I initially thought Qin Yubai's family was quite wealthy, at least living in a seven- or eight-story castle, but since I could see treetops and shadows from the window, I figured it wasn't a tall building, maybe just a two- or three-story villa? They seem quite ordinary after all.
[If you hadn't mentioned the window, I wouldn't have noticed! Everyone, look at the bottom right corner of the window! My god, that's the main building of Tsinghua University! I now know where Qin Shen lives! It's only two or three stories high because government regulations prohibit buildings in that area from being too tall, okay? You can search that location online; it costs at least 400,000 yuan per square meter!]
[There are so many trophies and certificates on the bookshelf behind Qin Shen, several of them in foreign languages that I can't understand. Can anyone decipher them?]
[Wow! The third-to-last certificate in the second row is an auction certificate for the sculpture "Aphrodite and the Narcissus"! This is an ancient Roman bronze sculpture that sold for tens of millions of dollars five years ago!]
[That plastic toy gathering dust on the very top of the shelf is actually designed last year by a top-tier toy artist, and it's a limited edition of only three-body toys worldwide! You can't buy it even if you have the money, you have to know the artist to have a chance! TAT]
[Qin Shen has quite a wide range of interests, from ancient art to modern trendy toys. The art in this study must be worth hundreds of millions, young master, right?]
Then.
Fans began to call him "Young Master" instead of "God Qin".
[A deafening roar echoed through the sky, and the old servant made his grand entrance.]
【Young master, you abandoned your personal servant! It took this old servant so long to find you.】
[Thanks to the internet for bringing this old servant and the young master together.]
[So, the story of the young master and Jian Zhizhen is about a poor girl from the countryside winning the heart of a wealthy young man from the capital?]
[How could I possibly deserve to have the young master personally go on a dating spree for this old servant? TAT]
[Young master, can you give me 50 RMB to treat me to a Crazy Thursday?]
...
After dinner, Jian Zhizhen finally had time to relax on the sofa and gossip online.
Then I discovered that Qin Yubai was trending on Weibo.
She flipped through it and found it more and more amusing, so she immediately called Qin Yubai over: "Bai Bai, you're famous! Come and see!"
Qin Yubai walked over to her and sat down next to her.
After watching for a while, there was no smile on his face, only silence.
He didn't particularly like these pre-founding titles.
After much deliberation, he logged into his account and posted a very serious response:
"Please don't call me that, and don't refer to yourself that way. These are terms from the feudal era. After seeing the rigid class system depicted in the first episode of 'Love Across Worlds,' we should cherish this era of equality for all. Countless revolutionary martyrs used their blood to abolish the class concept of slavery and servitude. Please don't let their sacrifices be in vain."
Being born into wealth should not be a reason to idolize someone, as it is not a virtue. My family's wealth did not come from my own efforts; it mostly came from my parents, and I have always strived to catch up with them. Similarly, being born into poverty should not be a reason to look down on others, much less cause one to feel inferior.
As Ms. Yang Jiang once said: "No matter which step you climb in life, there are people below looking up at you, and people above looking down at you. If you look up, you feel inferior; if you look down, you feel complacent. Only by looking straight ahead can you see your true self."
After reading his extremely serious reply, Jian Zhizhen laughed so hard she almost fell over on the sofa.
Qin Yubai looked at her meaningfully for a long while.
After Jian Zhizhen finished laughing, he quietly asked, "What are you laughing at?"
Jian Zhizhen patted his shoulder, suppressing a laugh, and said, "Actually, everyone is just having some fun. They just envy you for being rich. It doesn't mean that just because you call yourself an old servant, you really want to be my slave."
Qin Yubai asked languidly, "Can this really be used for entertainment?"
Jian Zhizhen nodded: "Yeah, in this day and age, anything can be used for entertainment. It's just a joke, don't take it seriously."
Qin Yubai doesn't usually have time to go online every day, so naturally he didn't know.
However, after glancing at the latest replies, he realized that none of the fans were taking it too seriously:
[Hilarious, what kind of old-fashioned cadre attitude is this?]
[Haha, okay, from now on I won't call you Young Master, I'll call you Comrade!]
[But his serious expression is so adorable! Comrade Qin, do you know? My image of you has gone through so many ups and downs, from a cool, aloof academic genius to a wealthy young man from Beijing, and now to a retired cadre!]
Sure enough, most people's attitude was extremely amusing; they would laugh it off no matter what was said.
Qin Yubai understood; he was indeed out of touch with the current online trends.
Jian Zhizhen gently leaned against his shoulder, still smiling, deliberately teasing him: "Young Master Qin, do you think a poor girl like me is so innocent and unpretentious?"
Qin Yubai looked at her quietly.
Her family's wealth was no less than his.
Chien Chih-chen continued scrolling through fan comments, reading out the funny ones to make fun of him.
She wasn't jealous at all when she saw female fans say, "Young Master Qin, I really want to marry you." Instead, she smiled even more happily.
Qin Yubai slowly began to feel annoyed.
He raised his hand, silently opened his social media page, and said quietly, "Although I don't know much about the entertainment industry, I do know that the usual way to suppress a hot topic is to create another one."
Jian Zhizhen's unrestrained laughter came to an abrupt halt.
She sat up abruptly, looked up at him, and asked, "What do you want?"
"I plan to reveal your identity as well." Qin Yubai's lips curled slightly as he slowly called out, "Miss Jian."
Jian Zhizhen pursed her lips, leaned back on the sofa, showing no sign of nervousness, and instead laughed: "Sure, go ahead and expose it. You'd better expose my home address, so those radical fans can come to my house and block the door, and I can be kidnapped and my parents extorted by bad guys."
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