Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!
Chapter 148 - 126. A complete opportunist

Chapter 148: 126. A complete opportunist

As mid-to-late October approached, Hang City experienced a succession of gloomy, rain-filled days, and the weather was somewhat chilly.

Just after five in the morning, Xie Yujia, the owner of the nighttime tutoring shop, woke up early to head to her stall to get ready.

This day was the "unbagging day" for the arrival of new stock.

Whenever this time came, fashion women’s clothing store owners from all across the nation would flood to Siji Qing.

And Xie Yujia, the former fitting model who was universally acknowledged for her looks and efficient knack for presenting outfits, was about to face a new day of challenges.

"Jia Jia, why did you go back to your old job when the new store you opened was doing so well?"

Third floor of the Siji Qing Clothing City.

Inside a booming women’s clothing store, the owner Huang Wenjing greeted Xie Yujia with a smile.

"Sister Huang, you don’t understand, do you?"

Xie Yujia turned around, her made-up face radiating an extraordinary beauty with every frown and smile.

"Although I’m not modeling anymore, I definitely need to maintain a keen sense of beauty! What if I fall behind the trends?"

Beauty is not an instrumental technique; aesthetic sensibility is more than just a face—it’s a tangible carrier of social forms and a symbol of an era.

She spoke nicely, but of course, Xie Yujia wouldn’t tell the other person the real reason she came to try on the clothing.

"You young folks really have sharp minds, huh~"

Huang Wenjing, leaning on a shelving unit, couldn’t help but sigh.

"Your stage has been set up already."

"Okay, thank you, Sister Huang!"

Just after seven in the morning, Xie Yujia was already trying on clothes in the store.

Dozens of shelves were crammed with thousands of new garments, and tens of thousands more were being continuously brought in.

There was a raised platform of about one square meter in the shop.

—This was the stage for models, as well as her battlefield.

"Who wants this piece?"

"Me! I do!"

Xie Yujia’s fitting session was akin to an offline runway show.

On the small platform, she changed garments almost instantaneously, deftly showing off each new outfit.

Below the crowded stage, women’s fashion store owners from all corners flocked to raise their hands after seeing Xie Yujia’s outfits.

They had only seconds to decide.

To place an order and snatch up the merchandise, or wait for the next set.

This was a microcosm of Siji Qing.

Stepping into Siji Qing was like entering a labyrinth.

Dozens of gigantic clothing malls, hundreds of densely packed clothes stalls, and numerous model stages dazzled the eyes.

Within Siji Qing’s Zhongzhou Clothing City, many stalls were as lively as celebrity fan meets.

Young fitting models, just like idols, continuously showcased new garments on stage; fashionably dressed young men and women acted as DJs, spinning records, and they grabbed microphones to hype up the crowd with shouts.

Changing outfits every five or six seconds, over a dozen pieces a minute, adding up to hundreds or even thousands in a day...

Within this realm of sonorous singing and raucous voices, the fitting models’ rapid costume changes were like pressing the fast-forward button on life.

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"So this was how you worked before?"

At eleven in the morning, Lu Jincheng’s group arrived in Hang City as scheduled and made their way straight to Siji Qing without delay.

"Yeah, changing several hundred pieces in a day is pretty normal, and when it’s busy, I’d have to switch over a thousand."

By this time, Xie Yujia had been busy for over three hours, having tried on more than three hundred sets of clothes.

She wore high heels throughout, ceaselessly taking clothing handed over by the sales associates, slipping it on, turning around, taking it off, and displaying the new outfits from various angles.

At the nod of a client’s head or a wave of their hand, she would immediately switch to a new set.

It wasn’t until Wang Rongyue picked up Mr. Lu and the rest from the Hang City station that she found a few minutes to step down from the platform and hastily drank a couple of sips of mineral water.

As noon approached twelve o’clock.

She and Lu Jincheng and others ordered takeout; a serving of stir-fried pork with green peppers was delivered, but before she could eat a few bites, a customer came in.

She hurried back to the platform again.

On the one side was her bustling figure on the stage, on the other the cooled-down meal.

This was the daily grind of Xie Yujia, who had been striving in Hang City for many years.

Mr. Lu stood aside, watching her silhouette, and suddenly found it very interesting.

Busy enough to change over a dozen sets in a minute, an average of five or six seconds per style.

Being a fitting model seemed glamorous, but in reality, it was a true test of strength and stamina.

It required standing for over ten hours a day, at times with a sore back and a creaking neck.

The fact that Xie Yujia could grit her teeth, starting as a fitting model and accumulating bit by bit to become a prominent Taobao store owner, showed just how much hardship she had endured and how many opportunities she had seized.

Take her behavior today, for instance. If it had been any other collaborator, they would likely have set aside their work to prioritize entertaining Lu Jincheng and company, enjoying a lavish meal and ensuring all appearances were kept.

But Xie Yujia didn’t.

She had made a promise to help Mr. Lu survey the market, and she was determined to fulfill it.

Not only to fulfill it but to ensure he saw everything firsthand.

Therefore, she tied up her long hair and returned to Siji Qing.

Amidst the throng of people in the crowded stall and surrounded by piles of clothes, countless young women with pretty faces and attractive figures stood on the platforms.

They moved quickly and sped through tasks, reaching peak performance of producing over a dozen images in a minute.

Here, an eye-catching outfit on the one-square-meter stage could provoke avid applause from visiting customers and bosses from afar.

Often, the styles set on this square meter stage even influenced the trends of the women’s clothing market.

In the vicinity, it was well known that during its heyday, on average, every one of the 1.4 billion people in the country owned a piece of clothing that came from this place.

On this renowned "China’s First Clothing Street," wholesalers from all over the nation swarmed in, then hurried away.

They brought the "single outfit, single look" from the Siji Qing models out into the whole country.

"670 pieces! That’s the order from Jia Jia’s side!"