CH 16.2

Chapter 16.2 – Headlines

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Since there was no WeChat in this era, Su Qin intended to apply the operation of WeChat business with QQ instant messenger, and she will post some in-store matching styles on their MySpace where interested customers will naturally come to inquire.

Currently everyone still likes using QQ space, which is equivalent to WeChat Moments many years later.

Every customer who was paying, Su Qin would ask, “Do leave your QQ account, I can help you match the clothes when there are new stocks in our store later.”

Su Qin’s vision is pretty good. She could match the right clothes according to the type of body shape of each customer.

If some customers liked a dress which the waistline was too tight to fit, Su Qin would smile at the customer at this moment, “It’s okay, you just wear it like this, I’ll help you alter it.”

Seeing her pick up the needle and scissors, the customer wondered, “Can it still be worn after you alter it? Goodness gracious, I won’t buy it if you ruin the clothes ah.”

Sitting at the counter, the lady boss wanted to stop her, but looking at her overly confident face, she held back.

If worst comes to worst, she could just deduct from her salary. The lady boss truly wanted to see what tricks this girl could do.

Though Su Qin is reborn, her dressmaking skill is still there.

She has no problem altering the haute couture, let alone these bargain clothing.

Su Qin cut off the buttons on the back of the dress and adjusted them a bit. She has good workmanship that those re-stitched buttons were contrary more finely attached than before.

The customer was very satisfied as she wore it immediately and went to the lady boss to pay for it.

In just a month’s time, this clothing store became famous in this shopping street. Every customer, who had been here, feels that only the clothes in this store which make them look slim and beautiful are the most suitable for themselves

Whenever there are new stocks, Su Qin will borrow the lady boss’ digital camera to take photos of the newly matched outfit, and then goes to the internet cafe to upload onto the QQ space.

She will incidentally send QQ messengers to the list of customers, “Beloved ~ I have uploaded photos of the newly matched style in MySpace. You can go take a look. I am in an internet cafe, and the time is running out, wu wu wu, so I won’t be able to reply and have to go offline now ~ bye!”

Those female customers would feel inexplicably delighted receiving these messages.

And then thought, this girl really has a skill in clothes matching and didn’t expect she is such a sweet-talker and so amiable too.

Every time when she came out of the internet cafe, Su Qin would sigh about the convenience of the underage access to the internet in this era, without presenting the ID cards but just taking out the wallet.

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The lady boss is not a stingy person. Since Su Qin’s performance was good, she gave her 2500 including her basic salary and the commission.

To earn a salary of 2000 yuan was already pretty good in 2006.

Su Qin didn’t expect that her first bucket of gold in 2006 would actually be so much.

The high school fee for one semester is 800, and the three years fee will be 4800. Based on this progress, her two months’ salary will be enough.

She has accumulated a lot of clientele on hand, and she is confident that her next month’s performance will be good.

Her rental is 120 per month and 300 is enough for her living expenses, which works out to be about 15,000 for three years.

Hence, she will be able to go back to high school this year once she has saved 20,000 yuan. She can still work part-time during the winter and summer vacations to save some money for college fees.

As long as she works harder and grits her teeth to get through this year, everything will be fine once she goes back to school next year.

She can’t rely on her family anymore. The moment she left home, she decided to cut ties with that family. After all, she had been exhorted of a lot of money by that so-called younger brother of hers being a softie in her previous lifetime.

She didn’t owe that family. So they better not think of scraping any benefit from her in this lifetime.

On the other hand, Li Chuan went to Su Qin’s home to look for her, but learned that she had dropped out of school and went to work in a coastal city.

Li Chuan asked his coastal cities’ friends to help find Su Qin, and at the same time, he also started his own business.

Li Chuan’s parents died early, and he was adopted by his eldest paternal uncle, whom he called father.

The family has a business and his paternal grandma is the head of the family.

In his previous lifetime, his grandma was so angry with his three paternal uncles that she had a sudden attack of illness and passed away unexpectedly. For the sake of getting the inheritance, the few uncles clamored heatedly in front of his grandma’s remains. Li Chuan felt chilled in his heart that he did not bother to participate in the family inheritance disputes. Not wanting even a cent, he moved out of Li family and severed ties with his eldest paternal uncle.

When the business grew bigger later, those several uncles reconciled and his eldest paternal uncle became the richest man in the province, and had asked him to return to the Li family many times.

Bearing grudges over his grandma’s death, he chose not to go back unto death, nor had he asked a penny from the Li family.

