The Wealthy Tycoon's Game of Life

Chapter 1351: Chapter 524: Lesson Learned

As a highly urbanized top-tier city, Peng City actually doesn’t have a city center in the strict sense.

But by general understanding, when mentioning the most bustling areas here, it’s either the CBD in the center of Futian, which, alongside Beidou International Trade CBD, Yangcheng Tianhe CBD, Magic City Lujiazui CBD, and Hong Kong Island Central Business District, is known as one of the ”Five Major CBDs in the Country.”

...Speaking of which, upon arriving in Peng City, Zhou Wang is already very close to three first-tier CBDs.

Or it’s the old city center surrounding ”Luohu-International Trade-East Gate,” which used to be the core of Peng City’s early reform and opening period. Although some functions were later distributed to Futian, the strong commercial foundation remains.

But from the direction the vehicle is heading at this moment, it seems they’re not going to any of the aforementioned two places.

But this knowledge was something Zhou Wang got from reading books, so to confirm, he fished out his phone, opened the map, and took a glance.

Sure enough, just as he suspected, the vehicle was heading from south to north, already far away from ”Futian” and ”Luofu.”

Not quite understanding the situation, Zhou Wang didn’t speak up rashly. Anyway, Xiao Wang and Gao Xing’s vehicles were following right behind them, so Zhou Wang wasn’t too worried about any potential danger.

Ultimately, the facts proved that Zhou Wang seemed to have overthought it but also didn’t really.

According to the map, the vehicle finally stopped at some intersection between Guangming District and Longhua District in Peng City. In the distance, you could see some lush low hills, a viaduct nearby, and several scattered tall buildings, seemingly interspersed with some urban villages...

The four girls, including Su Yajing, were evidently a bit bewildered after getting off the car.

Is this place remote? Well, it doesn’t seem that remote. But saying it’s a bustling area, can you see such mountain ridges in a bustling area?

”Ladies, this way, please. I’ll take you to your room.”

Following the driver, they entered a somewhat old neighborhood, took the elevator to the fifth floor of one of the buildings, completed a brief registration in one open room, and then the driver led them to the door at the end of the corridor.

Using the code sent in a platform message, Su Yajing opened the door. After entering the room and taking a look at the cramped living room with its old furniture, Su Yajing finally couldn’t hold it in any longer.

”Hold on a second, boss, is this what you call a ’three-bedroom, two-hall’ luxury homestay?”

”It is indeed three bedrooms and two halls. You can take a look; there are indeed three rooms...”

By now, they all understood that the driver who brought them here was actually the owner, but there’s no point in arguing about it since it was Su Yajing who agreed to have the owner provide transfer services.

However, hearing the middle-aged man’s confident words, Shen Yutong, the most experienced in this area, couldn’t help but speak up.

”Even if the rooms match, the photos you posted on the platform are fake, aren’t they?”

Shen Yutong said angrily, ”Ranran showed us the link. The photos you posted there, how do they match this dilapidated old house?”

”Hey, don’t speak nonsense. How could they be fake?”

The owner didn’t admit to it at all, just laughingly saying, ”Every photo on there is genuinely taken. If you don’t believe it, you can take them out and compare.”

Of course, Su Yajing didn’t fall for it. She immediately opened the app used for booking homestays, found the promotional photos on the order, and began questioning the owner.

”You look at the living room in your photo, clearly, it’s not this narrow...”

”Then you have to look from this angle.”

The owner patiently indicated for Su Yajing to stand in another corner.

When Su Yajing went to the indicated corner, she was instantly puzzled. Indeed, standing here, the living room was still the same living room, but due to the angle, it appeared significantly wider.

And what’s blocking the view are some of the few relatively new pieces of furniture in the living room.

She compared the platform’s photos again and realized that the owner had slyly used a wide-angle lens during shooting, making the originally five to six square meter living room look like it was over ten to twenty square meters.

Plus, with retouching and color adjustments, it’s comparable to those low-quality, alluring outfits on Taobao, where the buyer’s photos and seller’s photos clearly aren’t the same, but you can still find some points of resemblance.

The bedrooms were similar. The only selling points of the master bedroom were the floor-to-ceiling windows and a fairly spacious big bed, whereas the so-called ”starry sky ceiling” was just a starry patterned sticker on the ceiling, enhanced by shooting angles and photoshopping, making it look dreamy in pictures...

The only photo without any tricks was the ”terrace pool.”

But the so-called ”terrace pool” was clearly a DIY job; the dark blue bricks looked good in the pictures, but when viewed with the naked eye, you could immediately see the cement seeping out from the seams, very rough indeed.

Su Yajing was almost driven to tears with anger, yet the owner remained confident:

”Look, young lady, I didn’t trick you; ’starry sky ceiling, terrace pool luxury homestay,’ tell me, what don’t you see here?”

”But didn’t you say it’s in the city center of Peng City? This place doesn’t count, does it?”

Shen Yutong held onto Su Yajing and presented the last question to the middle-aged man in front of them, ”There’s even an urban village next door. What kind of city center is that?”

”How is this not considered city center?”

The owner was not fazed at all. ”If you don’t believe it, open your phone’s map and look at the location of our neighborhood. In the scope of the entire Peng City map, this is the central area.”