Everyday Romance After Becoming a Billionaire

The Aston Martin pulled up to the mall entrance. Su Ran got out and waited for Xiao Wanqing to join him. After locking the car, they walked toward Victoria’s Secret together.

Deep down, Xiao Wanqing really wanted to take Su Ran’s arm as they walked into the mall, but her rational side held her back.

Su Ran didn’t take the initiative to put his arm around Xiao Wanqing, either. ’What would that look like? Acting one way in front of the others, then getting all touchy-feely the moment we’re alone? That wouldn’t be right.’

A little joking and teasing now and then was fine, but crossing the line would make things weird.

’Playing games and being ambiguous? Su Ran wasn’t into that.’

If they were going to be affectionate, it had to be open and honest. He wouldn’t put on some two-faced act.

The Victoria’s Secret store.

This lingerie store was different from others; there were quite a few male customers browsing, most of them picking things out for their girlfriends.

From a woman’s perspective, what kind of man would browse a store like this unless he was genuinely into his girlfriend? He could just have her buy it herself; his only job would be to rip it off later.

As Xiao Wanqing and Su Ran walked into Victoria’s Secret, neither of them felt the least bit awkward.

It was because of an incident during their trip when Aina had gotten her period. She was a girl in an unfamiliar place late at night and felt scared, so she’d asked Su Ran to buy her some supplies. He had gone without a second thought. He even consulted the supermarket owner, learning a surprising amount about the topic, and ultimately returned with a pack of super-absorbent Sofy pads.

’That’s it?’ Su Ran thought. ’What’s there to be shy about?’

’Aren’t these just necessities for women?’

’What century are we in? Who still gets shy about stuff like this?’

Of course, that wasn’t to say Su Ran was incapable of embarrassment. For instance, that one time at the guesthouse when Liu Jinyu had asked him to buy condoms at the supermarket, he had refused. Buying *that* kind of thing, Su Ran would get shy.

After the two of them entered the store, Xiao Wanqing spoke.

"Su Ran, feel free to look around and pick something out for your Jinyu. I’m going to check things out over there. Here, hold this for me, I’m not done with it yet."

Xiao Wanqing stuffed the skewer of candied hawthorns into Su Ran’s hand and went to another section to pick out lingerie.

Naturally, Su Ran wasn’t shameless enough to follow her and say something like, ’Let me help you pick.’ He could accompany her to Victoria’s Secret, but since they weren’t a couple, he would absolutely not help her choose. Su Ran had a firm grasp on where to draw the line.

Of course, if Xiao Wanqing insisted on calling him over to help her pick, Su Ran would go, and he would offer her the best suggestions from a man’s perspective.

Because, with this stuff, if a man says it looks good, that’s the gospel truth.

Su Ran nibbled on the sweet and sour candied hawthorns as he wandered around the store.

He’d seen clips of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on social media before. ’Why does the algorithm keep recommending this stuff to me?’

’Then again, those supermodels really do have amazing bodies.’

"Su..."

Xiao Wanqing was about to call out to him when she spotted an interesting scene. She pulled out her phone, zoomed in, snapped a picture, and sent it to Liu Jinyu.

BEEP BEEP BEEP...

Liu Jinyu, who was busy in the kitchen, heard her phone. She pulled it out and saw a message from Xiao Wanqing: *Look what your Su Ran is picking out for you?*

Liu Jinyu curiously opened the photo. The next second, she did a spit-take with the tea she was drinking and frantically replied: *Hurry up and stop him!!! Quick!!!!*

She was so angry her face turned bright red.

Hehehe~

Xiao Wanqing chuckled, locked her phone, and walked over to pat Su Ran on the shoulder. She smiled and said, "What are you thinking about, staring at this racy little number? You want me to tell you Jinyu’s size?"

Su Ran looked at her knowing expression and said, "...I already know Jinyu’s size. I was picking this out for you."

"Get lost!"

Xiao Wanqing rolled her eyes at him, then grabbed his hand and dragged him back to where she had been looking. She held up two fairly conventional bras and asked, "Su Ran, which one do you think looks better? The sales associate said guys have a better eye for this, so she told me to ask you for help."

Su Ran cupped his chin and studied the two bras, then asked, "Is it a front-clasp or a back-clasp?"

