CH 25.3

Chapter 25.3 – Model

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Having the laptop, Su Qin’s daily job is much more convenient.

The wireless network card was a yearly unlimited package and the network speed was slightly slower than broadband, but it didn’t hinder her from using QQ and Taobao.

In order to make the new clothes look better, Su Qin bought plain white cloth from the market which she hung on the wall when she took the lady boss’ photos. This way, it would be more convenient for her to photoshop more quality photos later.

After the lady boss got jilted, she lost 3 kg in a month and her modeling qualities gradually emerged too.

The exquisite quality of the photos in the Taobao store was elevated again. She would also prominently photoshop the red wordings ‘original price 399, after discount 159’ on the lower right corner of each photo.

This substantial discount attracted Taobao’s consumers and the featured page that Su Qin wrote was even more exciting:

“Amani original design, original price 399 yuan. To reciprocate our regular customers, only 159 yuan today. Discount deadline till 24:00 tonight.”

How could the customers who shopped for bargains on Taobao know what ‘Amani’ was? A glance at the original design wording with the classy clothes in the picture and such a discount, they were somewhat intrigued.

Realizing that the discount would end at 12:00 am, they hastily snatched it first.

Those female customers who bought Su Qin’s clothes at the price of ‘159 yuan’ felt they had reaped a great bargain. Putting on the clothes, they felt pretty good and even truly thought they had bought a big brand that they started to show off to the people around, “See, these 399 clothes in the department store which I just got on Taobao for 159 yuan.”

Immediately afterwards, those around the customer couldn’t resist to ask curiously, “Really ah? Which Taobao store? Send me the link!”

The customer’s friends then went online and found that although the set of clothes was no longer on discount, several other pieces were marked down a lot too!

The original branded price of 699 yuan in the departmental store was actually only 99 yuan!

Everyone was shocked by the store’s discount, but when they saw the seller’s heartfelt messages, they believed it and placed the order!

The Taobao sales volume actually reached as many as 50 orders in a week. The lady boss felt somewhat unreal when she calculated the profit made from Taobao.

She went to take a look on Taobao and was subdued by Su Qin’s tactics.

The list price of 56 yuan dresses became the high-end departmental store goods with ‘selling price of 599, discounted to 99’ once uploaded on Taobao by Su Qin.

The overall pants with the sale price of 100 yuan once uploaded on Taobao became the original design of ‘market price at 399 which marked down to 159’.

Even so, the customers still acclaimed unanimously, saying that the clothes were worth the value and highly gorgeous.

The message was even more maddening:

“The seller’s retail shop is closing down and has run away with her husband. She owed me eight months of unpaid wages which I have no choice but to use Taobao to deal with these goods at a low price. Do bid for those who like it, there’s not much of such opportunity.”

Chen Meixin with a mouthful of blood, the level of making up this wild story …

Yet looking at the profit she had really made, she had nothing to say but to obediently give 30% commission to Su Qin. Since Su Qin helped her sell at higher prices than the retail shop with increased volume, she made a lot of profit too.

Just this week alone, Su Qin made about a thousand yuan.

At the end of June, Su Qin decided to offer the entire store a big ‘55’ sales promotion.

Being an entrepreneur, Chen Meixin certainly refuses to do business at a loss that she immediately rejected, “No, 55 for the entire store, I will lose all my capital. If you want to live on air, please don’t take me along.”

Su Qin tugged her sleeve and spoke as she laughed, “Good Boss, don’t we have a lot of outdated unsold summer clothes in our warehouse? We will take them out for a look.”

Those old stocks in the warehouse were all left behind by the previous shop owner. Chen Meixin thought those clothes were too hideous but she was reluctant to throw them away and intended to find an opportunity to give them to the children in the mountain area.

Hearing that Su Qin wanted to sell those clothes on Taobao, she was the first to object, “Those can’t even be sold in the retail store but can be sold online? Qin’er, I usually praise your capabilities but you can’t get so pompous and overestimate your own abilities, right?”

“Sister Chen, you trust me. You can’t sell those goods anyway, why don’t you give them all to me? If I sell them, you still give me the 30% and if I can’t sell them, it’s my business. You won’t lose out either way ah.”

Su Qin clasped her hands together to plead earnestly, “Sister Chen, give me a chance. What if you can easily earn ten millions a year in the future because of this opportunity that you gave me? You just let me take those clothes home, okay?”

Chen Meixin pushed her glabella with her finger, “Be off with you, even earning ten million a year? I’ll be thankful if you don’t lose my money. How can you alone take those hundreds of pieces of clothes in the warehouse?”

