Chapter 1126: Still have to rely on men
Today is the weekend, and An Xueer does not plan to go to the company. She has now opened an online store selling women's clothing.
She rented a first-floor warehouse of nearly 200 square meters nearby, which not only served as the warehouse for her online store, but also served as the office space for the online store company.
At present, there are 4 people in her online store including her as the boss. There are two customer service staff, one is responsible for moving and packaging goods, and of course she wears many hats, including but not limited to customer service and packaging.
She has opened this online store for more than three years. In the first two years, the business was pretty good. She could earn 500,000 to 600,000 yuan a year, excluding labor and other costs.
But since this year, there have been many more competitors in the same industry, and with prices becoming more transparent, some of the women's clothing she sells has become less and less cost-effective. Women's clothing of similar style and quality in other stores may only have the same price as hers. Three-quarters, or even two-thirds.
As a result, her online store had to carry out some price reductions such as giving out coupons or full discounts. As a result, the profit margin was squeezed lower and lower, and the transaction volume became even worse.
Especially since the beginning of this year, the transaction volume of goods in her store has set a new low record.
So much so that she has been worrying about this matter these days, not knowing how to increase the transaction volume of her store, or whether she should transfer the store, or open a new store to sell other things.
She rented a house of the same size as Tang Nini here, more than 80 square meters, and the monthly rent was 3,500, which was not expensive, but it could not be said to be cheap.
It was really surprising that she met Chen Feng today, especially when she recognized Chen Feng. Even she felt a little surprised.
Logically speaking, she and Chen Feng have not seen each other for almost ten years, and there are still many differences between Chen Feng now and how he looked ten years ago. Not to mention his temperament has changed drastically, he has also gained some weight, and his hairstyle and clothing Of course, these were completely different from those years ago, but she still recognized him quickly, which even surprised her.
She thought about it afterwards and felt that it was probably because Chen Feng had left such a deep impression on her back then.
When Chen Feng was in school, he was very "philanthropic" and he was handsome. If he hadn't been amorous and would change his female partner every month or two on average, he would actually be a pretty good guy. Friends selection.
If Chen Feng hadn't been so affectionate, she might have fallen in love with him back then.
Probably because of this, she reunited with Chen Feng after so many years and recognized him quickly.
After a conversation, she was a little disappointed with Chen Feng now and did not plan to have any more contact with him.
The main reason is that she feels that Chen Feng is very heartless and inhumane. His indifferent attitude towards Han Xiaoxiao makes her feel a little cold.
The second thing is that Chen Feng himself said that he has been married and divorced.
In her opinion, divorced men basically have no chance of being a good man.
These two reasons alone made her have no other thoughts about Chen Feng.
It just so happened that she and Chen Feng went to a nearby vegetable market to buy food and met two aunts who lived in the same building.
She has lived here for three years and has been in and out of the same building. Of course she got to know these two gossipy aunts. She is not an introvert herself, but rather extroverted. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to be the president of the student union, but her approachability is still very good.
Usually, I could chat with these two aunts for a few words when I met them. They even tried to introduce her to a blind date, but she dismissed them by saying that she already had a boyfriend and was just studying abroad. .
This time I met these two aunts at the vegetable market. She also had a routine chat with them, and found out that Tang Nini, the new resident above her, paid for it in full. The house, and Concubine Qi, who had played the role in the popular Qing Dynasty drama, was still her friend. In the morning, the two aunts even took the elevator upstairs with Concubine Qi.
Of course, An Xueer also knew about Concubine Qi, and she also knew that her name was Tang Xinyi and she was a star. And we also know that she later opened a company and became her own boss.
After learning about this, An Xueer immediately thought of Chen Feng.
Chen Feng himself told her that he was Tang Nini's friend, and then this Tang Xinyi was also Tang Nini's friend, and was now at Tang Nini's house upstairs. Chen Feng came to find Tang Nini again. There is no doubt that Chen Feng and Tang Xinyi know each other, and they are probably also friends.
It is normal to be friends with someone like Tang Nini who bought a house with full payment, but to be friends with a female celebrity like Tang Xinyi is a bit unusual.
Thinking about Chen Feng’s outfit worth tens of thousands, it goes without saying that Chen Feng should be a rich man now, otherwise how could he be friends with Tang Xinyi?
As for Chen Feng's specific net worth, she didn't know, but she thought it should be at least several million, otherwise he wouldn't be worthy of these two female friends named Tang.
