Super Rich by Doing as You Please

After driving for four straight hours, Lin Wanzhou and Xu Yun found a spot on a riverbed next to the road, parking the car to take a break and avoid driving while fatigued.

A national road isn’t an expressway. As long as you wanted to stop and weren’t blocking traffic, you could pull over anytime, anywhere.

Autumn in Guangxi seemed to arrive a little earlier than in Jiangcheng.

The moment Xu Yun got out of the car, he felt a hint of a chill. But it was fine; the temperature was just right, neither hot nor cold.

He took a portable folding chair from the car, sat by the river, and gazed at the clear, turquoise water, feeling his spirits lift.

When it came to the beauty of the mountains and the quality of the water, Guangxi and Guizhou were top-tier in the entire country.

Especially Guizhou. From the videos he’d seen, the water quality in the rafting areas looked clean enough to be bottled mineral water.

A bit tired after driving for several hours, Lin Wanzhou washed his face with the icy river water. He turned to Xu Yun and said, "If you’re feeling a little tired and drowsy, give this a try. I guarantee it’ll work wonders."

"Okay."

Xu Yun was indeed feeling a bit drowsy. Truth be told, being a passenger was incredibly boring.

He followed suit, splashing the water on his face. He instantly felt more alert, and the sensation was incredibly refreshing.

But just as he was about to take a sip, Lin Wanzhou stopped him. "The water on this road near the border isn’t like the mountain streams back home," he said. "No matter how clean it looks, don’t just drink it. If you’re unlucky, you could get into trouble."

"Why?"

"Because of the geology here, the mountains contain a lot of minerals, many of which are toxic. Even the meltwater from the snow-capped mountains further on can’t be drunk directly."

Lin Wanzhou said, "If you want to drink it, you have to filter it first, then boil it."

As he spoke, he took out a small, portable device he had brought. Xu Yun had never seen one before and hadn’t bought one himself.

He had no knowledge or experience of wilderness survival. He’d just figured there would be water everywhere along the way, so he could drink it directly.

If Lin Wanzhou hadn’t told him today, he would have been none the wiser.

Lin Wanzhou poured some river water into the device, started the filtering process, and then began to heat it, apparently using some kind of compressed solid fuel.

"You can drink it once the water boils."

"What’s the fun in just drinking plain boiled water?"

Xu Yun got up, retrieved a coffee maker and a bag of coffee beans from the car, and said, "How about we make some pour-over coffee? These are auction beans my dear Miss Jian bought for a fortune—23,000 yuan a bag. They’re called Carmen something. No idea how they taste."

’Twenty-three thousand yuan for a bag of coffee beans...’

The corner of Lin Wanzhou’s mouth twitched. He chuckled and said, "You sure know how to enjoy life."

"If you have the means, you should naturally live a little better."

Xu Yun smiled. "We’re on a trip, not fleeing for our lives. There’s no need to suffer unnecessarily."

"You have a point."

While Lin Wanzhou was making the coffee, Xu Yun picked up his phone and started scrolling through the news.

The video of him saving someone on the expressway was still going viral, its significance only growing. This just showed how rare such deeds were these days.

People had grown indifferent; there weren’t as many kind-hearted people around.

That’s why this situation had occurred.

The reason for this was also related to some high-profile incidents from the past, the most famous and classic one being that soul-searching question: "If you didn’t hit him, why would you help her?"

It was that very question that had extinguished the enthusiasm and kindness in so many people.

It got to the point where nowadays, if you came across someone in need on the roadside, you wouldn’t dare do a good deed like that unless you had tens or hundreds of millions in the bank.

It wasn’t that people weren’t kind anymore; it was that most were too poor, and there were too many bad people. They couldn’t afford to help; the spirit was willing, but the wallet was weak.

Then, he scrolled to the news about him winning over 200 million in prize money from a single bet at the Shatian Racecourse.

The Horse Racing Club was really sparing no effort, vigorously promoting his story and publicizing it all the way to the Mainland. He wondered if his women would see it.

Never mind anyone else, but if Jian Shiwai, Xino, and those two college students, Yan Can and Guilin, saw it, they’d be able to guess it was him based on Lin Wanzhou’s presence.

’Speaking of which,’ he thought, ’I’ve only been to a few places on this trip, and I’ve already become famous twice, hitting the trending news both times.’

And that wasn’t even counting the time he spent 18 million on tea at the charity auction, or the incident with Eastern Airlines.

’The world may not know me, but my legend is everywhere.’

Everyone had given him a nickname: Young Master Xu.

He even saw a video from a blogger who had analyzed all these incidents, connected the dots, and concluded: it was possible that the mysterious "Young Master Xu" from before was responsible for all of them.

However, many of the comments below disagreed, saying it wasn’t the same person and was just a coincidence.

’Wouldn’t you know it,’ Xu Yun thought, ’he actually guessed right.’

Using his clean Douyin account, which he had named "Young Master Xu," Xu Yun gave the video a like.

After that, the private messages in his inbox wouldn’t stop.

They were all asking if he was the real Young Master Xu.

Or cussing him out for using the Young Master Xu identity for clout, warning him to watch out for a lawsuit from the real one.

Some girls were even directly confessing their love and promoting themselves in a very explicit manner.

Xu Yun ignored them all, not even bothering to look.

He was busy enjoying his life every day; where would he find the time to reply to their boring questions?

Just then, a new message arrived. It was from Jiang Peiyao.

He opened it and took a look.

It turned out she had already started her charity work. She also mentioned some of her plans and arrangements after taking over the shelter.