"Rosy, Rosy," Annie rushed into the office, "Look at this issue of Voyage, what is Du Wenwen wearing-"

At lunchtime, the office area was full of people and the environment was noisy, her footsteps slowed down beside Li Mei, and she looked at the computer with a hint of hesitation, "Honey, you are-"

"Shhh," Li Mei hurriedly shrugged her, "Be quiet, don't be heard." ”

"Oooh. Annie usually has clear eyebrows, it was indeed an accident just now, Rosy said, she was a little embarrassed, quickly pulled a chair and sat down, and lowered her voice, "What- are you going to change jobs?"

Although I work in a foreign company, I usually call each other by English names, which is not good, but in addition to the high-level, the internal communication is of course in Chinese, and Rosy and Annie's positions do not need to write English emails, so she knows that there is a situation as soon as she sees the English on the screen. I knew that too much gossip would displease my colleagues, but I couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going?"

"It's not job hopping. Li Mei simply minimized the browser, and went to make coffee with Annie with a cup, "Make some extra money - pour steel." ”

"Huh, pour steel?" Annie was a little confused, "pour what steel?"

"It was just discovered, you can find a lot of domestic companies on Alibaba, do you know how to wholesale steel? You will write down the price, and then contact foreign manufacturers, they need to give a quotation, ask what you will ask the manufacturers on Alibaba, all negotiate, you will give the address to the manufacturer over there, just say that you are the company's agent in China, let them send the goods over, contact information of course are left for you - such a single can sometimes earn more than 100,000 yuan, less than 20,000 or 30,000. ”

In 2008, this number sounds a little scary, their company is good, they raise their salaries every year, although the global benefits are not good this year, but it is still symbolic that one person has more than 200 yuan, just like that, these two little girls can only say that the monthly salary is more than 10,000 before tax, hundreds of thousands a month, hundreds of thousands, Annie suspects that she is listening to the book, "Really-really fake?"

"I've already got two of them, but this one is risky, and one side of both sides is unreliable, and I'll have to find you later. Rosy explained, "The simple point is to find a company to be affiliated with, and you can take half of the cut from it, and the risk is smaller, that is, the money is less." It's not just steel, it's shoes, clothes...... Foreigners want everything, it depends on whether you can find it or not, anyway, they all write emails to communicate, and they generally don't call, just write. ”

"I told you how you've been typing lately. Annie suddenly realized, a little hurt, "—don't tell me about such a good thing, Rosy, it's not interesting enough." ”

"If I really want to hide it from you, I won't tell you just now. Li Mei will explain that she is definitely not afraid of her anger, "I've only been doing it for half a month, and I haven't figured out the doorway, so I dare to introduce it to you?" Actually, it's quite tiring, because I have to keep sending emails, and not everyone can reply to emails." ”

She introduced several ways for Annie to make a fortune through Alibaba, "You can also do dropshipping, make a hard-earned money, and treat it as free customer service." There can be two or three hundred a day, but that one wants to open Wangwang, and it is not convenient for us in the company, so your mother can teach her if she is fast in typing. ”

The little girl in S City is sensitive to the economy, Annie listened attentively, but refused to admit that she was tempted, "It's so hard, then think about it or forget it - what are you doing, why are you working so hard all of a sudden, and the family is in a hurry to use money?"

"No, it was I who suddenly discovered that people have to work hard. Li Mei glanced at the magazine in Annie's hand and said categorically, "If you can't even afford the clothes you want, what is the strength of living?"

"Still thinking about that little dress?" Annie suddenly understood, she was a little funny, "I really like it so much, Taobao buy a replica, isn't it already in stock now? It may not be how different it is from the original." ”

"Taobao already has reviews, but it's not the same as the genuine product. Li Mei's will was not weak at all, "Then you say, annie, 5,000 yuan a piece of clothes, is it really unaffordable? Actually, it's not, why don't you have this money in the □□?—— you are reluctant to buy it, you say that people live so fastidiously, do you really don't feel like a failure? Anyway, I figured it out, if you don't have money, you have to find a way to earn it, and if you don't have a good father, you have to work hard." ”

"Did you quarrel with your little Li?" Annie couldn't guess.

Li Mei snorted, "What are you doing with him?" ”

"It can't be because of that dress, right?"

"No, he said that he thinks I don't deserve to wear a skirt of 5,000 yuan, which means that I am not worth 5,000 yuan in his heart. Rosy said, "Then since everyone is talking about money, I am now making hundreds of thousands, why should I be with a man who is not worth even five thousand yuan?"

She took the initiative to pick up the new "Voyage", and stared fiercely at the beautiful armor-style coat on Du Wenwen's body, as well as the crystal skirt exposed by the hem of the blown coat: Li Mei has never had a particularly strong sense of initiative, and she also feels that her talent and achievements are probably just like that, at most, she is at the manager level, which is the highest point of the career path. She really doesn't have any upward motivation, her family can't give much support, so let's make a down payment by smashing the pot and selling iron, and the mortgage of five or six thousand a month is really unaffordable. Li Mei is still very satisfied with her current life, she can buy one or two favorite cottages a month, and she will marry her boyfriend in the future. So she didn't have any motivation to improve herself, and when she got home, she never thought about reading some more books, taking a certificate or anything.

