really giving it away? Yueyue, you're not an ATM!]

[I'm speechless. Liao Jiayue, can't you be a little firmer and make this person get off the bus?]

[Damn! How could Yueyue be betrayed by a friend she truly cared about?!]

"Next time? No need then." Ye Hantao didn't expect Liao Jiayue to not have these in her bag, and she couldn't let Liao Jiayue spend money to buy them on the spot. "It's okay if I didn't prepare them for this time. Jiayue, I have to go now, I'll hang up first."

Ye Hantao, remembering that Liao Jiayue had said she was in the RV, habitually reminded her, "Be careful on the road."

"...You too." Liao Jiayue gritted her teeth and hung up the phone, her mind filled with Ye Hantao's words, "No need," what did that mean? Was Ye Hantao implying in the live stream that she was stingy?

She smiled innocently at the camera, saying, "That's just how Hantao is; she was always afraid of bothering others when she was in school."

[Yueyue, wake up! Don't be fooled!]

[If you were truly afraid of trouble, you wouldn't have said you wanted La Mer, Black Bandage, Sisley, and Aurelia. That's just saying you're stingy!]

In the training room at the base, Zhou Mingsheng watched the barrage of comments in the live stream scolding Tao Tao. He reported each one as he saw it. The screen's reflection shone on his glasses, obscuring the coldness surging in his eyes.

His profile was handsome, but at this moment it seemed as if it were covered with a layer of ice, making the surrounding air feel a bit colder.

The players, who had just finished a training match, furtively glanced up. Even through the black-rimmed glasses that covered most of their faces, they could still feel the chilling aura emanating from their coach. This couldn't be right; they had just won the training match against XMZ from the US 3-2.

"Coach, you—" one of the team members exclaimed, wide-eyed, "Coach, are you watching Ang Ge's variety show debut?!"

His shout made all his teammates in the training room look up, and the keyboard clatter stopped abruptly. "They're already streaming? Quick, quick, come and give our Ang-ge some gifts to show your support!"

Instantly, the indoor temperature seemed to drop a little.

"Watching the live stream?" Zhou Mingsheng slowly raised his eyes, his calm voice laced with icy coldness. "Don't you know how the training match just went?"

His gaze, behind his glasses, swept over everyone. "One of you ignored skill cooldowns and kept feeding kills, another's rhythm was completely disrupted, and you," his gaze fixed on the teammate who had shouted first, "Look at the number of deaths you had last game. What? Are you eager to be reborn?"

The team members lowered their heads deeply, their faces flushed with shame.

They won their recent training match, but the opponent changed tactics at the last minute, and coupled with their unusually early morning grogginess, they made quite a few basic mistakes.

But since Maze became a coach, he has always called his students to train individually outside the door, and they haven't been trained together as a group for a long time.

Damn it, why am I feeling a strange sense of nostalgia?!

"Everyone should go play matchmaking to practice, play ten games and then go back to the dorm."

"In the afternoon, we will continue to play against the second team using the same tactics as in the training match."

The team members answered in unison, "Yes!"

In the bedroom, Zhou Ti was watering the flowers, her thoughts lingering on the previous live stream, muttering to herself, "Was it a supermarket raffle or a company perk?"

"Fine, let's keep using the company benefits excuse and bring home all the brands that Tao Tao wants."

As the morning light grew stronger, the gray-green electric tricycle entered the morning rush hour traffic. The wind blowing against her side lifted Ye Hantao's long, loose hair, revealing her clean jawline and a section of her slender neck, which was dazzlingly white in the sunlight.

While waiting at the red light, several curious or appreciative glances were cast my way.

Ye Weizheng stared at the red light countdown, turned his head, and asked tentatively, "Tao Tao, do you really like the brands you mentioned on the phone?"

Along the way, he kept wondering if it was because their family's financial situation was limited that Tao Tao was so sensible as not to mention wanting those skincare products or cosmetics.

"I..." Ye Hantao's long, thick eyelashes trembled. Considering that she still had to maintain the persona of the control group on the show, she could only bite the bullet and admit, "Yes, I like it very much."

She quickly added before she could finish speaking, "But I want to earn my own money to buy it in the future!"

Hearing Tao Tao say this, Ye Weizheng's suspicions were finally confirmed.

Sigh, Tao Tao must be afraid of adding to the family's burden, which is why she never shows her fondness for those brands in front of them.

Besides the winter plum blossoms and black bandages that Tao Tao mentioned, there might be even more she wanted but didn't say.

Ye Hantao consciously abandoned the idea of ​​her father buying it for her and lowered her head again to browse the live stream of "My Classmate is Here".

Inside the hotel, Jin Shiyue had just finished putting on makeup and was picking out clothes in front of the wardrobe.

Not long ago, she learned from watching Jin Shiyue's live stream that the big brands she knew were very useful for maintaining her vain and greedy persona, so she watched even more intently. She didn't even let go of the "advice" in the comments, which was much more effective than the persona script she made up at home.

[No wonder she's an international supermodel! A whole row of Chanel dresses—I've never even dreamed of such a complete collection.]

