The next day, David sent Lily back to school and transferred a hundred million into her bank card.
He told her to spend it as he wished, and to tell him if she needed more.
He even told Lily to disclose small pieces of information to her parents when suitable.
Then he drove his Bugatti Veyron back to River City.
Lake City was around a thousand kilometers away from River City, so David decided to just drive there.
The car was high quality, the highest quality even.
Thus, it made sense to be more costly.
Coupled with David’s exceptional driving skills, the Bugatti Veyron sped across the passing lane.
David’s car finally arrived at River City’s roads.
He gave what happened over the past two days a lot of thought.
Andy was the one who helped settle both his cousin sister’s accident at Dazzling KTV and stood up for her when she was bullied during the charity banquet.
He might have a boundless amount of money, but money also seemed to be all he had.
He could not rely on other people to resolve his problems forever.
Not to mention that Hugh and Andy might even set their eyes on his money once they found out that he did not have a powerful family to support him.
Therefore, what he needed to do now was to enhance his strengths and build his powers.
Thanks to his unlimited wealth, it would not be too difficult to build his powers.
His only issue was finding people who were loyal to him.
This took time, but he needed this power soon.
Next, he needed to enhance his strengths.
He looked at the panel and found that he still only had two hundred lavish points.
Meaning neither the one hundred million he donated yesterday nor the one hundred million he transferred to Lily today had earned him any lavish point.
Since sending people money did not earn him lavish points, did that mean he could only earn lavish points by buying things?
However, he had earned lavish points when we donated eleven billion to SCC.
That donation had earned him the identity of a high-tier member, so it meant that donations could earn him lavish points as long as he had gotten something of the corresponding value spent.
Both his Body and Mind stats were at 50 points, which, according to the system’s description, were rather strong.
Since his Body stats had increased from 18 to 50 points, David believed that his current physique should be around that of people who exercised frequently even though he had not tested it yet.
He wondered what would happen if he raised his Body stats to 100 points, 200 points, 500 points, or even 1000 points.
Would it turn him into a superhero?
This was something he had to slowly find out.
Raising Mind stats sharpened his senses and cleared his mind, so he would have to enhance that as well.
Next was his skill column.
There were currently five skills in the column.
He had 10 points each in Driving, Song composition, Lyrics writing, Performing, and Piano skills.
These were all expert levels according to the description.
I can now add as many skills to this column as I want, then maybe I can learn the 18 Dragon Taming Punches as well?
[A/N: 18 Dragon Taming Punches = Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms from Legend of the Condor Heroes—but adapted with a modern or comedic twist.]
‘No harm in trying.’
With that, David found a service area and stopped his car to try and learn the 18 Dragon Taming Punches.
‘It’ll be awesome if I actually manage to learn it!
I’m so excited, I’m going to become the best fighter in the world!
Add 18 Dragon Taming Punches to the skill column.
Testing panel display…
‘Huh?
‘I don’t remember this happening the last time I tried to add points.’
Just then, David heard a voice ring out in his head.
“The system has not detected the skill ’18 Dragon Taming Punches’ in the host’s current world.
Point addition failed, 10 lavish points will be deducted!”
‘F*ck!
I knew it wouldn’t work!
It’s still just a novel, after all.’
David had no other choice but to accept reality.
….
Just as David was about to continue his journey, he felt his car jolt forward.
David was stunned.
‘What the f*ck, did someone just collide with the rear of my car?’
He quickly got out to look.
As expected, he saw a BMW pressed up against the rear of his Bugatti Veyron.
David took a look around.
He did indeed stop his car in the service area, so this was the other party’s fault.
His luck was horrible.
After losing 10 lavish points, someone had collided into the rear of his new Bugatti Veyron.
He took a better look and let out a sigh of relief internally when he realized that the damage was not severe.
“Hey!
How can you just stop in the middle of the road?
You’re in the middle of the road!” A woman in her thirties got out of the car and shouted at David.
“Miss, I stopped my car in the service area.
You’re the one who collided with my car, this is your fault!” David told the woman.
“My fault?
You’re the one who stopped the car in the middle of the road!
This is your fault!
You think that you’re better than me just because you’re driving a sports car?
Who knows, maybe that car isn’t even yours and you just rented it.
I’m telling you, there’s no way I’m letting you leave until you pay compensation!”
Originally, David planned to leave the issue be since it was just a small scratch, and repair fees were not a concern to him.
However, he did not expect to meet such an arrogant person.
‘Fine, then.
I’m not going to waste energy arguing with someone like this, I’ll just call the police!
The woman’s loud voice attracted many passers-by.
It was currently the Labor Day public holiday, so there were many cars on the road.
When they saw a car collide with the rear end of a Bugatti Veyron, many people moved over to the service area to observe.
“What the hell, that’s a Bugatti Veyron!
That car costs at least thirty million!
Even repainting must cost a few hundred thousand!”
“So expensive?
Since it’s a rear-end collision, the BMW will have to take full responsibility!
Even if they sold their BMW, they might not even have enough to pay for the repairs!”
“Sigh.
I can’t afford to pay the repairs for such an expensive car.
I’m going to steer clear of cars like this in the future.”
“Hey, hey, hey!
What are you guys saying?
Do none of you have better things to do?”
Once David heard her, he understood that this woman was just here to argue for the sake of arguing.
Soon after, the traffic police arrived at the scene.
After viewing the scene and the cameras in the service area, they agreed that the BMW should have to take full responsibility for the collision.
At this point, the BMW driver fell quiet.
“Well, Miss.
Since they’ve agreed that you should take full responsibility, I’ll have to tell you that my car is a limited-edition Bugatti Veyron.
There are only 8 of them in the entire world, with an official price of sixty million, though the market price is around eighty million now.
