Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 276 got the idea of the property development_1

Chapter 276: 276 got the idea of the property development_1

A family of three walked inside and discovered that one of the buildings didn’t quite fit in with the others—it was noticeably shorter. While the others were six stories tall, this one had only three.

The paint on it had lost its luster as well, making it look both old and worn.

Even the huge sign above the building was missing a letter, and the doors were tightly locked. It seemed as if it had closed down for good.

This scene couldn’t help but stir some curiosity in Gu Chen. He looked around and once more turned his gaze to the building.

He saw several characters written boldly on it: Fashion City.

Gu Chen understood.

The buildings next to it rose taller one after another. Not to mention anything else, this one was three stories shorter than those six-story buildings. Shoppers always prefer more shopping options, so it was a natural phenomenon to witness the old being replaced with the new.

By the roadside was a stand selling fresh-pressed juices, where the salesperson was wearing a fuzzy bunny costume with long ears that looked quite adorable. The counter was also adorned with colorful juices of every kind.

Such attire and vivid color combinations were hard to miss.

Xiao Tangtang’s attention was drawn to it after a few steps. The little one pointed at the employee in the bunny costume, a look of surprise on their face, "Daddy, look, look!"

Gu Chen looked at Xiao Tangtang’s face with a tender gaze, a smile in his eyes, "Feel like having some juice?"

Upon hearing this, the little one nodded obediently, "Mhm."

Gu Chen carried Xiao Tangtang over and said to the server, "A glass of juice, please."

While paying, he casually asked a question, pointing at the Fashion City across the street, "Has the Fashion City over there closed down?"

The server looked in the direction he was pointing and nodded.

"Yes, that Fashion City started going downhill a couple of years ago, and a few months back, it finally couldn’t hold on anymore and shut down."

Gu Chen pondered for a moment, "Do you have the phone number of any of the staff who worked there?"

Truth be told, Gu Chen was indeed interested in that building.

With nineteen million nine hundred and ninety thousand in his pocket, purchasing that building should be no problem. As for what to do after buying it, Gu Chen hadn’t thought about that, and he didn’t need to.

This was Huacheng.

It was a first-tier city.

While in the future Haicheng’s property prices would rise from one thousand to seven thousand, here it had already reached over ten thousand.

What was most important was, this building was in a shopping district.

And not just any shopping district, but a very good one where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold. There was no "most expensive," only "even more expensive."

The potential profit from selling property here was far higher than in Haicheng, not by just a little bit. It could easily be three or four times higher, and with enough time, even six or seven times was possible.

After all, when Huacheng’s price was ten thousand, Haicheng was at just five thousand at that same time.

Moreover, there’s no comparing commercial real estate to residential real estate.

So, Gu Chen having his sights set on this building was completely reasonable.

Hearing Gu Chen ask that, the server in the bunny costume smiled in surprise, "It just so happens I have a cousin who sold clothes there. You can ask him."

With that, Gu Chen’s spirits lifted, "That would be wonderful, could you please give me your cousin’s contact details?"

The server handed Gu Chen his glass of juice and then bent down to jot down a string of numbers in his notebook. He then tore off that page with the numbers and handed it to Gu Chen.

"This is my cousin’s phone number."

Clutching the piece of paper, Gu Chen expressed his thanks a few times before carrying Xiao Tangtang away, with Ji Pianran in tow.

Ji Pianran was very curious about his recent actions. She her hooked arms with Gu Chen’s arm and asked in a sticky sweet voice, "You wouldn’t be thinking of buying that building, would you?"

To tell the truth, that was a rather bold idea.

But the only thing Ji Pianran could think of was that Gu Chen wanted to buy a building.

Gu Chen tilted his head and smiled at her, "You’re really smart!"

He did indeed want to buy the building, however, he still needed to inquire about it to know the specifics.

The family of three entered a rather high-end looking mall and rode the elevator to the third floor, which was dedicated to children’s clothing. Here, every brand had a sizable store footprint, bright and clean.

Just looking around was refreshing to the soul.

He held Xiao Tangtang and smiled at her, his face full of tenderness.

"Do you want to come down and look around? There are so many pretty clothes here."

Xiao Tangtang was sipping orange juice through a straw, bit by bit, but her big, black eyes had already begun to wander around.

Her gaze was currently fixed on a children’s clothing store not far away.

Seeing her father ask her, she immediately lifted her little hand and pointed in that direction, "Daddy, look, there’s a Princess Snow White dress over there!"

The little one loved Princess Snow White the most, as in the storybook, Princess Snow White wore dresses white like snow.

Seeing Xiao Tangtang’s eagerness, Gu Chen didn’t hesitate to walk toward that store.

The service worker was a middle-aged woman who, seeing a family of three come in, immediately greeted them with a smile, "Good afternoon, Sir and Madam, are you looking for spring or summer clothes?"

Gu Chen pointed to the dress that Xiao Tangtang had her eyes on and lifted his chin toward Xiao Tangtang in his arms, "Bring us one in her size."

Xiao Tangtang wasn’t quite a meter tall, around ninety-four or ninety-five centimeters. The service worker assessed her size and then went to the stock room to fetch a one hundred centimeters dress. She held it up to the little one for a comparison.

"This fits perfectly." After saying so, upon seeing how cute Xiao Tangtang was with her snow-white skin, she couldn’t help but compliment, "This child is really beautiful."

Xiao Tangtang looked at her reflection in the mirror, and the more she looked, the more she liked the dress. She wanted to wear it right away,

"Mommy, I want to wear it now!"

Seeing this, Gu Chen smiled at Ji Pianran, "Why don’t you take her to the fitting room to try it on?"

Ji Pianran nodded her head and smiled tenderly at Xiao Tangtang, "Let’s go try it on, shall we?"

As a mother, of course, she also loved to see her child look pretty.

Watching Xiao Tangtang happy made her feel inexplicably joyful.

Hand in hand, the mother and daughter entered the fitting room, and it was then that Gu Chen took out the piece of paper given to him by the juice seller and dialed the number written on it, ready to inquire about some details.

The phone rang five times without an answer, and just as Gu Chen was about to hang up, a man’s voice suddenly answered, "Hello~"

"Hello, I heard you bought clothes at the Tianhe Road Shopping District’s three-story clothing city some time ago. May I ask if you have the contact information for the management?" Gu Chen asked directly using standard Mandarin.

Upon hearing this, the person on the other end of the line was taken aback, "Where exactly are you calling about~"

"Oh, let me introduce myself. My name is Gu Chen. Your cousin gave me your number, the one who sells juice," Gu Chen explained.

Hearing that it was a phone number given by his cousin, the man on the line relaxed.

"I see, please hold on for a moment. I’ll text Manager Wang’s number to your cell phone," he replied.

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen repeatedly thanked him.

After hanging up, Ji Pianran just came out of the fitting room with Xiao Tangtang. The little one was dressed in a white princess dress, and she couldn’t have looked lovelier—if she had been any cuter, she’d be a princess on the lam!

Seeing how perfectly the dress suited her, the service worker kept praising, "Wow, it fits so well! It’s like it was made just for you. She even looks better than the little models in our adverts!"