Prince charming, your persona has collapsed!

Chapter 148 - 104: Lu Lin, Have You Ever Been Touched?

Every time I chatted with Lu Lin, it felt a bit baffling. Girls from her dormitory talked to Zhou Yuwen quite often—there’s no need to mention Zheng Yanyan, even Su Qing and Shen Yu could chat with him occasionally.

As for Lu Lin, apart from initially asking for money and later Zhou Yuwen giving it to her, they barely spoke in-between.

And just as Zheng Yanyan was returning home, Lu Lin came looking for Zhou Yuwen again.

It was quite strange, but Zhou Yuwen paid her no attention.

Firstly, Zhou Yuwen wasn’t bored; he had many things to do. Previously, he made two million five hundred thousand from stocks and spent roughly eight hundred thousand on a car, leaving him with one million seven hundred thousand to buy a house.

In 2013, there were already signs that the housing prices in Jinling were rising, with some core areas reaching thirty thousand per square meter. The prices in the university town where Zhou Yuwen lived were relatively cheaper, averaging around eight to thirteen thousand.

Zhou Yuwen, used to living in large apartments in his previous life, found it a bit uncomfortable to suddenly move into smaller ones. Plus, based on his past experiences, he was sure the type of apartment he chose would definitely appreciate in value.

The Lanting complex, just reaching its third phase of construction, aimed to offer high-end housing with butler-style services, with the building area ranging from one hundred thirty to two hundred square meters and the bare-shell apartments priced around ten thousand per square meter.

During the days before the National Day holiday, Zhou Yuwen checked out several presale properties and then some remaining units from the second phase but did not find any to his liking. Finally, he viewed a second-hand, finely decorated apartment, a large four-bedroom with a living area of one hundred eighty square meters.

The reason why the complex retained its value in the future was mainly that it consisted of eleven-story apartment buildings with very small shared areas and even came with two extra balcony spaces.

In subsequent years, for some reason, designers made the shared areas bigger and bigger, to the point where a ninety-square-meter apartment could have twenty-nine square meters of shared space.

So buying a new apartment these few years was more appropriate.

Although there were good apartments available, they were genuinely expensive. The one hundred eighty square meters Zhou Yuwen was looking at had high-end decorations supposedly done by a European designer, featuring a completely modern style, like the large apartments shown in Korean dramas.

The homeowner had even turned the master bathroom into a walk-in closet, which included a display cabinet for watches.

The soft furnishings had already been removed.

The real estate agent, knowing that Zhou Yuwen drove a BMW M4, treated him with great eagerness and respect, using all his wits to introduce the apartment, saying that the owner would never sell it unless some problems occurred with his business—it was a loss even at the current price.

Zhou Yuwen asked about the price, and after some thought, the agent said they hoped to get fifteen thousand per square meter.

That would make it at least two million seven hundred thousand.

If Zhou Yuwen hadn’t bought the car, it might have been feasible, but having purchased one, he couldn’t afford it.

The agent seemed to realize the asking price was too high and hurriedly explained that this was already the base price. The homeowner had spent nearly a hundred thousand on this one large glass pane alone, which had to be specially transported from another place.

Indeed, what caught Zhou Yuwen’s eye the most was this entire wall of floor-to-ceiling glass. His apartment was on the ninth floor with no obstructions in front, and by looking slightly ahead, he could even get a bird’s-eye view of his entire school.

Zhou Yuwen, who had bought and decorated a house before, knew that the cost of transporting and installing this floor-to-ceiling window was indeed close to a hundred thousand without exaggeration, including its tiling.

At two million seven hundred thousand, it was indeed not a loss. Considering the housing market in the next two years, it might sell for eight million after three years.

Zhou Yuwen still symbolically asked if it could be any cheaper—if so, he could finalize the deal on the spot.

Experience tales at empire

"Let me call the landlord and ask, okay?"

So the agent made a call, and the final quoted price was 2.65 million—the absolute lowest price.

"Honestly, bro, if I wasn’t short on cash, I would’ve bought it myself!" the agent said with a smile.

"Then let’s go for this one, let’s sign the contract." Zhou Yuwen finally relented.

"Excellent!" the agent was thrilled.

After finalizing the deal, Zhou Yuwen discussed with the owner. Paying 2.65 million wasn’t a small sum, and he would need a month to gather the money, so he made a down payment of ten percent and asked the owner for the keys first, planning to move some furniture in.

This was not an issue. Normally, a deposit of one hundred thousand would suffice, but this time Zhou Yuwen directly paid 260,000. According to the contract, if he backed out, this money would be forfeit, so he wasn’t likely to default.

So after signing the contract and paying the owner 260,000, the apartment was essentially Zhou Yuwen’s.

Truth be told, after spending three hundred thousand, Zhou Yuwen felt a twinge of pain. Having suddenly earned 2.5 million after his rebirth, he thought he could lie low for a long while. Who would have thought that reality would strike—overspending on a car and now buying a property, his funds were almost depleted.

Indeed, everyone has their own worries at each stage.

Actually, if it hadn’t been for Su Qing mentioning Virtual Coin, Zhou Yuwen wouldn’t have known how to quickly earn multiple returns within a month—after all, being reborn was already so lucky, and to aim for a specific event was like luck within luck.

Like Virtual Coin, which surged to several hundred thousand for one coin in 2019, Zhou Yuwen had always thought of it as a value investment—profitable, but it would take several years.