Yang Hao was quite satisfied with the reactions of the two. The basic monthly salary at the front desk of the fitness center was only three or four thousand yuan. It was unrealistic to expect them to devote all their energy to work with that kind of pay, and a little slacking off when there was nothing pressing was fine. However, they must be enthusiastic when customers arrived or departed in order to provide a good service experience.
Of course, the front desk employees at the fitness center didn't just earn a base salary; they also received a commission for signing up new members. Regardless of whose customers they were, if a customer opened an annual membership card at the center, the front desk staff got a fifty-yuan commission, split between the two of them, with each receiving twenty-five yuan.
Plus, the front desk could also pull in their own friends and relatives to sign up for gym memberships, and any sales commission from those would be theirs to keep.
All in all, when it came to a fitness center, essentially all employees were in sales.
"Yang, let's go."
Sun Xinyi emerged from the staircase, now in casual attire. She wore a cropped denim jacket over a white workout tank top, revealing her slender waist, and paired it with jeans of the same casual design as her jacket. Although the jeans weren't of a slim fit, her long legs still managed to catch attention unavoidably.
Previously, dressed in workout gear, Sun Xinyi looked alluring and sexy. Now, in her casual outfit, she exuded a vivacious and cheerful vibe.
"Sure, let's go."
Yang Hao smiled and nodded, then the two of them walked out of the fitness center amid the shocked stares of Yu Lili and Zhou Ling.
"Tsk, tsk, I thought she was so high and mighty!"
"A hundred private training sessions just swayed her!!"
As soon as the two left, Yu Lili immediately started griping.
"I thought Sun Xinyi was fishing for a big boss!"
"Who'd have thought she'd be won over by a hundred classes!" Zhou Ling chimed in with agreement.
"That's how it is, there's no such thing as an innocent Little White Flower, it's just that the stakes weren't high enough."
Yu Lili pursed her lips slightly. While disparaging Sun Xinyi, she felt a twinge of envy. If someone had spent over thirty thousand on her the first time they met, she probably wouldn't have been able to resist either.
"Lili, where do you think they're going?"
Zhou Ling asked, her face full of gossip.
"Where else can they go, off to a hotel!"
"It's just the right time for a break!"
Yu Lili glanced at the time—it was exactly half-past eleven.
"Ah, if you hadn't mentioned the break, I would have forgotten. What should we have for lunch today..."
For someone like Zhou Ling, an ordinary wage earner, lunch was the second most anticipated thing of the day, the first being the end of the workday.
She opened the "Hungry?" app to browse. As someone who ordered takeout frequently, she alternated between "Hungry?" and "Kangaroo Group," using whichever had a coupon available.
Yu Lili, who had initially wanted to gossip some more, saw her foodie colleague already picking out takeout and leaned over, "Let's order together, we can save more with a group discount."
"Mm-hmm..."
"Lili, how about spicy hot pot today?"
Zhou Ling looked at the attractive pictures of the food and swallowed hard.
"Sure, but make it mildly spicy."
"Mm-hmm..."
Zhou Ling nodded and began to place the order.
Meanwhile, Xu Linxuan, who had finished swimming, walked over from the swimming area.
"Lili, was that Sun Xinyi who just left?"
Xu Linxuan had caught a glimpse of Sun Xinyi leaving with Yang Hao from the corner of his eye while he was in the pool and hurried over to inquire.
"Yep."
"Sun Xinyi has gone off with Yang!"
Yu Lili's lips curled slightly, feeling a bit of schadenfreude seeing this man's disappointment.
"She got snatched away just like that..."
Xu Linxuan looked disheartened and even felt a pang in his chest,
Damn, if I had known a hundred private sessions would do the trick, I would have topped up fifty more!
Xu Linxuan regretted it to his core.
"Yang really goes for it with a hundred private sessions. Not just Sun Xinyi, but I bet none of the female instructors in our gym could withstand that!"
Yu Lili continued to twist the knife.
But what she said was also true. Her roommate Meng Yuyu, for example, wouldn't be able to resist. It's not that she would give herself up right away, but a sweetener for sure.
Xu Linxuan didn't engage further, silently returning to the swimming area, then directly to the men's changing room. He had no mood to exercise anymore that day.
