Chapter 155: Call Me Brother

Early the next morning, Zhang Yang got up and checked out.

On the way to the flower shop where he had ordered a congratulatory flower basket,

Zhang Yang’s hand, wearing a twenty-seven-million watch, rested on the steering wheel of the Cullinan. The two matched each other quite well.

“I’m getting carried away, getting carried away.”

Even Zhang Yang couldn’t help feeling somewhat stirred inside.

Twenty-seven million was not 2.7 million. That was practically wearing a luxury house in Shanghai on his wrist. Only a true big shot could pull off a setup like that.

Even with a net worth of two or three billion, one could only barely be considered qualified to wear a watch worth tens of millions.

“Oh right.”

Zhang Yang took out his phone and casually snapped a photo of his left hand and the steering wheel.

He had intended to post it to his social feed.

But after thinking about it, doing so would make showing off a bit too obvious, so he gave up.

Before long, Zhang Yang drove the Cullinan and stopped in front of a flower shop.

He had called ahead and ordered an opening flower basket. Since it was convenient, he might as well bring it along himself. It was just a small gesture of goodwill. He planned to check out the car care center later, and if it seemed suitable, getting a membership card there wouldn’t be a bad idea.

“Well… let me put a plastic bag over it for you. The branches might scratch your car.” The young flower shop owner was especially enthusiastic.

“No need, no need. I’m not that particular.” Zhang Yang opened the trunk.

His Cullinan’s trunk had actually been fitted with extra seats, so the space was a bit smaller than before, but it didn’t matter. The basket still fit.

Zhang Yang casually shoved the flower basket into the trunk.

As it bumped around, the owner watched with her heart in her throat.

But Zhang Yang didn’t seem to notice at all. He simply closed the trunk, got into the car, and drove straight toward the newly opened luxury car care center.

A little after nine in the morning, outside Imperial Motorworks, the scene was grand beyond words.

A long row of flower baskets stretched outside the shop, and luxury cars came and went in a constant stream. There were Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, and even sports cars like Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and McLarens.

The opening ceremony had been elevated to an extremely high level. It was already a vivid and effective form of publicity.

“Quite impressive.” Zhang Yang sat in the car and looked outside, sighing in admiration.

With such a grand opening and such strong promotion, it was obvious this shop’s business would do very well in the future.

From a distance, he saw that the members of the group were all gathered in front of the shop.

“Thank you all for coming to support us today.” The owner of Imperial Motorworks, Young Master Qian, was beaming with joy and repeatedly cupping his hands in thanks toward the friends who had come to show support.

“As we should.”

“We’re all in the same car club. We should help each other.”

“It’s no big deal. Since this is one of our own opening a shop, of course we have to show up in force.”

Everyone exchanged polite words.

“Damn, isn’t that Young Master Jin’s Frog King? That thing looks incredible!” someone suddenly cried out.

Everyone turned to look.

The 918 stopped, and a carefree-looking young man stepped out.

“Young Master Jin!”

“Young Master Jin, your car looks incredible. You have to let us take it for a spin later.”

The crowd immediately gathered around him, their words full of respect.

“No problem. Here are the keys.” Young Master Jin casually shook the car key in his hand. “Where’s President Su? President Su?”

He looked around.

Su Jiajun quickly stepped forward with a smile.

The Young Master Jin in front of him, whose real name was Jin Yanchao, came from the wealthiest family among the rich second-generation heirs in the car club and therefore held the highest status. Su Jiajun wasn’t even worthy of carrying his shoes.

“Young Master Jin.”

“Jiajun, I had something to deal with last night, so I couldn’t make it. Just giving you a heads-up.” Jin Yanchao said casually.

“It’s fine, it’s fine, not a problem at all.” Su Jiajun hurriedly replied.

“I heard from Zhou Shaoqiang, President Zhou, that there was a pretty high-profile newcomer at last night’s party. Seems like you were the one who brought him into the club?” Jin Yanchao said as if in passing.

Su Jiajun’s scalp tingled, but he could only nod.

“I heard he stole all the spotlight and had all the girls crowding around him? I’d like to meet him and see what kind of person he is.” Jin Yanchao said lightly, then suddenly looked to the side.

“Oh? Xiaotian, you came too?”

“Young Master Jin.” Xiang Xiaotian smiled lightly and greeted him.

“You went last night too, didn’t you?” Jin Yanchao spoke more gently, his tone softening. “If I’d known you were going, I should have pushed aside my other plans.”

