Shang Yin's grades had already reached a small scale. In a place like the capital where talents gathered, he was able to get a seat. Furthermore, his vision was much more accurate, and his positioning was especially good.
Lin Mubai's hotel industry in Hainan started to do the same. What was slightly wrong was that he didn't quite believe Cao Xiaolian's suggestion, so he only used one building to make a hotel apartment while the other two made five-star luxury hotels. The result was exactly as Cao Xiaoling had said. Although the tourism industry was slowly improving, it was not enough to support his large expenses. Every year Hainan's industry happens to have a balance of payments and can't earn much money.
Luckily, the capital city was also doing well. He was different from Shang Yin; he was only a hotel and a shopping mall, and he was even more famous than Shang Yin.
Cao Xiaoxia had successfully graduated, and with excellent grades, she had entered the Dance Academy, becoming a very young freshman.
Mother Cao was so happy. Both her daughters were promising and Chen Lifen had started the factory again in the past two years, although the business was not as booming as before. However, Cao Xiaolian was still working on her own sketches and her business was not bad. Every year, she would pay a little bit of the profits, and Cao Xiaolian would give it to her mother.
Things were turning for the better, except for a little sigh.
For example, Tao Qing.
Her daughter, Tao Yun, was a troublemaker in the school. When she tried to kill Cao Xiaoxia, Cao Xiaoliu had already felt that this girl was being unrighteous and that there would be problems in the future. Sure enough, at the end of the rehearsal period, she tripped over the second female lead in front of everyone's eyes because of the stage.
At this point, the dean was no longer safe.
Fortunately, the girl was not seriously injured, but her arm was broken. She stayed in the hospital for a month and stayed at home to recuperate for three months. She even delayed going to participate in the international competition. All of a sudden, it caused a lot of losses. Even the department dean had an extremely ugly expression on his face. No matter how Tao Qing pleaded, it didn't matter. In the end, Tao Yun was still in serious trouble and stayed for a year.
This matter was even known from Cao Xiaoxia. As she was speaking, she was gloating over Tao Yun's misfortune and felt that he deserved it. However, in the end, he sighed and said, "She is not a good person at all. "But luckily I have such a good mother. It's quite enviable to have her running all over the place."
"Come on, you still have a mother who pampers you everywhere." Cao Xiaolian laughed. "Come to Beijing first this winter, and then we'll go back together for the new year."
The year before last, Shang Yin took a plot of land in the North Fourth Ring, and was not too satisfied at the time. However, Cao Xiaolian knew that eight years later, along with the establishment of the Olympic Bird's Nest, the north side of the city would rise rapidly and become the capital's new aristocrat.
Therefore, now that the price of the land had come down, Cao Xiaolan was on the verge of tears.
This place could practically be sold for several times! It's even cheaper than those in the Fragrant River.
The two discussed for a while, then met at the company and decided to build a villa here.
Nowadays, people were already paying more attention to real estate. Cao Xiaolan and Shang Yin also hired designers from Hong Kong on a high salary, so the houses they produced were far from the mainland. They paid more attention to comfort and sold at a high price, but they were surprisingly good.
He gave Shang Yin another shot, confirming that as long as the products were good, it didn't matter how high the price was, it would be fine even if it was sold.
This time, Shang Yin felt that it would be better if he could visit other countries and ask a few famous experts for help in this villa.
As a real estate business, Cao Xiaolian now knew how big the profits were.
For example, the building they had just opened in the East Second Ring Road had only sold for one third of its value. The initial investment had come back, and the later stages were all pure profits. However, they left a good third of the room and slowly let the rest out. After all, as long as the money came back, it would be fine.
As for these houses, they would never be reborn in the future, so there was no need to rush to sell them at their current prices if there was no need to use money.
Not to mention anything else, the price would double at two thousand years, so there was no need to rush.
However, since Line Two was very convenient, Shang Yin kept one for himself and another for Cao Xiaolan.
Both of them happened to be in the same position, one of the ninth floor and the other of the tenth floor.
Gold nine silver ten.
The house was already being renovated and would be ready by the end of October. Cao Xiaolian asked her sister to come over to have a look at the house and then went back to fetch her mother for the new year. She was surprised.
Cao Xiaoliu was now a rich young woman, and Shang Yin did what the two of them said at the beginning to try to make the cake bigger.
The project of this villa was an important bargaining chip for him to invest in.
He now had a cell phone. A black and white screen phone was a luxury item. In order to contact her family, Cao Xiaolian had bought one for both him and her sister.
Just as he was writing his homework, his phone rang.
When she saw the name flashing on it, she immediately smiled.
"Hello, Doctor."
"So fast?"
His voice was like a melody as it flowed slowly, sounding very pleasant. "At this time, I thought you were taking a bath."
"I have a lot of homework today, so I'm still writing."
"What assignment?" Do you need my help? "
"Forget it, I was tricked to death last time."
Cao Xiaolian had no foundation in English after all, so this was a serious injury. The last time her teacher had written an essay, she could not write it properly. As she was getting lazy, she let Li YuGeng write it for her.
The result was good. The next day, the teacher directly called her to his office.
