Chapter Two: Every Fortune Has a Price

Luo Xiao thought he was joking. Lu Chen gave no explanation. At a dealership, a silver limited-edition sports car waited beneath spotlights, its doors spread like wings. The salesman called it a successful man's rite of passage. Price: 6.8 million. Lu Chen laid a hand on the wheel. [7 months, 2 days] “Can I rent it by the hour?” In the end, the league's new two-hundred-million-yuan star paid eight thousand for four hours. He drove along the coast, then parked across from his mother's crumbling apartment building. If he bought her a home, whose life would it cost? He opened his banking app and prepared a transfer of one hundred thousand yuan. Above CONFIRM appeared [3 days, 12 hours]. When he selected his mother, the number became zero.