“Ah?” Xiang Xiaotian froze. Faced with his somewhat heated gaze, she took a small step back.

Seeing that, Jin Yanchao shook his head and smiled. “You still keep such distance from me.”

Just then, Zhou Shaoqiang suddenly looked into the distance.

“Young Master Jin, that car over there seems to belong to the newcomer in our club.”

“Oh?” Jin Yanchao glanced over from afar and smiled. “A Cullinan BB. The car’s impressive enough. No wonder he acts so high-profile.”

Looking across all the cars owned by the members of the club, there were plenty of Ghosts and regular Cullinans. As for the benchmark Rolls-Royce-the Phantom-that was as rare as phoenix feathers. Though its owners were in the group, they generally stayed hidden.

As for the Cullinan dad version, there weren’t many of those either. It stood at the upper level among the many Rolls-Royce models in the club.

Just as he was speaking, a figure stepped out of that pitch-black Cullinan BB.

The figure looked tall and heroic, with thin lips and a straight nose, like the perfect male lead straight out of a novel.

“That’s him?” Jin Yanchao frowned.

As he watched that figure walk over carrying a flower basket, feeling the wave of handsomeness hit him, he suddenly felt an indescribable sense of being suppressed.

How could that be?

Was there really someone in this car club who could outshine him?

Zhang Yang carried the flower basket and walked straight toward the man of the hour.

“Young Master Qian, congratulations on your opening.”

“Zhang Yang? Welcome, welcome!” Young Master Qian came forward warmly, took the flower basket, and invited Zhang Yang inside to sit.

Zhang Yang nodded, then walked straight toward the group of car club members he had only briefly met yesterday. One meeting made strangers, a second meeting made acquaintances. The more often they met, the more familiar they would naturally become.

He had some impression of most of the people in front of him.

But among them, there was a young man being crowded around by others, standing there with his hands in his pockets and staring at him.

Who was that supposed to be?

“Zhang Yang, come on, let me introduce you to Young Master Jin.” Su Jiajun quickly stepped forward, grabbed Zhang Yang, and was about to introduce him to the young man in front of him.

“This is Jin Yanchao, Young Master Jin.”

Zhang Yang looked at the young man who was silently staring at him, nodded, and casually extended his hand.

“Young Master Jin, nice to meet you.”

Jin Yanchao kept both hands in his pockets and said nothing, showing no sign of responding to Zhang Yang’s extended hand.

The surroundings suddenly fell quiet.

Everyone could tell what was happening. It seemed Young Master Jin was giving the newcomer Zhang Yang a show of authority.

“What are you putting on an act for?” Zhang Yang laughed lightly and withdrew his hand.

He himself regarded himself as the newcomer, so he had never intended to put on airs. From beginning to end, he had been quite modest.

But he hadn’t expected someone else to start acting important.

His words rang out clearly in the quiet surroundings. Everyone was slightly stunned. No one had expected Zhang Yang, a newcomer, to be this bold and directly confront Young Master Jin.

“You!” Jin Yanchao narrowed his eyes and stared fixedly at the figure before him.

With his usual temperament, he was arrogant by nature. If someone dared to humiliate him like this, he would normally have flipped the table long ago.

But he wasn’t brainless. He naturally understood that if someone dared to speak to him this way, they must have corresponding confidence to back it up.

So he took another careful look at the figure in front of him.

Then his gaze froze, and his expression became uncertain.

“You’re Young Master Zhang, right?” He extended his hand again, his expression noticeably more serious now.

Zhang Yang glanced at him and remained unmoved.

“Young Master Zhang.” Jin Yanchao kept his hand extended and took a deep breath. “Give me some face?”

The surroundings immediately erupted.

Young Master Jin had always been proud and aloof, not caring about anyone, let alone someone who had publicly embarrassed him.

But what was going on here…

This was not how things were supposed to unfold.

As luck would have it, right on the hour, the cathedral chime from Zhang Yang’s watch sounded melodiously.

“Young Master Zhang, that Patek Philippe on your wrist is truly beautiful. May I take a look?” Jin Yanchao took the opportunity to make the request and openly admire it.

“You want to see it? Here, take it.” Zhang Yang glanced at him and casually removed the Patek Philippe from his wrist.

Jin Yanchao immediately took it with both hands.

That texture, that feel…

And this rose-gold dual-dial watch, with its tourbillon, perpetual calendar, retrograde date, moon phase, sidereal time, star chart… so many ultra-complicated functions gathered into one watch.

