Tycoon: From Rags to Riches

Chapter 136: Chapter 129: Reversed Celestial Spirits

Eight limited-edition Hermes Birkin bags, a total of 3.74 million.

Adding the 2.43 million in quota purchases, Gu Heng’s final spending came to 6.17 million.

"Manager Du, go ahead and put Miss Wang’s purchases on my tab as well."

Gu Heng sat on the sofa, handing his CMB Centurion Black Gold Card to Du Yujie as he gave the casual instruction.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"

"I can’t let you do that!"

When Wang Yan heard that Gu Heng was also going to cover Wang Wan Ning’s spending, he quickly waved his hands in protest. "I’ll pay for Wan Ning’s things myself!"

"Then how about I cover tonight’s expenses?"

Gu Heng asked, raising an eyebrow.

"How could I let that happen!"

"It definitely still has to be me!"

Wang Yan shook his head and replied without a second thought.

"Brother Yan, you hosted last night, and I didn’t argue."

"You’re hosting tonight, and I can let that slide too."

"But you have to give your little brother a chance to return the favor, right?"

Gu Heng spread his hands. "Otherwise, I’d honestly be too embarrassed to keep hanging out with you, Brother Yan."

"Well..."

Wang Yan hesitated for a moment. Faced with Gu Heng’s rather determined gaze, he finally nodded with a wry smile. "Alright, then. Thank you, Chairman Gu."

After speaking, he turned to Wang Wan Ning. "Wan Ning, what are you waiting for? Thank Chairman Gu."

"Thank you, Chairman Gu!"

Wang Wan Ning’s voice was sweet and pleasant, her beautiful eyes sparkling with delight. "I will treasure this gift you’ve given me!"

"You’re welcome."

Gu Heng waved his hand with a gentle smile.

"Huh?"

"Brother?"

Wang Wan Ning suddenly tilted her head and said to Wang Yan, "Since it’s a gift from Chairman Gu, I’m going to have to re-select my quota purchases. The ones I just picked were all for you."

"One shouldn’t be rewarded without deserving it!"

Wang Yan responded with a chuckle, "I’ll give you ten minutes. Go swap out those quota purchases!"

"Okay!"

"I’ll be quick!"

Wang Wan Ning immediately stood up from the sofa and, with two sales associates in tow, walked out of the VIP room again in a whirlwind of activity.

Gu Heng chatted with the Wang siblings for a bit, then turned his head to look at Jiang Ruan. He saw her carefully placing the glacier white Hermes Birkin bag into its orange Hermes box.

"What are you putting it away for?"

Gu Heng suddenly asked.

Hearing this, Jiang Ruan looked up at Gu Heng, a hint of confusion on her face.

"You buy a bag to carry it, don’t you?"

Gu Heng raised an eyebrow. "If you buy it and don’t carry it, are you planning to put it on a shrine or something?"

"I... I can’t bring myself to use it."

Jiang Ruan replied in a small voice.

"What’s there to be afraid of?"

"Carry it when you should. If it gets ruined, we’ll just buy another one."

Gu Heng took the glacier white Hermes Birkin bag out of the box and stuffed it directly into Jiang Ruan’s arms. "From now until we leave Zhonghai, you will carry this for me."

Faced with Gu Heng’s somewhat domineering demand, Jiang Ruan’s pink lips moved, but she said nothing. She silently transferred the contents of her old Chanel bag into the new Hermes Birkin.

"Chairman Gu, would it be convenient for me to add you on WhatsApp?"

The moment Gu Heng finished speaking, Du Yujie, who had been watching eagerly, hurried forward. Holding his phone with both hands, its screen displaying his personal QR code, he bowed and asked Gu Heng.

"Sure."

Gu Heng nodded slightly.

"Chairman Gu, the instant any new limited-edition items arrive, I’ll contact you first. Thank you so much for your trust."

Seeing Gu Heng agree, Du Yujie was overcome with joy, his bow deepening even further.

"Alright."

Gu Heng responded, then glanced around. "Brother Yan, President Gao, President Zhao, shall we leave once Wan Ning gets back?"

"I’m back!"

"We can go now!"

Just as Gu Heng’s voice fell, Wang Wan Ning pushed the door open and walked in.

"Chairman Gu, Assistant Jiang had already bought pretty much everything needed, so I took the liberty of picking out a few cufflinks and brooches for you from the Hermes fine jewelry section. I hope you like them?"

Wang Wan Ning looked at Gu Heng, her expression full of anticipation.

"Thank you."

"I like them very much."

Gu Heng’s gaze swept over them. The cufflinks and brooches Wang Wan Ning had chosen for him were of a very simple, elegant, yet artistic style.

As a top student from the directing department of the Zhonghai Drama Academy, Wang Wan Ning’s aesthetic and taste were indeed very refined.

"I’m glad you like them."

Hearing Gu Heng’s praise, Wang Wan Ning’s beautiful eyes curved into two crescents.

"Then let’s go."

Wang Yan spoke up at the right moment.

No one objected, and they all rose from the sofa.

Du Yujie once again led the way for Gu Heng and his group, while numerous sales associates, carrying countless Hermes shopping bags, surrounded them as they walked out.

It was nearly nine o’clock, but there were still people lining up outside the Hermes store.

Among them were Han Yijia, Zhou Yi, and Xiao Lin.

They had been waiting in line here for almost an hour.

If they hadn’t just run into Jiang Ruan, they probably would have left the line long ago. The only reason they were still waiting was their burning curiosity.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

"Look, look!"

"They’re coming out!"

Xiao Lin, who had been idly scrolling through TikTok, perked up the moment she noticed a large crowd moving toward the entrance through the Hermes store’s glass window. She quickly tapped Han Yijia and Zhou Yi.