An Xueer has worked hard in Xiuzhou for ten years, but she still cannot afford to buy a house. She knows that with her own efforts, even if she buys a house, it will only be a down payment, and it will definitely not be a luxury house. , and have to pay off the mortgage for decades.
This is not the future she wants.
Besides, she is not young anymore.
She wants to own her own house in Xiuzhou, but she definitely doesn't want to pay the down payment to buy a house and then pay off the mortgage. She has never had such plans.
Either she really got rich and made a lot of money, and then bought a house with all the money, or someone else paid for her to buy a house, or even gave her a house.
Of course this so-called "other person" is a rich man.
Unfortunately, she is thirty-one years old this year. After graduating from college, she had three boyfriends. Although they all had some money, they did not help her realize her wish.
The first boyfriend was not from Xiuzhou. She dated her after working for almost a year. He was a colleague of her company. He had a master's degree from a prestigious school and was handsome. His family's financial situation was also good. Both his parents were public officials. He is an only child and has two houses in a fourth-tier city, one of which is a wedding room prepared for him.
She had been getting along with this guy for almost two years. When it came time to talk about marriage, his parents insisted on letting him go back to his hometown, saying that they had already established a good relationship with him and joined a certain unit to work. If An Xueer followed, his parents would also arrange a job for her, but of course it would be impossible to join the staff for a while.
An Xueer didn't want to go back to her hometown with him, but instead persuaded him to stay in Xiuzhou to continue his struggle, and then find a way to buy a house in Xiuzhou to live with her.
Obviously, the relationship between the two ended.
The second boyfriend she dated almost a year after she broke up with her ex. He is a native of Xiuzhou, second generation, graduated from three universities, loves to brag, and is unemployed, but his family is in the city. There are three suites and three large tile-roofed houses with yards on the outskirts of the city.
He is also the only son in his family. He lives in one of the three houses in the city and rents out the other two. He can collect nearly 10,000 yuan in rent per month, half of which he spends himself and the other half to his parents.
The two had been dating for two or three months, and An Xueer discovered that he was very stingy and stingy, and was reluctant to spend money on her.
Later, she took the initiative to visit his parents at his house, but the other party refused for various reasons. In the end, he couldn't refuse and took her with him. Then she clearly felt the discriminatory attitude of his parents towards her, a foreigner.
After all, she is fair-skinned and beautiful, and she graduated from a prestigious university and has a legitimate job. However, their son, who has graduated from three universities and has no education and skills, has no job and relies on the rent of the house to support himself, and they actually despise her. Identity as a foreigner?
Of course An Xueer couldn't bear it and broke up with this local native.
After this one, she didn’t find another boyfriend for more than two years until she met her third one.
This is a gentle and warm man. He is an alumnus of her and a native of Xiuzhou. He is only three years older than her. He also has experience of studying abroad. After returning to China, he works in a foreign company. He often goes abroad and his annual salary is nearly Millions, a proper gold-collar person.
At a Canton Fair, she met him at the booth of her company, and he began to pursue her continuously.
After all kinds of greetings, small gifts and surprises, the two of them got together in almost two months.
An Xueer is very satisfied with him. Although this alumnus is not very handsome, he has a first-class temperament. He wears glasses and is polite. He is very talented at first glance, mainly because he has a very good personality. , his speech is always very gentle, and his temper is also the same.
In addition, his own economic conditions are also very good. He has only one sister in his family, who is married. His parents are both doctors and belong to the high-income group. His family has five houses in Xiuzhou, one of which was given away as a dowry to her sister, one where he and his parents live alone, and the remaining three are rented out.
Not to mention that his job is also very good. He has a salary from a foreign company and an annual income of nearly one million. He can buy a house by himself in Xiuzhou.
After the two of them had been dating very happily for more than a year, they naturally reached the stage of discussing marriage. Both parents had met her, and his parents were quite satisfied with her and did not discriminate against her at all. Her status as a foreigner.
So, the parents of both parties agreed that they would get engaged at the end of the year and get married on May Day of the following year. After all, the man was already thirty years old at the time.
But fate is so magical. Just in the second month after they agreed on the wedding date, the man went on a business trip to America, and then met his first love in a foreign country by chance, and the two rekindled their old relationship.
His first love was his high school classmate, the daughter of a wealthy local family in Xiuzhou, and her family was very rich.
This is not the main thing. After the two people rekindled their old relationship in Meilijia, they actually had a secret knot.
The rich daughter has his child in her belly, so of course it is impossible to abort it. As a result, An Xueer was kicked out of the competition and completely eliminated.
The second month after she was dumped, his third boyfriend held a grand wedding directly with his first love, which was regarded as a marriage ceremony.