Without saying anything, he let her read it so fluently that as long as she could read it, it would count as her homework.
After reading the second line, Cao Xiaolan blushed and admitted her mistake.
Can you not drag the paper away! He had written many words that he did not recognize!
Cao Xiaolian didn't want to recall how she came out of the teacher's office that day, but since then, she had tried to do everything in person.
A bookworm beside him couldn't use it, what kind of grief was this!
"It's fine, I can try to write it as simple as possible."
"Don't. Your simplicity is already very difficult for me." Cao Xiaolian bit her pen and said, "Besides, this assignment is just a drawing. You have helped me a lot."
"Why don't you come to my house?"
"Now?" Cao Xiaoling looked out the window at the darkness and raised her eyebrows. "It's already midnight. What's the purpose of letting a weak girl like me enter a wolf's den?"
Li YuGeng immediately laughed, "Hmm, the term wolf is very fitting to describe."
This sentence made Cao Xiaolian think back to two days ago.
Li Yugeng was now a doctor, and Tsinghua University's PhD students could have their own dorm room. Therefore, Cao Xiaoliu now had another place to date.
The first time she went to Tsinghua University, she was still a little nervous.
Towards the top school in the country, she was still a little envious. Although she already had a small fortune now, her inner strength was still insufficient.
She had been invited to visit, but at the end of it, somehow, she almost went off the rails.
She didn't mind, but she didn't want to be in the dorm for the first time.
To this, someone who regained consciousness said it was due to the primordial wolf's explosion.
"Hum, hum, hum." Cao Xiaolian unconsciously cleared her throat and tried to change the subject. "I heard that Doctor is under a lot of pressure. What do you think?"
"Hmm, I feel like my current strength has finally caught up with my thinking."
Uh!
It seemed that a certain someone was still a man, and couldn't escape his bad habit of bragging.
They chatted for a while longer before hanging up.
As Li Yugeng's teasing words still echoed in her ears, Cao Xiaolian could not help but blush. She closed her eyes and shook her head, expressing her disdain for his action of not making a move.
Don't think about it, the thing in your hand is more important.
The school had given them a few slots, saying that they would be sent abroad to participate in the selection. There were only two slots in total, but ten had been selected.
There was no need to mention Li Yiyi, he was naturally one of them. However, he was specially invited, so he did not occupy the spot. In addition, he had nine strong opponents.
Among them, Huang Tianyu was the most troublesome.
Huang Tianyu was the girl from two years ago who was humiliated instead of humiliating them. It had to be said that this girl was very tenacious. She had been studying hard these past two years, and if it wasn't because her talent was inferior to Li Yuyi's, she might have long surpassed her.
As for Cao Xiaolian, she had relied on her more open mind to enter this place. Otherwise, she would have been killed by PASS long ago.
Even so, it was a headache.
This time, the teacher asked each of them to design a new spring fashion show, which would be held. In the end, the two works that voted the most would be sent abroad.
So, the problem now is, from design to cutting and modeling, you have to do it yourself.
With only a month left, everyone had to give out at least twenty sets of clothes. This was indeed quite difficult.
She had already drawn the third version of the script and made changes to it. Li Yiyi had also said that he would help, but she had refused.
This time, she wanted to rely on her own strength instead of drawing on it.
In the past two years, Chen Lifen had designed her own clothes. Although it was much better than plagiarizing from a big brand before, she still got the approval of some people. Therefore, she was still a bit emboldened.
Unwittingly, the coffee was empty. Another night.
The next morning, when she went to school, she had dark circles under her eyes.
"Yo, why are both the flowers in our school like this? Did they go out to play last night?"
The person who spoke was a very ordinary looking girl in the class. She had a pretty good personality and was one of the few girls that could play with the two of them.
The two of them referred to the school belle and class belle. The school belle was naturally Li Yuyi. As for the class belle, they were distributed to Cao Xiaolian.
"Huh?" Cao Xiaoling was at a loss. "Li Yiyi also stayed up late?"
Wasn't she specially invited?
"I don't know. In any case, my eyes are a bit swollen. It looks more like I'm crying."
Cao Xiaoliu walked into the classroom with the book in her arms. She saw Li Yuyi sitting alone in the last row.
"What's wrong?" She put down the book and gently knocked on Li Yiyi's arm.
She raised her head and was shocked.
That's right, those beautiful eyes of hers were swollen like peaches at the moment.
"What's wrong? You became like this just fine? "
When Li Yuyi saw Cao Xiaolian, he jumped into her arms.
Her crying was loud, and her face, which she had worn this morning, was already noticeable. At this moment, everyone's attention was on him. From time to time, they would whisper to each other, discussing what would happen next.
Cao Xiaolian frowned. She didn't like to join in the fun, and naturally didn't like it when she was seen as one.
Besides, from the looks of it, it was impossible for them to attend class today.
She patted her back and gently said, "Pack your things. Come, let's invite you to have a cup of coffee."
When the surrounding students heard her words, they knew that they wouldn't be able to watch the liveliness anymore. Their faces were filled with disappointment as they watched the two beauties in their class walk out hand in hand.