A whirlwind marriage with a high-ranking official: Lights out, don't force me to take the initi

Ye Wenxi and Lu Weihua returned to Harbin Department Store at around 4 p.m.

As soon as Lu Weihua entered the hall and saw the exhibition area and Ding Jiahe, he jumped up and down excitedly: "Sister Jiahe! You're just like those movie actors now! So many posters feature you, what's the difference between you and those movie actors?"

She was so excited that she hugged and clung to him, jumping for a while.

Ye Wenxi quickly separated the two of them: "Alright, alright, come on, let me explain the situation to you."

She first introduced the two classmates who were helping out, and then told Lu Weihua about the exhibition area's layout, the location of the shelves, which styles sold well, and which questions were likely to be asked.

"You just need to help out when the time comes. Don't answer any questions you're unsure about," Ye Wenxi instructed again.

"Okay, I know!" Lu Weihua waved his hand.

"I'm not going back tonight. I'll stay at the guesthouse with you, okay?" Lu Weihua leaned closer, looking expectant.

"Um..." Ye Wenxi hesitated for a moment, "Your brother might come and stay here."

Today is Friday, and Lu Weidong is very likely to arrive early.

"What?! He followed us? Oh my god..." Lu Weihua rolled his eyes. "Isn't he supposed to rest on Sundays? Today's only Friday. You two..."

Ye Wenxi was ready to cover her mouth at any moment. Lu Weihua glared at her and swallowed the rest of her sentence.

"I was just in case, what if your brother came early? He'd be blaming me for not leaving the door open for him..." Ye Wenxi couldn't finish her sentence.

"Are you still my second sister-in-law?" Lu Weihua tilted his head to look at her. "You're actually worried about making my brother angry over something like this?"

"No... sigh, never mind, I'll call him and ask." Ye Wenxi sighed, walked to the information desk, and dialed Lu Weidong's office number.

"Feed? Are you coming any closer?"

"Missing me?" Lu Weidong's voice came from the other end of the phone, with a hint of a smile.

Ye Wenxi rolled her eyes.

"I'll be there tomorrow night. Leave the door open for me."

"Okay, I understand."

Ye Wenxi hung up the phone without expression.

"You can stay here, he'll come over tomorrow." Her voice was barely audible.

"Sigh..." Lu Weihua clicked his tongue twice, "You two are like a pair of keys, one turns the lock and the other opens it."

Ye Wenxi's features contorted in disbelief; something about that statement seemed off.

She walked over to Ding Jiahe and asked, "How are sales today?"

"A little better than yesterday, we sold two more items. One printed shirt and one children's garment. One woman bought three items at once." Ding Jiahe flipped through the ledger, her tone tinged with happiness.

Ye Wenxi nodded: "Yes, as expected, our products are still mainly targeted at upstream consumers."

"Two other people asked us separately if we sold the packaging bags, but I refused," Ding Jiahe added.

After 5:30, the crowd gradually increased. Today is Friday, and many factory workers and government employees have finished work and are taking advantage of the department store before it closes to browse around. The flow of people is significantly greater than yesterday.

But most people just ask questions, look around, flip through the pages, touch them, and finally put them down and leave.

The crowd was buzzing with questions, some even directly questioning her methods and identity.

"You're not a factory owner? Then isn't that speculation and profiteering?"

"I have to pay upfront to order clothes? And I have to wait so many days? How can you pay and not get the clothes?"

Ye Wenxi took out photos of the military area's grounds and the garment company's qualification certificates, explaining them one by one.

No matter how harsh the other person's words were or how deep the misunderstanding was, she smiled and patiently explained again and again, like an icebreaker rolling over ice, moving slowly and heavily, but the ice cracked where the bow pressed down.

Even if only one person's expression shifts from doubt to understanding, and from understanding to admiration after listening to the explanation, Ye Wenxi feels that all the hard work was worthwhile.

She's not selling clothes; she's rebelling against the prevailing ideas of this era.

For every additional person who understands, a crack appears in the ice.

In this era, it's incredibly difficult to reverse this trend. But she had already figured it out: if she wanted to build a high-end brand and create something ahead of its time, she had to be prepared to fight this tough battle.

Since no one had ever walked on the road before, she carved and opened it herself.

Before the last bus, Ye Wenxi told Xiaohe and another classmate to go home first, and slipped them ten yuan as a meal allowance for the next few days.

"Teacher Ye, this is too much..." Xiao He pushed it away.

"Take it. You've worked hard these past two days." Ye Wenxi didn't let her refuse anymore.

When the department store closed, the three of them squatted in the exhibition area, eating the dinner that Lu Weihua had brought back while checking the accounts under the dim light.

"We sold three more items than yesterday," Ye Wenxi said with a hint of joy.

"Tomorrow is the weekend, maybe we can sell even more." Ding Jiahe's face also broke into a smile.

"Hmm!" Ye Wenxi nodded.

Although there are only three items, even a small improvement is enough to give them a boost in the face of a difficult start.

After packing their things, the three of them trudged back to the guesthouse.

After washing up, Ye Wenxi and Lu Weihua lay on the bed with the light still on.

"Wei Hua, did Du Yi stop bothering you after that?" Ye Wenxi turned to the side and looked at the ceiling.

"He's not in school anymore. I heard he was expelled," Lu Weihua murmured.

"Huh?" Ye Wenxi was taken aback. Her mind raced, and she remembered mentioning it to Lu Weidong that day; he must have done something.

She didn't press further, but glanced at Lu Weihua, who was engrossed in reading a pornographic book.

Lu Weihua felt her gaze and turned his head: "What?"

Ye Wenxi didn't say anything, she just pouted and looked at her.

Lu Weihua put down his book: "I'm fine..."

"It's nothing, but you still drank so much that day," Ye Wenxi added.

"Sigh... Meeting the wrong person always comes at a price, but thankfully we managed to cut our losses in time," Lu Weihua said in a refined manner.

Ye Wenxi smiled and said, "A small loss is better than a big loss later. From another perspective, given your personality, this is actually a good thing."

"Of course, someone like your brother is hard to find, but I think you should raise your standards a bit." Ye Wenxi rolled over and propped her chin up to look at her.

Lu Weihua pursed his lips and glanced at her sideways: "Can't you live without showing off your love?"

"Why don't you try developing your career in the military region? There are plenty of handsome, well-educated men there."

"I'd like to, but you two won't let me go." Lu Weihua rolled her eyes. "Besides, we're so far apart, we can't see each other often. It's so hard to be in a relationship if we can't see each other."

Ye Wenxi: "Wipe your drool."

Lu Weihua: "Second sister-in-law, can I ask you something?"

Ye Wenxi: "What's up?"

Lu Weihua: "That guy who has a crush on you, any news lately?"

Ye Wenxi: "........"

"Time to sleep." Ye Wenxi reached out to turn off the light.

Lu Weihua slipped away and crawled directly into her bed.

Tell me about it~~

"Second sister-in-law!?"

"Oh my gosh~ My best friend!~"

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