The only good thing is that the third wife and his parents were quite particular and gave her a breakup fee of 500,000 yuan when they broke up.
In fact, they were worried that An Xueer's quarrel would make the two families look bad.
It was useless for An Xueer to be unwilling, so she took the breakup fee of 500,000 yuan as a matter of course, and then started her own business and opened her own online store.
Her idea at the time was that she no longer wanted to rely on men. She wanted to make money with her own skills, then buy a house in Xiuzhou and completely take root in this city that she did not want to leave.
As a result, three years later, the reality made her understand that she wanted to buy a house in this city with full payment. It was not impossible, but it was really difficult.
So, if possible, she still has to rely on men.
Chen Feng is a potential target she has discovered now. She doesn’t want to ask him to be her boyfriend and then find a way to get him to pay for her to buy a house, but at least make friends with such a rich man and expand her business. A look at her network of contacts and social circles will do her no harm at all.
So, after she came back from buying vegetables at the vegetable market, she guessed that Tang Nini's family was having lunch at this time, so she came to the door with a plate of cakes that she had made by herself.
In this way, when she congratulated Tang Nini on her move, if Tang Nini invited her to have lunch together, she would be able to enter the house and have dinner with Chen Feng and the actress Tang Xinyi, and then their relationship would naturally get better. One step further.
Unfortunately, she obviously estimated the time wrong. She did not expect that Chen Feng and the others would have lunch early. When she came over, they had just finished eating.
"Miss An, what are you doing?"
Tang Nini opened the door and looked at An Xueer in surprise and the plate of cakes she held in both hands.
The cake is not very big, about 6 inches, a round cake with a diameter of 15 centimeters.
"Just call me Xue'er." An Xue'er said with a smile, "This is a cake I made myself. As your neighbor, it is my housewarming gift to you. Congratulations on your housewarming. .”
< br>"You're too polite! Come in first."
Although Tang Nini was surprised, the other party came to her door with a gift, and she was a neighbor, so it was difficult to turn away the door, so she took the cake with both hands and invited her first She comes in.
Of course An Xueer did not refuse, so she walked in with a smile, and then she saw Chen Feng and Tang Xinyi sitting on the sofa.
"Hi, Chen Feng, we meet again."
An Xueer smiled generously and waved hello to Chen Feng.
Chen Feng also waved to her when he saw this, and then said: "You are so polite, you came here specifically to send a gift."
In Chen Feng's opinion, An Xueer might be doing it because of him. , I specially sent a gift to express my congratulations.
“It’s not really a gift, it’s just a cake I made myself.”
An Xueer responded with a smile.
Tang Xinyi and Tang Nini looked at Chen Feng and An Xueer in surprise.
"Do you know each other?" Tangnini asked.
Chen Feng explained: "She and I are college alumni and we met in college."
An Xueer also nodded and said: "I am one year above Chen Feng, from the same college. At that time, I was the president of the student union of the college, and he was also an activist and often helped the student union with miscellaneous tasks.”
An Xueer didn't say anything about Han Xiaoxiao or his adulterous deeds in college, which really saved Chen Feng's face.
Of course, even if she said so, Chen Feng would not be afraid of anything.
"So that's it. Then you just happened to meet today?" Tang Nini guessed.
An Xueer nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, when I went downstairs before, Chen Feng happened to go upstairs, and we met like this. Speaking of which, we haven't seen each other for several years, but this time it was Because Sister Tang, your reunion is quite unexpected.”
“That’s really fate!” Tang Nini said with a smile.
At this time, Tang Xinyi also smiled and waved to An Xueer: "Come over and sit down."
An Xueer was not too restrained, she went over to sit down with a smile, and then looked at Tang Xinyi, pretending She said doubtfully: "Hello, sister, my name is An Xueer, I wonder what you call me? It looks familiar."
Tang Xinyi She smiled slightly and said, "My name is Tang Xinyi. I used to be an actor. You may have seen the TV series I acted in, so you feel familiar."
"Ah, yes, yes, you have played the role of Concubine Qi. This... I really didn’t expect it. Sister, are you a relative or friend of Sister Tang?”
An Xueer asked with a look of surprise and curiosity.
Tang Xinyi said: "She and I are classmates and good best friends."
"So that's it, you both have the surname Tang. I thought you were relatives." An Xueer nodded, and then asked curiously asked, "Are you and Chen Feng also friends?"
Tang Xinyi pursed her lips slightly and said with a smile: "I am his girlfriend."
(End of Chapter)
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