Chapter 199 - 198: Expanding Our Branches

"Mn! It went pretty well." Hearing her joyful tone, Yu Xing Fu felt even worse. 

"That's good then. You look so happy that stars are about to fall off from your eyes." His sarcastically replied.

Xiao Yun frowned, "What is it? What's with you anyway, Ge-Ge? Did your date didn't end well?" 

Yu Xing Fu felt a thorn in his heart stung, from her words rubbing his wound. "Yes. Yes. Yes! What's with her anyway? Once happy the other irritated?" Yu Xing Fu blurted out. 

"Tell me what happens, perhaps I can help you." Xiao Yun nudged, not only did she plan to lend her brother help, but in truth, she also wanted to know more about the woman who could make her brother to lose his composure. 

"We were about to go somewhere and then she asked of my Exs and I told her truthfully I have two and she pestered me questions about them and I told her truthfully. But then she became cranky." Words slipped out of his mouth loosely. When he realized he had said too much, his hand instinctively covered his mouth.  

"You are also cranky now." Xiao Yun pointed out and saw him glaring with annoyance. "I think it's because you told her too truthfully, perhaps she isn't even angry with you but is feeling-" she trailed her words playfully. 

"Feeling what?" Yu Xing Fu hurried. 

"J-e-a-l-o-u-s!" Xiao Yun giggled and excused herself quickly. "Then as  I have explained to you, I'm going to tuck in now! Good night!" 

"U- Uh." Yu Xing Fu looked a little out of her words and whispered to himself. 

"Jealous?" he chuckled, seeing her jealous because he had a girlfriend in the past didn't sound bad rather it was adorable. "Jealous, huh." He stood up from the couch and ascended the stairs to his room with silly laughter. 

On one afternoon, Xiao Yun read the sales folder in Azure Building with her hand rubbing her chin. In front of her, Zi Gong and Chuan Huan Jing stood with a serious and doubtful face. When she finished reading the last paragraph of the doc.u.ment, she closed the book with a thud and stared at them. 

"That's amazing!" She exclaimed, giving applause to Zi Gong and Chuan Huan Jing. 

Zi Gong rubbed his cheeks shyly from Xiao Yun's praise. "I didn't also believe it, the result is three folds of our expected income! This is the result of Mr. Chuan's hard work." 

"No." Chuan Huan Jing waved his hand giddily and humbled himself. "I was only doing my work, without your help the dresses wouldn't sell this much." 

"What are you saying?" Xiao Yun pulled her phone excitedly and showed him their company's name spreading in the social media like a hurricane. "Your designs now took many eyes all over the world! You should be proud of yourself." 

Chuan Huan Jing accepted her words with an unending happiness. For people to look at his dress with happiness, he felt that he had gotten a little closer to his dream. 

"I think with this we should be able to skip a month earlier than our schedule and open the other two branches of the store." Zi Gong explained to receive Xiao Yun's agreement. "Also, boss. If your plan is to make the store as a brand named, I suggest limiting our clothes." 

Xiao Yun paused, "Do you mean, now in times where people are desperate for our clothes so there would be more people desire our dress?" 

Zi Gong had expected Xiao Yun to be clever but with such little information, she could guess the conclusion and found the part of his boss to be very astonishing. "That's right, our price and fame could raise this way. We would prioritize the people who have to make an appointment beforehand to buy the clothes. Also, I suggest to give some actress our dresses for more advertis.e.m.e.nt."

"Good plan, Zi Gong, we should do that. I also have another idea." Xiao Yun placed down the folders, "I'm thinking of expanding our branches to a new shopping mall." 

"Shopping mall." Zi Gong spaced out and agreed. "That's a very good idea, boss! I should investigate the shopping malls in the City now." he immediately stood up from his seat to tackle down the new order. 

"That wouldn't be needed, Zi Gong. I have settle down our choices." Xiao Yun took her bag and pulled out two most renowned shopping malls that fit well with their company's theme.