Returning back to 2006, Li Chuan will not be stupid as his previous lifetime. He will inherit his well-deserved share of the family fortune, even if it is merely some shares, the annual dividends will not be less.

He will also try to mediate the family relations and take good care of the old lady.

In this lifetime, he will try to keep the family together and let his grandma be subjected to less anger, so that she can live a few more years.

Completing his postgraduate degree, he intends to establish a security firm while studying for his PhD. With the advancement of the internet and the growth of major service provider companies, network security is now the most vital existence.

In his previous lifetime, Li Chuan was the expert specialized in China’s national information security vulnerability, with more than 10 years of research and development experience in the security field. He had participated in the development of several national defense projects and was considered quite an academic hacker.

Li Chuan has already contacted several close friends in the hacker group from his previous lifetime, trying to convince them to join his company.

With the experiences he accumulated in his previous lifetime, Li Chuan is undoubtedly the best hacker in China.

Taking part in several projects while doing his postgraduate studies, he had quite a lump sum in hand.

Li Chuan in this lifetime is overweening ambitious. He no longer rigidly focuses on teaching and education, but wants to develop a typical security protection software. He wants to make his product the country’s most rogue security software used in computers and mobile phones for the next 10 or 20 years.

Li Chuan took out 100,000 yuan from the venture fund and deposited it in a separate passbook, which he intended to give to Su Qin so that she could finish her studies without a hitch.

But Su Qin had disappeared at this time, and even her own parents didn’t know where she had gone.

A month later, Li Chuan found Captain Lu and asked for Meng Sisi’s phone number. After inquiring around, he heard about Su Qin’s current situation.

No wonder the people he entrusted have not found her in the coastal cities, this girl has not left Yunyang at all.

There is nobody that Zhang Cheng can’t find in Yunyang City.

In less than 3 days, Zhang Cheng handed Su Qin’s address to Li Chuan. He mocked, “What? After saving people from the fire and water, Teacher Li even plans to be a good person to the end ah?”

Li Chuan looked at the address on the piece of paper and asked Zhang Cheng with a frown, “How is she doing now?”

“She is working in a clothing store. That little girl is well-known far and wide and is good at selling clothes. Now all the clothing stores’ owners on that shopping street want to grab her with high salaries.” Seeing his brows knitted tightly, Zhang Cheng added, “You really do not have to worry about this girl starving to death, she is doing well. Her salary is even higher than mine. My monthly salary is only 1,300, hers can reach 2,500, which is pretty good.”

Folding the paper with the address and stuffed it in his wallet, Li Chuan intended to go find Su Qin after his afternoon class.

Today is Su Qin’s 16th birthday. The lady boss gave her a birthday fund of 50 yuan and let her go buy something delicious to celebrate.

Su Qin went to the market and bought a fresh carp, tofu, a piece of pork and some vegetables, which total cost was less than 10 yuan and she felt quite content.

Su Qin then bought the newspaper on her way back.

Frying the palm-sized carp until it was browned on both sides, Su Qin added the chopped scallion and ginger into the oil, mixed in a bowl of water and started to boil fish soup.

While waiting for the soup, Su Qin lay on the bed, browsing the newspaper as she hummed a popular tune. Seeing the photos of the front-page headline, she sat upright in shock.

The headline was in large bold texts.

– [The highly eligible bachelor, Mo Zongyang, announced that he has married and attended the ribbon-cutting event of Yunxin Building with his 15-year-old son]

This highly eligible bachelor, Mo Zongyang, is a respected rich man in Yunyang, who is over 40 yet has never married. Unexpectedly taking his 15-year-old son to attend the ribbon-cutting event of the newly built building, set off a wave of gossip in the city.

People were gossiping, when did this Mo Zongyang get married? How was there a sudden appearance of a 15-year-old son?

In the headline photo, the lean stature Yun Fei, dressed in a simple suit with his handsome features, took up a good portion of the front page.

Putting the newspaper aside, Su Qin lay on the bed digesting the headlines.

Yun Qin’s grandma was most likely taken away by Mo Zongyang. And Mo Zongyang, who has been single till now, is probably waiting for the return of Yun Qin’s mother and son?

As Su Qin lay dazedly in bed, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

She slipped on her slippers and got up. Leaning against the door, she asked warily, “Who is it?”

“Li Chuan.”

The man’s highly distinguishable low-mellow voice came through the door panel.

Su Qin was puzzled.

What’s he doing here?