But now, as long as you think that you can at least buy the clothes you want to wear after earning money, you don't need to go to Taobao to search for pirated copies, and the most important thing is to often search for a night and find nothing...... Li Mei felt that her whole body was full of strength, and she wanted to move forward from the bottom of her heart. "Someday, such a coat for me...... It's a bit unrealistic to have one a month, but I can buy one a year, right? At least in my heart, I don't even dare to think about it, I don't think I shouldn't have it, right? Even if it's to get the courage to get obscenity, I have to find more ways to make money, well, I have time to read more English recently, I hope the speed of replying to emails can be faster, and I don't have to look up the dictionary when I read the letter......

"By the way, what does this magazine say, there is a brand interview?" she didn't want to say these words to Annie, so she simply jumped away and asked curiously, "[Rhyme] is really getting better and better, the cover of "Voyage" is on the top, and that GA investment, although it is certainly not so bad, but it should be quite **, right? ”

"That's it," the two little girls must have knowledge of the GA group, but it's hard to perceive how powerful it is to be invested by GA, and the popular science posts on the forum are also half-convinced, and they always feel a little boastful. But to be on the cover of "Voyage", it is really amazing, they usually read this magazine, not to mention the cover, I have never seen a domestic brand on the inside page. "What about the cover interview, there are ten pages, there are not so many big brands, right? It's still a model's cover, and it's not even a celebrity. ”

"Can't afford it or what?"

"No, I just want to use Du Wenwen, that designer seems to like Du Wenwen very much, and he uses her to open and close every time. ”

"The photos are very good. ”

Speaking of costumes, the two little girls immediately chattered, "Oh! And an interview with GA?"

"Didn't you bring a photo? You see this is him, the designer and Du Wenwen. ”

Kevin Arnold...... It's handsome!"

"The designer is pretty too. ”

"Why didn't Qin Wei come to shoot?"

"Are they a couple?"

Of course, the topic quickly deviated, for them, the content of the interview can be seen or not, the important thing is Du Wenwen's beautiful pictures, of course, there is Qiao Yun's scandal, for this report, as long as they know that [rhyme] is getting more and more **, it is enough, anyway, what can this kind of interview have? It's nothing more than some touting and piling up, the price of clothes they care about most, the style of the new clothes next season, and the experience of matching, will never appear in it.

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"She asked her own photographer to shoot it, so personal?"

"I'm getting more and more curious about the causal relationship between this – has the editor-in-chief of Voyage China always had such a good temper? Is such an unruly designer willing to pull the strings for her and introduce her to GA, or is it because GA has taken a fancy to her that she is so easy-going? This should be the first time in two years that a new Chinese photographer has appeared on the cover of Voyage. ”

"What are you asking?

"No, I just wanted to ask why she got such special treatment. In the corner of the party, a few blonde women with blue hair, thin and heavy makeup, who knew at a glance that they had been carefully maintained, and could even be said to be carefully understated, laughed, "Who did she sleep with - the editor-in-chief of "Voyage" China, or the Kevin of GA. ”

"If she slept with Voyage, then Voyage must have slept with Kevin. ”

"Please, I remember that the editor-in-chief of the Chinese edition is in his forties, and Kevin is not yet thirty this year. ”

"It's hard to say what men taste," the tone is unfathomable, "and Asians don't show their age, especially Chinese, who try to look much younger than their actual age......"

"Mandy, Mandy," the sisters said anxiously, taking a sip of their wine, "you don't need to keep it so secret, do you?

"Maybe a photographer. ”

"Girls......" Mandy was a little helpless, but also not without joy: the fashion industry is like this, full of gossip, and no one will even admit that they are gossip elites, and if a fashion party is actually missing gossip and alcohol, then it can never be called a successful drinking party. It's just that in the past, she only had to listen, and tonight may be the first time she has become the focus of gossip. Everyone wants to know what the hell is going on with GA's extra courtesy of this Chinese brand. Beneath the joke-like gossip, there's a subtle interest: yes, they have a T-shirt that has been the talk of the town and caught the attention of buyers and editors, but that's just to make [rhyme] into their knowledge base, not completely unfamiliar.

Clothes have entered Samaridan, and there is a small counter in SAKS5, so what? There are too many such brands that are short-lived, and the story of the once famous trendy T brand that ended bleakly after a few years is grabbed on the streets of New York's garment district, and they have not yet come to New York to have a show, and they have not even been to Paris, this brand has not officially entered their field of vision, and the critics have not boiled for her, which is definitely not considered to have entered the mainstream.

