Casino, 1997

A small building near the Ruins of St. Paul's.

It had been a few days since Su Yehao last came by. On September 27th, he conveniently used the excuse of his Second Aunt's birthday to return to Casino with Jiang Yu.

Yin Liuli had undergone some changes. Her hair was dyed brown and permed.

It was morning, and there weren't many customers in the shop. She was sitting at a cool table against the wall, wearing jeans and a white short-sleeved shirt, engrossed in Qiong Yao's novel, *Yan Yu Meng Meng*.

She didn't even notice Su Yehao's arrival.

Su Yehao suddenly approached and, seeing the words "Lu Yiping," immediately realized that this was the original novel of *Romance in the Rain*. The familiar song started playing in his head, practically brainwashing him.

Yin Liuli was startled when she suddenly saw Su Yehao. Then she closed the novel, her eyes curving into a smile, and asked, "You're back?"

Having already experienced the social awkwardness, she knew that Su Yehao was actually studying at a university in Hong Kong.

Su Yehao sat down next to Yin Liuli and nodded. "Yeah, I should be able to stay with you for two or three days this time. School isn't actually that busy, but I'm starting a business, so there are a lot of miscellaneous things to deal with. Seeing that you haven't come to find me, I had no choice but to come back and find you. I brought you a gift. You don't have to refuse this time. It's from the bank. I specifically had them pick out a popular model for you. If you don't like it, you can exchange it."

Speaking is an art.

In just a few words, he explained why he hadn't come to see her recently, revealed that he missed her, and that he often thought of her.

Only then did Yin Liuli notice the bag next to Su Yehao, an orange Hermès tote bag. The Birkin bag inside was also orange, a common model worth over seventy thousand yuan.

She was skeptical. "Really from the bank?"

"Why would I lie to you? A super VIP customer like me, the bank often needs to maintain the relationship. I just took out a loan, and they asked me what gift I wanted, so I asked for this."

The other two bags had already been given away.

Neither Nangong Tian nor Nong Qingying actually lacked such things, but in Yin Liuli's eyes, it was undoubtedly a very luxurious gift.

However, because it was from the bank, she only said this time, "I don't need such a nice bag. I'm usually at home or at the company. I can't very well walk around the store with it. Customers will think I'm an idiot."

"A bag is a bag. It has a large capacity, so it's good for carrying things. I don't lack anything. I can't save money for the bank, can I?"

Su Yehao finished with a smile, then changed the subject and asked, "How have you been these past few days? How's business at the shop?"

"Everything's fine. It's just that Koko had diarrhea. I took it to the vet. It might have caught a cold from the air conditioning. Fat cats have weak bodies and are prone to problems."

"Tsk... with such a thick layer of fat, it could last a long time even if you sent it to the Arctic."

Yin Liuli was amused by Su Yehao's joke and said, "Did it provoke you? It's so cute, and you actually want to send it to the Arctic..."

The small bar on the third floor is currently undergoing renovations.

In order to avoid a long construction period and noise disrupting the cat café and restaurant downstairs, they only plan to renovate it into an American-style bar, adding more decorations, hanging road signs and license plates on the walls. A designer is in charge, which is relatively easy.

The walls were replaced with coffee-colored wallpaper. The profits from the past two or three months will probably be used up this time.

Friends and elders who should have congratulated her have already come, and the trend of declining performance is obvious. Fortunately, the restaurant is economical and the cat café has its own characteristics, so it can still earn some pocket money.

The Hong Kong property market is unstable, and the real estate market in Casino has also been affected. Fortunately, the purchase price of the small building was relatively cheap at the time, so there was no loss.

This business is just to keep Yin Liuli around anyway. Su Yehao now has higher standards and is busy with other businesses, so he doesn't care too much about these, but he still talks to her very seriously, so that this girl doesn't feel neglected.

True nobility is never about showing off one's own glory everywhere, but about preserving some dignity for others.

In this regard, Su Yehao's emotional intelligence is still quite good.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. He went to his father's yacht and took Yin Liuli out to sea for a breeze, to relax.

In fact, apart from looking at the scenery at the beginning, they spent the next two or three hours in the cabin. When they came back to their senses, the yacht had already docked at the pier again.

Still the same recipe, still the same flavor.

In the afternoon, he accompanied Yin Liuli to the flower, bird, and fish market to buy a small fish tank. She wanted to raise some jellyfish.

The apartment she rented before is about to expire, but Yin Liuli doesn't plan to change it. Su Yehao is considering waiting for the house prices to drop further before buying her a larger apartment directly.

In this way, she can directly change to a super large fish tank, raise clownfish and the like, and create a landscape with sea anemones and corals.

He didn't mention this to Yin Liuli for the time being, so as not to put pressure on her.

Like a sweet couple, they wandered around Hong Kong, and after four o'clock, they came to their own golf course to teach Yin Liuli how to ride a horse and play golf.

Although the beach is not suitable as a bathing place, there are too many gravel and shells. It's pretty good to walk around with shoes on, mainly because there are few people.

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A little after six o'clock that night.

After buying some gifts first, he sent Yin Liuli back to the small building. Su Yehao drove to the Four Seas International Hotel.

There are restaurants and chefs at home. Second Aunt booked a private room today and simply invited some relatives and friends, just one table of people.

Jiang Yu became the goddaughter of Su Family's Second Aunt, and Master Jiang and his wife also came.

Speaking of which, it's interesting. It was obviously his father who called and asked Su Yehao to come back for Second Aunt's birthday, but Su's father didn't show up himself tonight, saying that he had gone to Zhushi next door to participate in a land auction and discuss investment promotion.

Recently, the local business in Casino has been sluggish. Many workers of the engineering team raised by Four Seas International have no work to do, and the family is almost unable to make ends meet.

Some are veterans who have been with Su's father for more than twenty years. It is impossible to just cut them off. If there is no project to do, thousands of people will be unemployed, and the usual suppliers will also cause trouble.

Therefore, the cultural tourism city in Pengcheng is considered a main course, and there must also be appetizers and desserts. Master Jiang is sitting next to Su Yehao, telling him:

"The trend is not right during this period, and many places dare not invest indiscriminately. Your father plans to go to the next door to buy land and build a new community to attract locals from Casino to buy houses for retirement and settlement. The house prices are more than half cheaper than ours here, and they have dropped a bit recently. Travel will be more convenient in two years. Young people should like it, and they can withstand the toss. In addition, some land has recently been taken out and sold cheaply at a discount. Your father is waiting for the opportunity to build a few high-end new buildings on Taipa Island, but he is still waiting for now."

More than two months have passed since the celebration in early July.

Affected by the general environment in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong's economy is not very prosperous, but the changes that people were worried about have not arrived.

For local businessmen, this is undoubtedly a shot in the arm. Some businessmen who left before have recently become active again, wanting to take advantage of the economic downturn to find suitable investment opportunities.

As long as his own father is involved in the real estate field, Su Yehao feels that there will be no problems, so he doesn't care.

He nodded and told Master Jiang, "Risks and opportunities coexist. The land on Taipa Island... it's best to wait a little longer. The future should be very good."

Just casual chat.

Jiang Yu occasionally used her eyes to silently remind Su Yehao not to talk nonsense, especially about being bullied in the dormitory, or about living together recently.