Chapter 790 Harbour City
In the afternoon, Chen Pingsheng took his family to Harbour City.
Harbour City is located in Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui and is the largest shopping center in Xiangjiang at the moment.
It consists of five parts: the Maritime Building, Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel, Ocean Center, Starlight Building, and Harbour City.
A myriad of international luxury brands gather here, such as Chanel, Dior, Patek Philippe, etc.
It also includes eighty high-end restaurants such as Michelin.
On holidays, the foot traffic in Harbour City is enormous, with many tourists from the Mainland.
Their family hadn't gone shopping together for a while.
Mainly because they didn't lack anything at home, but shopping is also a kind of fun; buying things you like, how could it not be enjoyable?
Chen Pingsheng wanted to build something similar to Harbour City in Shenzhen.
It would include a top-tier shopping mall, amusement park, entertainment park, as well as a five-star hotel with an investment of over ten billion.
And that's just a coming-of-age gift for Little Wuyou.
A super shopping mall like this, if done well, is very profitable.
If not done well and no customers come, then that's a big problem. Shenzhen undoubtedly has the spending power.
He even wanted to build a super yacht port in Shenzhen, dedicated to offshore yacht rental and creating a new maritime amusement park.
This project would undoubtedly require an even larger investment.
Once a sea gambling license could be obtained, any extra investment would be worth it.
For those who love gambling, it might seem like a bottomless pit, but for investors like them, it's a real treasure trove, a golden goose.
If he could obtain the gambling license, he'd invest at least a hundred billion to build the world's top sea Las Vegas cruiser.
Construct a super sea casino city that could simultaneously accommodate 300,000 people.
Such a project would be worth any amount of investment. If domestic gambling licenses are hard to obtain, then they would apply for overseas licenses.
Anyway, both he and Tong Zelan were very optimistic about this project's prospects.
It was already being actively worked on.
Chen Pingsheng now rarely used luxury goods to package himself; his three names were the best packaging.
However, Chen Lu still fancied some small items, such as Armani men's wallets.
He wanted to buy some as gifts for some of his colleagues and friends, these things weren't very expensive, a few thousand each, ideal for gifts.
Su Xiaoxi reminded him to buy something for herself as well.
Chen Lu didn't use to like wearing suits much, but this time he bought three bespoke suits from Brioni.
Brands like Brioni are generally unheard of by most people, belonging to the prestigious line of formal wear.
The price of its suits is extremely high.
Chen Lu, being a father now, could pull off the elegance that suits demand, which didn't suit his youthful appearance before.
He was like the real-life aristocratic playboy often depicted in short dramas.
Ordinary for too many years, one day, he would still return to his original identity as an heir to a wealthy family.
By chance, Chen Pingsheng ran into the fake socialite he knew before, Song Yaoyao.
The girl had left the circle and was working peacefully as the girl next door now.
As for her senior, after attending several luxury yacht gatherings with Chang Dalin, she made some money.
This National Day, she brought Song Yaoyao to Xiangjiang.
"Uncle, you're here too?"
Song Yaoyao was quite excited to see Chen Pingsheng. She always remembered that it was Old Chen who gave her a dress and introduced her to that so-called charity foundation.
Otherwise, she might still be stuck in the fake socialite circle unable to get out.
"Yaoyao, it's quite a coincidence to see you here."
"Uncle, I sent you many messages, but you never replied."
"I rarely check WeChat messages. Are you here in Xiangjiang just for fun?"
"Yes…" Song Yaoyao said happily, "I came with my senior, just staying here for a few days. Are those all your family?"
"My son and daughter-in-law."
Chen Pingsheng said, "Yaoyao, you go shop first, come over to my place for dinner tonight."
"Uncle, you have a home in Xiangjiang too?"
"Of course, come over tonight. I'll go shopping with my family now."
"Sure." Song Yaoyao agreed cheerfully, she had always wanted to repay Chen Pingsheng for the dress but hadn't found a good opportunity.
After Chen Pingsheng left, Yaoyao's senior immediately asked, "Yaoyao, how come I didn't know you know such a person?"
"Are you talking about Uncle? He's a good person."
Song Yaoyao laughed and said, "I met him at a party before, and then ran into him in a building later, he was working as a driver."
"Him as a driver?"
The senior, having been in the socialite circle for so long, knew that while one can change appearance, their aura is hard to fake.
"You must have a problem with your eyes, no wonder you haven't earned a cent in the circle and even spent so much money."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean you're silly."
The senior said, "Just that person you saw, although without a single luxury logo on him, that leather jacket he's wearing costs 1.8 million and is a limited edition worldwide, even the most inconspicuous white hoodie of his starts at over ten grand. And didn't you see the attire of his family, any casual piece could cost as much as our annual salary."
"Impossible, can Uncle be so rich?"
Song Yaoyao indeed didn't have a good eye, and there was a reason she couldn't make money in the fake socialite circle.
She's simple and naive, only having been urgently 'trained' by her fellow townsman senior for a period.
She doesn't possess the basic qualities to be in the socialite circle; she can't even tell real from fake wealthy people, how could she mix in the socialite circle?
"Much richer than you imagine."
The senior said, "No surprise, those two women beside him are his daughters. One is wearing a world-class limited edition watch worth over 90 million, and the other a watch from Christie's auction worth 1.6 billion, plus their aura and clothing, it's simply impossible to fake. Carrying over a billion just on hand, what kind of family do you think that must be?"
"Uh… so should we still go to Uncle's for dinner tonight?"
"Of course, don't be silly."
The senior said frustratedly, "If you'd told me earlier you knew such a person, we wouldn't have ended up like this."
Song Yaoyao said aggrievedly, "I told you long ago, I said I knew a nice driver uncle. You said I shouldn't be easily fooled by people."
"You didn't make it clear back then, how was I supposed to know you knew such a person?"
The senior was really at her wit's end with her. The first class in socialite training was teaching her how to distinguish real from fake wealthy people.
Without even this basic skill, how could she pretend to be a socialite?