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

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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. "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.

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

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