Chapter 763: Chapter 571: Congratulations to the Young Master

An’an actually knew very well.

Her dad would definitely arrange something at the school; he wouldn’t let her truly live as an utterly ordinary person without a single advantage.

The principal’s attitude said it all.

As An’an walked through the school, slightly isolated, whispers constantly floated through the crowd.

“Look, that’s An’an.”

“What An’an? She’s obviously Heroine Chen!”

“I heard she fought ten people at once. If the teacher hadn’t arrived early, all of Jin Haotian’s gang would’ve been beaten until they crapped themselves.”

Rumors stop with the wise, but whenever stories circulate from person to person, they inevitably become more and more exaggerated.

“Heroine An’an, can I get your autograph?”

“How do you do that Praying Mantis Fist pose? Can you teach me?”

“And, and, is it true you can fight ten people at once? You’re amazing!”

It wasn’t unexpected–and yet it still was–that an ordinary middle school girl like An’an had gone viral again.

And in such a baffling way, claiming she could fight ten people at once. Ugh… Well, beating someone like Er Piya was definitely doable.

The girls asking for her autograph unwittingly turned into love-struck fools.

An’an shivered slightly and thought to herself, “There’s not a single boy who likes me, but could it be that a lot of girls do?”

Ah! Martial arts master–a phrase she hadn’t heard in so long since her childhood days of training through the bitter cold winters and scorching hot summers.

Growing up, she had indeed become… a middle school grandmaster.

Trying to stay low-key just wasn’t an option, not when Xiao Wenwen and Hu Tao came looking for her to ask why she was so strong.

An’an’s gaze, tinged with loneliness, turned upward to the stars. “When I was little, I apprenticed under an old grandpa. Only when I grew up did I realize he was actually…”

“A Peerless Master, a reclusive expert from the depths of the mountains.”

Of course, this wasn’t An’an’s claim; it was entirely a product of Xiao Wenwen’s overactive imagination.

An’an patted her on the shoulder, thinking, “Wow, your automatic storytelling feature is pretty impressive. Even I wouldn’t dare to fabricate something so wild, yet you managed to piece it together seamlessly for me.”

Xiao Wenwen looked at her excitedly. “An’an, you know, right? You’ve become the idol of all the girls in school. When you took down Jin Haotian and his crew all by yourself at the sports field, it was so cool.”

“It’s nothing. Keep it low-key, low-key.”

An’an coughed twice, indifferent. Xiao Wenwen’s father was just an ordinary construction worker, while her mother cooked meals for the workers there. Despite this, her own academic performance was exceptional.

She consistently ranked in the top three in their class and the top twenty in the school.

If not for those academic achievements, with her family’s financial situation, she wouldn’t have been able to attend this school at all.

Even so, Xiao Wenwen’s parents struggled considerably.

Actually, An’an really wanted to help her. She herself had the Anle Fund, and each year, she could spend one to two hundred million yuan.

But given her current identity as an ordinary middle school girl, she couldn’t act too overtly.

She thought about having the Anle Fund staff contact Xiao Wenwen’s parents proactively to cover all of her university costs.

An’an walked back to the dormitory with Xiao Wenwen, and along the way, they bumped into Hu Tao, whose face was flushed red.

Hu Tao, although also a non-local, had parents with far better financial conditions compared to Xiao Wenwen.

At the very least, they were both respectable senior white-collar professionals, with combined monthly salaries totaling twenty to thirty thousand yuan.

It was said that either this year or next year, they were planning to buy an apartment in Magic City; An’an really felt like giving her a heads-up.

“Don’t buy. Housing prices are about to crash.

Even our family has to sell off all of the commercial properties that can’t be rented out or easily liquidated at a twenty percent discount. Buying an apartment now, your family could end up working for free for the next ten years.”

Although Golden Mountain housing prices didn’t compare to the heart of Magic City, good locations still cost forty to fifty thousand yuan per square meter.

With a monthly income of thirty thousand and a bank loan, you’d have to go thirty years without eating or drinking to pay off the mortgage.

And that’s not even for a big apartment–it’s just for a modest one around a hundred square meters.

Housing prices screwing people over wasn’t anything new.

