Chapter 60

When Wen Jiu stepped into the snow mountain theme park in the middle of blazing summer and saw the ski slopes blanketed in snow, her jaw dropped.
She’d never even seen a natural ski resort before, let alone an off-season indoor one like this.
The frugality engraved into her DNA immediately kicked in.
Clicking her tongue, Wen Jiu marveled at how much electricity this place must burn through every single summer day.
The Young lady glanced sideways at her. “Go out with me more often. Don’t act like you’ve never seen anything.”
Wen Jiu nodded belatedly.
The Young lady always delivered the best gifts, wrapped in words that sounded sharp on the surface.
The Young lady really was amazing.
Wen Jiu let out a silly little laugh.
The Young lady caught sight of her smile, expression unreadable, and quickened her pace.
Skiing required proper equipment.
The two of them had entered empty-handed, carrying nothing at all, so naturally, they headed straight to the shop.
There were options to rent or buy.
The Young lady, of course, refused to wear anything previously used. She dragged Wen Jiu along and bought an entirely new set.
While paying, she casually signed Wen Jiu up for all the lessons on the counter as well, swiping her card and sending several extra zeros flying away.
Wen Jiu didn’t catch the exact number. She only knew that when she turned around, she locked eyes with a coach.
Standing before her were five towering instructors.
Each one was built like a giant, tall, powerfully muscled, vitality practically bursting even beneath their ski suits.
“These are the coaches I hired for you,” the Young lady said. “All five of them will teach you how to ski and take you out to play.”
In romance stories, the male lead personally teaches the female lead. If the heroine is smart, they become a graceful, inseparable pair gliding across the snow. If she’s a bit dense, it turns into sweet fluff between a clueless beauty and a scheming male lead.
The Young lady feared the latter most. Afraid she’d lose her temper and chase Wen Jiu down in frustration, she simply hired five coaches instead.
In her worldview, any problem that could be solved with money wasn’t a problem at all.
Wen Jiu: “……”
They looked so solid. If she failed to learn, they wouldn’t hit her, right?
As they left the shop, Wen Jiu happened to glance at the price list.
One coach cost 2,500 per hour… in local currency.
Walking along, she counted silently on her fingers.
That converted to about 1,250 RMB per hour. Five coaches meant 6,250 per hour. And the Young lady had paid upfront, meaning she probably hadn’t even checked how many hours were booked.
Wen Jiu straightened her posture and stretched.
She absolutely could not let the Young lady waste that coaching fee. She had to learn properly.
Because of the advance, and excessive, payment, everything after counted as tips. The five coaches taught Wen Jiu with exceptional dedication.
They even provided complimentary sweet talk and gentle support, helping her up whenever she fell, so tender it sharply contrasted with their massive physiques.
The coaches the Young lady chose weren’t just tall, they were good-looking too. Unlike the stereotypical pale Western pretty boys, these men were like chocolate infused with nuts: not fully dark-skinned, but rich and warm in tone. Deep-set features, eyes that smiled with effortless affection, like honeyed hot cocoa, sweet enough to drown someone in.
Wen Jiu, however, was completely absorbed in skiing, determined not to waste the coaching fee.
The coaches were basically flirting with a blind woman.
The livestream audience couldn’t feel the artificial snow, so skiing itself lacked realism. Their curiosity quickly shifted to the five handsome instructors.
The ski slope couldn’t be touched, but those smiles were very real.
Viewers who understood English screamed. Those who didn’t screamed even louder, because not understanding made the language sound absurdly seductive.
Spotting the real hotspot, the director instructed the cameramen to film the five coaches more, while Wen Jiu, earnestly practicing skiing, slid around in the background, briefly becoming the video’s unofficial watermark.
[Wen Jiu, LOOK at the hot guys! Stop messing with your stupid skis! Can’t you ski back home in winter?!]
[Once you leave the country, you won’t find this type anymore! Wen Jiu, interact with them!!!]
I’m so anxious watching this, I want to possess Wen Jiu’s body and grab one coach with my left hand and another with my right. Those pecs look solid, slurp.]