At the same time, Xiao Lin quietly started recording a video on her phone.

Hearing this, the other two girls immediately looked up toward the entrance.

Soon, Gu Heng and his group, escorted by a flock of Hermes sales associates, slowly walked out of the store.

"Oh my god!"

"Just how much did they buy?!"

Zhou Yi couldn’t help but gasp as she stared at the dense sea of Hermes shopping bags in the sales associates’ hands, her eyes instantly going wide.

With nearly three million in quota purchases, and without buying any large furniture, Jiang Ruan and Wang Wan Ning had indeed managed to create the effect of a wholesale stock run.

Even if each quota item averaged 50,000 yuan, that would still amount to nearly sixty Hermes shopping bags, not to mention that many of the items the two women picked were worth less than 50,000 yuan.

For ordinary girls like Han Yijia and Zhou Yi, the scene before them was simply too shocking.

After all, on a normal day, any one of them would feel like holding their head high just for carrying a single Hermes bag through the mall.

But this dense swarm of Hermes bags... they couldn’t have imagined in their wildest dreams that someone could shop at an Hermes store like it was a fast-fashion outlet.

Ignoring Zhou Yi and Xiao Lin’s astonishment, Han Yijia’s eyes immediately locked onto Jiang Ruan, who was walking in the center of the group next to Gu Heng.

More precisely, her gaze was fixed on the glacier white Hermes handbag in Jiang Ruan’s hands.

"Whoa!"

"That bag in Jiang Ruan’s hand, is that an Hermes Birkin?"

"The color is so pretty, and it looks like it’s made of that super-rare crocodile skin!"

Because Xiao Lin was recording a video and they weren’t far away, she only needed to zoom in a little on her screen to get a clear look at the Hermes bag in Jiang Ruan’s hand.

"An Hermes Birkin?"

"For real?"

"Linlin, are you sure you’re not mistaken?"

Hearing that, Zhou Yi quickly leaned over to Xiao Lin. "A single Hermes Birkin is worth hundreds of thousands, and you have to buy almost the same amount in quota purchases just to have a chance at getting one."

"See for yourself!"

"That is an Hermes Birkin bag!"

"The Hermes Birkin and Kelly lines are very different!"

"There’s no way I’d get it wrong!"

Xiao Lin insisted, her tone full of conviction.

"I think you’re right..."

Zhou Yi huddled next to Xiao Lin and looked at the zoomed-in phone screen. She realized Xiao Lin wasn’t mistaken at all. The Hermes in Jiang Ruan’s hand really was a Birkin bag, and most likely a limited edition at that.

Suddenly, Zhou Yi and Xiao Lin fell silent.

Thinking back to half an hour ago, they had been strongly inclined to believe Han Yijia’s speculation that Jiang Ruan was a sugar baby.

’Now, however, they were starting to have doubts. Setting aside whether Jiang Ruan was a sugar baby or not, even if she was, judging by the current situation, her sugar daddy was probably a top-tier tycoon, and he clearly doted on her. The money this big shot casually spent on a bag for Jiang Ruan was more than Han Yijia’s pilot boyfriend’s entire annual salary. Compared like this, Han Yijia was being completely crushed by Jiang Ruan! Besides, the whole "sugar baby" thing was just their speculation for now. Could it be that Jiang Ruan had found herself a top-tier tycoon for a boyfriend? It wasn’t impossible!’

Just as Zhou Yi and Xiao Lin’s imaginations were running wild, Jiang Ruan and Gu Heng, walking within the group, happened to exchange a few words, their actions seeming a bit intimate.

"Holy shit!"

"That guy next to Jiang Ruan... he’s so handsome and young!"

"He couldn’t be Jiang Ruan’s boyfriend, could he?"

The scene unfolded before the two girls, leaving them completely dumbstruck.

"I noticed that handsome guy earlier. He’s got such incredible charisma."

Xiao Lin chimed in, "It seems like Jiang Ruan was walking next to him when they arrived, and she’s still next to him now."

"He’s not her boyfriend at all! It’s a sugar-daddy relationship!"

At this moment, seeing the limited-edition Hermes Birkin in Jiang Ruan’s hand, Han Yijia felt a pain worse than death.

’Everything is ruined by comparison. A moment ago, I was feeling so smug about becoming the proud owner of an Hermes bag, but now, all my joy has vanished. Jiang Ruan gets a Birkin, and I get a grocery basket? I can’t even imagine how embarrassing it would be if we were photographed together.’

She was already burning with jealousy, and now the flames had been fanned even higher.

"Her sugar daddy is handsome, young, and so generous."

"Even if it is a sugar-daddy arrangement, Jiang Ruan isn’t suffering one bit."

Xiao Lin watched as Jiang Ruan’s group gradually disappeared into the distance and murmured, "How can a sugar daddy be even more handsome than Brother Mozi? The world’s been turned upside down!"

Her composure shattered.

Completely and utterly shattered.

Han Yijia’s face was ashen. "I’m not shopping anymore. I’m going home."

Tossing out that one sentence, she stormed out of the line and walked off in the opposite direction from which Jiang Ruan’s group had left, leaving Zhou Yi and Xiao Lin staring at each other, speechless.

"No wonder Jiang Ruan never talks in our class group chat. I used to think it was because she had low self-esteem, but now I realize she’s been on a completely different level from us for a long time. She probably finds our conversations in the group chat laughable."

Xiao Lin didn’t chase after Han Yijia. She just sighed with emotion as she gazed in the direction Jiang Ruan had gone.

"In the end..."

"Jiang Ruan still came out on top!"

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