After buying clothes and shoes, the two planned to check out the jewelry section.
No woman in the world can resist sparkling jewelry.
Although they had also bought many jewelry accessories while purchasing clothes, those were still vastly different from stores that specialized in luxury jewelry.
The two first went to Van Cleef & Arpels.
Speaking of Van Cleef & Arpels, their most famous line is undoubtedly the Alhambra clover collection.
The Alhambra collection includes necklaces, bracelets, rings, and watches. It features rich color palettes and classic styles. It is not too extravagant for daily wear and is quite suitable for young girls like Chu Wanchen.
Inside the store, the two bought up all the jewelry that Chu Wanchen took a fancy to. Without delaying afterward, they immediately moved on to the next stop.
They arrived at the final destination of the jewelry section—Chaumet, a jewelry brand from France.
If Van Cleef & Arpels is considered mid-tier among luxury jewelry, then Chaumet can definitely be called a top-tier global jewelry brand.
The diamond rings for many celebrity weddings come from their brand, and even the British Queen’s crown was crafted by Chaumet.
With that level of prestige, the prices naturally went without saying.
In the past, Shao Wenxin would only buy jewelry on important anniversaries, and the prerequisite for purchasing was always based on whether the jewelry would retain its value. Heavily marked-up luxury jewelry like this was something she dared not even think about.
Now that she could spend money wantonly without worrying about the price, she was definitely going to pocket all these beautiful pieces of jewelry that she previously wouldn’t have dared to dream of.
Because of their previous wild shopping spree, everyone in the entire mall already knew about them.
Therefore, the moment the two stepped into the Chaumet boutique, a sales associate welcomed them into the VIP lounge.
Soon, someone brought them desserts and lemon water, while also handing each of them a tablet.
“Please look through the jewelry on the tablet first. If there is anything you are interested in, you can let me know, and I will fetch it for you to try on.” After saying this, the sales associate quietly waited to the side and spoke no further.
Chaumet’s jewelry certainly lived up to its price. The complex and grand designs, far from looking cluttered, exuded a high-end aesthetic instead. Soon, Shao Wenxin and Chu Wanchen’s attention was completely captivated by the jewelry in the pictures.
Shao Wenxin finally understood why those wealthy wives loved jewelry so much.
After all, if price wasn’t a consideration, who wouldn’t love beautiful jewelry?
When Shao Wenxin and Chu Jianping got married, they didn’t buy wedding rings. In that era, people weren’t fastidious about giving diamond rings for marriage; many couples had bare-bones weddings.
The family hadn’t saved much money over the past few years, let alone enough to buy wedding rings. But whenever Shao Wenxin saw others receiving rings, she would still feel envious deep down.
This time, she was going to buy herself a wedding ring, fulfilling a romantic dream of her own.
With this thought in mind, Shao Wenxin selected a ruby diamond ring for herself. She also made an appointment with the sales associate for Chaumet’s designer to visit three days later to customize an exclusive set of “Three Golds” traditional wedding jewelry for her.
In the end, the two bought up all the available stock in the store that caught their eye, which even included two crowns.
Coming out of the jewelry section, the two rushed toward the final stop of tonight—Patek Philippe.
Chu Wanchen’s dad, Chu Jianping, had always wanted a mechanical watch. A few years ago, he finally managed to save up money to buy a watch worth over three thousand yuan, only to lose it after wearing it for barely two days.
Chu Jianping had been depressed about it for a long time. This time, Chu Wanchen intended to buy several watches for her dad, to save him from constantly nagging about that lost watch every day.
The Patek Philippe boutique was not large, and the watches displayed in the store were only for exhibition purposes and not for public sale.
The sales associate knew that these two were clients who didn’t lack money, so she didn’t bother going through the usual watch-purchasing procedures.
She directly brought out several Perpetual Calendar watches available in the store, “Ladies, there are currently only three Perpetual Calendars for sale in the store: two women’s watches and one men’s watch. If you need to purchase other styles, I can register them for you, and you will have priority to purchase them once they are in stock.”
“Alright, wrap up these three for me and deliver them to Tang Palace No. 8. Additionally, if there are any Green Submariners or Nautiluses, reserve them for me directly, whether they are men’s or women’s watches.” Chu Wanchen knew that for top-tier watch brands like Patek Philippe, one needed to line up and wait to get highly popular models.
In fact, purchasing these two popular watch models required “purchase bundling.” If you had never bought a Patek Philippe watch before, you wouldn’t even qualify to wait in line.
A top luxury brand like Patek Philippe possessed that kind of confidence.
Chu Wanchen had spent over a hundred million at the IFC mall today. A client with this kind of financial power was rare for any brand.
As long as the salesperson wasn’t foolish, they knew that this kind of person’s purchasing power was higher than ten ordinary clients combined. They also knew that as long as they retained this client, it would be beneficial both to themselves and to the brand itself.
Therefore, the store’s sales associate directly used her authority to grant the two the privilege of priority purchasing for all watch models.
The two were naturally very satisfied with this, as after all, everyone desires to have privileges.
By the time they came out of Patek Philippe, it was already past ten o’clock in the evening, and the two prepared to head home.
When they took a taxi back to Tang Palace, the butler had already prepared bathwater for them.
Lying in the bathtub, enjoying the massage of the water current, the essential oils in the water soothed their exhausted bodies.
Chu Wanchen had lived for fifteen years, and for the first time, she felt as thoroughly exhilarated as she did today.
From the moment she obtained the system, her destiny had been rewritten.
“Thank you, System,” Chu Wanchen thought from the bottom of her heart.
Thank you to the system for changing her destiny,
Thank you to the system for enabling her to bring a better life to her family.