Jin Bao blew his top and Qiu Mu-Ying and Chu Wen-Fei were too frightened to say anything. They climbed to their feet and ran back into the crowd.
Qiu Mu-Ying ran as she yelled threateningly, "Just you wait! I'm going to make a complaint! I'm going to make a complaint about how you actually assaulted us!"
"They want to make a complaint? It's already not bad that I didn't hand them over to the real Mr Chu to be punished since he actually pretended to be Mr Chu," Jin Bao snorted with a contemptuous look in his eyes as he watched the couple run even faster than bunnies.
"And I thought they might really be some big shot. So they're just two idiots. How dare you pretend to be Mr Chu in front of me? Did you think I've never seen Mr Chu before? I've even heard him speak to me before," Jin Bao smiled proudly. Ye Fan had spoken to a mere leader of the security guards like him, so that was something that Jin Bao was going to boast about for the rest of his life.
But Ye Fan and Qiu Mu-Cheng didn't know anything about what happened outside.
They were both walking leisurely around Shanshui Hall.
Even though the auction at night was the main event, the mall was also bustling with activity in the day.
There were plenty of shops and places of entertainment and relaxation.
Qiu Mu-Cheng and Ye Fan found a place to rest and ordered two cups of coffee while waiting for Su Qian to come over.
The roads were sealed off, so Su Qian had to find somewhere to park the car first and told Qiu Mu-Cheng to go in first.
"Shanshui Hall is really lively today. So many brands have put up a pop-up store here today. I suppose only someone like Li Er in Yunzhou could have enough influence to get all these businesses to put up shop here," exclaimed Qiu Mu-Cheng as she looked at the sea of luxury items in the mall.
Ye Fan just laughed quietly. "What influence? They just want to make money."
"Everyone present today are rich people from all over, so even if Li Er didn't call them over, the merchants would fight tooth and nail to get in.”
Qiu Mu-Cheng nodded in agreement and looked out at the terribly long queue waiting to get into the hall. She started laughing somewhat self-deprecatingly, "I suddenly realized that Yunzhou has so many rich people."
In the past, Qiu Mu-Cheng never thought about it and thought that everyone around her was from an ordinary working-class family. Those as rich as Chu Wen-Fei and Sun Yu-Hao were rare.
But when she saw the immense crowd outside, she suddenly realized that she had been too poorly exposed to the rest of society.
"They were right in saying that everyone has a circle they belong to. We're ordinary folk, so our world contains ordinary folks and that's all the people we see around us. As for those in the upper rungs of society, we will almost never see all those people and things that they get to see. Just like the auction tonight - I never heard about it before this."
Qiu Mu-Cheng had come into contact with many people and went through many things recently.
At her grandmother's birthday banquet, she witnessed so many big shots coming in with well-wishes.
At Mount Tai Hall, she witnessed how the king of Jiangdong had won the battle with one move.
But the more she experienced, the more she realized how faraway she was from other people...
"After seeing high mountains, one will realize how small you really are. After seeing the vastness of the oceans, then one will realize how insignificant you really are. Ye Fan, we have to work hard. We don't need to become super rich or powerful, but we should strive for a better life. To give our next generation a better starting point in life. To make those people who used to look down on us regret doing so," murmured Qiu Mu-Cheng quietly as her beautiful eyes gave off a mesmerizing sparkle.
There was never a moment before this that made Qiu Mu-Cheng feel such anticipation for the future and feel so hopeful about life.
Without being chained to the Qiu family, Qiu Mu-Cheng was clearly more relaxed than before. She was like a fish released into the ocean and allowed to swim freely.
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