Сhарter 8: Unbeliеvаblу Riсh
Wеn Qianyue роked him with a lаugh, and onlу thеn did hе snар оut of it.
Не сontinuеd tyрing.
【@C Si Bеiсhen! Вe а gооd boу аnd send mу dаughtеr! Yоur sistеr! Неr allоwanсе!】
【Your sister Jiang Ci’s аcсount numbеr: 6212003760068880765】
【Rерlу as soоn as yоu sее this mеssagе!】
Aftеr bombarding Si Веiсhеn, hе switchеd gears as if hе wеrе а diffеrent persоn аnd sеnt a mеssagе to Jiang Сi.
【Swееtiе, it’s getting latе. Gо to sleеp now, оkау? Yоur brothеr hаs a special job, so hе prоbаblу isn’t сhеcking his рhone right now.】
Jiаng Ci rеalizеd an оld saying was right!
Birds of a feather flock together.
She finally understood—everyone in her family had two faces!
They changed expressions faster than flipping a book, and they treated people differently depending on who they were.
Jiang Ci was a good girl.
【Okay, Si Dad. You should go to bed early too. Good night.】
Si Jianhua: 【Good night, sweetie.】
Not to be outdone, Wen Qianyue added: 【Good night, sweetie.】
Jiang Ci: 【…Good night.】
Just as she was about to put down her phone and sleep, she thought for a moment, picked it up again, and sent one last message.
【@C Bro, send a little extra for the allowance.】
After all, this cheap brother of hers was going to kick the bucket before the apocalypse anyway. Might as well give her the money so she could stock up on more supplies.
She was just worried her brother might be stingy and reluctant to give much.
Oh well, time to sleep. Whatever he gave, it was still a gain.
…
Sino-Myanmar Border.
Si Beichen had just returned to their border outpost with his teammates after completing a special mission.
After debriefing, attending a brief meeting, and washing up, it was already past 4 a.m.
Only after lying down in bed did he have time to check his phone.
As soon as he turned it on, the phone started chiming incessantly.
This had never happened before.
Suspicious, he opened his phone and tapped on the source of the chimes.
A group chat called “Happy Family” popped up.
Opening the chat, Si Beichen scrolled carefully from top to bottom.
Finally, his gaze settled on the last message.
【@C Bro, send a little extra for the allowance.】
Although he hadn’t met this stepsister yet, he had heard his dad mention her many times, always praising her to the skies.
His eyes lingered on the word “bro.”
Having another sister seemed pretty nice, actually.
It was only right to give his sister an allowance.
Si Beichen then shifted his gaze to the words “a little extra.”
He spent most of his time either training or on missions and wasn’t much of an internet surfer, so he figured this probably meant “a hundred million,” just a typo.
It couldn’t possibly mean “a little,” right?
So it must be “a hundred million.”
Although Si Beichen was a bit curious why his brand-new sister needed so much money, he still copied and pasted Jiang Ci’s account number and casually transferred a hundred million over.
For years, he’d had no real need to spend money—food, clothing, and lodging were all free.
So his salary, bonuses, dividends from casual investments in companies and businesses—all of it had just been sitting untouched in his account.
Without even realizing it, the sum had grown to a staggering amount.
His sister only wanted a hundred million.
…
Jiang Ci had set a plan for herself to train for two hours every morning, so she set a phone alarm for 6:00.
As soon as the alarm rang, Jiang Ci squinted, reached for the phone on her nightstand, and brought it close to her face.
One eye tightly shut, she cracked the other open just a slit to look at the screen.
First, she turned off the alarm.She turned over, pulled the blanket over her head, and casually tapped on her phone to check the unread messages.
【Si Beichen transferred RMB 100,000,000.00 to your savings card ending in 0765 at 04:39 on March 18. Current balance: 4,075,280,000.00.】
Jiang Ci was still a bit groggy. Squinting, she counted:
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions… billions?
She shook her head to clear her mind, rubbed her eyes, opened them wide, and counted again.
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, billions.
Then she looked at the balance again: 4,075,280,000.00.
Jiang Ci abruptly sat up in bed.
She remembered—she had transferred one billion to Club Owner Wang, so her 4 billion had already become 3.9 billion!
So now, one billion of her 4 billion was actually transferred to her by Si Beichen!
Damn! That’s outrageously rich!
She liked this big-spending, foolish brother!
From now on, Si Beichen was her real brother!
Even though he was a short-lived brother, squeezing a bit more out of him before his time was up would still benefit the whole family.
The first step in squeezing the sheep was naturally to build a good relationship with this sheep.
Jiang Ci opened the “Happy Family” group chat, tapped on Si Beichen’s profile picture, and sent a friend request.
She waited for a while, but no one accepted. He probably wasn’t checking his phone.
Jiang Ci didn’t mind. She tossed her phone aside, got up, washed up, and began her training for the day.
After two hours of training, she showered, changed clothes, had breakfast, and drove out.
This trip was to buy solid wood flooring. Today, she planned to lay the floors in the house inside her space.
She ordered 2,000 square meters of solid wood flooring and asked the seller to deliver it to her suburban villa.
Jiang Ci led the way in her car, following the delivery truck to the suburban villa.
It had been a while since she last came.
The security guards at the gate still recognized her, so she passed through smoothly.
Jiang Ci rolled up the garage door.
It was empty inside. She asked the delivery workers to unload all the solid wood flooring into the garage.
After the delivery workers finished and left, Jiang Ci rolled the garage door back down.
She turned on the garage light.
Then, she stored all the flooring into her space.
She took out her keys and unlocked a small door in the innermost corner of the garage.
Passing through the small door led directly into the villa’s living room.
The three-story villa was exquisitely and warmly decorated.
Traces of their family of three living here were still visible everywhere.
Jiang Ci drew all the curtains in the three-story villa and locked every window.
The villa instantly plunged into pitch darkness, so dark she couldn’t see her own hand in front of her face.
Satisfied, she nodded. Good—this meant no doors or windows were left unaccounted for.
Feeling at ease, she entered her space.
She could only stay here for six hours before being kicked out.
Time was tight, so she had to work quickly. She wasn’t sure if six hours would be enough to finish the job.
After all, this was her first time doing something like this—like a bride getting on a sedan chair for the first time.
The house actually already had flooring, but it was the same white as the walls, which she didn’t like.
The solid wood flooring she bought was the snap-lock type, which didn’t seem too difficult.
Jiang Ci rolled up her sleeves and got to work.
Laying this snap-lock flooring felt a bit like playing with building blocks.
The more she laid, the more addictive it became.
At first, Jiang Ci’s movements were a bit clumsy. She had to study each piece carefully, afraid she’d make a mistake and have to redo it.Later on, she got the hang of it and laid the planks faster and faster, doing an excellent job.
The only downside was that she had to keep getting up to fetch the planks.
When she was outside the space, she could use her consciousness to control and access all items inside it.
But when she was physically inside the space, her consciousness no longer worked—she had to do everything manually.
How wonderful it would be if she could also use her consciousness to retrieve items while inside the space.
She imagined just raising her hand, and the floorboards would magically appear in her palm.
Ah, she was really daydreaming now.
Apart from the bathroom, it took Jiang Ci over three hours to finish laying the planks throughout the entire three-bedroom, two-living-room space.
Not wanting to waste her limited time, she immediately exited the space once she was done.