Zi Gong took back his seat and scanned the doc.u.ments with Chuan Huan Jing. It took them a couple of minutes to read the doc.u.ment and Xiao Yun explained from the side. "I have run down my choices into two shopping malls that I could see their potential of flourishing. As the two had just opened, we could use their opening to gather more customers." 

Zi Gong thoroughly read to the doc.u.ments and found the two to be exactly as what Xiao Yun's said. "Will we be choosing these two at once?" 

"No." Xiao Yun denied. "We should apply to those two and see which one would accept our offer. Is those two accept we could see the store directly and choose which one is better. I will leave you in making the contract." 

"Of course." 

Xiao Yun found Zi Gong to be a very hardworking person. When he didn't have any work, he helped around the office and sometimes acted as Chuan Huan Jing's secretary. Not to mention, he is very clever in setting traps like her. She truly felt taking him as her subordinates is a very good choice. 

"Then, that's it for today. I will be going now." Xiao Yun stood up from her seat and greeted her employees as she exited the building to her car. 

Her company was as she expected to flourish much better than the Azure in the past, partly was due to her self-advertis.e.m.e.nt in CEO Liu's party and her dependable workers. Recalling CEO Liu again, Xiao Yun could still feel shivers from the man. He is definitely not a human and seeing someone who's not a human for the first time was a great shock to her. Some parts of her thought him to be bluffing and speaking nonsense but his words were too genuine to be a lie. 

'But he knew that I was rebirthed... Does that mean he also knew why I was rebirthed again?' Xiao Yun sighed. Asking him would be faster but the man was a little eerie to her and she concluded not to ask anything for now. 

The next morning, Xiao Yun prepared herself with her school uniform. Looking at her own reflection the realization that her schooldays would end finally sunk to her. Today was her day to receive her graduation results and all the students are gathered at the school to have the ceremony. 

Walking down the car Zhi Ling Ling and Nie An who had waited for her in the school gate jumped and waved their hands. "Xiao Yun! Good morning!" 

"Good morning!" Xiao Yun greeted back and look at Zhi Ling Ling in a silence. After their exams, she had heard Zhi Ling Ling taking focus on modeling. Now with her wavey hair streaming down silkily and her beautiful face showed without her thick glasses. 

"You switched with contacts?" Xiao Yun asked curiously. 

"Yes... does it look weird?" Zhi Ling Ling jittery asked. 

"What's weird? Of course, it isn't!" Xiao Yun patted her shoulder and they both walked to the hall. "I'm nervous..." 

"Me too, if today I have any red marks, I don't think I would be able to face my parents anymore." Nie An sighed widely and veered from the topic. "Which college you will be attending, Xiao Yun? 

"Winter Stone Private College." Xiao Yun replied to have her friends looking back at her with shock. 

"That Winter Stone Collage?" They stopped walking and froze to a stone.

"Mn, yes." Xiao Yun confirmed obliviously at their stupefied face. "Why?"

"Not, 'why'. Xiao Yun that's a top college with only nearly one percent chance for people to pass the entrance exam."

Xiao Yun could agree with her words, she had said the same exact to Wang Li Lei and the man told her that she could pass the entrance exam and believe in his words. "I have a feeling I could pass." 

They walked and heard a female student screaming. "The result has been posted on the school's board!  Let's go!" 

Xiao Yun and Nie An looked at each other and paced up to see the result posted on the school board in a hurry. When they arrived at the school board, Xiao Yun clutched to her clothes. She had studied with everything she could but she couldn't help feeling nervous whether she could proudly show Wang Li Lei her exam marks after all the time he gave for her. 

But speaking about him, he wouldn't care about such thing and would congratulate her no matter her result is. 

"Xiao Yun, look at that!" Nie An shouted and pointed her hand to the board hastily. 

Xiao Yun looked up, quickly scanning the whole board for her number and had her eyes widened like a shocked squirrel. She moved back covering her gaping mouth to see her mark was more than average, instead of average she had all the three marks only a few numbers away from the full mark.