The leopard-print woman's expression immediately turned a little guilty. She lowered her voice and said, "Nine hundred and eighty thousand. It's over budget, but you said this bracelet is good, didn't you? We can just say it's a two-million-dollar bracelet, and your mom definitely won't recognize the difference."
Seeing Shao Zhengkang's hesitant look, the leopard-print woman tugged his arm and acted spoiled, "Zhengkang, this is for your mom, not mine. If you don't want it, then forget it. But this bracelet is really good, people would believe it if we said it was two million."
Shao Zhengkang thought to himself: I only earned 1.3 million from this project. Spending almost a million on a jade bracelet as a gift for my mom feels like such a sting.
But seeing as it was his girlfriend's first time visiting his family and she cared so much about his relatives, he gritted his teeth and decided to go for it.
"Fangyuan, if you really like it, then let's get it," Shao Zhengkang said, looking at the leopard-print woman dotingly.
Li Fangyuan was overjoyed. Giving such an expensive gift would surely earn her the respect of Shao Zhengkang's family. She quickly said, "The shop owner just mentioned that if you buy two items over fifty thousand, you get a 23% discount. See that woman over there? She's also planning to buy a jade bracelet. If we team up, we can save quite a bit of money."
Upon hearing this, Shao Zhengkang's face also broke into a smile.
But the moment Su Ding turned around, his smile froze on his face.
Su Ding also looked over and was a bit surprised when she recognized the person in front of her. Shao Zhengkang?
Shao Zhengkang was her uncle.
He was her grandmother's youngest son and her grandmother's favorite. However, because Shao Zheng Gang was at the peak of his career and brought benefits to the family, Su Ding was also very favored.
Despite the more than ten-year age difference, Shao Zhengkang was still quite jealous of Su Ding.
When Su Ding and her mother were driven out of the house, Shao Zhengkang had often gone to mock and ridicule his niece.
It seemed that the leopard-print woman was Shao Zhengkang's girlfriend.
"Shao Xu, why are you here? Don't tell me you're attending the birthday banquet tonight too?" Shao Zhengkang walked over and greeted her with a half-smile.
The leopard-print woman also came closer with a confused look.
Su Ding's expression didn't change much. She said indifferently, "Yes, I came to pick out a bracelet for Grandma."
"Hoo, I never realized you had such filial piety. Do you know that the cheapest bracelets in this shop cost over ten thousand? You've been divorced and abandoned, and your dad has become crippled. Can you even afford a bracelet from here?" Shao Zhengkang sneered, his sarcasm undisguised.
The leopard-print woman quickly recalled what Shao Zhengkang had told her about his niece.
Her original name was Shao Xu, and after being kicked out of the house, she changed her name to Su Ding. She later became a popular star, but due to a scandal, she was abandoned by her patron and disappeared somewhere.
No wonder she was so beautiful; she used to be a star.
Su Ding truly didn't expect to have a normal conversation with anyone from the Shao family. She said coldly, "Whether I can afford it or not is none of your concern."
"Heh heh," Shao Zhengkang let out a cold laugh and said to the leopard-print woman, "Fangyuan, this is the celebrity niece I told you about, Shao Xu. Oh, wait, her name is Su Ding now."
"When she was being kept by her patron, she never helped our Shao family. She even caused her dad's leg to be crippled. Don't you think she's a jinx? If you're expecting her to team up with you for a discount, I doubt it'll happen."
Li Fangyuan looked at Su Ding and confirmed her earlier suspicion. "I think so too. She probably doesn't have much money and is just pretending here."
Su Ding couldn't be bothered with their back-and-forth banter. She said to the shop assistant, "Do you have any better quality jade bracelets? Please show me."
The shop assistant was startled and hesitated, "Miss, we do have a newly arrived jade bracelet made of Wenxin jade. There are only two in the entire city. One is at our main branch in the central district, and the other is here. But its price is around two million..."