"Pan Gege, what's wrong?"
Mo Ziyan looked at Lu Pan, a bit confused. Thinking he didn't like Professor Yamamoto, she continued, "Professor Yamamoto is from Gachikawa University. Qingcheng University spent a lot of money to hire him, and he even asked me to be his class representative."
"An Easterner?" Lu Pan asked back.
Mo Ziyan nodded, her face full of admiration. "Gachikawa University is one of the top universities in the East. I heard Professor Yamamoto has a very high reputation there."
Lu Pan looked at Mo Ziyan's admiring expression with a hint of helplessness.
He saw a familiar shadow in Yamamoto Fujito and asked, "Is Professor Yamamoto's son also at Qingcheng University?"
Mo Ziyan looked surprised. "Ah? Pan Gege, how did you know?"
Mo Ziyan's reaction undoubtedly confirmed Lu Pan's suspicion.
"Oh right, Yamato Hisaki was with us last night. Did you see him when you picked me up?"
Mo Ziyan remembered something and looked at Lu Pan with her beautiful eyes.
Lu Pan gently stroked her head. This girl wouldn't even know if she was being sold.
As the saying goes, like father, like son.
Given Yamato Hisaki's character, Yamamoto Fujito was definitely not a good person.
Mo Ziyan narrowed her eyes, enjoying Lu Pan's caress.
"Since today's class is canceled, let's go shopping." Lu Pan remembered Hai Lan City, which Mo Shiyao had mentioned, and wanted to buy her a gift.
"Okay." Mo Ziyan was delighted, not expecting Lu Pan to take her shopping.
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Hai Lan City, Qingcheng's largest and most luxurious shopping mall.
Mo Shiyao had said it was jointly developed by the Lu family and Easterners, with an investment of nearly ten billion.
"Pan Gege, this is my first time in Hai Lan City." Mo Ziyan seemed a little nervous looking at the luxurious mall before her.
Lu Pan held her hand, smiled faintly, and said gently, "Tell me if you like anything later, and Pan Gege will buy it for you."
"A girl shouldn't casually accept gifts from men," Mo Ziyan said seriously. "Let's just browse. Ziyan lacks nothing."
Mo Ziyan wore a simple and elegant long dress, without earrings, necklaces, or bracelets, and no makeup. She was like a lotus emerging from mud unstained.
Lu Pan smiled and replied with an air of dominance, "Pan Gege is not just any casual man. You can accept gifts from anyone else, but not from any other man. Do you understand?"
Mo Ziyan stuck out her tongue and obediently nodded, "Ziyan understands."
After browsing for a while, they arrived at a jewelry store on the third floor.
Lu Pan's attention was immediately drawn to a diamond necklace displayed in the center of the hall.
He glanced at Mo Ziyan. The young girl was staring intently at the diamond necklace lying quietly in the glass display case, clearly captivated.
The sales assistant glanced at them with disdain before shifting her gaze elsewhere.
Although Lu Pan was handsome and Mo Ziyan was beautiful, their attire was too plain, making them hardly look like wealthy individuals.
Lu Pan naturally noticed the contempt and disdain in her eyes.
Mo Ziyan also snapped back to reality and looked at the price tag of the diamond necklace. She was so scared that she tugged at Lu Pan, "Pan Gege, let's go look at other stores!"
The diamond necklace was priced at 'eighty million'. Mo Ziyan couldn't even imagine it.
"Can I try on the necklace?" Lu Pan asked the sales assistant.
"Of course not!" the sales assistant immediately refused, her tone arrogant. "This is our store's treasure. Each diamond on it is worth millions. Can you afford to compensate us if it gets damaged?"
Lu Pan let out a cold snort, displeased. "You snobbish wench! Wrap it up. I'll take this diamond necklace!"
Lu Pan was too lazy to try it on. With Mo Ziyan's beauty and elegance, she could carry off any diamond necklace.
As he spoke, he directly took out a black card and placed it on the counter.
The black card looked ordinary, without any card number. Four copper coins were printed in the upper right corner.
"Pan Gege, it's too expensive. I can't accept it." Mo Ziyan was startled.
The sales assistant froze, intimidated by the aura Lu Pan exuded.
But when she picked up Lu Pan's bank card and took a look, she couldn't help but sneer. "You call me snobbish? Is this card not perhaps a membership card for a barbershop?"
The sales assistant became increasingly angry. "Don't you even look in the mirror to see your own virtue? Can you afford even one diamond on it?"
Lu Pan's face darkened. He just wanted to buy a diamond necklace, but he encountered such a snobbish sales assistant, which was truly infuriating.
"Pan Gege, let's not buy it. Ziyan doesn't like wearing necklaces." Mo Ziyan felt a bit upset listening to the sales assistant's increasingly harsh words.
The commotion here quickly attracted a crowd.
Those who could afford to shop in Hai Lan City were naturally wealthy.
Several security guards mingled with the crowd outside. If anyone had ill intentions, they would subdue them immediately.
Seeing people gathering, the sales assistant felt even more emboldened. "Everyone, please judge for yourselves. They wanted to try on our eighty-million-dollar treasure, and when I refused, they called me snobbish!"
"Swipe the card!" Lu Pan's face turned cold; he didn't want to waste any more time.
"Hmph, you're trying to fool me with a barbershop membership card, do you think I'm stupid?" The sales assistant waved Lu Pan's black card at the onlookers.
Outside the crowd, two women with distinguished temperaments happened to pass by.
One of them saw the black card in the sales assistant's hand and exclaimed in shock, "Rourou, quick, look! It's a VIP card from Sihai Money House!!"
"Huh, it really is a VIP card from Sihai Money House. In a small city like Qingcheng, to have a VIP card from Sihai Money House, and four black cards at that!"
The woman called Rourou was equally shocked.
"Rourou, are you sure? As far as I know, there are less than ten such VIP cards in the entire world!"
"I can't be wrong, unless this card is fake!"
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Inside the store.
The sales assistant was arrogant and mocking. "Fine, you want to swipe the card? I'll swipe it for you. If it doesn't go through, I'll report you for disturbing the peace in our store..."
As she spoke, the sales assistant inserted the card into the POS machine and entered a string of zeros and an eight!
Then she pressed confirm.
"Beep, card successfully swiped!"
A crisp electronic sound interrupted the sales assistant's words and echoed throughout the store.
The sales assistant was completely stunned, never expecting that the barbershop membership card in her hand could actually be swiped for eighty million!
The onlookers were also shocked. That was eighty million, swiped just like that.
When did Qingcheng get such a young tycoon?
"Wrap it up!" Lu Pan said with a cold expression.
The sales assistant shivered, her legs went weak, and she slumped to the ground.
Lu Pan frowned.
"Sir, please accept my apologies. Here is your card. Please keep it safe."
At this moment, a manager-like middle-aged man walked out of the crowd and quickly returned the card to Lu Pan.
A few minutes later, the eighty-million-dollar diamond necklace was placed in an expensive and exquisite box.
"Sir, here is your necklace. In addition, we are gifting you an SVIP card. From now on, all your purchases in our store will be 30% off. Please keep it safe."
The middle-aged man's face was full of smiles as he bowed deeply to Lu Pan and Mo Ziyan.
Lu Pan took the item and left with Mo Ziyan.
As soon as they walked out of the store, he threw the so-called SVIP card into the nearby trash can.
The manager saw this and gave an awkward smile.
Mo Ziyan felt as if she was dreaming, never expecting Lu Pan to actually spend eighty million on a diamond necklace for her.
"Pan Gege, this thing is too precious..."