About three hours later.
The new hairstyle was finally finished.
I have to admit, getting your hair permed takes way too much time.
Still, the results were obvious.
When the stylist finished blow-drying Chu Youwei's hair, she froze in place.
She couldn't possibly believe that the beautiful woman in the mirror was actually herself.
She had never imagined that exposing her face could make her look so stunning.
In an instant, she felt as though her entire aura had undergone a breathtaking transformation.
Seeing Chu Youwei looking so radiant, Su Can was delighted.
The salon owner also kept his promise and styled Su Can's hair as well.
Su Can was already decent-looking to begin with, but after having his hair styled, his facial features appeared even more deeply chiseled and three-dimensional, easily rivaling some minor celebrities.
Now that their hair was done, the next and more important step naturally involved matching it with the right clothes.
As the saying goes: clothes make the man, just as a saddle makes the horse.
Without the right outfit to set it off, it wouldn't do.
........
As it happened, right near the university, there was a commercial street dedicated entirely to clothing stores.
Su Can remembered it very clearly.
Because Lin Shanshan loved looking good, she had dragged him—her designated big spender—to clothing stores countless times in his past life.
Going back and forth so many times, he knew the women's clothing shops along that commercial street like the back of his hand.
In one particular shop, there was a black maxi dress that served as their signature piece, displayed on a mannequin.
Lin Shanshan had once been deeply tempted by it.
Yet because she wasn't tall enough, she had never been able to pull off the dress's sophisticated aura, and could only give up in disappointment.
But Chu Youwei stood a full one hundred and seventy centimeters tall!
With those long legs of hers, she could definitely pull off this dress!
Thinking of this, Su Can didn't hesitate at all.
He led Chu Youwei straight to that clothing store, heading directly for that dress!
......
While Su Can was taking Chu Youwei shopping for clothes, at the exact same time, in a luxury office inside a high-rise building in the most prosperous district of Jiangcheng City, a middle-aged man in a suit exuding an overbearing aura looked at the text message notification regarding the balance change of his bank card.
A wild, ecstatic grin instantly broke across his face.
"The card I gave to Weiwei—she's finally willing to use it!"
"Is Weiwei finally forgiving me, willing to accept an incompetent father like me?"
Yet when he opened the message to check the details, he was instantly dumbfounded.
The one million two hundred thousand in pocket money that he had previously transferred to his precious daughter's card had now been almost entirely spent.
Furthermore, judging from the transfer information, all of this money had been transferred into an overseas trading platform!
Chu Tianxiao's very first reaction was: has his precious daughter been scammed by someone?
He knew Chu Youwei's personality!
This daughter of his was extremely stubborn!
It was only because he had wronged her and her mother back then that, even after making a name for himself overseas and returning to Jiangcheng in wealth and glory, Chu Youwei refused to acknowledge him as her father no matter what!
No matter what methods he tried, Chu Youwei always remained lukewarm toward him, maintaining an icy attitude.
She hadn't even touched a single cent of the money he gave her.
One had to realize this was a full one million two hundred thousand—enough to buy an apartment in full in any prime location in Jiangcheng.
Even with a billionaire father like him, Chu Youwei still chose to work part-time odd jobs to earn her living expenses.
One could say she was fiercely independent and self-reliant!
Therefore, Chu Tianxiao's first reaction was that his daughter had been swindled.
This was an overseas trading institution, after all.
How could an ordinary female college student possibly think of investing such a huge sum of money into an overseas trading platform for financial management and investment?
Besides, Chu Tianxiao himself had returned from overseas.
He knew all too well just how deep the waters were in those foreign financial institutions.
If nothing unexpected happened, this one million two hundred thousand was probably going to go completely down the drain.
Yet Chu Tianxiao wasn't heartbroken over the money.
Given his net worth, a mere one million two hundred thousand didn't even amount to a ripple.
However, the fact that someone actually dared to scam his precious daughter made Chu Tianxiao furious.
He picked up the phone on his desk.
Before long, a pretty young woman dressed in professional attire and looking extremely capable appeared in the office.
"Xiao Zheng, you are my most trusted assistant!"
"Go to Jiangcheng University and check to see if any suspicious characters have recently appeared around Weiwei."
"Daring to scam Chu Tianxiao's daughter?"
"I want to see which bastard has the nerve!"
Hearing these words, the young woman addressed as Xiao Zheng nodded firmly.
Then she left the office.
As an outstanding business assistant, the training she received from childhood was akin to that of an operative.
Her professional capabilities covered all sorts of areas, including but not limited to disguise and stealing intelligence through various means.
The reason Chu Tianxiao handed this task to her was naturally because he hoped she could disguise herself as a college student, infiltrate Jiangcheng University, lurk by Chu Youwei's side, and catch this person harboring malicious intentions!
........
Su Can and Chu Youwei were completely oblivious to all of this.
The two of them were currently haggling with the female store owner!
"Young man!"
"Look at how gorgeous your girlfriend looks in this outfit, how much aura she has!"
"I'll be honest with you—ever since I brought this dress in, not a single pretty girl has been able to pull it off for half a year!"
"Since you managed to find such a pretty girlfriend, don't sweat over this little bit of money!"
"One thousand yuan. That's already the rock-bottom price, I can't go any lower. Any lower and I'll be losing money!"
I have to say, clothes make the person, and gold makes the Buddha!
When Chu Youwei stepped out of the dressing room with her new hairstyle and wearing this black maxi dress, Su Can's eyes locked onto her instantly.
She looked almost identical to the Chu Youwei he had met at that party back then—just without quite as much maturity and confidence, with a bit more youthful innocence and bashfulness on her face.
Still, the store owner's asking price was truly daylight robbery!
A black maxi dress, and she dared to ask for fifteen hundred!
Why didn't she just go rob a bank?
Through Su Can's unremitting efforts, the price was finally beaten down to one thousand yuan.
Su Can felt they could still knock it down a bit more.
However, Chu Youwei couldn't hold back any longer.
With one hand clutching Su Can's arm, the tenderness in her eyes was so sweet it was almost dripping.
Her posture was practically begging him to just buy this dress already.