Outside the store.
Sun Xinyi looked at the electric scooter in front of her, somewhat bemused.
She expected that a man who could nonchalantly purchase a hundred personal training sessions would at least drive some BBA.
Turned out, not even a four-wheeled vehicle, let alone a BBA!
The man actually rode an electric scooter.
Alright, the rich and low-profile type!
Having worked in the fitness industry for a few years, Sun Xinyi had come across quite a few rich people, some of whom were very understated.
Bro must live around here, she thought. Riding an electric scooter really is much more convenient than driving.
"Riding the electric scooter might be a bit cold, so wrap yourself with the jacket," Yang offered.
Yang Hao took off his jacket for Sun Xinyi, whose short denim jacket and fitness tank top both left her slender waist exposed. The temperature outside was 12 degrees, and riding an electric bike in that weather was quite chilly.
"No need, I can hide behind you, and the wind won't hit me."
"And it takes at most five minutes to ride the electric bike to Starlight City."
Sun Xinyi smiled and pushed the jacket back to him. Underneath his jacket, Yang Hao was wearing a plaid shirt, which would naturally provide little protection against the wind while riding.
"Alright then."
Yang Hao didn't insist, knowing that the distance really wasn't far.
He put his jacket back on and took out a pink helmet from under the electric bike's seat, prepared for Xixi, and handed it to Sun Xinyi: "It's my daughter's, might be a bit small."
"No problem, it's quite cute!"
Sun Xinyi took the helmet and put it on her head.
But inside, she felt a little ripple of emotion.
So this Yang was a father, meaning he was also a family man.
In truth, Sun Xinyi had never intended to actually start something with Yang Hao. She just thought he was a rich man who was also very upright, and that making a friend like him would be nice.
However, what she hadn't realized was that the accumulation of favorable impressions over time had subconsciously made her consider him a potential romantic prospect.
Therefore, when he candidly revealed that he had a daughter, she felt a tiny twinge of disappointment.
She had fantasized about what her future partner would look like, but had never considered walking in the door and becoming someone's stepmother right away!
Moreover, this Yang might still have a wife.
Sigh~
Thinking too much.
It's just a friendship!
Sun Xinyi gathered her wandering thoughts and swung her long legs over to mount the back seat of the electric bike.
"Sit tight."
Yang Hao reminded her, then twisted the throttle, and the electric bike headed towards Starlight City against the cold wind of late February.
However, seated at the back, Sun Xinyi underestimated the chilling cold the wind carried, and once the bike started moving, she felt her abdomen and even her chest getting terribly cold...
Suddenly, she remembered some sleazy nicknames often used in games: "Grandma's chill from the wind."
Arggh, it's truly cold!
Reacting instinctively, Sun Xinyi moved her butt forward a bit, then clung tightly to Yang Hao's barrel-like waist.
And as their bodies pressed together, Sun Xinyi instantly felt much warmer.
There's no underestimating a fat guy at critical moments: a real windbreak!
Yang Hao, weighing 191 pounds, stood in front of Sun Xinyi like an imposing mountain, shielding her from the chill.
Before long, they reached the crossroads outside Starlight City, where the traffic was heavier, and Yang Hao's electric bike had to stop at the pedestrian crossing, waiting for the red light.
The male drivers sitting in their cars, also waiting for the red light, stared as soon as they saw Sun Xinyi on the back of the electric bike.
Shouldn't a top-notch beauty like her be seated in the passenger seat of a luxury car??
A man who liked to shoot videos even took out his phone to record a clip, then skillfully posted it to his Kuaiyin account, selecting the recently popular song "Actually, There Was Nothing at All" as background music, with the caption: I smoked a whole pack and still couldn't figure out where I went wrong.
Unaware of this, Yang Hao and Sun Xinyi waited for the green light, then he twisted the throttle and drove the electric bike straight to the bike shed next to Starlight City's side entrance.
"Are you frozen?"
After locking the bike, Yang Hao looked at Sun Xinyi with a touch of guilt. It was rare for such a beautiful woman to sit on an electric bike and bear the cold wind with him.
After all, a beauty of her level could easily ride in the passenger seat of a luxury car if she were a little tricky.
It seemed that the character of this beautiful coach was quite good.