This cabinet is worth several years' worth of my salary :)

[With so many rich people in the world, why can't there be one more like me?!]

[Wow, Chanel has released so many pink shades...]

[Golden Moon, now ditched from pink, can only be seen on the runway.]

Doesn't anyone notice the row of Hermes bags next to it? Just the cost of acquiring those bags alone would be hundreds.

Ye Hantao watched as Jin Shiyue picked out a cherry blossom pink handbag, and it seemed familiar.

It wasn't until Jin Shiyue slung her bag over her shoulder and admired herself in the full-length mirror that she suddenly remembered that her mother had a bag that was almost identical.

[Ahhhhhh, Birkin crocodile skin, guaranteed at least 800,000!]

So beautiful!

"800,000 for one bag..."

Upon closer inspection, from the color to the style, even the metal logo, it was no different from my mother's bag that cost around a hundred yuan.

After Jin Shiyue picked out her bag, she went out and took a car to the meeting point designated by the program team. Ye Hantao learned a lot and then opened the live broadcast room next door.

The first thing you see is a young man resting with his eyes closed in the car. Two buttons of his khaki cotton-linen short-sleeved shirt are undone, revealing his pale neck.

His delicate eyebrows were slightly closed, and he carried a large thermos in his arms, exuding a kind of detached and pure aura.

Who is this person? I've never seen them before.

[Ahhh, I'm thrilled to introduce our treasure to you all: Wu Xia! Investing in his stock is a sure thing!]

Aren't the fans embarrassed? Calling him a "treasure"? He's just a nobody idol.

[He was just lucky; a classmate who's a pro gamer in esports was actually helping him out. Otherwise, how could he have taken Zhe Zhe's spot?]

Ye Hantao stayed in the live stream for about five minutes, while Wu Xia dozed off in his seat for five minutes, neither of them learning anything.

Just as she was about to swipe to the next live stream, her father's voice rang out from the front, "Tao Tao, we've arrived."

Ye Hantao looked up and saw the winding asphalt road in front of the villa area and the black private cars parked in front of the wrought iron gate.

The little winged logo on the roof gleamed in the sunlight.

"Dad, it's Little Wings' Bentley."

"Tao Tao, you even recognize a Bentley?" Ye Weizheng was taken aback, guessing that Tao Tao might have seen her classmates riding in such cars when she went to university, but didn't say so because of her family's financial situation.

Ye Hantao jumped out of the car. "I saw it in Jin Shiyue's live stream. The car she took when she left the hotel is said to be worth millions by netizens."

"Then you can sit in it and feel it in a bit." Ye Weizheng bent down to take the suitcase off the back seat of the car, and Ye Hantao reached out to help him tidy his short hair that had been messed up by the wind.

The staff waiting for the guests at the entrance had already spotted a gray-green electric tricycle approaching from afar and quickly came over, "Hello, may I ask where you are..."

She hesitated before she could finish her sentence, looking at the electric tricycle in front of her, then at the two rather good-looking people beside it, unsure whether to ask if they were fans or villa residents.

"You must be Sister Siwen? Xiaohe mentioned you to me." Ye Hantao recognized the other person's face and introduced herself, "I'm Ye Hantao, here to participate in the program."

The staff member addressed as Sister Siwen was momentarily stunned, then confirmed again, "Are you Ye Hantao here to participate in 'Classmates Are Here'?"

"yes."

"I'm so sorry! I'll help you with your luggage right away."

Thank you.

"No need, no need." Siwen put the suitcase into the production crew's car while turning back to chuckle. "We get a 500 yuan red envelope for helping you move your luggage. Everyone in the group is vying for this job."

Ye Hantao turned around and waved to her father, "Dad, drive slowly on your way back, and let me know when you get home."

Ye Weizheng wasn't in a hurry to leave. "I'll stay here and watch you leave."

He paused, then added with concern, "If you feel unwell, tell your parents immediately. Don't suffer in silence."

"Okay, I'll video call you guys tonight."

Ye Weizheng stood there watching the Bentley carrying his daughter drive away until it was completely out of sight. Only then did he get back into the driver's seat of the electric tricycle and slowly drive back, just as he had come.

I had only driven a few meters when a white RV came from the opposite direction and passed by.

In the live stream, the gray-green electric tricycle drove away in the blink of an eye.

[Did a fan come looking for us?]

[Probably just a food delivery person. Who drives an electric tricycle to chase after a celebrity? Hahahaha.]

The RV door opened, and Liao Jiayue stepped out, holding a parasol, her skirt swaying gently in the wind.

"Teacher Liao, you've arrived." Other staff members waiting at the door jogged over. "Let me help you with your luggage."

Liao Jiayue smiled slightly, said thank you, glanced around, and asked, "Has my classmate arrived yet?"

"They just went in." The staff member pointed to a car that was now just a small green dot on the road in the distance. "Her father brought her here, and they just drove away."

A note from the author:

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Tao Tao's Dad: The joy of driving an electric tricycle is something you people who ride in four-wheeled vehicles can't understand. [shrug]