“I’ll get someone to move them!”

Rolling her eyes, Chen Meixin threw her the upstairs warehouse’s keys, “I’m off tomorrow, you take the warehouse keys and don’t lose it.”

Su Qin caught the keys, “Thank you Boss!”

Su Qin then called Yun Fei immediately and asked if he could borrow a car from his father to transport those hundreds of pieces of clothes.

As for Li Chuan … she undoubtedly chose to overlook.

Mr. Li after all was too busy with his studies and work, thus would have no time to help her do this.

As a result, the next day, Yun Fei borrowed a pickup truck from his father and had the driver drive it to the storefront.

With the help of Yun Fei and the driver, the several hundred pieces of clothes were quickly moved onto the truck. Su Qin closed the shop’s door then got into the truck and had the driver drive towards her house.

Su Qin had long borrowed the sewing machine from the grandma next door and all the stuff that should be put away in the room had been stowed away on the balcony.

She spread a blanket on the floor and more than 300 pieces of clothes were piled up in her room. She left 200 stacked up in the corner and only grouped those 100 pieces of clothes and threw them on the bed.

With no place to sit, Yun Fei squatted on the floor to look up at the girl sitting on the chair who was ready to step on the sewing machine, “Su-su, what are you doing?”

Su Qin shook out a denim jacket and handed it to Yun Fei, “Come, Feifei, try this one on.”

“ ….. Su-su, this is women’s clothing.”

“Just wear it for me to see, okay? I’ll treat you to cold jelly tonight.” Su Qin pleaded with him.

Yun Fei certainly couldn’t refuse her request and put it on for her to see.

Su Qin asked Yun Fei to put on this old denim jacket and instantly got inspired. The outdated denim jacket was the 1990s design which is no longer trendy now, but if it’s remade into a high-waisted style, it will look very fashionable.

With this inspiration, Su Qin began to work and soon altered the denim jacket into a novel high-waisted pattern.

The autumn ripped jeans were much easier to modify. Based on the current trend, it’s very chic to rip holes while those dowdy T-shirts of various colors, she either modified them into off-shoulders, one shoulder or crossed back crop tops styles.

After all, Su Qin had worked in a factory in her previous lifetime and was quite nimble-fingered that the T-shirt alterations took almost ten minutes a piece.

While the girl concentrated on clothes alteration, Yun Fei squatted quietly beside her.

As night approached, Yun Fei was tired. So he just sat on the ground and fell asleep on the pile of clothes.

At 10 pm, Yun Fei was woken up by Mo Zongyang’s phone call. He yawned and called out “Dad”.

Mo Zongyang heard from the driver that his son had stayed at Su Qin’s house for the whole day, that he was still upstairs and hadn’t come down yet. He somewhat felt if his son had done something bad.

He asked cautiously, “Son, what are you doing? Dad is here to pick you up.”

Yun Fei glanced at Su Qin, who was still altering clothes, and muttered in a low voice, “You come tomorrow, I’m so sleepy that I’ll sleep again.”

Getting hung up by his son, Mo Zongyang was crestfallen. He asked the driver to stay downstairs to wait for his son, while he went home to report to his wife.

When Mo Zongyang reached home, his wife was watching TV on the sofa.

Hearing movements in the entrance hall, Yun Qin looked over and saw he came home alone. She frowned and asked, “Where’s Feifei?”

Mo Zongyang told his wife about their son staying over at a female classmate’s house. He didn’t know Su Qin and Yun Fei’s previous relationship, and only treated Su Qin as the female classmate that his son met when he was taking the Yunzhong exam.

Feeling complicated, he held Yun Qin’s hand and said, “Wifey, next time let’s stuff condoms in our son’s school bag. What if he knocks up the female classmate, it’s a bad impact.”

Yun Qin frowned and shoved him, “How did you become a father? Your son is still so young, how can he take responsibility for the girl? Zongyang, I know you are trying very hard to be a father, but tonight, you honestly do not act like one. You should have brought your son home instead of letting him stay at the female classmate’s house, do you know?”

Mo Zongyang got up, “ ….. Then I’ll go pick him up at once.”

“You sit down for me!” Yun Qin took a deep breath and told him, “What’s the use of you going now? Wait for him to come back tomorrow and then have a good chat with him.”

“Oh … “ Mo Zongyang looked at his wife aggrievedly and poked her chest, “Wifey, shall we go to sleep too?”

Yun Fei, “ ….. “

The housekeepers were all very sensible to have retreated from the living room and gone to their respective rooms.

Since there was no one in the living room, Mo Zongyang pressed Yun Qin under him and kissed her intently.

