Ao Cang was stunned: "You mean, tomorrow?"

Qiao Mei shook her head helplessly: "Of course not tomorrow, but it can be a little earlier than the date I originally planned. Pingping's 100-day banquet is right after. It's definitely not appropriate to have our engagement banquet on the same day as his. How about we have it on the Saturday after his 100-day banquet? What do you think?"

Li Wuyou's 100th birthday banquet is next Saturday. After calculating, Ao Cang asked with bright golden eyes, "The Saturday after next?!"

According to Qiao Mei's original plan, their engagement banquet should have been held in late autumn or early winter, but now, because of his few words, it could be moved up so much. Ao Cang was overjoyed and touched.

Qiao Mei hadn't expected this matter to excite him so much, and she was somewhat affected by it as well. Her lips couldn't help but curve into a smile as she patiently repeated her answer to him.

"Yes, I will discuss this with my mother and grandfather when I get back today. You should also prepare in advance. We can't have an engagement banquet without any preparations."

Ao Cang has no relatives in this world, so he doesn't need to call them over; all that's left are his friends.

Besides that, there's the venue to choose for the engagement party, and the amount of Star Coins to spend.

He thought about it for a moment and already had a general plan in mind.

While Qiao Mei was being pulled away by Shang Duojin and Shu Qingqing to play games, she turned on her smart bracelet and contacted some of the friends she had made over the past few months.

Yan Qing went to wash the fruit and prepare some snacks for them. When she came back, the rain was still falling outside, and it seemed that it wouldn't stop so easily that night.

After thinking about it, I suggested that we stay at her place tonight.

“I have plenty of guest rooms here, which is perfect, as I also need Rose’s help with something.”

Qiao Mei knew that Yan Qing was involved in fashion design, and immediately guessed what kind of help she needed. After finishing a game of Star Monster with Shang Duojin and the others, she got up and followed her to the bedroom.

"The styles I made from the clothes you wore before are selling really well online, but I haven't shown them to you yet."

She turned on her smart bracelet and accessed the online clothing store she currently runs.

"This is a top-body effect picture with your permission, with your face cropped out. The effect is really good. When I released the first set, the pre-sales were almost more than the inventory. So after I made my first pot of gold, I specially set aside 10% of it in this interstellar card as your endorsement fee."

Qiao Mei glanced at the sales figures, which had already reached tens of thousands. Even without checking, she could guess that the amount in the Star Card was not low.

She needs money right now, and Yan Qing has indeed used her body as a proxy, so she has no reason not to accept this money.

After taking it from her and thanking her, I asked her what kind of clothing she wanted to design this time.

"Autumn is just around the corner, so we need to design some autumn items. I found some fabrics in the next room. I'll bring them over and you can take a look. If it were you, what would you choose?"

Qiao Mei nodded: "Okay, then you go ahead. I'll take a look at the proposal you wrote first."

Gan Gan is someone who really enjoys writing by hand. The proposal she gave to Qiao Mei was a stack of papers, not secured with anything, all loose.

She picked up one sheet and was about to find something to weigh down the rest when a strong night wind blew in through the window, scattering several sheets of the proposal paper.

She quickly pressed down the rest and then went to pick up the scattered items.

The room Yan Qing led her to had three doors, each leading in a different direction.

She guessed that this was probably specially commissioned to be built so that Yan Qing could easily retrieve some things.

After picking up quite a few fallen proposal papers in front of several doors, she counted them and realized that one was missing.

Of the proposal papers she just picked up, the only one that slipped through the crack in the door was the one from the west door.

"It should be inside the door."

Yan Qing hadn't told her not to open the door, so she opened it without hesitation.

The missing proposal was indeed inside, but when she picked it up, she inevitably had to see the situation inside the room.

There were many men's clothes and items in the room. Qiao Mei was stunned for a moment before she came up with a suitable explanation for herself.

She thought that Yan Qing probably also had ambitions to enter the menswear market, so she just glanced at him, looked away, closed the door, and went back inside.

At this moment, Yan Qing also came over with the fabric. Qiao Mei helped her choose a few nice pieces, and then she heard Yan Qing say that she was planning to make jewelry recently.

“I don’t feel inspired to find other models. I wonder if you would mind being my jewelry model again? I’d like to start with rings, necklaces and earrings.”

Qiao Mei had no objections; it was a win-win situation anyway, so she readily agreed.

"Then I'll take your measurements for each part. Thank you for your cooperation."

Yan Qing took out a soft measuring tape used for measuring neck width, went behind Qiao Mei, and measured her neck almost three times in a row. Only after confirming that the value was correct did she measure the thickness of her fingers.

This requires Qiao Mei to completely hand over her hands, allowing Yan Qing to hold and manipulate them.

Previously, she only felt that Yan Qing was taller and had a larger frame than the average girl.

But now that her hands were being measured, she realized that Yan Qing's hands were also much bigger than hers.

To the naked eye, her hand was almost half the size of his palm.

Just then, the measurement was finished, and Yan Qing handed her the jewelry design plan she had prepared earlier.

"Take a look and see if there's anything that needs to be changed. This is my first version, and I haven't had anyone evaluate it yet."

Yan Qing gave her a preserved flower ring. Qiao Mei looked at the gold gemstones set around the ring and, for some reason, suddenly thought of Ao Cang's golden eyes.

She and Ao Cang hadn't chosen their engagement rings yet, so she asked Yan Qing if he could make one.

"I just finished discussing our engagement with Cangcang outside, but I haven't had a chance to tell my family yet. Of course, we haven't prepared any wedding rings or anything, so I was wondering if I could buy a wedding ring from you."

Yan Qing looked up in surprise, her beautiful face full of astonishment: "You two are getting engaged?"

"Well, if nothing unexpected had happened, we should have gotten engaged last winter. Now that it's been delayed until now, I'm afraid that if we postpone it any longer, Cangcang will start to worry."

Seeing the love in her eyes when she mentioned Ao Cang, Yan Qing's eyelashes fluttered, and a flawless smile appeared on her face:

"Then congratulations in advance! Remember to send me an invitation. Of course, it's fine to make it into an engagement ring. I'll send you the design drawings on my personal computer after I've finished the design, and you can see if there are any changes needed."

The next morning, the weather was fine and sunny, and a rainbow hung in the clear sky after the rain.

Yan Qing smiled and waved as she watched Qiao Mei and the others leave, but the smile on her face vanished the moment she turned around.