[This reminds me of how miserable it was teaching myself to ski. Sob. The Young lady is way too good to Wen Jiu.]
Amid the barrage of comments fixated on the coaches, Wen Jiu finally learned how to ski.
The moment she glided down, the wind lifted her hair.
Spotting the Young lady nearby, Wen Jiu shouted excitedly, “Ahhh, Young lady! I learned how to ski! Look at me!”
Pah!
Overconfident, Wen Jiu dove straight into the snow.
The coaches rushed over immediately. Several of them surrounded her, leaving only a single booted foot visible to the audience.
[Everyone knows what I’m about to say.]
[Hehehe.]
[Sisters, even though we’re online, your accounts are still your own, maybe put some pants back on.]
The Young lady covered her mouth, laughing. “Get up already. Don’t lie there.”
Wen Jiu raised one hand, muffled in the snow. “This place doesn’t allow sleeping, I’m getting up right now!”
With five gold-medal coaches guiding her, Wen Jiu finally mastered skiing and even brushed the edges of freestyle.
She couldn’t pull off tricks yet, so she obediently stuck to the basics.
The snow mountain theme park lived up to its name; skiing wasn’t the only attraction.
After changing out of her gear, Wen Jiu followed the Young lady to interact with penguins.
“Do you like them?” the Young lady asked.
“I do.” Penguins didn’t open their mouths, waddled as they walked, and were fluffy all over, adorable no matter how you looked at them.
“If you like them, I’ll raise one for you when we get back.”
“You can raise one?!” Wen Jiu froze, stunned as she found her voice again.
Aren’t penguins protected animals?
Young lady, don’t go down the villainess route!
“What are you thinking?” The Young lady tapped Wen Jiu’s forehead. “Zoo animals can be sponsored. I’ll adopt one in your name, keep it at the zoo. You can visit whenever you want. You can’t take it home, but touching and playing with it is fine.”
Wen Jiu had no idea how much sponsorship cost, this entire concept was new to her.
She blinked rapidly, cupping her hands over her heart. “Why are you so good to me? I like you so much, Young lady.”
The Young lady reached out again and pushed her lightly. “If I treat you better, you won’t get tricked away by someone else just because they’re a little nice to you.”
Far away, on the other side of the continent, Shen Xingzhou sneezed twice in a row.
He was watching Wen Jiu’s livestream.
Hearing the Young lady’s words, delayed by two minutes, he finally understood why.
Shen Xingzhou: “……”
After leaving the Dubai ski park, the Young lady took Wen Jiu to the desert to watch the sunset and stars.
Wen Jiu had once said deserts were too hot, so she hadn’t chosen this attraction. She’d said it casually, but the Young lady remembered.
They checked into a desert hotel.
Standalone villas in the heart of the desert, each with its own private pool.
When Wen Jiu saw rippling water and golden sand in the same frame, it felt like it exceeded her understanding of nature itself.
No wonder Dubai’s tourism industry was such a massive economic pillar, every project reeked of money.
Having seen so much extravagant spending by the Young lady, Wen Jiu even felt that a 10,000-yuan-per-night hotel was cheap.
She pressed a hand to her chest and took a moment.
She couldn’t let herself get carried away like this.
In the evening, the Young lady took her out to play.
They could interact with wild animals, creatures Wen Jiu had only ever seen on TV before, like gazelles and camels.
Camels could even be ridden.
Wen Jiu sat on one shakily, barely daring to move.
Once she steadied herself and sat upright, she saw the Young lady already waiting calmly ahead.
The sun was setting, evening clouds filling the sky.
Looking out, the desert stretched endlessly; looking up, vibrant clouds layered one after another.
Nature’s beauty always carried a breathtaking intensity.
Wen Jiu turned to call the Young lady, only to see her holding a camera she had no idea where it came from, taking photos.
Instinctively, Wen Jiu flashed a “V” sign.
The blazing sunset and desert became her backdrop.
The finished photos weren’t visible yet, but even the livestream captured that fleeting moment.
The Young lady put the camera away. “I’ll show you later.”
As the camels were led forward, they experienced a different kind of walk through the desert.
