After leaving the restaurant, Luca went back to his new home and checked for any eavesdropping devices left behind by the zone free officer but didn’t find any “It seems that it was just some low level idiot trying to curry favor with some higher-up.”
After finishing checking the whole apartment he found 2 car keys but his closet was empty, he could help sighing at the sight “Seriously … you prepare 2 cars for me to run around but not even a single pair of socks? Uncle Eric may be smart but sometimes … *sigh* I should have asked aunt Silvia to deal with the daily necessities and essential items for the house else instead of leaving everything for uncle. I would at least have a pair of underwear to change into after showering.”
He picked the 2 car keys and headed to the basement parking “Guess I’ll have to do some shopping before I can relax a little.”
After exiting the elevator and looking around the parking, it was almost the same as looking at a luxury car show; the cheapest car here was something that common people could only dream about..
“From the keys one should be a porsche and the other a mercedes.” Luca inspected the keys and pressed the alarm button on both keys and soon two cars sounded their alarms.
Luca smiled and pressed again the alarm button to stop them while making his way to the cars.
“Uncle may not have that much of a common sense when it comes to daily necessities but his taste in car sure is something else.” in front of Luca was a convertible Porsche 911 Targa 4 and a Mercedes-Maybach S 560 “Shame that the weather is too cold for the convertible.”
Luca quickly drove his maybach to the south entrance and presented his resident pass; the guard smiled and let him go into the underground parking of the shopping mall after speaking some words of flattery to try and get on Luca’s good side.
“From what I saw while searching the house, I have most home appliances I need to live comfortably. All I need now are clothes, if what that guard said is true then I can just buy everything and have them delivered to me inside Moonlight Garden as a special service, so I can buy everything in one go.” Luca was mumbling to himself and would occasionally stop and enter a random shop that attracted his interest but had yet to buy anything when an advertising poster hanging outside one shop caught his attention.
“Oh shit! I almost forgot the gaming capsules for that game would begin pre-ordering.” Luca took a closer look at the entrance of the shop and couldn’t help but reveal a cramped smile “I’ll try buying it some other time.”
Even though the commercial only began airing yesterday on TV the hype for their game began months earlier through the internet and true to its popularity he couldn’t see the end of the line to pre-order their gaming capsules.
“It’s not like they are going to run out of capsules if I don’t order today.” Luca just gave up on the idea of ordering his and kept walking around the mall until he found a shop that finally had some good clothes in display.
“How may I help you, sir?” a polite young lady quickly came up to assist him; maybe because he was a foreigner the sales girl actually asked him in english which gave him a good impression of the shop and its customer service.
Luca looked at the woman in front of him up and down and she was a beauty. She was the typical petite girl but her mature make up was perfect, her hair arranged in a high bun.
He smiled at her and spoke in fluent mandarin “I’m looking for some clothes for the cold season. Also does the shop deal with sportswear?”
The young woman blushed when she heard Luca speaking in mandarin because she thought that as a foreigner he would only speak english or a really bad mandarin.
She turned to Luca and guided him inside the shop and this time she spoke in mandarin “Sir customer, we have our own brand of sportswear and it is considered one of the best in the market.Which clothes would you like to choose first, customer?”
“It is not that I want to tease you but I would like to look at some underwear first, boxers in particular.” Luca smiled a little apologetic at her because some people would actually be embarrassed to help someone else choose underwear, even more so if the other person was from the opposite gender.
“Please follow me.” she was clearly embarrassed but still guided him to the man’s underwear section.
Noticing her bright red cheeks looking at him picking a few boxers, he couldn't hold his laugh anymore “Pft, sorry. I didn’t mean to laugh.” he just picked a few more random boxers before speaking “I already got enough of them, next should be casual wear.”
She quickly grabbed the underwear from his hand and placed them in a bag and began walking to the casual section.
“Sir, our casual section arrived yesterday and we just placed them on display. Every piece of clothing in our store has only 50 pairs each which makes our brand exclusive and unique.” her cheeks were still red but she seemed to be calming already and began selling the brand’s name to entice the customer in front of her.
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Luca just nodded while listening to her and would occasionally pick some clothes or ask if there was the same clothing in his size.
The poor beauty that was helping him had to go to the back of the shop and bring out a cart to carry the clothes Luca selected as the original bag couldn’t fit anymore clothes inside.
“I think this should do for casual clothes.” Luca looked at the lady pulling a small cart full of clothes following him “I’ll need to trouble you a little more as I still need to buy some sportswear.”
When that employee hard that he still wanted to buy more clothes she didn’t know if she should be happy or sad; her arms couldn’t take it anymore as it was starting to get hard to move even with the cart but it also meant that her end-of-month bonus would be as heavy as this cart.
