Chapter 10 The Ultimate Card

• “Why? Did you go overboard? Why aren’t you swiping your card yet?” the other saleslady jeered at the sight of Lu Chen staring at his purse.
• From the start, she hadn’t believed that Lu Chen could really afford to pay 500,000. Now that she saw Lu Chen’s credit card was nowhere to be found, she started laughing at him.
• The rich couple was finally able to breathe.
• Honestly, the confidence in Lu Chen’s eyes earlier had really given them a fright.
• After all, they’d declared that as long as Lu Chen was able to buy all the clothes in the store, one of them would kneel and apologize while the other would kneel and lick his shoes.
• Though there was no way that they’d fulfill their words, it would still be horribly mortifying.
• “Oh my. You’ve overdone it, haven’t you? Did you mistake your identity card for your credit card? How very embarrassing!” the middle aged man couldn’t help rubbing it in.
• “I did tell you earlier. It’s only cool if you can back it up, now this? This is stupid,” The rich woman remarked witheringly.
• “Qiqi, let’s go,” Lin Yijia coaxed. She no longer had the energy to argue. Neither did she want to set eyes on her brother-in-law any longer; it was too embarrassing.
• But Qiqi shook her head. “I want to be with my dad.” She held on to Lu Chen’s shirt and refused to leave.
• Lin Yijia truly loved Qiqi, and she could only glower at Lu Chen, “Lu Chen, how far do you need to be disgraced before you’re willing to take Qiqi and leave?”
• “Huh. Maybe your brother-in-law is a masochist and enjoys getting his *ss kicked,” Hu Hong, who’d kept his peace until now, joined in sarcastically.
• He’d had it good over the last two days.
• Ever since he’d taken the credit for helping Wang Xue to close that large business deal, Lin Yijia’s attitude toward him had improved by leaps and bounds.
• Although Lin Yijia still hadn’t agreed to be his girlfriend, she was no longer refusing to go on dates with him.
• There was no longer any difficulty in getting Lin Yijia; it was now just a matter of time.
• “Yijia, let’s go. Your brother-in-law is hopeless. Let’s not allow more people to think that we’re with him,” one of her girlfriends said, shaking her head disdainfully.
• Lin Yijia’s cheeks burned. She didn’t care about Lu Chen being disgraced, but she did care about Qiqi.
• Even though Lu Chen was good-for-nothing, their whole family still loved Qiqi very much. If Qiqi didn’t want to leave, she couldn’t very well just carry her off.
• “Sir, did you forget your card?” the saleslady enquired quizzically.
• “Yes. Give me a moment. I’ll ask someone to deliver it,” Lu Chen nodded, proceeding to make a call for Lu Zhong to deliver 500,000.
• He would buy that dress since his daughter liked it; it no longer had anything to do with being disgraceful.
• “Chang Yan, are you nuts? You still believe his crap even now?” the first saleslady scoffed.
• The saleslady called Chang Yan smiled bitterly; she didn’t believe Lu Chen either.
• But upholding her professionalism, she wouldn’t say anything even if Lu Chen didn’t buy a single thing.
• “Sir, if you’re not going to pay, please leave and stop disrupting our business,” the first saleslady ordered coldly.
• “Putting on a show without the money to back it up is just wrong. Now get lost, and maybe you’ll be able to save some face; instead of hanging around and being made a spectacle of. Then you’ll be sorry,” the rich woman shook her head in distaste. Now that Lu Chen had shown his ‘true colors’, she’d lost interest in belittling him.
• Lu Chen took a hard look at the rich woman. He was just about to dial Lu Zhong’s number when a balding, middle-aged man walked toward him.
• “General Manager Xing, it’s good to see you,” the middle-aged man immediately stepped forward to welcome the balding man.
• The baldy threw a glance at the middle-aged man before disregarding him completely as he continued toward Lu Chen.
• The middle-aged man’s face turned red and he was filled with mortification.
• “Honey, who is that?” the rich woman frowned and asked quietly; her husband was well-connected, but the baldy had just dismissed him so easily. It made her rather angry.
• “That’s the general manager of this mall, Xing Bing. He’s backed by Jun Yue Group,” the middle-aged man replied softly.
• The rich woman nodded. So it was a bigshot—no wonder he hadn’t bothered to give her husband any face.
• Let alone Jun Yue Group, the two of them hadn’t had the social connections to rent a store even within New Skylight Mall itself.
• “Could he be here to buy clothes for his children as well?” the rich woman speculated when she saw Xing Bing approaching the counter.
• “It’s likely.” Her husband nodded. But then Xing Bing faced Lu Chen.
• “Young Master Lu, it’s really you. I thought I’d been mistaken.” The balding man looked at Lu Chen respectfully.
• “You are…” Lu Chen let his voice trail off as he studied Xing Bing thoughtfully.
• “My name is Xing Bing; I’m the person in charge of New Skylight Mall,” Xing Bing replied obligingly, a servile expression on his face.
• A few days ago, Lu Zhong had gathered the entire upper management of Jun Yue Group in the Chongqing branch and held a conference. The main objectives had been to announce that Lu Chen had succeeded the Lu Family estate, and to show them Lu Chen’s pictures so that the upper management members would show Lu Chen due respect when they saw him.
• As the person in charge of New Skylight Mall, Xing Bing had naturally attended that particular conference.
• So when he saw that Lu Chen had come to his mall to do some shopping, he’d eagerly come forward to introduce himself.
• Lin Yijia and the others didn’t recognize Xing Bing, so the scene didn’t provoke any reaction from them.
• But the middle-aged man’s face turned ashen when he saw that even the general manager of the shopping mall was subserviently respectful toward the young man that he’d been mocking.
• A person to whom even Xing Bing bowed to—what kind of status did he hold? Could he be one of the major players in Jun Yue Group?
• “I see,” Lu Chen nodded. Since he’d succeeded the family estate, naturally, he’d learned about the assets controlled by Jun Yue Group. It stood to reason that Xing Bing recognized him.
• Young Master Lu, this is the only Ultimate VIP card that the mall has ever released. With this card, you can pick anything you want and have the retail assistants wrap it up to go. Then, the mall will tally everything with the stores at the end of each month,” Xing Bing said, presenting a card made entirely of rose gold to Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen took the card and studied it. “Can I buy all the kids’ clothes in the store with this card?”
• “You can. As long as you show them this card, you can take anything and everything you want,” Xing Bing nodded emphatically. The Ultimate Card was a status symbol. It had been created for the sole purpose of being used today.
• “Okay. Then wrap up all the girls’ clothes for me and donate the boys’ clothes to the orphanage,” Lu Chen announced.
• The two salesladies were struck dumb, unable to wrap their minds around the recent turn of events.
• Lu Chen hadn’t brought his bank card, but this Ultimate Card was far weightier.
• When any of the staff in the mall conducted their in-house training, they were required to memorize this card. They were told that as long as someone showed them the card, they were not allowed to request payment from that someone no matter how expensive an item was. It was common to see images of the card plastering the walls, and they were, naturally, exceedingly familiar with it.
• “What are you two doing just standing there? Start packing!” Xing Bing admonished the two salesladies when he saw them still standing dumbstruck.
• The two of them collected themselves and rushed to start packaging the girls’ clothes. Even the cashier joined them in wrapping and packaging after having settled the tally.
• On the other hand, Xing Bing pulled his phone out and ordered someone to deliver the boys’ clothes to the orphanage.
• Only now did Lu Chen slowly shift his gaze toward the middle-aged couple.