Seeing the dumbfounded expression on Lu Man's face, Chen Yan wanted to laugh.

He looked at Lu Man and deliberately said, "So how does it feel? Is this place not up to par?"

Lu Man looked at Chen Yan, opened her mouth, and said, "Where's my Manchu-Han Imperial Feast? My royal court meals? My grand ocean banquet?"

Chen Yan laughed and said, "I never promised you any of that."

Yu Qiao Qiao, who had been standing next to Chen Yan, also peered out at this time and said, "Sister Man Man, I think... eating this is quite good."

She spoke timidly, "Seeing those cars just now, I felt like my heart was about to jump out."

"It feels... more comfortable here."

Lu Man: ...

I have a million complaints, and yet I can't express a single one!

Upon entering the shop, even though it looked a bit shabby, it was still clean.

Probably because it wasn't mealtime, there weren't many people in the store, and Chen Yan confidently headed to a table in the corner.

Lu Man and Yu Qiao Qiao followed Chen Yan inside, sitting down together in the corner with him.

To this kind of environment, Yu Qiao Qiao felt quite comfortable, but Lu Man was a bit uncomfortable.

From childhood to adulthood, with her favorable living conditions, her parents never let her go to street-side shops, and after she graduated, she became a celebrity, frequenting high-end places, these kinds of places... indeed made her feel uncomfortable all over.

Sometimes just sitting in the chair, she would feel... as though bacteria were crawling up onto her from the seat: tickling...

She uncomfortably wiggled her perky backside and then said to Chen Yan, "Chen Yan, weren't you going to show us around today?"

"How is it... that we've come here?"

Chen Yan laughed and retorted, "Have you ever seen this kind of place before?"

Lu Man helplessly shook her head.

Chen Yan said, "Well, there you have it. This is also a way of seeing the world."

Lu Man was even more dumbfounded...

'Seeing the world, is this what it means?'

'Did I have... false expectations?'

However, recalling the conversation she had with Chen Yan that day, she felt something was still off, so she asked again, "But didn't you say you were ready to spend money?"

"Can you even spend money here?"

"How much money did you plan to spend today?"

Chen Yan didn't answer her first two questions, just looked over the menu and casually replied to the last question, "Probably around forty or fifty million."

Off to the side, Yu Qiao Qiao, who had been unable to get a word in the entire time, slowly raised a cute question mark above her head: ?

And the question marks were even more plentiful for Lu Man. She said in shock, "Forty or fifty million?"

She pointed at the shop and said, "Are you planning to spend forty or fifty million in this shop?"

As she spoke, Lu Man tilted her head to glance at Chen Yan's menu and said, "One bowl of noodles for fifteen yuan. Fifty million. That's... over three million bowls."

She said, "Do you have a grudge against the owner of this shop? Are you trying to work them to death?"

Chen Yan was amused by Lu Man's comments. He laughed and tapped her head, saying, "Just follow me today. Stop asking so many questions."

"I have my own plan."

"Oh..." Lu Man pouted, discontent.

She was just curious...

Can't someone be a bit curious?

Humph!

Chen Yan ignored Lu Man's petulance, and after perusing the menu, he lifted it and gestured with his hand, "Boss. I'd like to order."

The boss was a chubby woman. She came over with a smile, wiping her hands on her apron, and asked, "What would you like to have?"

Chen Yan said, "Let's have three bowls of beef noodles."

"All with extra beef."

After saying this, Chen Yan paused for a moment, then added with a laugh, "Right, and for my bowl, put in an extra 10 portions of beef!"

The boss was surprised for a moment and said, "10 portions of beef? That's quite a lot of money. Why not just order a separate portion of beef to eat?"

Chen Yan replied "wilfully," "No. I want it in the noodles!"

"This was the thing I most wanted to do when I was in school."

Hearing Chen Yan's words, the boss smiled, didn't say anything more, and took the menu before leaving.

After she left, Chen Yan turned to the two girls and said with a smile, "This shop is a place I used to eat at often when I was in high school."

"To say that the taste is incredibly delicious, maybe that's an overstatement..."

"But... it's that nostalgic taste from childhood. It always makes me think back."

"Back then, my parents gave me a limited amount of pocket money. I could only afford to come here for a meal occasionally every week. Every time I ate noodles, there would only be a thin few slices of beef on top."

"So, at that time, I thought, when I have money, when I'm not short on cash, I would definitely come here for a bowl of beef noodles and order 10 portions of beef!"

"It's bound to be incredibly satisfying!"

Hearing Chen Yan's words, Yu Qiao Qiao looked at Chen Yan with a silly expression. After a while, she smiled gently and said softly to Chen Yan, "Chen Yan, I understand now."

Chen Yan smiled back at Yu Qiao Qiao, then looked up to call out to the boss, "Boss! Add two fried eggs to the second bowl of noodles! Supplement the body! She still needs to grow!"

