Song Fuxue returned to Yunqi Residence carrying a pile of jewelry and diamonds.
Her terrible mood about seeing a traditional Chinese doctor and drinking herbal medicine before going out had completely vanished. Happily, she lifted the cat and spun it around in circles.
“Wow, Little Cake, I have so many diamonds now! Sparkling, shiny diamonds!”
“Meow meow!”
The cat immediately noticed the ruby on the sofa as well. It jumped up, circled around the ruby curiously for a long time, and then suddenly opened its mouth wide—
“No!”
Song Fuxue immediately stopped the cat and carried it back to its cat bed.
“You can’t eat gemstones! Little Cake is such a greedy cat!”
She poured out a bowl of cat food and played with the cat using a teaser wand for a while.
Eventually, the cat became so tired that it fell fast asleep.
At the same time—
Pei Shangyue came out of the kitchen after preparing dinner. There was an appetizing tomato beef stew soup paired with several Hong Kong-style dim sum dishes.
And of course, there was also a bag of herbal medicine decoction prepared by the hospital.
“Come eat. Don’t forget to drink your medicine afterward.”
“Alright.”
Song Fuxue was not very resistant this time.
Pei Shangyue had pampered her far too well at the auction earlier, so her mood was currently excellent.
She proactively walked over and helped him remove his apron.
“Older Brother, you’re way too amazing. You can make money and cook too. What would I do without you?”
“I, this useless and lazy salted-fish Younger Sister, am truly too ashamed, too embarrassed, wuwuwu…”
Song Fuxue became addicted to acting dramatic and covered her face while fake crying.
Pei Shangyue did not expose her. Instead, he led her to the sink, embraced her from behind, and carefully washed her hands for her.
“What candy do you want afterward?”
“Strawberry again.”
Song Fuxue went to eat while Pei Shangyue brought her two strawberry candies and stayed beside her to supervise her medicine.
“Brother, you don’t have to stare at me like that. I’ll drink it. Do I look like the type to secretly pour away medicine?”
“Hard to say.”
“……”
What happened to trust between people?
Baby sighed.
Song Fuxue huffed, finished eating, gathered her courage, picked up the medicine, and prepared to gulp it down in one go.
But the moment her taste buds encountered that unpleasant bitterness, her entire face scrunched together, and instinctively, she wanted to pour the medicine away.
As if he had expected it, Pei Shangyue took the medicine away first, hugged Song Fuxue, pinched her cheeks open slightly, and fed her a candy.
“So bitter, Older Brother. It’s too bitter…”
Song Fuxue complained, her eyes shimmering with tears as droplets rolled down like pearls.
Pei Shangyue gently wiped away her tears with pity.
“Then drink it later?”
Song Fuxue shook her head.
“No. If I drink it sooner, Older Brother will feel reassured sooner…”
Though she was delicate and pampered, she was not insensitive. She could tell that Older Brother had constantly been worrying about her, even staying awake through the night by her bedside whenever she got sick or feverish.
She also wanted to recover her health quickly so that Older Brother would not have to work so hard.
Song Fuxue gritted her teeth and drank the medicine in one breath.
Older Brother promptly fed her two candies.
The sweet strawberry flavor and Older Brother’s concerned gaze suppressed her urge to spit out the medicine.
She hugged Older Brother and waited for the bitter aftertaste to fade.
“Older Brother, have you ever drunk traditional Chinese medicine before?”
“I have.”
“Huh? What illness made you drink it? It’s so bitter and awful. How did Older Brother endure it?”
Song Fuxue looked up at him and continued asking with concern.
“At that time, was I by Older Brother’s side? Did I hug you and feed you candy too?”
Pei Shangyue fell silent.
As he thought of something, his dark, profound eyes dimmed further.
“Older Brother?”
Pei Shangyue returned to his senses and softly said, “It’s not important anymore. The past is no longer important…”
“What matters is that the current you is by my side…”
Song Fuxue could not understand the deeper meaning hidden within his gaze. She simply smiled and comforted him.
“Not just now. Future me will stay by Older Brother’s side too!”
“Mhm.”
Pei Shangyue smiled faintly and gently wiped away the strawberry candy residue from the corner of her lips.
Right at that moment, the doorbell rang.
Song Fuxue looked toward the entrance in surprise.
“At this hour, who would come?”
“Most likely the things ordered for you have already arrived.”
Pei Shangyue brought her to open the door.
Soon afterward, a professionally dressed woman smiled and said,
“Mr. Pei, Miss Song, the batch of pure gold jewelry you ordered has arrived.”
Song Fuxue looked confused.
“Pure gold jewelry? Gold?”
The woman nodded, then immediately received instructions from Pei Shangyue. At once, dozens of gloved staff members entered carrying trays.
There were gold bracelets, gold necklaces, gold rings, gold earrings of every imaginable style…
Under the already magnificent lighting, the glow of gold was not diminished in the slightest. Instead, it shone so brilliantly that it nearly dazzled Song Fuxue’s eyes.
