I Have 10 Trillion Dollars only Usable For Simping
Chapter 269 - 265 Feast (3)

Chapter 269: 265 Feast (3)

"Pitter-patter..."

The bathroom.

Li Shuru was washing her hands.

"Sis."

Xue Yali walked in.

"Ya Li."

Li Shuru turned her head, smiled, then turned off the faucet, pulled out a paper towel, and wiped her hands.

Xue Yali stood there without moving.

Li Shuru spotted a hint of something.

"Is there something on your mind?"

"Not really, it has just been a long time since we last met, and I wanted to chat with you."

Time passes, and things change.

Time is the most magical magician, capable of changing everything in the world.

Family affection is no different.

The two sisters grew up together, once inseparable and shared everything, but now that they reunited, there always seemed to be something in the way, a slight estrangement.

"You were never very good at lying, is there something you want to tell me?"

Li Shuru threw the paper towel into the waste bin and smiled teasingly.

Xue Yali also smiled. She looked at her cousin’s face that she found so pleasing to the eye.

"Sis, you’re even prettier than before."

"And you’re not bad yourself."

Xue Yali pursed her lips and got back to the point, "Sis, I heard that your boyfriend’s parents are no longer around?"

Li Shuru’s smile remained unchanged.

"Yes, it was auntie who told you, wasn’t it?"

Such news can’t be hidden; relatives will inevitably ask, and mother must have introduced him beforehand.

But she probably hadn’t told everything.

Otherwise if they knew how much money Jiang Chen had spent on her father’s treatment, auntie and the others definitely would not have had that attitude.

She understood her mother’s thinking as well.

Unlike auntie, her mother didn’t really like to show off or be ostentatious. More importantly, she probably didn’t want the elders to think she was with Jiang Chen just for material reasons.

"Sis, I hope you won’t mind..."

"Of course not."

Li Shuru’s smile was gentle, "I know auntie is just concerned about me."

"But, dating is one thing, sis, don’t you think that bringing him home so hastily is a bit too rushed?"

"What about you?"

Li Shuru asked with a smile in return.

Inwardness shapes outwardness.

The straightforward Xue Yali, with her bobbed hair, candidly said, "I brought Liu Hongzhi back because he can provide me with a stable material life, but sis, you’re both still studying, the future is full of too many uncertainties..."

Some truths don’t need to be spelled out so bluntly.

"Ya Li, you really have grown up."

Li Shuru didn’t find these words too pragmatic. She was past the age of naïve innocence and did not fantasize about unblemished love. Not to mention the cultural influences her sister might have received overseas, even domestically, young people no longer indulge in fantasies of pure romance.

Even in a fairy-tale kingdom like Disneyland, spending money can buy privileges.

Leaving others aside, just consider her three roommates—Xu Siyi, Zheng Jingjing, and even Guo Ran.

Guo Ran can be considered less "pragmatic," but would she choose a partner who is completely impoverished?

Still not.

In school, many people criticized her as vain, but Li Shuru had never refuted it. She even told Jiang Chen bluntly that material things are the foundation of love.

So, she naturally wouldn’t refute Xue Yali’s remark as being too mercenary.

Everyone has the right to pursue the life they desire.

"I am happy that you have found the happiness you want, but similarly, I have found the happiness I want now, and I hope you can be glad for me too."

Xue Yali fell silent.

"I should get back now."

Li Shuru didn’t linger and, with a slight smile, walked out of the restroom.

Xue Yali turned her back and shook her head with a wry smile.

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Back in the private room, Li Shuru sat down as if nothing had happened and noticed that her aunt was showing off a bracelet her daughter had brought back from abroad.

"Xiao Liu, you really went all-out."

"Auntie, you’re too kind. As long as you like it, it’s worth it."

The Wall Street prodigy had been impeccable throughout, the very model of a golden son-in-law.

"Auntie, that’s a Cartier bracelet, isn’t it?"

Li Shuru was quite good at playing along; she didn’t claim to be an expert on luxury brands, but she knew more than the average person. With just one look, she could tell the significance of the bracelet.

"Mmm, Rui Rui knows her stuff. It may look thin, but it’s worth tens of thousands!"

Zou Luoxia flaunted her wrist intentionally, her smile nearly splitting her face.

"Rui Rui, you must have brought your mom some gifts as well this time, right?"

"Yes, but certainly not as thoughtful as Ya Li has been toward you,"

Li Shuru said with a smile.

In other respects, it might have been fine, but Xue Mingqin couldn’t hold back when it came to the issue of her child’s filial piety.

"Jiang Chen brought me a diamond, but it’s so big. At my age, what use do I have for such things? So I was thinking of having it made into some jewelry, to serve as a dowry for Rui Rui when she gets married."

Xue Mingqin’s words were quite masterful.

She disparaged her show-off siblings-in-law in a roundabout way, while also affirming Jiang Chen’s status.

A diamond?

And it’s "too big"?

Forget about the others, even Liu Hongzhi, who had seen a lot on Wall Street, had his attention caught.

Zou Luoxia’s face stiffened, apparently in disbelief, and she forced a laugh, "Sis, are you exaggerating? How big a diamond needs to be broken down into a bunch of jewelry pieces?"

"I’ve never seen such a big diamond myself, probably about this big."

As she spoke, Xue Mingqin gestured with her hands.

"Sis, you’re not joking, right?"

Xue Shuzhi and her husband exchanged glances, the shock in their eyes was identical.

"A diamond that big must be at least a hundred carats, right?"

A hundred carats?

The normally unflappable Liu Hongzhi couldn’t help but sit up straight, his complexion involuntarily shifting.

"I don’t know how many carats it is, but Rui Rui mentioned it’s some blood diamond."

Blood diamond?

Everyone unanimously turned their gaze toward Li Shuru.

"Rui Rui, blood diamond... What’s that?"

Zou Luoxia genuinely hadn’t heard of it.

"A blood diamond is an extremely rare type of diamond, unlike the common white diamond due to its blood-like color, hence the name. Even among colored diamonds, it’s one of the rarest kinds,"

Liu Hongzhi adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and glanced at Li Shuru and Jiang Chen.

Zou Luoxia was dumbfounded by the explanation.

Xue Gui also looked greatly surprised; he’d always been opposed to his wife’s vulgarity and obsession with money, but even now, he couldn’t help being superficial just this once.

"Rui Rui, that blood diamond... mustn’t be cheap, right?"

Li Shuru didn’t know how to respond.

Say it’s worth eighty-six million?

She was worried her relatives wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Such a large blood diamond wasn’t just a simple matter of money.

This kind of treasure usually had no market price; it was incredibly rare to encounter it.

Of course.

Liu Hongzhi also understood that speaking of such things to these ordinary people was pointless.

"For a blood diamond that size, a conservative estimate would start at eight figures."

"What does eight figures mean?"

Zou Luoxia asked blankly.

"Ten million."

Xue Shuzhi, who once worked as an auditor, stated in shock.

Ten, ten million?!!!

Zou Luoxia was flabbergasted.

Forget about others, even Xue Mingqin herself was so astonished that she looked at her daughter and Jiang Chen with a blank mind.