Diwei continues to be a hit, and with constant media promotion, its brand awareness is poised to surpass that of foreign brands.

Taking advantage of the momentum, Xia Enruo instructed the business unit employees to quickly open specialty stores in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

They spent a lot of money to buy a street-front shop on Wangfujing Street in Beijing to open the capital's first exclusive store.

At the same time, they also sponsored popular movie and TV series stars and singers for performance costumes free of charge through the media.

The brand's luxury image is further enhanced by leveraging celebrity endorsements.

After Gu Shaoying and her classmates graduated, some of the highly talented design graduates gave up the jobs that had been assigned to them.

The reason I chose to work at Xia Enruo's clothing design company was because of the high salary.

Gradually, the Diwei clothing line has expanded to include three product lines: men's, women's, and children's.

Covering three categories—clothing, bags, and accessories—it has continuously gained a foothold among high-income consumers.

Yongning City Wool Textile Factory also made a lot of money from Diwei's OEM garment production.

But it is, after all, processing of supplied materials, and earns its profits entirely from the processing fees given by Xia Enruo.

Compared to Xia Enruo's earnings, this is just a drop in the ocean, but it's still much better than being in debt before.

Seeing how well Xia Enruo's clothes were selling, Duan Mingrui, the factory manager of the wool textile factory, had wicked ideas.

He was unwilling to accept that his factory could only earn processing fees, and he wanted to earn more money, which would allow him to embezzle even more.

Seeing Xia Enruo riding in and out of his Mercedes-Benz to conduct business, he felt envious.

Looking at my own Jiefang truck, it suddenly didn't seem so appealing anymore.

Since the factory had the design drawings and drafts, he secretly instructed the workshop director, Ding Yanbin, to produce the same style of clothing according to the drawings.

Ding Yanbin was initially extremely resistant, even though he knew the factory had signed a confidentiality agreement.

"Director Duan, this is absolutely unacceptable. You've forgotten that when Boss Xia first signed the contract with us, he also made us sign a confidentiality agreement."

"If we violate this, our factory will have to pay a large sum in damages for infringement. That's no small amount; our factory simply can't afford it."

Duan Mingrui was most annoyed by his subordinates not listening to his orders and making all sorts of suggestions. He cursed them out:

"Damn it. Are you Xia Enruo's man or Duan Mingrui's man? Do what I tell you to do, and stop talking nonsense."

Do you think I don't know we don't have that much money? You don't need to tell me. All the big money goes to Xia Enruo, and we work so hard we only earn a processing fee.

The employees are working themselves to the bone, but the factory isn't making much money. If we sell the clothes we produce privately at half price, they'll definitely be a huge hit.

Those profits would be hundreds or thousands of times greater than they are now.

"Director Duan, this is an infringement and illegal act. Their clothes have a design patent. If we get caught, we're finished..."

Ding Yanbin, being a high school graduate, knew a little about the law and naturally dared not take the risk.

But Duan Mingrui was uneducated and didn't believe in such nonsense. He only knew that in this world, as long as you had connections and people, the law was nothing.

I hear people talking about law every day, but I've never seen this thing used. It's just a tattered book.

When you go out to run errands, you still have to eat and drink, find people to pull strings, and do favors.

Besides, having served as the director of a wool textile factory for so many years, I've seen all kinds of officials in Yongning City, and I have a good relationship with many of them.

Even if Xia Enruo discovered it, how could a private enterprise like her possibly turn the tables?

Naturally, they couldn't do anything to themselves and could only suffer in silence.

After all, he has connections and influence.

"Stop talking nonsense. If you don't do what I say, then get out of the factory. I can find someone else to be the workshop foreman."

Ding Yanbin was helpless because his family relied on his salary alone, even though he was sometimes unable to receive it.

But we can still manage to get by. If I were really fired, my family would really be starving.

Duan Mingrui acts like a thug; he always does what he says.

Ding Yanbin could only shake his head, take the design drawings, and find two shifts of workers to start producing Diwei's clothes on his own.

**

Even when she's very busy, Xia Enruo will always make time for Gu Shaoxuan to spend one day a week playing with their child.

The weather is getting hot and humid, and even the slightest movement will make you sweat profusely.

To allow her two children to play in the water at home, Xia Enruo simply had someone buy an inflatable castle with a swimming pool from Guangzhou and placed it in the yard.

Gu Shaoxuan played with Gu Yicheng and Gu Xiyao in the inflatable castle, while Xia Enruo made herbal tea at home to help her family cool off in the summer heat.

She boiled honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, jujubes, goji berries, dried plums, and malva nuts in hot water until the color turned a deep red like black tea, then added rock sugar and mint leaves.

After being chilled, it was frozen in the refrigerator. When Gu Shaoxuan and the children got tired of playing, they came back and each of them poured a glass to cool off.

Today she gave the housekeeper a day off, so she did all the housework herself.

Wang Meihua returned to the provincial capital to take care of her father-in-law, Gu Zhiyuan. Her younger sister is currently busy leading a design project at her company and has no extra time to come back.

So Xia En simply hired two nannies, one to clean and the other to prepare three meals a day.

Today, since the nannies had gone home for their day off, she had to cook the meal herself.

Although nowadays, the catering work in restaurants is done by apprentices and chefs trained by the catering R&D department, so you don't have to do it yourself.

However, Xia Enruo still likes to cook a few dishes at home from time to time. Seeing her family enjoying the meal makes her feel a great sense of accomplishment.

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