An’an knew that Hu Tao’s greatest hope was for her parents to buy an apartment in Magic City. That way, she could finally hold her head up a bit among her classmates.

When others talked about her being a non-local, Hu Tao could proudly lift her chin and loudly declare, “My family owns an apartment!”

Ah! An’an felt an immense sadness. Even though her family benefited greatly from real estate, her father and mother never really expressed too much personal opinion about it.

Her family had been speculating on real estate since 2013 and had made tens of billions over the years.

Later, they moved onto commercial properties. The Tengchao Commercial Management that she would eventually inherit brought in tens of billions annually just from leasing.

Such earnings were undoubtedly astonishing, but thinking about Hu Tao’s and other families’ situations, she found them quite shameful.

Honestly, it was like tying ordinary people’s lives in knots.

An apartment wasn’t merely a place to live–it was the key to maintaining dignity in Magic City.

Hu Tao loved asking others which neighborhoods were better, but her underlying meaning was simply expressing, “My parents are planning to buy an apartment too.”

Xiao Wenwen, on the other hand, always listened intently but never shared her thoughts because she knew her parents couldn’t afford it.

No matter how hard they worked, it was impossible for them to afford one.

Feeling a pang of pity, An’an decided to shift the topic and play a little game with them.

“Hey, you know, I’ve heard of this store where buying an ice cream might win you an apartment. It’s five yuan a stick. Want to go try tomorrow?”

“No way. Who’d believe in such a silly promotion?”

“Why not believe it? What if we actually win?”

“If either of you wins, I’ll livestream myself eating poop upside down.”

The local girl Mo Qiqi sneered, “Believing in that kind of gimmick? You’re way too naive.”

“Hmph, I say you can win, so you definitely can. Anyway, five yuan for a stick of ice cream–why not give it a shot?”

Xiao Wenwen and Hu Tao thought about it and agreed. Besides, they liked eating ice cream anyway. Spending five yuan, even without winning an apartment, was fine–at least they’d get ice cream.

An’an made a call to Shen Youwei, who showed up the next day with a banner and an ice cream cart.

She was even wearing a red top hat, looking like some kind of Christmas superheroine.

Shen Youwei had teamed up with Zhao Yingying.

The two were the top executives of the Anle Fund and Miss An’an’s left- and right-hand women at Tengying Group.

Whenever Miss An’an gave orders, they had to appear immediately.

What Miss An’an had planned this time, they had no idea. She’d come up with a “buy ice cream and win an apartment” promotion, which led to them spending the whole night setting up an ice cream raffle.

They had started from the city center, transferring an ice cream cart over. For the deep-pocketed Tengying Group, this was nothing.

An’an then brought Xiao Wenwen and Hu Tao over to buy ice cream as Shen Youwei and Zhao Yingying gave a lengthy spiel.

“Five yuan–can’t lose, can’t get cheated.”

“What if you really win?”

Mmm… The top prize? A Tan Palace Villa.

This was a bit too extravagant. Even if gifted for free, with Xiao Wenwen’s and Hu Tao’s family conditions, they couldn’t even afford the basic property management fees.

Second prize, Tomson Riviera.

It sounded lavish but actually didn’t rank within the top twenty in Magic City.

Third prize was their very own Golden Mountain Tengying Super Community.

A mega-community for ten thousand residents, with all the housing belonging to Miss An’an’s family.

She could do whatever she pleased with it.

“An’an, is this ‘win an apartment when buying ice cream’ thing real?”

“Of course it’s real! Hurry up and buy one to try!”

“Alright then.”

Out of sheer craving, Xiao Wenwen and Hu Tao each shelled out five yuan to buy a stick.

When they opened the wrappers, the prizes were unbelievably absurd.

The note inside read: “Congratulations, dear customer! You’ve won a zero-shared-space 138-square-meter unit at the Golden Mountain Tengying Super Community.”

Along with thirty thousand yuan worth of home appliances.

Zhao Yingying screamed in excitement, rushing to say, “Wow, you guys are so lucky! You’ve won an apartment!”

Shen Youwei wanted to roll her eyes and thought, “Sis, your acting is over-the-top!”

Whether it was over the top or not, Zhao Yingying knew the apartment was indeed theirs.

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