Under him, Yun Qin had softened into a puddle of water and spoke gaspingly, “Our son … our son is like you. He doesn’t follow good examples at a young age, but goes with a female classmate … um … damn fatty, take it easy.”

At 3 am, Su Qin finally altered the 100 pieces of clothes. Bustling the whole day, she didn’t eat or drink. When she got up and saw Yun Fei sleeping on the ground, only then did she remember that this guy had not gone home yet.

Looking at the time, she was startled too. It was actually three o’clock?

Su Qin pushed Yun Fei awake, “Feifei? Feifei?”

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Yun Fei sat up and asked her, “Su-su, what’s wrong?”

“You go to the bed, don’t sleep on the floor, it’s cold.” Su Qin dragged him up from the floor and forcibly pushed him onto the bed.

Yun Fei was so sleepy that he staggered onto the bed and fell back asleep again. Su Qin took off his shoes and placed his legs on the bed.

Looking back at the pile of clothes on the floor, Su Qin finally heaved a sigh of relief then began to sort and match them one by one. The matching sets were folded together and placed neatly on the floor.

After all these were done, it was already four o’clock.

Using the clothes as a pillow, Su Qin lay asleep on the floor. Since there was merely a flimsy layer of cloth on the floor, it was pleasantly cool on this summer day.

The window and the balcony door were open. The breezing wind was refreshing and cool.

Su Qin slept until 9 am. When she woke up, Yun Fei had already woken up. As soon as she opened her eyes, the aroma of vegetable porridge assailed her nostrils.

Yun Fei had cooked porridge and took the pickled radish from Su Qin’s preserved jar. He cut it into pieces then poured some spicy oil on it, which added a distinctive flavor to the porridge.

On the balcony, Su Qin had planted some cilantro that Yun Fei picked a handful to chop finely to fry cilantro egg pancake for Su Qin.

Staying up almost the whole night yesterday, when Su Qin woke up and smelled the cooked rice aroma, she was so hungry that her chest stuck to the back.

The room was a mess with so many clothes that they had no place to eat.

Yun Fei put two bowls of porridge, a plate of pickles and a plate of pancakes on the balcony brick railing.

As soon as Su Qin came over, she picked up the bowl and started to eat. Yun Fei’s skill was pretty good. The porridge was so delectably cooked that Su Qin even finished three whole bowls.

This was also the first time Yun Fei felt so accomplished with his cooking.

Since his return, he has housekeepers at home and has lived a ‘pampered’ life. This was the first time he cooked after returning home.

Su Qin began to take photos of the clothes after the meal.

She had matched a total of 45 sets which are all goods for the ‘55’ sales promotion. Without doubt, ‘55’ is only for a single piece and not a set. If the customer wants to buy a set, it will add up to two ‘55’ for the top and the bottom.

Su Qin may not be able to hold up all these clothes. Dragging her lady boss here now to model for the photoshoot, she probably won’t come. She pinched her chin and thought about how to solve the modeling matters for a while when her eyes suddenly fixed on the boy standing to stretch on the balcony.

Raising his hands to stretch, Yun Fei’s clothes were pulled upwards revealing a slim narrow waist.

The boy is very thin and well-built, hence he can absolutely model well.

Su Qin snapped her fingers and waved at Yun Fei, who was on the balcony, “Feifei, come here.”

Yun Fei felt something was slightly off with Su Qin’s gaze. He walked towards her and asked cautiously, “Su-su, why are you looking at me like this?”

Su Qin held up a piece of women’s clothing on him, “You be my model and I’ll take your photos.”

“! ! I’m a boy!” Yun Fei flared up and jumped back reflexively. He even crossed his arms with a ‘unyielding to death’ look.

“Feifei, don’t worry. I won’t show your face. You just need to flaunt the part below the neck to show your body only.”

Yun Fei clutched his chest tenaciously, “ ….. “

Su Qin, “Feifei? Don’t you want more people to look at your good figure?”

“No, don’t want.”

Su Qin felt discouraged and no longer forced him too. She began to spread the clothes on the floor and shot them one by one.

But clothes photographed this way were far from the 3-D effect on a person. Feeling distressed that she stayed up all night yesterday and didn’t want her efforts to go down the drain, Yun Fei then said, “You can shoot, but make sure not to show my face.”

“Okay!”

Su Qin went across the neighborhood to buy a wavy hairpiece and asked Yun Fei to wear it for the photoshoot.

After Yun Fei had changed the clothes and put on the wavy hairpiece, Su Qin realized that … Feifei is actually a top-notch cross-dresser.

Beautiful … very beautiful …