Chapter 350: Chapter 274 Rainy Day, French Windows, All Elements Present Chapter 350: Chapter 274 Rainy Day, French Windows, All Elements Present Inside the hotel suite, Xixi listened to Ye Zi’s laughter and her final words, her face showing surprise.

“What’s so funny? I’m telling you, there really are such examples!”

“Not to mention anything else, but take Zheng Xueying, who you’ve also met. Why do you think her social circle is all about eating, drinking, and having fun this year, and then showing off bags and all sorts of luxury goods?”

“Isn’t it just because she got involved with some uncle?”

These past two years, it was the time when the “uncle circle” was in vogue, even in the entertainment industry, where stars associated with the uncle circle began to emerge.

Ye Zi nodded her head and said, “I’ve heard about her too, but you can’t really call that a lady boss, can you?”

“Of course, it doesn’t count at home, but at the company, don’t people secretly call her ‘lady boss’?” Xixi retorted unconvinced.

Listening to her, Ye Zi shook her head with a wry smile.

It’s not the same situation at all, okay?

Zheng Xueying’s boss and our boss are not even comparable.

Ye Zi spoke the truth, the things Xixi was talking about were so big, she wouldn’t even dare to dream of doing them.

“People like me can be just as I am with him now, and that’s very good.”

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Around one in the afternoon, Cheng Zhu drove to the hotel’s parking lot.

As he was about to reach the hotel, it began to drizzle outside.

“It’s raining again?” Cheng Zhu found it quite absurd, almost mystical.

On that day when “The wind sneaks into the night like rain, silently nourishing all around,” it rained.

It also rained during the autumn homestay night.

This morning, it was still a warm sunny winter day, and there was no cloudiness during lunch.

He got into the car, and before you know it, the weather turned overcast!

By the time the car was nearing the hotel, it had started to drizzle.

After parking his car, Cheng Zhu took out three Christmas sample garments from the Persistent Visit brand from his trunk.

Then, he started messaging Ye Zi on WeChat: “Come to the elevator to pick me up.”

In their chat history, there were a lot of similar sentences.

Either “I’m in the elevator,” or “Come down to pick me up,” or “I’ll come down to pick you up, wait for me in the elevator.”

And then, that day, there was bound to be a money transfer record with a not-so-small amount.

It’s hard to explain, impossible to make clear if caught!

People might think: “Wow! It’s a completely new version I’ve never heard of before!”

Upon receiving the WeChat message, Ye Zi replied instantly: “Got it! I’m coming down right away!”

She really got up immediately in the room and quickly walked out, not wanting to keep Cheng Zhu waiting.

“The boss has arrived,” Ye Zi said as she walked hurriedly.

Watching her friend’s retreating figure, model Xixi sneered in her heart: “Why has Ye Zi become so subservient now?”

“She was never like this before.”

“Or is it that she’s always been like this behind our backs but just acts differently in front of us?”

“Hehe.”

Xixi decided that since she had the chance to meet this mysterious boss today, she would definitely talk about a raise.

If you wanted to discuss something on regular days, you had to go through Ye Zi, which was very troublesome.

And now she felt that Ye Zi was like that small management layer in a company.

Always thinking about how to suck up to her superiors, not caring for the welfare of us underlings at all!

“We’re still friends! She doesn’t treat me as one at all!” Xixi thought.

Some QQ models are reluctant to expose their social media accounts, not wanting to link their seller shows with their personal identity.

But Persistent Visit isn’t a celebrity shop, it’s super-hot on the internet.

Xixi was the kind of person who was very open-minded, with a similar mentality to those internet celebrities, focused only on making money.

So, she didn’t mind letting people know she was the QQ model for Persistent Visit!

As a result, her Weibo account also became a minor internet celebrity.

Every day she received many comments and private messages, with lots of people complimenting her figure and how attractive her seller shows were, better than other shops, making people more eager to place orders!

It’s just like that, as time goes on, amidst all the flattery, one’s mentality subtly changes.

Moreover, she was originally an amateur e-commerce model, but now she’s become semi-famous due to Persistent Visit and is overwhelmed with photoshoot offers!

Her quoted prices for others were all higher than what Persistent Visit offered, and others readily agreed.

What irritated her most was that Persistent Visit had an exclusive clause that didn’t allow her to model in seller shows for any other apparel shop.

Not just other QQ stores, but all apparel categories were off-limits.

Cheng Zhu did this to prevent loopholes, opting for a more domineering approach.

Actually, the most inquiries to hire Xixi came from QQ stores, followed by apparel stores.

Many QQ stores even invited her to name her price to recruit her!

In their eyes, if they copied Persistent Visit’s styles and then poached their model, even imitating their photography and editing techniques, they were sure to ride on their coat-tails!

Just blatantly mooch off them!

Some of the unaware might even think it’s a new store opened by the same boss.

The profits this brought were a hundred percent worth more than the model fees.

Xixi now felt she was flattered on one side and faced with crazy spending bosses on the other; she felt asking for a raise was already doing Ye Zi, her friend, a favor!