The two of them, framed together, formed a unique atmosphere all their own.
[So beautiful… I hope I can watch a desert sunset someday too.]
[Wow, where did the Young lady even get that camera? I swear her hands were empty just now.]
[I’m so envious of Wen Jiu and the Young lady’s friendship.]
[Forget the Young lady’s wealth, just the fact that she’s willing to run around, play, and have fun with Wen Jiu like this… isn’t that already incredible? If I start wishing now, do I still have a chance to meet a Young lady like her?]
[This scene is so beautiful. Screenshot taken.]
After watching the sunset, the Young Lady took Wen Jiu back to the hotel for dinner.
Dinner was served course by course, each dish individually plated.
The entire meal took nearly an hour from start to finish.
When night fell, simply looking up from within the hotel revealed a sky full of stars.
Still, viewing them from inside the hotel couldn’t compare to seeing them directly in the desert.
The Young Lady personally drove an off-road vehicle, taking Wen Jiu back into the desert to stargaze.
Above them, the Milky Way flowed endlessly, the bright moon hanging high in the sky.
The temperature difference between day and night in the desert was extreme. Wen Jiu wrapped her coat tighter around herself and jumped out of the car.
Stepping off the road and onto the sand, her feet sank into the soft ground, while above her stretched an ocean of stars.
[Ahhh, staying up late really pays off. It’s so beautiful!]
[This is exactly the kind of night sky I used to see in the countryside when I was little! Too bad urbanization ruined it, stars like this are impossible to see now.]
Just when the audience thought the desert journey had ended and everyone was feeling deeply satisfied, the Young Lady took Wen Jiu straight to Antarctica.
In August, Antarctica had a very high chance of blizzards. It was winter there, days of continuous darkness.
They landed directly on ice and snow and would take off again from the same place two days later.
After sleeping and eating on the plane, Wen Jiu finally disembarked. When her feet touched the ground and the icy wind rushed toward her, it all felt slightly unreal.
In an instant, she had gone from the scorching desert to the frozen South Pole, from summer straight into winter.
Fortunately, the weather had been relatively good these past few days, with no snowfall.
Wen Jiu took a few more steps forward, carefully sensing the unfamiliar ground beneath her feet.
The boots the Young Lady had prepared were extremely thick, so thick that she couldn’t feel any cold coming up from the ground at all.
After walking a couple of steps, she started running, hopping and jumping across the ice.
This place was simply incredible.
Wen Jiu looked around, and her luck was astonishing. She actually saw the aurora.
“Young Lady, look!”
The wind was too strong; voices were swallowed up almost instantly.
Wen Jiu had no choice but to move closer and shout beside her.
When she looked up, she was greeted by breathtaking streams of light, shimmering ribbons sweeping across the sky in overlapping blues and greens.
Under the glow, the snow-covered mountains were dyed with luminous color.
This was a kind of beauty belonging solely to nature, one that photos and videos could never fully capture.
The livestream audience was equally awestruck.
[I’ve been to Antarctica before, but never flown directly in. Ships can’t get in this season, and chartering a plane like this is incredibly rare.]
[It’s so beautiful. I really don’t want this show to end. I want Wen Jiu and the Young Lady to keep taking us around the world.]
No matter how beautiful Antarctica was, seasonal limitations meant Wen Jiu and the Young Lady couldn’t stay long.
For the Young Lady, and for Wen Jiu now, coming here wasn’t particularly difficult. They could always return in the future.
Two days later, the two left Antarctica. The moment they arrived back in Nancheng, My Besties officially came to an end.
September arrived, and shortly after came the official premiere of the Young Lady’s highly anticipated drama, The Rich Family.
The post-production had been completed astonishingly fast, thanks entirely to Chu Wen, the ultimate workaholic, who had been pulling all-nighters nonstop.
It was a modern drama with no need for special effects. The male actors had all been chosen by the audience, and the actresses were all well-maintained with excellent professionalism. No filters were needed throughout, greatly reducing the workload.
Opinions about The Rich Family varied wildly online. Yet on the night of its premiere, even those who claimed they wouldn’t watch still found themselves sitting in front of the TV.