The boss, busy in the kitchen, heard Chen Yan's shout and replied with a laugh, "Okay~"

Meanwhile, Lu Man was staring at Chen Yan, her gaze gradually softening. She was beginning to understand...

It turned out that Chen Yan was not just spending money today for the sake of it, but rather... he was preparing to spend on things he wanted to do when he was penniless.

That's what people call "dreams."

This made the spending today suddenly have meaning.

But although she understood, Lu Man, who was always stubborn, did not soften her tone like Yu Qiao Qiao did. Instead, she huffed lightly and said petulantly, "Even significant sentiments can't add up to forty or fifty million."

Chen Yan smiled and stretched out his hand to the boss again, "Boss, the third bowl of noodles only needs to have half the portion! She has to keep her figure!"

Lu Man was furious, "You!"

Chen Yan looked at her, speaking righteously, "Celebrity Mei Li said that you've been a bit indulgent lately. Your weight is increasing, so she asked me to supervise you properly."

Lu Man: ...

Lu Man was at a loss for words.

The noodles soon arrived, the servings were generous, and the broth was steaming hot, but... there really wasn't much meat: except in Chen Yan's bowl.

Chen Yan's bowl, with the added 10 portions of beef, was almost all meat, nearly at a one-to-one ratio with the noodles.

Chen Yan happily twirled his noodles, eating contentedly.

Yu Qiao Qiao watched Chen Yan fulfilling his childhood dream next to her, covering her mouth and giggling secretly: she found this side of Chen Yan incredibly cute. It was like his likability went UP, UP~

After laughing, Yu Qiao Qiao smoothed back her hair, picked up her chopsticks, and started to eat the beef noodles that Chen Yan had added two extra eggs to for her.

Only Lu Man looked at the other two, then blew up in frustration looking at her own half-portion of noodles, took off her mask, and ate with a pout...

The meal took half an hour.

After the meal, Chen Yan settled the bill, then led the two girls to their next destination.

In fact, after obtaining the "God Card," Chen Yan thought about how he would use it.

At first, he considered spending the money in the most profitable way possible.

Like... buying several kilos of Gold to save. Or directly investing in real estate or buying some assets that could be liquidated.

But gradually, Chen Yan changed his mind.

Because he felt... although he had made a lot of money during this time, he hadn't really spent any money on himself.

With the 10x cashback from Yu Qiao Qiao and Lu Man, every time he spent money on himself, he felt reluctant. Because... he felt it wasn't spending, but a loss.

For instance, if he spent 100 yuan on a lunch for himself, he didn't think he had spent 100 yuan but rather lost 1000 yuan...

This mindset was actually kind of pathological.

So, throughout the two-month planning process, Chen Yan gradually realized the proper use for the "God Card": that was... to buy what he wanted to buy and to spend as he wished.

Everything was at his own whim! As if fulfilling countless dreams!

This was also the reason Chen Yan chose to come to this noodle shop first...

After coming to this conclusion, Chen Yan retraced his entire plan over the past two months and suddenly found that his idea was very correct.

Because only if he truly enjoyed spending money could Yu Qiao Qiao and Lu Man understand that money meant nothing to him. It was just a tool to obtain happiness.

If he himself was stingy when spending money, investing in stocks, Gold, assets, then the two girls would also be influenced and unwilling to accept Chen Yan's expenditures so recklessly. Because they would start to pinch pennies as well.

So, recalling his thoughts and reflections during the journey, Chen Yan followed his plan and arrived at the second stop, Qin Island's largest business complex: Wanxiang City.

Chen Yan didn't have many hobbies, but his biggest was gaming.

When he was poor before, even buying a game required careful budgeting. For example, buying a PS4, he had to get the disc version, because then he could buy game discs, finish them, and then sell them second-hand to recover some money.

This actually didn't allow him, a game enthusiast and collector, to enjoy his hobby fully.

But now that he could spend freely, things were different for Chen Yan.

So after arriving at the game store in Wanxiang City, Chen Yan stepped in and directly said to the owner, "Boss. How many kinds of game consoles do we have?"

The owner was a scruffy-bearded middle-aged man.

Hearing Chen Yan's words, he looked up and said, "We have all the mainstream ones. PS4, Switch, Xbox, Scorpio. Whatever you want, I've got it here."

Chen Yan "oh-ed" and said, "Then I'll take one of each kind. They all have to be the best model, with the largest capacity, the upgraded version."

After saying this, Chen Yan added, "Also, take one of every game for these consoles, I want them all."

Hearing Chen Yan's words, the owner, who hadn't paid much attention at first, looked up in amazement.

The game store had always been a declining industry, not doing well in any city, so breaking even was considered good. Now, suddenly, such a big customer had come knocking?

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