After picking a few sportswear Luca went into the changing room to try the clothes but surprisingly when he came out it was another employee that was waiting for him.
“Hello, sir customer. The previous employee had to leave so I’ll be taking care of you from now on.” the new employee in front of him was a middle-aged man with neat combed hair and was about 180cm tall.
Luca didn’t even bother looking at the man and spoke while looking at the his figure in the mirror “You can go back and tell the woman that was attending me to come back.”
“My name is Lu Qinhao, I’m the manager of this shop.”
After the man finished introducing himself, Luca sneered at the man in front of him.
Luca walked to the manager and slowly spoke two words “It seems that you have a slight problem understanding what others say, so let me rephrase it for you: Fuck.Off.”
The manager didn’t expect the young man in front of him to show such attitude as he was already working for a long time as the manager of this renowned store and no customer would dare show such disrespecting attitude towards any employee from the shop.
“Who are you telling to fuck off?!” the manager belated answer was a roar at the top of his lungs “Who do you think you are to tell me, the manager of Fairy’s Dream, to fuck off?!”
Luca just glanced at the middle-aged man roaring to deafs’ ears and began looking for that petite cute employee.
The more Luca ignored him the louder the manager’s voice became.
Luca’s hand grabbed the manager’s head with his hand over the other’s mouth “Can’t you just shut up and stop being annoying? If a fly keeps buzzing for too long it will be eventually squashed.” the manager tried to free himself from the young man’s grip but he couldn’t even make the other budge after using all his strength.
“What is this commotion about?” a clear and refreshing voice came from the entrance of the shop. A tall woman with waist-length golden hair, a well defined hourglass figure and lightly tanned skin walked inside; she was dressed from top to bottom in designer clothes and jewelry.
“Lady Diana!” the other employee rushed to the woman and bowed in respect to her.
Following Diana were two other females exquisitely dressed with designer items, at first glance they should be ladies which Diana was close friends with as they seemed to have the same lifestyle but Luca could discern from their postures and the positions they stood beside Diana that they were actually her bodyguards.
“Hoo, her background shouldn’t be simple.” Luca mumbled to himself while looking at the women that just arrived.
After being briefed of the situation by the staff, Diana made her way to Luca.
“I’m sorry for the inconvenience caused by the manager but I ask of you to please let him go.” Diana’s voice was calm while looking at Luca who still have the shop manager in his grip.
“Ooh, I actually forgot about him since he stopped buzzing.” Luca released the man who fell on his butt gasping.
“You scoundr…” the manager was about to curse at Luca when he met Diana’s glare, he couldn’t do anything except shut his mouth and retreat.
Diana smiled at Luca before speaking “The previous employee will continue tending to your needs. Thank you for your patronage. I also would like to thank you for giving me some face, Mr.South.”
At her last words Luca wrinkled his brows but before he could quest her she continued her introduction.
“My name is Diana Aaron and I’m the resident of the North Suite.”
His suspicion of her lightened but it didn’t mean that she was free of suspicion “I don’t think that I have introduced myself to my neighbors yet.”
Diana lightly chuckled and pulled her cellphone, after opening an email she handed it to Luca and explained “Every time there is a new resident on Regency the people on the same floor and the floors above receive a notification with the basic information. Our case is a little special as there is no floor above ours.”
Luca laughed after looking at the information on the email she showed him “I’m not a fan of exposing myself like this but I guess it can’t be helped. Regency isn’t a place that is accessible for most people after all.”
“Once again I apologize for the disturbance my staff caused.I hope you will continue to be a patron from now on.” Diana smiled and retrieved her phone before saying a few parting words and heading into the backroom of the shop.
As soon as Diana entered the backroom, the petite woman from before walked up to Luca and expressed her thanks.
“You don’t need to thank me. I just didn’t want that man following me around as I change clothes.” Luca smile at the girl before throwing another few pairs of clothes “It should be enough.”
They quickly made their way to the cashier and started calculating the total “The total amount is ?287,000.”
“Please send the clothes to this address.” Luca quickly wrote down his new address and handed her a black card with gold borders “You can use this card.”
When the young lady saw the card her jaw almost dropped.
That card was only issued for a selected few people and she only knew of the existence of this type of card was because the owner of this shop, Lady Diana, told her to run some errands for the shop and gave her a similar card, and the bank general manager ended up mistaking her for someone important.
She quickly finished the sale and handed the card back to Luca “Your clothes will be delivered immediately. Should we deliver them directly to your suite or to the administration staff?”
Luca pondered a little deciding if he was going to continue shopping but decided to go back to shower and sleep “You can directly send them up.”
“Your clothes will be delivered in 40 minutes.” she thanked Luca and accompanied him to the entrance of the shop.