Wasn’t this the Patek Philippe 5002R-014?

This was the king of watches.

He had heard that at last night’s Christie’s auction, it had just sold for twenty-seven million.

And now it had appeared here today?

“Young Master Zhang… h-here it is.” Jin Yanchao returned it with both hands, his face burning.

He had truly been fearless in ignorance just now.

A watch worth twenty-seven million!

Being able to wear twenty-seven million on one’s wrist-such financial strength, such foundation-was simply unimaginable.

He really ought to call him brother.

“Mm.” Zhang Yang took it casually and lightly put it back on his wrist.

No one around was stupid. There were plenty who knew watches and loved collecting them.

“Damn, Zhang Yang… no, Brother Zhang, that watch on your wrist is the Patek Philippe 5002R-014, right? The one that just sold for twenty-seven million?”

“Absolutely. That’s the one.”

“I never expected the buyer to be Brother Zhang. Twenty-seven million… compared to him, the hundred-thousand watch on my wrist makes me look like a pauper.”

Actually, with the financial strength of the people present, driving Rolls-Royces worth several million and wearing watches worth several hundred thousand or around a million was perfectly reasonable and matched their status and wealth.

As for wearing a watch worth tens of millions-essentially wearing a Shanghai apartment on your wrist-even in their eyes it was something far beyond reach. Even among their fathers’ generation, not many could do that.

To go even further, even that famous Young Master Wang, who was so high-profile, didn’t wear watches worth this much.

None of them had expected that in their Rolls-Royce car club there would actually be a true big shot.

Zhang Yang had no idea what kind of image he had become in their eyes. In fact, based on his own wealth and strength, it wouldn’t be a problem for him to be the big brother among these rich second-generation heirs and first-generation entrepreneurs.

After all, the rich second generation still depended on their families for allowance money and didn’t actually have much cash themselves.

The first-generation entrepreneurs might have financial freedom, but among the serious self-made members in the club, the richest supposedly had assets of only a few hundred million.

His financial strength truly crushed everyone present.

“Brother Zhang, this way please, sit here.”

“Brother Zhang, here’s a membership card for this place. Come by often in the future.”

In an instant, Zhang Yang’s status rose infinitely.

For a moment, he became the center of attention.

Zhang Yang smiled and chatted casually with the club members who had come up again to build connections and get closer.

In his mind, the friendship value began harvesting once more.

Only moments later, the pleasant system notification sounded in his mind.

Ding!

Looking at the system prompt in his mind, Zhang Yang felt delighted.

Sure enough, the task had been completed smoothly. It seemed the 2.7 million he spent was indeed well worth it.

Unleashing this twenty-seven-million watch had truly produced extraordinary effects.

Since the task was completed, the rewards naturally came effortlessly.

Fifty experience points.

That was incredibly generous.

In an instant, his experience progress toward leveling up passed more than halfway, and the system’s daily return of two hundred thousand was already within reach.

And there was the second reward-a venture capital company.

Holding a fully structured VC firm and an annual investment quota of three hundred million.

In a certain sense, did that make him a small capitalist now?

Even a small capitalist was still capital.

“Brother Zhang, please have some tea.” A voice called out, bringing Zhang Yang back to reality.

He came to his senses and saw Su Jiajun in front of him. The club president was bending slightly with a big smile on his face.

“President, you’re being too polite.” Zhang Yang said with amusement.

He had a good impression of the president. Although Su Jiajun was a rich second-generation heir, he was humble and kind, truly deserving of being the Rolls-Royce club president.

“Brother Zhang, with thighs as thick as yours, how could I not hold on tight?” Su Jiajun joked.

Zhang Yang smiled. In front of Su Jiajun, he didn’t put on any airs.

Looking around, he noticed a figure in the distance trying to hide.

Wasn’t that the Zhou guy from last night-Zhou Shaoqiang?

Why was he hiding?

Zhang Yang withdrew his gaze and didn’t bother about someone so insignificant.

“Brother Zhang, about earlier… sorry about that.” Jin Yanchao walked over privately, all arrogance gone in front of Zhang Yang. “My father always said my temper would eventually make me run into someone who could put me in my place. Looks like his words came half true.”

“How is it only half?” Zhang Yang asked.

“Brother Zhang clearly has the strength, yet you didn’t bother arguing with me. Doesn’t that mean my father’s words only came half true?” Jin Yanchao said shamelessly.