latelenovela Chapter 156 Taking Down the White Pearl
Chapter 156 Taking Down the White Pearl
"Xiaoyuan, will you be my girlfriend?" Shen Lian suddenly asked as they walked along the river embankment after dinner.
"Mmm!" Wang Xiaoyuan covered her mouth and nodded vigorously. Tears streamed freely down her cheeks.
"Look at you, why are you crying? Your makeup is ruined!" Shen Lian pulled the girl into his arms. A wave of guilt washed over him.
He already had three women over there, which was very unfair to Wang Xiaoyuan. But he still had his parents here, and he hadn't been home for years; he should go back and give them some comfort.
I don't have time to look for other women right now, and I've known Wang Xiaoyuan for two or three years. To be honest, girls like her are rare these days.
She's gentle, beautiful, quiet, family-oriented, and has no bad habits. Marrying her would definitely make you a virtuous wife and loving mother, and your parents would certainly like you too.
It's just a pity that I can only spend a few days a year with her, which is a bit cruel to her.
"Xiaoyuan, you know my situation. I might not have much time to spend with you at all. You need to think this through!" Shen Lian patted Wang Xiaoyuan on the back.
"I know, Brother Shen, I don't mind! I'm willing to do anything as long as I can be with you," Wang Xiaoyuan murmured sweetly, nestled in Shen Lian's arms.
"Alright! I just hope you won't regret it later!" Shen Lian hugged her small waist tightly.
The two returned to the hotel, and Wang Xiaoyuan, her pretty face slightly flushed, followed Shen Lian into the room.
Seeing the little girl standing helplessly by the bed, head bowed, Shen Lian smiled wickedly. He stepped forward and gently pulled her into his arms.
Wang Xiaoyuan lowered her head slightly, her hair falling across her forehead, concealing her momentary shyness. As each button was undone, her clothes slowly slid off her shoulders, like a blooming petal swaying gently in the breeze.
The exposed skin shone with a soft glow under the light, like a white pearl enveloped in a faint halo.
Shen Lian's movements were gentle yet resolute, as if he were performing a silent art piece.
She truly lives up to her name; her skin is as white as snow. Her face is round and round...
Shen Lian watched this scene greedily, his throat bobbing. Wang Xiaoyuan's face was burning with shame; her eyes were tightly closed, her long eyelashes trembling, just like her feelings at that moment.
Last night, the crabapple blossoms were touched by the rain, a few delicate and graceful blooms seemed to whisper secrets. At dawn, a beautiful woman rose from her boudoir, picked a few blossoms, and admired them before the mirror, comparing them to her own beauty.
She asked her lover if the flower was more beautiful than her face. He replied that the flower was more graceful. The beauty, hearing this, feigned anger, saying she didn't believe a dead flower could surpass a living person.
I crush the flowers and throw them before my lover, asking him to sleep with the flowers tonight.
The east wind at night releases a thousand trees of blossoms, and blows down stars like rain.
The next day, Shen Lian took Wang Xiaoyuan and Li Xiao on a direct flight to Hong Kong Island.
This was Shen Lian's first time here, and it wasn't as bustling as he had imagined. It even seemed inferior to some of China's top-tier cities. The roads were narrow, and the buildings were towering.
However, many of the high-rise buildings are already dilapidated and worn. There are also many old buildings along the roadside.
The company car took the three directly to the hotel and arranged their accommodations. The three then went to the company for a look around.
Actually, the company is just a small trading company with only two or three people, renting an office building. They don't have much business on a regular basis; they mainly purchase precious metals in batches.
In the vault beneath the office building, Shen Lian found what he wanted.
More than two tons of gold bars and more than forty tons of silver bricks!
Shen Lian merely glanced at it and that was it. He possessed countless treasures in his spatial storage; this small amount of gold and silver was nothing to him.
Wang Xiaoyuan was taken aback; she had never seen so much gold and silver before, nor had she expected Shen Lian to be so powerful.
The three left the vault and returned to the hotel. Shen Lian asked Li Xiao for the key and password. The boss had been doing this for years, so Li Xiao didn't ask any further questions.
Over the next two days, Shen Lian accompanied Wang Xiaoyuan on a leisurely tour of Hong Kong Island. It's a shopping paradise; many things are cheaper than in mainland China. The two naturally indulged in a shopping spree.
Shen Lian found an opportunity to go to the vault and store all the gold and silver into his spatial storage, and then took more than twenty oil paintings and put them inside.
Jason helped them collect most of these oil paintings, while others were gifts from envoys from various countries.
Knowing that Shen Lian liked Western oil paintings, these people would often come over and give him some. Shen Lian's mansion already has several hundred paintings.
These twenty-odd paintings were specially selected by Shen Lian, and each one is a work by top masters such as Monet and Van Gogh. At current market prices, each one is worth hundreds of millions of RMB.
Once this batch of paintings is auctioned off, the proceeds will be converted into gold and silver. Shen Lian estimates that he should be financially secure then!
With only a few days left until the Lunar New Year, Shen Lian, after settling matters regarding the oil painting, took Wang Xiaoyuan on a flight from Hong Kong Island, transiting through Shanghai, and directly returned to his hometown in Hunan Province.
Wang Xiaoyuan was more than willing to let Shen Lian take her back to his hometown. She bought a lot of gifts, intending to please Shen Lian's parents.
As he walked out of the airport in Shashi, his Maybach had already been specially driven back and was waiting for him at the airport.
The two loaded their luggage into the car and sent the driver away. Shen Lian drove straight home; he hadn't been home for several years, and he was still a little excited.
Especially after experiencing so much during the Qing Dynasty, his nerves were constantly on edge. Only by returning to his hometown, where he grew up, could he truly relax.
More than an hour later, the car arrived at his hometown town, which was already past four in the afternoon.
Shen Lian didn't linger in town and drove straight to the countryside. His hometown was only four or five kilometers from the town, and now the roads were all paved with cement, so it only took a few minutes to get there.
At the village entrance, Shen Lian slowed down. Under the centuries-old locust tree at the village entrance, there was a small shop where a group of uncles, grandpas, and aunties were gathered around a stove, warming themselves and chatting.
"Hey, Shen Lian's back? We heard you've made a fortune these past few years, but we didn't believe it. Now you're driving such a nice car." An old man in his sixties looked up and saw Shen Lian, and immediately greeted him.
"Third Master, how are you feeling?" Shen Lian stopped the car and took out two packs of cigarettes from the glove compartment.
"Good, good, good! What's wrong with that? These days, all we do is eat and sleep, sleep and eat. How could it not be good! Haha!"
"Sanwazi, is this your new wife? This girl is really pretty!" a slightly plump middle-aged woman asked with a smile.
"Second Aunt, you still look so young after all these years! Has Xiao Dong gone home?"
"You're old, how can you still be young! Xiao Dong said he's going home for the New Year, but I don't know when he'll be back!" Hearing Shen Lian praise her for looking young, Second Aunt's plump face beamed with joy.
Shen Lian didn't dare to be careless at all. This second aunt was notoriously shrewish, and no one in the village dared to mess with her.
She's the kind of person who can yell at you for three days and three nights straight without stopping, and she never repeats herself.