If nothing else, the male cast alone, personally voted in by the audience, was reason enough to tune in.
Whether they liked the show or not, no one could deny how much effort had gone into the voting during that month-long selection.
Wen Jiu was naturally watching as well.
She kept one eye on the TV and the other on trending topics on Weibo.
The charm of talent shows lay in their massive traffic. No paid promotion was needed to push them straight into the trending list.
Tied to the talent show, The Rich Family surged onto the hot search the moment it aired, propelled by the same crowd that had voted half a year earlier.
The discussions barely strayed from the original competition.
#Which role is the man you picked playing#
Wen Jiu’s heart skipped slightly when she saw the title.
Surely this wouldn’t turn into a fight over rankings and roles… right?
But when she clicked in, it was surprisingly harmonious.
[That handsome extra who appeared at 20:56 is my pick. Wuwuwu, barely anyone voted for him, he ranked 99th. He probably won’t show up again after this.]
[Ranked 99 and still that handsome? I didn’t watch the show. Can I still catch up now?]
[You can, sis. They’re all handsome, just different styles. Oh, and first place was Xie Junyu.]
[The guy who ranked second really did end up playing the second male lead. This role boosts him so much, he’s almost more eye-catching than Xie Junyu.]
That topic rapidly climbed over twenty spots, entering the top ten.
Another organically trending topic followed closely behind.
#The Rich Family are Truly Rich#
The title alone made no sense unless you clicked in.
[The 50-million check the female lead gets when she’s kicked out of the wealthy family is REAL!!! That’s an actual redeemable check!!! Was the director not scared of losing it?!]
[Did no one notice the limited-edition handbag the male lead’s mom carries? It’s authentic, starting at one million.]
[Anyone who watched My Besties, don’t you think the antiques in the drama look familiar? They were moved straight from Su Yaoyao’s villa!]
[The supercars are real too, not props, not borrowed, and definitely not CGI. Don’t ask me how I know. I also know that one car cost 37 million and was gifted by the Young Lady to Producer Wen.]
[The diamond necklace the male lead gives the female lead, and the gemstone ring on the mom’s hand, both are from auctions two years ago. Easily tens of millions, maybe even over a hundred million.]
[That’s a REAL wealthy family!]
After reading the comments, Wen Jiu even went to confirm with the publicity team.
Only then did she realize the topic wasn’t bought.
They had actually planned to buy it, worried viewers might miss the details. After all, the two Young Ladyes had generously provided priceless items; the audience had to see them.
They’d intended to wait until both episodes aired that night before pushing the topic. Who could’ve guessed the viewers would watch with magnifying glasses and create the hot search themselves?
But how did so many people know the value of those items?
Before meeting the Young Lady, Wen Jiu couldn’t even tell a real bag from a fake one.
She found the answer after scrolling Weibo for a while.
[Don’t ask how we know, we’re really not paid promoters! We just watched My Besties.]
[Exactly. My Besties showed me a completely different side of top-tier wealthy families.]
[Highly recommend My Besties. Same production team as The Rich Family. It lets you experience the daily life of a Young Lady who doesn’t have to work. (Not an ad, not paid.)]
[If my best friend didn’t beat me three times a day, I wouldn’t even know this show existed. No wonder she kept asking me if I was secretly a Young Lady.]
[Wait, I thought it was just my friend?! Mine nearly beat me to death too. I thought she’d gone insane from work, she kept insisting I gift her a villa.]
From there, the discussion veered wildly off course.
Both the show and the drama were funded by the Young Lady. No matter which one blew up, she profited, but it still felt… odd.
Was this some kind of entertainment industry Shura Field?
The Rich Family aired right in the middle of Immortal Heroes’s filming period.
With The Rich Family gaining popularity and achieving the rare feat of zero controversy, Wen Jiu took the opportunity to promote Immortal Heroes.
Su Yaoyao was still filming and barely had time to manage her Weibo. Wen Jiu had access to her account and handled reposts herself.
On the day The Rich Family finished airing, Su Yaoyao and Xie Junyu wrapped filming as well.