As the center of the fashion industry, they have this confidence: what doesn't attract their attention is the niche. Such a niche marginal brand is on the cover of Voyage China - considering the nationality, this is nothing, but the photographer who brings it occupies so many pages? There is even a full-page GA interview to advocate for her?

Although they couldn't understand the content of the report, and they didn't pay much attention to the Chinese version before, their familiarity with the rules still made them smell the special treatment of this treatment, and ignited strong doubts and interests: The magazine was put aside first, there must be a reason behind GA's approach, is it really because of personal feelings?

Yes, in fact, it's not surprising, this circle is full of nepotism, no one will judge anyone because of the way of superiority, at least not when you are still in power, with GA's status in the industry and Kevin's identity, if [Yun] is on top because of this, they will be extra polite to her - obviously, how can GA's own brand not develop?

Mandy couldn't know more about these mentalities, and her eyes swept over her faces: the editor of "Beauty", the buyer of Saks5th, and the buyer of the shoe department of Chole...... is not a top executive, and the top senior will never talk to her, but she is already a middle-level person who has a firm foothold in the industry. Their judgment of this deal is obviously the same: [Yun] has received more treatment than its own qualifications, it is not worthy of being acquired by GA at all, and you can also say that they feel that GA made an unwise deal.

"Not everything has an emotional element in it. She said vaguely, "Can't she get the attention of the top with her own skills?"

"Oh!"

“pfffff——”

She was politically correct, but her meaningless speech was immediately booed, "Say something useful, or no one will buy you the next round of wine." ”

"Come on, it's a party, and the drinks are free. Mandy rolled her eyes, but still explained seriously, "There's no emotional factor, GA's investment just thinks she's worth it...... All the treatment she got was earned by herself, including "Voyage China", no one gave her special treatment for any reason, it was all up to her. ”

"Not everybody's asking for it will be useful," the editor of Belle disagreed, coldly saying, "We don't live in fairy tales." ”

"It's true, not everyone asks for it to be useful, you have to be very good. Thinking of the negotiation process she watched and chatted with the editors of Voyage China...... Mandy's tone couldn't help but be tinged with a sense of solemnity: although she lost her armor in the negotiation and didn't take advantage of Qiao Yun at all, she didn't resent her because of this - of course, there was no need for this, hostility, that was the enemy, she didn't need to set up such a difficult opponent for herself. "This is her, a very, very, very powerful little girl, and believe me, you don't want to be her enemy. ”

She looked around, took in the disapproving smiles, and sighed inwardly: they didn't like her very much, which was understandable, an instinctive revulsion of an offended authority, and they felt that their territory had been violated, even though they had not crossed paths. Maybe they will dislike it more and more in the future, and even want to make some trouble for her-

"Don't get in her way, she'll kick you out of the way without mercy," thinking of the little gossip that David had revealed before leaving, she once again earnestly admonished, doing her duty as a friend, "don't hurt her feelings—she has a good memory, as good as a beast, and if you are hostile to her, she'll know—trust me, girls, don't think you've ever seen intrigue and fight with her, you won't win......"

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"Hello Miss Qiao, I'm Xiao Liu. ”

Just as the fashion party in New York gradually entered the high tide as the night deepened, the people of City B also pulled out of the warm quilt one by one and started their day's work: in the venue of the upcoming press conference, this young man in a mid-range suit with a smart face was accompanied by Secretary General Shi and greeted Qiao Yun warmly - in his capacity, this courtesy can be said to be very rare.

"I came here this time mainly to communicate with you about the whole process in advance, and also to do a good job in the reception of the leaders of all parties. The leader also asked, is the venue a little small, will it not look good to shoot?" Xiao Liu is obviously not the kind of bureaucrat with rigid thinking, and knows how to deal with designers outside the system, especially if her boyfriend is a big star, especially if this big star is the son of an academician, and the network is all over the country. "We will also focus on this press conference, if ideal, the plan is to establish a model for Chinese brands to go global, export culture, and demonstrate soft power, so if you have any ideas, you can put them forward and see if we can find a solution." ”

"The venue should be big enough. Qiao Yun was also very polite, and thanked the government for its support, and the two sides said it roundly, so she smiled and said directly, "But there is indeed a problem that you need to solve." ”

"You say you say. "There are no problems, how can you show your ability? Xiao Liu was also in good spirits.

"There's just such a detail. Qiao Yun said naturally in front of Secretary General Shi, "We got the attendance list listed by your side, and there are several places for the Designer Industry Association of City B, the problem is this...... We don't want this association to attend this press conference, and we don't welcome anyone from this association, especially President Liu, who has been blacklisted by me. ”

"What?" This request was indeed too bizarre, Xiao Liu didn't react for a while, and repeated it in surprise.

"We've already said it!" shouted Secretary General Shi, filled with the anger of being betrayed.

"Look," Qiao Yunli ignored Secretary General Shi and talked directly to Xiao Liu, she asked with a sweet smile, "Can you coordinate this question for us?" 166 Reading Network