Pfft~

Xiao Wanqing nearly choked. She shot him a reproachful glare. "Why do you care if it’s a front or back clasp? That’s not the point, okay?"

Su Ran got annoyed. "I’m being serious here, and you think I’m some kind of pervert? Sigh. I’m just trying to be thoughtful."

Xiao Wanqing scoffed and shook her head, clearly not buying his nonsense. He was always full of his own brand of logic. "I like back-clasp bras," she said. "If you can give me a good reason to convince me otherwise, I’ll switch to front-clasp from now on."

"Fine! I’ll talk you into it!"

Su Ran adopted a very serious tone. "You’re a dancer. You’re always saying your arms are sore from practice every day. If it’s a front-clasp, wouldn’t it be much easier to put on? Unlike a back-clasp. What if you’re training, you make a big movement, and the clasp comes undone? With your arms already sore, wouldn’t it be a pain to fasten it again? Am I making sense?"

Xiao Wanqing was dumbfounded.

’Listening to you talk is like listening to someone talk,’ she thought, ’but... he actually has a point.’

Su Ran pressed his case. He was determined to make a front-clasp convert out of her.

"Liu Jinyu wears front-clasp bras. See? Isn’t it always convenient for her?"

"Convenient for *you* to unfasten, you mean."

"You..."

Su Ran was about to retort again, but Xiao Wanqing smiled and placed a hand on his arm.

"Oh, alright, alright! Front-clasp it is. Have you no shame, talking about this?"

"It’s not that I said front..."

"Stop, stop, stop! No more of your ’logic,’ okay? Stop! I’ll buy it! I’ll buy it, alright?"

Xiao Wanqing scurried over to the front-clasp section. As she browsed, she started to feel like something was off.

She glanced over at Su Ran, who was killing time on his phone, then looked back down at the front-clasp bra in her hands.

’Wait a minute~’

Scratching her head in utter confusion, she asked herself three soul-searching questions.

’Why am I listening to him?’

’Just because he likes front-clasps, I have to buy a front-clasp?’

’Why should I be trying to please him?’

After a moment’s thought, she ultimately compromised. ’Anyway, he’s paying. Su Ran is so stubborn. If I defy him and buy a back-clasp, he won’t pay for it.’

’Liu Jinyu told me about this. She said one time she didn’t make instant noodles Su Ran’s way, and he refused to give her the hot water.’

’Hmph. Such a stubborn boy.’

Xiao Wanqing called out, "Su Ran, wait a second. I’m going to pick one to try on."

Su Ran called out, "Excuse me, could you get that one for my friend... Uh... Wanqing, can you even wear a C-cup?"

’Holy shit, that was ruthless.’

Xiao Wanqing was on the verge of cursing out loud.

To a woman, Su Ran’s words were more insulting than the foulest curse.

She couldn’t help but puff out her chest. ’Who is he looking down on?’

Gritting her teeth, Xiao Wanqing announced her size for the first time, "Bring me the 80C! And you remember this, Su Ran, *this* is the size I wear!"

For context, a C-cup was quite large; the next step up was a D.

Su Ran smiled. "Alright, you go try it on. I’m going to browse the store across the way. Time to get some new ’gear’ for you four."

"Across the way?"

Xiao Wanqing looked at the store opposite them—Balenciaga.

Huh...

’He’s really going all out, isn’t he?’

"You’re just so thoughtful, aren’t you~"

"As I should be. By the way, what kind of stockings do you like? Are the ones with the lettering okay?"

"Do I have a choice? As long as you like it, it’s fine."

"I’ll just grab whatever, then."

Su Ran turned and went to the Balenciaga across the way, while Xiao Wanqing went to the Victoria’s Secret fitting room.

Su Ran quickly returned with a haul of items with lettering on them, but Xiao Wanqing was still in the fitting room. He asked a sales associate, "Why isn’t she out yet?"

"Your girlfriend said the 80C was too big. She couldn’t wear it."

Hahaha~

Su Ran’s composure broke, and he let out a shameless laugh. It was mainly because of how confidently Xiao Wanqing had just declared, ’This is the size I wear!’

The temperature inside fitting room three plummeted to a freezing point. Xiao Wanqing desperately wished she could find a hole to crawl into. ’Sigh... It’s so hard being a woman.’