“Older Brother! Older Brother, Brother!”
“Why did you buy so much gold?”
“Now that you have diamonds, gold naturally can’t be missing.”
Pei Shangyue answered as if it were perfectly obvious.
“But I didn’t buy it recently. These were gold bars I had stored earlier. I had them melted down to make this batch of gold jewelry for you.”
“The styles were all designed by the designer you liked.”
Song Fuxue stared at him in disbelief.
“Brother! Gold prices have been rising like crazy recently. Those perfectly good gold bars—you just melted them down like that? Gold is hard currency!”
“Gold bars sitting there serve no purpose. Turning them into jewelry for you means you can actually wear them. Is the design not attractive enough?”
For the first time, Pei Shangyue showed genuine confusion.
“Then this batch of gold jewelry can be melted down again and redesigned. Whatever styles you like, you can personally discuss them with their management.”
“Wait, wait! I never said I didn’t like them!”
Song Fuxue quickly stopped him.
“They’re so beautiful already. Why remake them?”
She turned toward the jewelry store employees.
“You all should get off work and head home now. I really like the gold jewelry. Sorry for making everyone come all the way here so late at night.”
“It’s our duty! Thank you very much, Miss Song!”
The employees’ faces turned red all the way to their ears as they looked at her.
Before leaving, they even secretly glanced at Song Fuxue several more times.
“Oh my god, Older Brother! Just how much money did you spend?!”
Song Fuxue stared at the trays of gold jewelry and clicked her tongue in amazement.
Each tray held five sets of gold jewelry, and there were dozens of trays total. That meant there were over a hundred gold accessories here altogether.
Just necklaces and rings alone visibly numbered in the dozens.
Song Fuxue became dazzled from looking at everything, trying some on from the left and then from the right until she became confused.
“Older Brother, are you treating me like an octopus? How could one person possibly wear this much? This is even more outrageous than buying diamonds!”
“I wasn’t sure which ones you liked most, so I got all of them. That way, nothing could go wrong.”
Pei Shangyue looked at Song Fuxue. Though she was surrounded by gold and diamonds, none of them could compare to her own elegance and radiance.
She was vibrant, beautiful, irresistibly charming…
She deserved every treasure in this world.
“There’s still another batch of gold bars that hasn’t been processed yet. If you find any other styles you like in the future, they can be made into jewelry too…”
Song Fuxue quickly covered his lips with her hand.
“Older Brother! Enough, enough!”
“Would you look at all the jewelry in this house already, Older Brother? There’s so much that the house can barely contain it anymore!”
Pei Shangyue grasped her wrist, lifted her into his arms, and carried her.
“The third floor of Yunqi Residence is empty. The entire floor can be used to store your jewelry.”
“If that’s still not enough…”
He pulled open the floor-to-ceiling curtains.
“Do you see the house across from us?”
“That place is called Xingyao Terrace. It’s a multi-level European-style mansion spanning several hundred square meters with two small gardens. I’ve already bought it for you. In a few days, I can arrange to transfer ownership to your name.”
“I also hired another fashion designer to custom-make thirty gowns in different styles for you. You can wear them to banquets. Once the dresses arrive, they’ll be delivered to that house.”
“If there’s any other clothing, antiques, or treasures you want, they can all be purchased and placed there as well…”
Pei Shangyue calmly introduced everything to her.
This time, Song Fuxue was truly shocked by his extravagance. She hugged Pei Shangyue tightly around the neck and snorted softly.
“Older Brother! Older Brother, Brother!”
“Tell me honestly—did you do something guilty toward me? Otherwise why are you buying me so many things?”
Pei Shangyue paused silently for a moment, firmly supporting her legs as he carried her to sit on the table.
“You don’t like it?”
“I like it! Of course I like it! No one dislikes gold and diamonds, and no one dislikes mansions and beautiful clothes!”
There was no way Song Fuxue could lie and claim she disliked them. In truth, she absolutely adored them.
“Then Older Brother, if I also wanted a cruise ship, a private island, or even an asteroid named after me… could you do all that for me too?”
“Of course.”
“Wow! Older Brother! I really love you too much—what should I do?!”
Song Fuxue hung onto him, her flushed face rubbing excitedly against his cheek.
Pei Shangyue wrapped an arm around her slender waist, his voice low and deep.
“Song Fuxue, you can become even greedier than this…”
“How much greedier could I get? Older Brother isn’t secretly despising me inside, right? Despising me for being such a vulgar and vain Younger Sister?”
Song Fuxue joked.
“No. Whatever you want is fine. You deserve everything.”
Pei Shangyue gazed at her meaningfully and softly called her name.
“Song Fuxue…”
“You can be endlessly greedy…”
Greedy for his money.
Greedy for all the wealth and status he could give her.
That way, when she discovered that she had mistaken the wrong person for her Older Brother, her attachment to those desires would make her willingly stay by his side…