After my divorce, I started to have good luck
Chapter 1223 - 641: Successful Individuals
Zhou Binhui has always had strong social skills. During high school, as the class president, his organizational and coordination abilities were unquestionable. Coupled with good academic performance and having parents who were public officials, he had high prestige in the class, and classmates generally showed him respect.
Of course, privately, there were classmates who didn't like him, such as Yang Jiayu, who was a poor student at the time.
Before college, it was very common for class officers to discriminate against poor students in the class, especially those who significantly dragged down the class average.
Back then, the class officers had a strong sense of collective honor, and it was completely normal to discriminate against poor students. They would even make sarcastic comments, directly or indirectly, at class meetings.
Among the poorly performing students with family connections, there were some who were good-natured and didn't hold grudges, like Yang Zechuan. After so many years, he certainly wouldn't hold a grudge against Zhou Binhui for his discrimination and sarcasm back then.
But for someone with a bad temper like Yang Jiayu, even after all these years, he still harbors anger towards Zhou Binhui, the class president.
Back then in school, being young and academically weak, he could only endure it.
But now, everyone has entered society, and Yang Jiayu considers himself not lacking in money, social status, or background. Facing the pretentious high school class president Zhou Binhui again, even if he doesn't confront him directly, he won't give him a pleasant face or nice words.
In private, he often speaks ill of Zhou Binhui.
However, Zhou Binhui has no idea about Yang Jiayu's thoughts and doesn't really care about him.
Now his main focus is on Zhao Zixuan, with secondary attention on wealthy classmates like Guo Mengyao and Cheng Yuhuan.
He speaks humorously and wittily, is tall, elegant, and handsome, and with the added benefit of his former class president status, he's naturally surrounded by most of the old classmates.
Chen Feng has quite a good impression of Zhou Binhui. When he served as their class president, he was very responsible, and his academic performance was pretty good. Although he sometimes liked to put on airs as the class president, he didn't come across as overbearing. Instead, he would do his best to help when classmates needed assistance.
During the college entrance exams, he didn't perform well and only got into a second-tier college in Beijing. After graduation, it seems he entered the IT industry.
Qin Zhen previously mentioned that he might not be doing well in Beijing, but now it seems this guy must be doing quite well. His confidence and spirit earlier didn't look like those of someone who's struggling.
"Chen Feng, long time no see."
Zhou Binhui, after joking with a few women, finally came over to greet Chen Feng enthusiastically, extending a hand for a man-to-man hug, making everyone feel he was sentimental and nostalgic.
In fact, back in high school, Chen Feng's relationship with him wasn't particularly good nor bad.
"I heard you're doing IT in Beijing, doing pretty well, right?"
Although a bit unaccustomed to being hugged by a man, it was just a gesture from this guy, without much force, simply a polite hug before letting go. π»π³β―β―π€β―π·π―β΄πβ―π.πβ΄π
"Not bad, but surely not as good as you, being a boss and all."
Zhou Binhui said this, but his face was still glowing with confidence. He followed up by saying, "I was bumbling around in several big internet companies in Beijing for a few years. Two years ago, I joined up with a few like-minded friends to get into blockchain, just in time to make a wave. We finally managed to buy a place in full in Beijing, so we have somewhere to stay. Otherwise, I wouldn't even feel comfortable going back home."
At this point, a guy who liked to play the sidekick jumped in and added, "The class president bought a house near Wanliu Academy in Beijing. I'm drooling with envy. That's one of the most top-notch high-end residential areas in Beijing, and you can't always buy a place there even if you have money."
"Wanliu Academy, huh!" another sidekick exclaimed with an exaggerated and envious expression, "I've heard of it too. It's a very famous school district. I think there's also an exclusive private garden in the neighborhood, with a large area and excellent greenery, truly one of Beijing's top upscale residential areas."
"No, no," Zhou Binhui said with a wave, smiling, "Wanliu Academy indeed used to be among the top living communities in Beijing a few years ago, but now it's just considered high-end. However, properties there are indeed scarce. I was just lucky enough to know a real estate manager, who notified me right away when a listing came up. The original owner was eager to sell, so I bought it outright."
"The property prices in Wanliu Academy are quite high, I remember it's about hundreds of thousands per square meter?"
When the sidekick classmate mentioned this, those unaware were all visibly shocked.
Especially several female classmates who exclaimed, then looked at Zhou Binhui with admiration and adoration.
As their class president, Zhou Binhui was already tall and handsome with a decent family background, now he's wealthy and still single, a successful career man and prime marriage material.
Unmarried and even some previously married female classmates couldn't help but develop different thoughts about their old class president.
Immediately, a female classmate elongated her voice and said, "Class president, you're really modest, so wealthy and even bought a house in Beijing, yet you never mentioned it in the group before."
Zhou Binhui replied casually, "What's there to say? I just bought a second-hand house, and I personally don't like the interior decor. If it weren't for avoiding hassle, and being just for one person, I'd definitely remodel it completely."
People around him heard this and fell silent, while the women's eyes shone brighter. Clearly, they were taken in by his modesty.
Yang Jiayu, who always disliked Zhou Binhui, now seeing him bragging, couldn't help but deliberately ask, "Class president, how big is your house?"
He thought that in a top-tier city like Beijing, homes couldn't be that big, especially since Zhou Binhui claimed he bought it in full, it must be a small unit.
Zhou Binhui smiled slightly and said, "It's not huge, just 230 square meters, with 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, and 3 bathrooms."
After hearing this, Yang Jiayu was dumbfounded. It was the same for the others present.
The class president sure knows how to show off.
"Hundreds of thousands per square meter, doesn't that mean it cost in the tens of millions, class president, you really bought it outright?"
This time it was Wang Fang who spoke, genuinely stunned.
Zhou Binhui laughed, "I dislike installment plans and mortgages, they stress me out and feel insecure. So, when I had the money, I just bought it full. It cost $3.5 million in total, not too expensive. If I were to put it up for sale now, it could fetch at least $3.8 million."
The crowd fell silent again.
This was clearly turning into a personal bragging show for Zhou Binhui.