The manager of the watch store also had a difficult look on his face, "Miss Zhu, as you know, the prices of luxury goods are very unpredictable, and if we were to buy it back, the price could only be this much. Otherwise, you could look elsewhere..."
Zhu Yulan bit her lip, seeming to face this kind of situation for the first time.
After all, twenty or thirty thousand yuan was nothing to her in the past.
But now, her slender fingers clenched tightly, "Can you... offer a bit more? How about fifty thousand?"
This might have been the first time Zhu Yulan bargained like this since she was born, and her tone even carried a hint of unbearable embarrassment.
Especially considering she had been a regular customer here, spending hundreds of thousands without batting an eyelid in the past.
But now she was haggling over just ten or twenty thousand.
"I really can't do that, that's the policy here. Miss Zhu, you see..."
"Forget it, thirty thousand then. I want cash."
Zhu Mingyue gritted her teeth and took off the ruby watch from her wrist, she looked down at it, a trace of reluctance and aggrievement in her eyes, but what replaced it was a sense of unwillingness and the refusal to admit defeat!
As she was about to place the watch on the counter, suddenly a hand appeared and caught the watch she was about to set down.
"Such a fine watch, sell it to me instead at this price."
The watch was taken away.
Zhu Yulan turned around abruptly, intending to snatch it back, but when she saw Xu Musen with a faint smile on his face, her outstretched hand paused in mid-air.
"Why is it you..."
Zhu Yulan felt bewildered for a moment, but in the next instant her face quickly flushed with an embarrassing redness, as if someone had seen the distress she least wanted a familiar person to witness.
"Just out for a stroll. What about you? Are you selling the watch because you've got too many and want to switch to a different one?"
Musen chuckled, examining her ruby watch, "It's not surprising it's worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, just look at the material and craftsmanship. Doesn't it look like the down payment for a house?"
Zhu Yulan's face turned beet red, not because she felt that Musen was mocking her, but because her current predicament made her cheeks burn.
"Miss Zhu, are you still selling it?"
The manager also asked from the side.
Zhu Yulan bit her teeth, looking at Xu Musen.
"It's none of your business."
She reached out to take the watch back.
But Xu Musen shook the watch and said to the manager, "Surely this watch is worth more than just twenty or thirty thousand?"
"Sir, luxury goods prices do fluctuate a lot, you might not be too familiar with it. It's just how it is with luxury items, second-hand ones are difficult to sell, and we also risk making a loss," the manager quickly glanced at Musen. After all, spending time in high-end stores, one gets the knack for gauging someone's worth from their attire.
Musen usually dressed very casually, wearing clothes that cost just a couple of hundred made him quite comfortable.
And he was so young. Among the young who have some means, how many could resist showing off?
So, the manager didn't take him seriously, not to mention he was indeed offering a lowball price on purpose.
Such a watch, even priced lowly here, would still fetch about fifty or sixty thousand second-hand.
He stood to make at least ten or twenty thousand with a flip of his hand.
Seeing his good deal on the verge of collapsing, his tone naturally wasn't very friendly, as he thought about how to get rid of this clueless youngster quickly.
Musen laughed, not wanting to waste words, "I see, then I can't let a conscientious business like yours suffer a loss. I'll take the loss and buy the watch myself."
Musen laughed and turned to Zhu Yulan, "Will you sell me the watch?"
Zhu Yulan bit her lip, how could she not know that the manager was deliberately underbidding, but she was really out of options right now, she desperately needed the money.
Yet, she didn't want to ask for help from those familiar to her anymore, especially not him...
It was like a boy feeling destitute in front of a girl he cared about, an indescribable sensation.
"What do you want with a lady's watch? Or are you pitying me?"
Zhu Yulan said softly, looking at Xu Musen's warm smile, her heart felt even worse.
"We're friends, aren't we? It's only right to help each other out. Besides, I'm getting the better deal here, haven't you always said I rip you off?" Xu Musen said with a smile, "I have cash on me."
Swindler...
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She looked at Xu Musen, "You sure you want to buy?"
"Of course."
"Fine, it's yours for a hundred thousand!"
Zhu Yulan crossed her arms, directly raising the price on the spot, still unwilling to concede, especially to this "Swindler!"
That stingy miser, now he couldn't come and pity her.
"Deal!"
But Xu Musen didn't hesitate for a second.
Laughing, he picked up a check, turned to the dumbfounded manager and asked, "Can I borrow a pen?"
The manager subconsciously handed over his pen.
Xu Musen swiftly wrote a check for a hundred thousand and handed it to her.
"Check it out, if there's no issue, the watch is mine."
Zhu Yulan was dumbfounded; she stared at the numbers on the check, then at Xu Musen.
She was proud, defiant, and would rather sell to the greedy manager for thirty thousand than reveal her desperate situation in front of someone she knew.
That's why she had blurted out that price, but the "Swindler" agreed without any hesitation.
Shouldn't he be taking this chance to swindle her even more?
"You..."
Zhu Yulan felt her heartbeat quicken; she held the check and looked up.
Xu Musen also reached out, grabbed her fair wrist, and put the ruby wristwatch back on her.
"Alright, you can keep wearing this watch for now, to remind you not to forget the time to pay me back. From now on, I'm your creditor," Xu Musen said with a smile.
He wasn't some goody-two-shoes, but when he first started his business, he really hadn't taken advantage of others a little, and they had provided him a lot of help.
A favor in need is a favor indeed.
Xu Musen still upheld that principle in life.
Zhu Yulan's body trembled slightly as she looked at the check in her hand and the watch on her wrist.
She looked up again at Xu Musen's warm smile at that moment.
Suddenly, she felt a complicated trembling in her heart; she looked at Xu Musen, her lips parting slightly.
A hundred thousand could be repaid, but the pounding of her heart at that moment was like accruing interest that couldn't be stopped...