The Billionaire's Hidden Affection-Chapter 499 - 496 Honey, Give me a hug 4_1

Xu Xiaoya said, "This isn’t really a one-bedroom apartment, is it? Xixi, are you sure it’s only fifty to sixty square meters? It seems to me like it’s eighty or ninety. Don’t you see that this place is nearly twice the size of our sixty-square-meter, two-bedroom apartment?"

Property developers often have a buy-one-get-one-free campaign, but what they are usually giving away is vertical space—an extremely high ceiling, which might allow for a small loft. They don’t typically give away this much flat area.

Eighty or ninety square meters might not sound like much, but for a one-bedroom apartment, it certainly looked spacious.

Only now did Yan Xixi understand: the bedroom, connected to the study which also featured a terrace, already amounted to forty or fifty square meters. Not to mention the large living room, dining room, kitchen, and bathroom.

Technically, the deed stated fifty square meters, probably with an extra "gift" of fifty square meters—

The apartment was specially decorated like a model unit, built with great effort. All materials used were top-grade and eco-friendly. None of this, of course, implied that the developer had a sudden change of heart, offering quality assurance and such a generous deal. And certainly, this wasn’t due to a sudden drop in housing prices.

The money came from Wan Donglin.

Her meager down payment of one hundred thousand yuan barely covered a fraction of the decoration expenses, let alone the purchase of the apartment.

Even the furniture was included—all part of the promotion, the sales lady had explained. Since it was a special offer, they decided to go all the way, leaving everything as a living advertisement.

So, it wasn’t the property developer who played Santa Claus—it was Wan Donglin.

She blinked her eyes in utter confusion. How could this be?

Xu Xiaoya, too, had been puzzled. "The Third Young Master came all the way to the shop to ask about your situation," she had once remarked to Xixi. "How could he not contact you? It’s simply unbelievable!"

The "uncouth man" was in touch every day—so there was no need for Wan Donglin to do the same.

Looking back now, he must have known my every move from the beginning.

"Uncouth man, my job is amazing, I make tens of thousands a month..."

"Uncouth man, I’ve been promoted. My female boss is a very lovely old lady with great demeanor, and she’s very fond of me. I’m so lucky..."

"Uncouth man, today I officially visited my boyfriend’s home for the first time. His parents gave me ten thousand yuan in a red envelope, implying that I am one in ten thousand..."

"Uncouth man, there’s this disgusting, fat guy, I’m going to destroy him..."

"Uncouth man, a young scapegrace is threatening me, wanting me to accompany him. I must teach him a lesson..."

"Uncouth man, I quarreled with my boyfriend’s mother again today. I don’t know how to deal with her. She thinks I’m not good enough for her son..."

"Uncouth man, they beat me... SOB SOB SOB... they beat me..."

So, it turned out, I was the one who had told him everything personally. Everything about my work and life, whether it was about the unpleasantly fat Liang Sheng or that young scapegrace Wang Xiaohao; whether it was about reopening my store or my repeated conflicts with Huang’s mother... I trusted him so implicitly that I told him everything, holding nothing back, down to the smallest detail.

So, was that why I had such an ample supply of goods when I opened my store? Why my accounts were always well-funded? Why a handbag I’d ordered but then decided against could be sold for seven hundred thousand, its original price?

And was that why, after the incident with Wang Xiaohao, he had arrived so quickly?

She even grew wary. Just a few days after Liang Sheng caused me trouble, he was investigated. Huang Ying had clapped her hands in delight at the time, praising the heavens for punishing the wicked—but could Wan Donglin have secretly helped then too?