But when I asked you to negotiate with the boss, you didn’t, how could I be happy?

Thus, she planned to talk to that mysterious boss when she saw him, to express her dissatisfaction with her friend Ye Zi.

You’re using my seller shows to make so much money, I just did some quick calculations and felt it was a scary number, what’s wrong with giving me a share?

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Inside the elevator, Ye Zi, with her delicate makeup, stood beside Cheng Zhu, swiping her room card.

“Did you wear perfume?” smelled the scent in the elevator.

“Uh-huh,” Ye Zi nodded, then quickly asked, “Is it too strong? Should I wash it off?”

“No,” Cheng Zhu waved his hand, “Just right.”

He personally didn’t like people who wore too much perfume, especially in such small, nearly enclosed spaces, as it would make breathing uncomfortable.

But the scent on Ye Zi was not strong, and it was a brand of perfume he couldn’t identify that actually smelled quite nice, not overly sweet or cloying.

He could feel, as always, Ye Zi was very cautious.

The two of them hardly got to see each other face to face, and the time they spent together was actually very short.

She didn’t want to leave a bad impression or experience for Cheng Zhu, even in such a short time.

After the elevator door opened, she walked ahead to lead the way.

Cheng Zhu watched her graceful figure and could tell she had dressed up with care today.

Before entering the hotel suite, Ye Zi suddenly remembered what Xixi had said.

“Boss… Xixi might be thinking about a raise,” she said.

“Oh? Did she mention it to you?” Cheng Zhu asked, seemingly unsurprised.

“Yeah, a few times,” Ye Zi answered truthfully.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Cheng Zhu asked curiously.

Ye Zi looked at him: “Because I don’t think she should be doing that.”

Cheng Zhu laughed upon hearing this but didn’t say much, just said, “It’s normal for her to have such thoughts. If everyone was as sensible as you, that would be great.”

Ye Zi’s face showed a pleased smile at his words.

But in this world, often the crying child gets the candy, while the sensible child does not.

Cheng Zhu felt this was wrong.

“Beep!” The room card swiped, and he walked into the suite with Ye Zi.

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“Isn’t it, did you enter the wrong room?” — Model Xixi.

When the suite’s door opened, Xixi’s first thought upon seeing the young man entering was disbelief.

With a height over six feet, a well-defined face, naturally slightly upturned eyebrows, and a devilishly handsome aura.

Are you sure they didn’t bring a male model today for a joint photo shoot with me?

Xixi had also been accepting some non-apparel jobs lately, and indeed, for certain product seller shows, there would be collaborative shoots between men and women.

Moreover, she had seen numerous male and female models, as well as many child models, at the photography studios.

But the man that walked in was really more handsome than those models, exuding something those people simply did not have!

Sitting on the couch, for some reason Xixi couldn’t help but rise to her feet, as though to greet him.

In her mind, she had a guess: “I get it! The one who came today isn’t the boss, it’s the boss’s son!”

A hundred percent, it must be the young master himself!

What kind of Hang City’s top-tier rich second-generation is this?

Tall, handsome, with a great figure!

Just that his family sells QQ lingerie, which, to put it bluntly, isn’t very respectable, or rather, quite disreputable.

Now, she no longer sneered at Ye Zi’s subservient attitude.

Although in her circle, many skipped peers to directly charm their fathers, upgrading generations.

But if this young man is both tall and handsome with a good physique, that’s another kind of enjoyment.

Scientific studies have proven that frequently looking at handsome men and beautiful women can lead to a longer life.

The woman who was just inwardly mocking Ye Zi’s too subservient attitude, couldn’t help but take a few steps forward, with a welcoming smile appearing on her face.

But this smile on the face that had cost a lot to make certainly did not have the naturalness of the original.

“Boss, this is our cooperating model, Xixi,” Ye Zi said.

Cheng Zhu nodded his head in greeting, then handed the suitcase he was holding to Ye Zi.

Ye Zi immediately took it, bent down to open the suitcase, and spread out the three sets of new items on the bed.

Cheng Zhu surveyed the whole suite, feeling that Ye Zi had decorated it with a festive atmosphere.

Even the large floor-to-ceiling window was adorned with many Christmas decorations.

She obviously had made an effort.

Model Xixi’s attention was entirely focused on Cheng Zhu.

“The boss? Could he really be the behind-the-scenes owner of the store?”

“Such a young QQ lingerie store owner?”

During this process, Cheng Zhu took a brief look at model Xixi.

Fake face, fake breasts, far from what Ye Zi had to offer.

The images for the seller shows are edited to avoid red lines, looking like those of a mannequin, and that’s somewhat acceptable.

But in person, she was just so-so.

She didn’t have the slightest bit of irreplaceability.

If she played a bit more the drama queen or became even more problematic, Cheng Zhu was not going to indulge her.

“Boss, which set should we shoot first?” Ye Zi asked.

Cheng Zhu, however, replied: “Let’s wait a moment.”

Then, he turned his head towards Xixi, a smile forming on his face, and asked: “I heard from Ye Zi, you want to raise your modeling fee?”

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