Chapter 811: Chapter 339: Striking the Main Artery with One Slash

There are a total of four Mediterranean-style villas in Hua Zhou Juntin.

They’re basically all that classic design with white walls, a square overall shape, and columns wrapping around the front courtyard, just with some differences in the details for each one.

Relatively speaking, the façades of these four Type D villas are classic and square, really embodying the Confucian "golden mean."

Alright, in plain language—they look way too ordinary, even tacky.

But from another perspective, at least they’re not easy to go out of style; ten or twenty years from now they’ll still be old-school classics.

Also, the flat, squared-off walls are convenient for doing personalized renovations on the villa.

For example, the simplest beautification is to lay a layer of gray cloud-pattern marble on the exterior walls, or change the pure white exterior into a complex black‑white‑gray visual scheme to build enough sense of layering.

Without making big changes to the structure, the Mediterranean style clearly has a lot more potential to tap than the English style.

So, the Type D villas can be treated as a main purchase option for Han Lie.

But that depends on whether the price can meet his judgment criteria.

Logically speaking, since the main goal is spending for experience points, it feels like he shouldn’t care about the price—if he likes it, just wave his hand and buy it on the spot, shock Luo Zhen and the bunch of small fry into instant submission, make them lick his boots with all their hearts...

How flashy would that be?!

How effortless would that be?!

However, the key issue is this—

A luxury house is different from an ordinary apartment; it’s a comprehensive reflection of a rich person’s wealth, spending outlook, aesthetic taste, lifestyle philosophy, and a whole bunch of other core traits.

When most people think the houses in Hua Zhou Juntin are ugly and poor value for money, but you blindly throw cash at them with your eyes closed, then the outside world’s judgment and evaluation of you will twist accordingly.

Labels like nouveau riche, bad taste, stupid with too much money, inflated ego and so on will all come tagging along.

This is different from when Han Lie spends big on gemstones; tossing away a fortune just to win a beauty’s smile—that’s a good reputation. Even those green‑eyed, jealous girlfriends of Zhao Anni can only pinch their noses and praise Han Lie for knowing gratitude and being deeply devoted to Pan Ge.

Got it now?

Spending money has always been a highly technical craft. The difference between a true tycoon and a vulgar upstart has never been about how many digits they burn, but about the way they spend and the quality of that spending. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Since he feels the villas in Hua Zhou Juntin aren’t worth that much, then he’ll hammer them down to the price in his heart and take them in a way that makes everyone give him a thumbs‑up.

That is the real capital for showing off.

Of course, Brother Lie doesn’t plan to make a huge fuss over one house anyway. It’s just a bout of trash talk: if he can talk them into a limp, he’ll buy; if he can’t, then bye‑bye. It’s that simple.

"President Han, please look, this is our Juntin’s main unit type, the Mediterranean‑style Type D villa..."

At the moment, two of the Type D villas in Hua Zhou Juntin have already been sold: Building No. 3 in the first row of the compound, and the smallest unit next to the king‑of‑the‑block building.

The so‑called smallest unit has a floor area of 1,289 square meters, counting only the two floors above ground; the basement isn’t included...

And the one Luo Zhen is showing Han Lie is the large 1,680‑square‑meter unit, located in the center of the compound, unaffected by traffic noise from the road outside.

After a simple loop around the outside, Han Lie casually asked, "How is the outdoor swimming pool maintained?"

Luo Zhen hurriedly replied, "Under normal circumstances, our property management company will come to clean it once a week. If you need to use it, just call property a few hours in advance, we can also come for a one‑off cleaning. As long as it doesn’t exceed twice a week, there’s no charge.

Things like fallen leaves, standing water or snow, lawn maintenance and so on are all handled by our property team; the owner doesn’t need to worry about a thing..."

"Mm."

Han Lie nodded, once again neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

Luo Zhen was getting really uneasy inside, but there was nothing he could do. He hurriedly opened the villa’s front door and led Han Lie inside to look at the interior decoration.

But as soon as he stepped inside, Han Lie immediately chuckled.

"Tsk, tsk..."

The laugh made Luo Zhen’s heart crawl with dread.

"President Han..." Luo Zhen asked cautiously, "Is there something wrong with the interior decoration? Please speak frankly, I’ll absolutely accept any criticism!"

How was Han Lie supposed to explain it clearly?

It just looked wrong to him from every angle.

But since Luo Zhen had asked so earnestly, he couldn’t just brush it off, otherwise wouldn’t it make him look like a guy with only an attitude and no actual level, spraying for the sake of spraying—totally low‑B?

So, Han Lie decisively opened his system panel and, under the Knowledge tab, selected something called [Basic Aesthetics], and with a click dumped more than ten million experience points into it.

[Basic Aesthetics] was something Han Lie unlocked back at his personal gemstone exhibition.

The general managers and designers from Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Tiffany were all typical artsy con men; they’d explained, popularized, and shared a whole bunch of aesthetic concepts about gemstones, art, and design with him.

Han Lie only half understood and didn’t pay much attention at the time, and later discovered that a [Basic Aesthetics] had appeared in his Knowledge tab, and a [Intuitive Aesthetics] had appeared in his Skills tab.

These two things don’t help much with financial work, but when it comes to elevating quality of life and artistic taste, their significance is huge.

Even without today’s situation, once he had some free time, Han Lie would’ve leveled both of them up anyway—so isn’t this just perfect timing now?

Saving money while showing off—there’s nothing more delightful than that.

After dumping twenty million experience points in, Han Lie’s head suddenly swelled, and then a flood of insights and impressions surged up.

"Nothing much. It’s a classic Mediterranean interior style, it’s just too dogmatic..."