"It's not cold, with you blocking the wind!"
Sun Xinyi smiled, though in truth, the sides of her slender waist had turned red from the cold breeze, but she couldn't say that directly.
And as Yang Hao bent down to put the helmet back in the under-seat storage space, he just happened to see the redness on Sun Xinyi's waist from the cold wind, and immediately felt guilty.
Ding!
Triggering random mission: [Tycoon's Guilt]
As a tycoon, you cannot let the woman following you suffer materially.
Mission content: Give Sun Xinyi a gift that satisfies her.
Mission reward: a BYD Han EV U8.
Just as Yang Hao was about to walk into the mall, the system prompt once again resounded in his mind.
He hesitated slightly to step forward, and then a look of joy appeared on his face.
Talk about speaking of the devil!
The BYD Han EV U8, a top-of-the-line domestic luxury car priced at 1.09 million yuan!
When the price was announced, there was ridicule all over the internet, with influencers swearing the car wouldn't sell over three hundred units in a year.
Yet, after a month and a half on the market, the Han EV U8 had delivered over four hundred units and had more than thirty thousand backorders.
You mock someone for spending a million on a BYD, they mock you for not understanding the art of pretending to be rich.
Those who spend over a million on Mercedes or BMW are considered merely wealthy, but those who spend that much on a BYD are truly tycoons!
Since it was a workday, the mall wasn't very crowded.
Sun Xinyi, who knew the place like the back of her hand, led Yang Hao to the light food restaurant on the fourth floor.
She ordered a poached beef salad set meal for Yang Hao and a mixed grain roll with baked chicken breast for herself.
People on a fat-reduction phase are not supposed to refrain from eating meat entirely; they need to be selective. High-protein meats with low fat content, like chicken, beef, and shrimp, are all perfectly fine to consume.
However, beef and shrimp are relatively expensive, so chicken breast, which offers the best value for money, is preferred, even if it doesn't taste as good.
These days people pay more and more attention to body management, which is why many light food restaurants do well. Their clientele mostly comprises young women and white-collar workers who are willing to spend money, and their average customer spend is much higher than that of ordinary fast-food restaurants.
Take the two set meals that Sun Xinyi ordered as an example. Yang Hao's beef salad set cost 42 yuan, while her mixed grain chicken set was 28 yuan. They also ordered two cups of corn juice at 8 yuan each, totaling 86 yuan for an ordinary light meal for two.
Since Sun Xinyi had insisted on treating him, Yang didn't fight her for the bill. Mainly, he had a task to complete later, and it was the perfect excuse to reciprocate with a gift after Sun Xinyi's lunch treat, without it seeming too abrupt.
The lunch went very pleasantly. Both had cheerful personalities, and Yang, with over a decade of culinary experience, was expert at socializing.
During their conversation, he was in fact leading most of the time, talking within his comfort zone, which made him appear knowledgeable and well-informed.
"If you're not in a hurry to get back, why don't you join me for a bit? I'd like to buy a couple of outfits for working out," Yang spoke up as they walked out of the light food restaurant.
"Sure, I'm not in any rush," Sun Xinyi replied with a smile, nodding her head. After this lunch, she felt she understood the man who had bought a hundred sessions of personal training from her much better. He seemed composed, yet he was also humorous, knowledgeable, and carried the charm of a mature man. Sun Xinyi felt quite relaxed in his company and didn't mind the idea of shopping together; in fact, she was somewhat looking forward to it.
The two of them wandered down from the fourth floor back to the first. Starlight City was a mid-to-high-end mall with some luxury brands, which were all located in the best spots on the first floor.
Such as the well-known LV, Prada, Cartier...
While strolling through the mall, Yang was silently noting where Sun Xinyi's gaze lingered. The task given by the system was to give her a gift that would please her; it couldn't be just anything—it had to be something she liked.
Sun Xinyi was much like most girls; she spent a little more time looking at women's clothing and handbags. Yet, nothing seemed to hold her gaze for more than five seconds as they walked.
This meant that she was only somewhat interested in those items, without a particular fondness for any.
It was only when they passed Prada that Yang noticed Sun Xinyi's attention stayed on a specific shoulder bag in the display window for a long time, even giving it a sidelong glance after they had walked past.