「Ten-plus minutes later.」

After Su Ran paid, Xiao Wanqing trudged out of the store carrying her bag, completely crestfallen. Su Ran caught up to her and glanced over.

"If you laugh again, I’ll dig your eyes out."

Xiao Wanqing could only hate herself for being so competitive. She clearly didn’t have the... assets... but she just had to act tough. The result was a resounding slap in the face. ’Why did I have to act so tough?’ she lamented internally.

She really wanted to smack her own chest a couple of times and yell, ’Alright girls, you’ve been looked down on by a man! Can’t you try a little harder?!’

Her mind was so preoccupied with the embarrassing scene that she wasn’t watching where she was going. Suddenly—THUMP! "Ouch~" She had walked right into a store’s glass window.

Su Ran let out a PFFT. He had been trying so hard not to laugh, which was already torture. This new development completely broke him, and he couldn’t hold it in any longer.

With Xiao Wanqing’s proud personality, how could she possibly allow herself to be embarrassed twice in front of the same man on the same day?

She wished the ground would swallow her whole.

"Stop laughing."

"Okay, okay, I’ll stop. Pfft."

"Argh~!"

Su Ran tried hard to hold it in. If he laughed anymore, she was going to cry.

He opened his arms, hugged the aggrieved Xiao Wanqing, and patted her back.

Xiao Wanqing also wrapped her arms around Su Ran’s waist, rested her head on his shoulder, and watched the pedestrians hurrying by.

Then, in a moment of pure, instinctive, heartfelt self-sabotage, she asked, "Su Ran... do you only like girls who are... stacked?"

"Uh... no, no, no. I like them small. Really. I do."

Oh...

If Su Ran had been honest, Xiao Wanqing might have actually felt better. But his attempt at comforting her was so blatant that she finally broke.

"Argh! I’m going to go buy some papaya to eat!!!!"

"Let’s go. I know a place that sells them."

’Oh... so ruthless.’

Su Ran patted Xiao Wanqing’s dejected cheek and said, "I was just kidding. I don’t mind."

"Well, *I* mind! Wait... why should I care if you mind or not? You’re not my boyfriend! Let go of me. Men and women shouldn’t be this intimate."

Xiao Wanqing pushed Su Ran away and was about to go downstairs, but Su Ran pulled her back. "This way. I’m going to buy a projector so we can watch movies tonight."

The house had a dedicated home theater room, but naturally, it wasn’t equipped yet. Su Ran had been too busy with military training recently to buy the components. Since they were out, he planned to pick one up to install so they could watch movies or do karaoke at night.

They entered a shop that sold projectors. Xiao Wanqing didn’t know the first thing about this stuff, so she just stayed obediently by Su Ran’s side, content to be a pretty accessory.

Xiao Wanqing knew that sometimes, a woman just needed to play the part of a pretty accessory. You didn’t always have to steal the spotlight; that would only make you annoying.

However...

Just standing by Su Ran’s side as his "pretty accessory" still gave her a pleasant sense of superiority.

After all, she could hear people around them whispering about what a handsome couple they made.

He bought a projector that cost over ten thousand yuan.

Then they bought a few of Jiangning’s specialty foods.

Only then did he drive Xiao Wanqing home.

The setting sun cast a golden glow over the sparkling surface of Jiangning Lake. The sapphire blue Aston Martin cruised slowly over a stone bridge and pulled up to the gate of the large house. They got out, carried their purchases, and went inside.

Seeing Su Ran and Xiao Wanqing return, Liu Jinyu and the others started cooking.

Su Ran went to the private theater to set up the projector. The house had been pre-wired and fitted for all the equipment, so all he had to do was place the projector on the ceiling-mounted tray and plug it in.

He checked the projection quality for a moment. ’Nice.’

"Are you done setting it up?"

Liu Jinyu pushed open the door to find Su Ran adjusting the ambient lighting in the home theater.

"What do you think?"

Liu Jinyu walked in, looked around, and nodded. "The atmosphere is great, it has a really nice vibe. We’re going to have a blast tonight!"

"I’ll be right there with you."

"...You naughty Ranran, you."

"Let’s go, time to eat."

Su Ran smiled, raised his hand to give Liu Jinyu a light pat on the butt, then pushed the door open and walked out. He hadn’t gotten the wrong person this time.