Meanwhile, Immortal Heroes, due to its massive scope, was still in production.
To celebrate both the conclusion of The Rich Family and Su Yaoyao’s wrap, Wen Jiu and the Young Lady organized a celebratory banquet for her.
The entire The Rich Family crew attended, so many people that they booked out an entire floor.
Xie Junyu was the male lead, yet he went nowhere on his own, holding a glass of wine as he stayed by Su Yaoyao’s side, blocking drinks for her.
Both were dressed formally. Anyone unaware might have mistaken them for newlyweds making the rounds.
Standing at the back, Wen Jiu felt completely out of place.
The Young Lady pulled her aside. “I prepared a gift for you too.”
Wen Jiu was stunned. “Young Lady, didn’t you already give me the blue diamond you promised?”
She’d even taken a photo of it and sent it to her when she saw it in the apartment the Young Lady gifted her.
“That’s different,” the Young Lady said matter-of-factly. “Something already given doesn’t count as a gift.”
“What I give you is yours. This one is new, that’s what makes it a gift.”
She forcefully placed a tiny airplane model into Wen Jiu’s hand.
It was very small, not even half the size of Wen Jiu’s palm, but exquisitely crafted.
“A keychain?” Wen Jiu turned it left and right, holding it up to the indoor lighting, puzzled.
The Young Lady smiled mysteriously. “What kind of keychain is shaped like this?”
“…An airplane?”
“Correct. I’m giving you a private jet. That way, whenever you want to go to Antarctica, you can just fly there yourself.”
Wen Jiu: !!!
She stammered in shock, “Y–Young Lady… a private jet… I, I can’t afford to maintain that.”
In truth, what she wanted to say was that she couldn’t accept it, but under the Young Lady’s slightly narrowed gaze, she forcibly changed her wording.
The annual maintenance cost of a private jet was at least five hundred thousand. And that didn’t even include fuel, one flight alone could cost around three hundred thousand. Wen Jiu might have a hundred million, but without any new income coming in, she genuinely couldn’t afford to keep it.
Besides, a private jet gifted by the Young Lady wasn’t something she could just stop maintaining, or sell off and give away, because she couldn’t afford it.
“You don’t need to worry about that. All expenses will be covered by the Qin family, ”
“I’ll take care of the jet for Jiujiu,” Shen Xingzhou cut in. This was the first time in half a year that he’d faced Qin Yao head-on. He wrapped an arm around Wen Jiu’s shoulders and pulled her back against his chest. “Thank you, Miss Qin.”
Wen Jiu being looked after satisfied the Young Lady. But she was very much dissatisfied with Shen Xingzhou himself.
With her years of judging people, she felt that Shen Xingzhou wasn’t anything good.
“Shen Xingzhou, fix your attitude! You’re not allowed to speak to the Young Lady like that!” Wen Jiu snapped before the Young Lady could even say anything.
She turned around and shoved her wine glass into Shen Xingzhou’s hands. With both hands freed, she planted them on her waist, straightened her face, and glared at him.
She wasn’t blind or deaf, how could she not hear the undercurrent of hostility in Shen Xingzhou’s words toward the Young Lady?
Over the past half year, she had spent less time with him because of the Young Ladies, even neglecting him at times. But when Shen Xingzhou chose to be with her, she had already made it clear, the Young Lady would always be more important.
It had been too long since she’d scolded him. Wen Jiu found it hard to withstand his pitiful, lowered head and those watery, flickering puppy eyes.
She tiptoed up and patted his head. “I’m not blaming you, okay? But you absolutely cannot talk back to the Young Lady like that again. Otherwise, I really will get angry.”
Shen Xingzhou nodded, obedient to the point of being ridiculously well-behaved.
Qin Yao watched from the side and snorted.
Even her own brother hadn’t managed to raise her into some naive sweet girl. If the Shen family’s only son was truly this simple-minded, that would be the real miracle.
“It’s been a long time since we last met. I prepared a gift for you,” Wen Jiu said, heading toward the adjacent lounge to retrieve it. Shen Xingzhou naturally didn’t stop her.
But once she left, she never came back.