It was a Prada patent leather handbag, likely a new release not long on the market, otherwise it wouldn't have been positioned in the most prominent display window.
"My sister has a birthday next month, and she's about your age. Would you help me choose a gift?" Yang stopped in his tracks, turned around, and walked back to the Prada store they had just passed. His excuse wasn't fabricated—Li Manni's birthday really was on March 11th, just 12 days away.
Sun Xinyi hesitated for a moment before hurrying after him.
"Miss, what do you need? Let me introduce you to some items," the female sales associate offered helpfully. Although Sun Xinyi entered the store after Yang, the saleswoman clearly understood who had the purchasing power. She knew the tall, attractive woman was the key decision-maker for this shopping venture, while the man walking ahead would only be paying the bill.
There was no helping it; saleswomen like her saw these kinds of pairs all too often. The man, clearly in his thirties, was tall but slightly portly, and couldn't exactly be described as handsome.
Whereas Sun Xinyi, only in her twenties, had both the looks and the figure. If the two were shopping together, it surely boiled down to financial calculations!
Of course, the female sales associate did not completely neglect Yang Hao; she had greeted him, after all. He was here to spend, even though his wallet didn't seem very bulging. He was dressed too ordinarily, with nothing on his wrist.
The ability of the luxury store clerks to "judge a book by its cover" was very strong, but here the term wasn't meant as a derogatory one, but rather as a skill.
The kind of scene from internet novels where a nerd in cheap streetwear is looked down upon in a luxury store, then turns around and buys a ton to prove a point, almost never happens in reality.
The consumer group for luxury goods, even if they dress down, still has a distinctive aura, which the experienced clerks can easily discern.
Moreover, luxury store clerks undergo rigorous training. Even if you are dressed shabbily, they would not mock and scoff as described in the novels.
"Yang, what do you want to get for your sister?"
Sun Xinyi asked Yang Hao.
"Maybe a bag. She's doing an internship at the TV station, and it could come in handy," Yang Hao replied casually.
The sales associate, hearing their conversation, quickly grasped the situation. It seemed that the beautiful woman was accompanying the man to buy a gift for his sister. However, based on her experience, the man was most likely just using an excuse, and the gift would probably end up with the beautiful woman.
"Miss, take a look over here, these are all new models," the sales associate said with a smile, pointing in the direction of the display window.
"Yang, how old is your sister?" Sun Xinyi asked again.
"About your age," Yang Hao replied.
Upon hearing this, the sales associate was even more convinced of her judgement. Old men like to play these little games, buying something and then gifting it to the beauty to win her favor.
"Actually, these new bags are all quite suitable for a young lady of your age..."
The sales associate first gave Yang Hao a look as if to say "I've seen through your act," then proceeded to introduce Sun Xinyi to several bags in the display window.
Yang Hao stood by silently, quickly checking the price tags on those bags. The cheaper ones were over sixteen thousand, and the expensive ones over forty thousand, but the handbag that Sun Xinyi liked was priced at twenty-six thousand, all within his budget, considering he still had two hundred and ten thousand from the cashback in his bank account.
Outside the store.
Li Manshu and Shen Mingshan had just finished eating on the fourth floor. The employees of Bright Advertising, where they both worked, were located near Starlight City in the Starshine Building, so many white-collar workers who worked in the Starshine Building would come to Starlight City for lunch.
Moments later, as the two walked past the prada specialty store, Li Manshu glanced inside out of habit. She had had her eye on a particular bag for a while but hadn't had the nerve to ask Shen Mingshan for it, waiting for the right moment—after all, it was priced at over thirty thousand.
Currently, she was still in her pretense stage, managing a persona of a gambling addict husband who abused her, and herself as a victim of marriage, not wanting to give the impression that she cared too much about money.
Yet the moment she looked inside the store, she froze because she saw her recently ex-husband, Yang Hao, with a tall, young, beautiful girl by his side.
This...
What was going on???
Li Manshu's brain crashed instantly. Her down-and-out ex-husband appeared in the prada store, accompanied by a young, attractive woman!
She must have eaten too much and was having hallucinations!
Li Manshu closed her eyes tightly and then opened them again. But the two people were still there...
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