There’s a small scratch in the rear, so I’m guessing that it’ll cost at least a million for repairs.
How do you plan to compensate for this?”
The audience who had gathered to gossip sucked in a cold breath when they heard David’s claim.
‘Eighty million?
‘And a simple scratch would cost at least a million to repair?’
This had refreshed the crowd’s worldviews.
They could not understand the world of the wealthy.
“What?
At least a million?
That’s impossible!
That’s a scam!”
“A scam?
Go search it up on your phone and see if it’s a scam or not.”
The woman searched it up on her phone and immediately panicked when she saw the price.
“I don’t have money for you!
All I can give you is my life, kill me!”
This woman started acting shamelessly.
He had never seen someone this shameless before.
“Miss, if you don’t have any money, I will have to apply for a distraint warrant.
By then, your house and car will be auctioned off and you will be detained for ten days to half a month.
Any thoughts?”
“You…”
The woman was too shocked to speak, and her complexion paled in fear.
The crowd around, however, were elated.
“Mister, Mister!
Can you please not take my mom away?
Please!
I’ll apologize on behalf of my mom.
I’ll pay you back once I grow up and make more money, okay, please?”
David looked and found that a little girl around five years old had hugged his pant leg without his knowledge.
“Hey, Little one.
Is she your mom?” David pointed at the woman.
“Mhmm!”
“Is she good to you?”
“She is.”
“Does she hit you?”
“Mom hits when Annie is bad, but Mom doesn’t hit when Annie is a good girl!”
“Your mom owes me a lot of money.
Are you afraid?”
“I’m not.
As long as I study hard and save money when I start working, I’ll be able to pay you back, Mister.”
“Do you have money on hand?”
“Yeah.”
The little girl pulled out a ten-dollar note from her pocket and handed it to David.
“I only have this much right now!”
David took the ten dollars and stood, then turned to return to his car.
Maybe you should learn from your own child, hmm?”
He pulled open the car doors and started the ignition, then stepped on the accelerator and sped away.
“Holy sh*t, does he not want the repair fees?
That’s at least a million dollars!”
“Who knows what rich people think?”
“Let’s go.
We should give birth to a daughter, then we won’t have to pay compensation even after knocking into luxury cars.”
….
River City.
Pearl drove the Porsche 911 back to South River International Residence after work.
Before she could enter the gates of South River International Residence, she was suddenly stopped.
Pearl took a close look at the people who stopped her and found her parents, her brother Sam, and three other strangers she did not recognize.
‘What are they doing here?’
Pearl quickly got out of the car.
“Mom, Dad, Sam, what are you guys doing here?”
“Hmpf!
How else would we find out that you’re actually driving a nice car and living in a mansion in the big city while we work ourselves to death at home?” Pearl’s mom, Leigh, said.
“Mom, it’s not what you think.
This car belongs to my boss!” Pearl explained.
“Your boss?
Your boss lets you drive his car every day?
Why you, huh?
Why not anyone else?”
“Mom, can we talk somewhere else?
Where are you guys staying?
I can get you two hotel rooms!”
“I’m not going anywhere!
I want to live inside!
Don’t try to lie to me, your brother’s been watching you over the past few days and he knows that you’ve been living inside!” Leigh said, pointing at South River International Residence.
“Mom, that’s my boss’ residence!
I can’t just bring you guys inside!”
“Bullsh*t!
What boss?
It’s your boyfriend, isn’t it?
That’s why you can drive his car and live in his house!
How dare you forget about your parents just because you found yourself a boyfriend?
I’m going to take a page out of the family rulebook and teach you a lesson!”
Pearl’s father Billy said as he raised the wooden stick at Pearl.
Pearl did not expect her father to suddenly hit her.
Tears immediately sprung to her eyes in pain when the stick smacked against her arm.
She felt wronged.
She had been living with minimal expenses just to provide for her family and even paid for Sam’s university living costs.
She has been sending twenty thousand dollars to her family each month, which was essentially all the money she has been making these years.
Yet, now she was being subjected to a bad scolding.
Still, there was nothing she could do since they were her family.
She had no other choice but to bring the six of them into the International Residence.
Pearl thought that since it was a public holiday, David would be at his hometown instead of River City.
The six guests were stunned when they entered the residence.
Not even on television had they seen such a luxurious house.
Minnie’s entire family was too stunned to speak.
They thought that their living conditions were pretty good and so looked down on the Warners, who lived in the village.
Only now did they realize how close-minded they had been.
Minnie’s parents now looked at Sam with glee instead of distaste.
If his sister could live in such a nice lodging, then Sam himself would not be too far off either.
“It’s so grand here.
Pearl!
The decorations, the view!
This place is even more luxurious than what we see on television,” Sam said as he walked over to the floor-to-ceiling windows.
He started imagining how his life would be living here every day.
It was such a huge house, so there should be no problems housing him and Minnie.
The guests soon snapped out of their daydream.
They had originally felt out of place in this house but immediately relaxed once they realized that this was their daughter’s house, and therefore an extension o f their own.
At this moment, Pearl asked, “So, Mom, Dad.
What are you here for?”
Billy pointed at Minnie and her parents and introduced them, “This is Minnie, your brother’s girlfriend, and these are Minnie’s parents.
We’re planning to arrange your brother’s marriage, so just give us five million to buy him a house and a car.”
Pearl wanted to chortle at the ridiculousness of it all.
Her father had been a farmer his entire life so it was unlikely he would ask for five million dollars outright.
He might not even know how much five million could buy.
Thus, the five million must have been Sam’s idea.
“I don’t have that kind of money,” Pearl said.
“Then how much are you planning to contribute?” Billy asked.
He, too, felt that five million was too much when Sam suggested this amount.
“I won’t contribute a single cent!”