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CHAPTER 47: Can You Buy A Comfortable House
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Amelia asked in surprise, "Why did you go there?"

"To buy a house," James replied.

"Buy a house?" Bryan couldn't help bursting into laughter. "James, is that a joke?"

"Absolutely not," answered James honestly. "We were there to buy a house, literally."

"James, listen to me," said Bryan as he put down his chopsticks, his face full of ridicule. it's nice for young men like you to have dreams, but that's different from daydreaming. You've to base it on your practical situation."

Before Bryan came home, he never knew that domestic housing prices had risen so harshly.

Bryan knew clearly that Elliot, who had just returned from abroad, couldn't have afforded the house if not for his parent's support.

Buying the house has been a struggle for a Harvard graduate like Bryan, more to say the loser, James.

"You shut up," Amelia glared at James and said. "We know your incompetence more than anyone does, so stop bragging. You're only humiliating all of us."

After she finished speaking, she also gave
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