E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 133: Episode 133 Solve Your Own Problems 2

Chapter 133: Episode 133 Solve Your Own Problems 2

"..." Liu He’s mother didn’t know how to rebut Zhou Xueyin, so she just glared at her and remained silent.

The room fell silent as Zhou Xueyin, Liu He, and Li Yiyang looked at each other with appreciation. Liu He even secretly gave a thumbs up, commending Zhou Xueyin on her spot-on comments!

"Fine, let’s say you’re right about everything. But you can’t let our Hehe take those vulgar photos!" After a round of discussion, the topic circled back to the troublesome photos.

"It’s not, Mom! How is it vulgar? Where am I exposed? I’m wrapped up tightly, how could it be improper?" Liu He immediately flared up upon hearing this.

"You call that wrapped tightly? Yes! It is tightly wrapped, but isn’t it innerwear worn on the outside? Tights clinging to the body, and what are those two things at the chest? Ugly, right? And that makeup like a ghost, how is that pretty?" Liu He’s mother began to nitpick.

"Auntie, you said during dinner last night that it looked good and trendy. Why did your attitude change all of a sudden when you heard it was Hehe..." Li Yiyang chimed in just in time.

"Others are others, but Hehe just can’t dress up like that ghoul!" Liu He’s mother stubbornly argued.

"Auntie, Hehe wasn’t doing anything ghostly... She was just playing a female technician from the future. Besides, her photo set with Annson received rave reviews. The magazines we collaborated with sold out, and some modeling agencies even called me specifically to inquire about Hehe." Of course, except for the last part, which was a fabrication, everything else was true.

Zhou Xueyin tried hard to persuade Liu He’s mother, hoping she could accept her daughter’s interests and hobbies.

"You might not agree with this form of expression you find strange, but the young people nowadays really like it. Besides, you didn’t even recognize that the person in the car advertisement was your daughter..."

"I... Who said I didn’t recognize her, I just thought she looked very similar from the first glance..." Liu He’s mother also felt she was indeed being a bit unreasonable.

Originally, when Liu He said she liked to play cosplay, as a mother, she even asked a tailor she knew to help make costumes. Now that it had indeed gained some recognition, but it hadn’t been discussed with her before going up on a major advertisement, as an elder, she naturally felt somewhat displeased.

"Right, right! Auntie, do you know? After we took these photos, the sales of the watches increased quite a bit! Hehe really is a hero!" Li Yiyang also helped to bolster the argument.

"But our Hehe can’t compare with those professional models anyway, I see you’ve photographed quite a lot of people. Why particularly put that one on the car?" Liu He’s mother’s tone finally softened a bit.

"We can’t afford professional models... the models you see in those photos are the company’s employees." Zhou Xueyin said, suppressing her laughter.

"Choosing the car wrap advertisement was my decision, not only Hehe was in it, I was too. I don’t feel it’s embarrassing, and being able to contribute to the company’s sales, to play a different self, I think that’s truly living!" Li Yiyang said with sparkling eyes, "And also, Hehe’s outfit was really beautiful, it showed me a different side of her..."

"Fine, let this not set a precedent... If something like this happens again without consulting me, then I’m really sending Hehe back home to take the civil service exam!" Liu He’s mother still pretended to be angry.

"Oh Mom... Can we not bring up the civil service exam thing again? I already took it during college... and I’m really happy working in Yinyin’s company now; I don’t want to work in a place where I need to read people’s faces all day!" Liu He protested, pouting.

"Alright, alright, I’ll listen to you this time... Now go change and get to work!" Liu He’s mother pushed her back into the room.

"Zhou Xueyin? Although I’m still not very optimistic about you guys working online, you must work hard and persevere, you can’t let my daughter lose her job!"

"Don’t worry, we don’t want to be unemployed either..." Zhou Xueyin laughed awkwardly.

"Auntie, don’t worry, if Hehe loses her job, she can come to my place, and work as a copywriter." Li Yiyang said, looking at Liu He’s mother with a grin.

"Alright, alright, stop moping. You haven’t finished the closing work at your company yet!" Liu He changed into his going-out clothes and urged Zhou Xueyin and Li Yiyang to go downstairs to work.

"Oh mom, I won’t be home for dinner tonight, so you and dad just fend for yourselves."

"Okay, got it. Be safe on the road!" Before Liu He’s mom could finish her reminder, the three of them had disappeared into the stairwell.

"Phew, finally free from my mom’s claws—it’s terrifying... Yinyin, I can’t thank you enough. If you hadn’t arrived just in time, my mom could have nagged me for days and nights..." Liu He said gratefully.

"Then you should really thank your brother Yiyang. He was the one who told me," Zhou Xueyin said with a mischievous smile, glancing at Li Yiyang.

"You really are my savior, haha..." Liu He happily hooked arms with Li Yiyang.

"Hehe, how about you become my girlfriend?" Li Yiyang blurted out unexpectedly.

Zhou Xueyin thought to herself, luckily I wasn’t drinking water, or it would have all gone to the ground.

"Really... Coming back from studying abroad in the United Kingdom, and you can’t even make a romantic confession..." Liu He, blushing, chided Li Yiyang.

"Tonight, how about I take you out for Western dinner and re-propose to you?" Li Yiyang quickly tried to make amends.

"That works..." Liu He agreed without hesitation.

Zhou Xueyin watched the couple teasing and joking with each other, thinking to herself that her annual meal ticket was probably safe.

The spring festival of 2007 was probably the most delightful one Zhou Xueyin had ever had.

Not only were nearly all payments settled before the year’s end, but thanks to a heroic act, many vendors actively sought collaboration.

Da Boyi had also cleared their payments and even referred him to Jiang Chunming’s company.

Li Yiyang’s Fengyi Watches project received unanimous praise within the industry. No one expected that their model was just a company employee; everyone thought they had hired a professional.

Moreover, due to investment in car advertising and Fashion Xinrui supplements, Fengyi Watches’ sales in January peaked, more than tripling the original revenue.

Seeing these encouraging figures, Zhou Xueyin happily rewarded her employees with triple salaries for the year-end bonuses and added holidays, allowing them to take time off until the fifteenth of the first lunar month.

While everyone cheered, Kang Siyin was frowning because being at home for 15 days meant that her mom would set her up on 15 blind dates. Even when her brother and his girlfriend’s parents met, they almost insisted she chat with the girlfriend’s brother...

"Yinyin, just let me stay with you during the holiday... I really don’t want to go back home," Kang Siyin said to Zhou Xueyin with a distressed look.

"Go back, isn’t your brother getting married? As his future aunt, you should get along well with your future sister-in-law, right?" Mainly because Zhou Xueyin wasn’t planning to stay in Beijing over the holiday, so she really couldn’t keep Kang Siyin there.