Chapter 122

Huang Ying stood at the gate of the Wei family's house, feeling as if she had been transported to another world.

She turned to look at the door behind her, wondering with some doubt: Had she really left the Wei family? Had she really brought up divorce with Wei Yunkai? When did she become so bold?

Countless thoughts flashed through her mind, and Huang Ying felt somewhat dazed, with an extremely unreal feeling in her heart, until she saw Xu Gui and the other three people beside her.

Ah, I really have left the Wei family... she suddenly thought to herself.

She looked up at the sky, the bright sunlight falling on her, and Huang Ying couldn't help but close her eyes.

The sun was extremely bright and intense today. The sunlight fell on my skin, and my exposed skin felt hot from the scorching sun. But even under the blazing sun, Huang Ying felt as if she were truly alive.

Many times during her time at the Wei family home, she felt like she wasn't really alive. Compared to living people, she was more like a walking corpse. But now, standing in the sunlight, she realized for the first time that she really did seem to be alive.

Her body was warm, and the sunlight was warm too...

Before she knew it, Huang Ying was already in tears. She slowly squatted down, hugged her knees, and suddenly burst into tears.

Her crying wasn't elegant or pretty; she just cried heartily, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances she had held back for so many years.

For the first time after marrying into the Wei family, Huang Ying felt alive and experienced freedom.

...

When Huang Ying burst into tears, Xu Gui and the others did not go up to comfort her. Instead, they let her cry until she was exhausted, her eyes were red and swollen, and she could no longer cry. Only then did they go over and take her away from there.

Back in the van, once Yuan Lu turned on the air conditioning, Xu Gui eagerly shoved herself into the vent, feeling the cold air rushing towards her. Only then did she feel alive again.

—For a turtle that loves water, standing in the sun like this makes her feel like she's going to get dried out.

Seeing her like this, Huang Ying, who had just vented her emotions by crying, couldn't help but laugh.

Xu Gui turned to look at her and asked, "Ms. Huang, do you have somewhere you want to go?"

Upon hearing this question, Huang Ying fell silent and seemed bewildered. After marrying Wei Yunkai, he did not lack her materially, so she actually owned quite a few properties. However, these properties held no meaning for her and did not give her any sense of belonging.

So when Xu Gui asked her if she had anywhere to go, she couldn't think of anywhere to go for a moment.

Go to my parents' place? Ha, if they knew I'd brought up divorce with Wei Yunkai, they'd probably go crazy and would immediately try to persuade me to go back.

"The life you have now is something other women would kill for. What more could you want? Why are you still arguing with Yun Kai?"

"You're so lucky, you don't even know how good you have it. You'll only realize how enviable your life is when you go out and experience some hardship..."

Huang Ying felt suffocated at the thought of her parents' possible reactions.

Just then, she suddenly heard Xu Gui say, "If you don't have anywhere you want to go, why don't you come and take a look at our orphanage?"

Huang Ying was taken aback and subconsciously looked at Xu Gui.

Xu Gui smiled at her and said, "If you don't mind the difficult conditions at our orphanage..."

Huang Ying gave a wry smile and said, "Even the most frugal conditions are better than being in the Wei family, right?"

Xu Gui nodded in agreement: "That's true."

In that case, let's go back to the orphanage.

On her way back to the orphanage, Xu Gui went online to explain to her fans that she had suddenly ended her live stream at the Wei family's house, leaving them confused. If she didn't come up and explain, they would suspect that she had been "assassinated" by the Wei family.

Xu Gui didn't say much, only that there was a problem with the machine, and finally said, "...We'll continue the live stream this afternoon!"

As for now, let's go back to the orphanage first.

It took about two and a half hours to get back to the city. Xu Gui and the others returned to the orphanage without incident. Under Qin Zhongyi's arrangement, the renovation of their orphanage was in full swing. One side of the building was demolished and rebuilt, while the people in the courtyard lived on the other side. The two sides were separated by iron sheets, and there was only occasional dust.

Xu Gui only remembered this matter after returning, and looked at Ms. Huang with a somewhat apologetic expression.

“…How about I arrange a new place for you?” she said. “I forgot, our orphanage is currently under renovation.”

Ms. Huang looked around curiously, and said without any concern, "It's okay, if everyone can stay here, I can stay here too."

Xu Gui: "...Let me show you around here first."

She led Ms. Huang and the others inside. The directors were pleasantly surprised to see her return. In fact, after the orphanage was transferred to Xu Gui's name, Xu Gui was now the actual director of the orphanage. However, Xu Gui hired the directors to serve as the directors of the orphanage.

So, on the surface, the director of the orphanage is still the former director, Xu.

"...Why did you suddenly come back?" the dean asked happily.

Xu Gui said, "I just suddenly had some free time."

She looked at the building next to her, whose outline was already faintly visible, and couldn't help but say, "The construction speed is really fast..." In just a few days, the basic outline of the building has already appeared.

"Money is no problem, and everything will be done very quickly." A voice suddenly came from the side. Xu Gui turned his head and saw Qin Zhongyi, who was wearing glasses, standing there. He didn't know when Qin Zhongyi had arrived.

He looked as gloomy and sinister as before.

He looked at Xu Gui and said, "You're back just in time. I happen to have something I want to tell you."

Xu Guixian nodded: "Okay."

Then she introduced herself to the director and Huang Ying, and said at the end, "Ms. Huang would like to stay at our orphanage for a while. Director, I would like to trouble you to arrange a room for her."

The dean nodded: "Okay, you go and talk to Zhongyi first."

Xu Gui hummed in agreement, handed Huang Ying over to the director for reception, and went inside with Qin Zhongyi to discuss matters. As for Fu Xia and Yuan Lu, Xu Gui didn't need to worry about them at all; they were already very familiar with the orphanage and had "friends" they played with there.

When Xu Gui entered the house, they were already playing with the children and didn't even glance at him.

Xu Gui: "..." In the end, it was all for naught.

*

What Qin Zhongyi wanted to talk to Xu Gui about was naturally the orphanage.

“…If you want to turn the orphanage into an amusement park, this place is far too small,” Qin Zhongyi said. “In such a small place, even if you build the orphanage to perfection, it will at most look like a pretty neighborhood park.”

Well, it's not even a big park, just a small one.

Xu Gui asked, "Then what should we do?"

She figured that given Qin Zhongyi's personality, he must have already arranged everything before calling her over—this guy was really incredibly capable.

Sure enough, after she finished asking her question, Qin Zhongyi, who had been prepared, took out a document and handed it to her, saying, "We need a larger area, so I suggest that we buy the entire area, at least a hundred hectares!"

Xu Gui: "..." If she remembered correctly, land in China was very expensive, and houses were also very expensive. Back when she was still naive, she often heard the aunties in the orphanage say that house prices had gone up in various places.

Not to mention, she spent over ten million just to buy the orphanage, and that was after the director gave her a discount.

"Although I admit that I am very capable and good at making money!" Xu Gui's tone was still very proud.

“But,” she paused, then said very seriously, “asking me to buy such a large piece of land in such a short time seems a bit too much to ask, doesn’t it?”

In conclusion: Although she is very capable, she hasn't reached that level yet.

Qin Zhongyi said, "Of course I know that."

Although he felt that with his boss's earning speed, making billions would only take a year or two, he wasn't arrogant enough to think she could amass that much money in a day or two, so...

“I suggest you find someone to partner with!” he said.

Xu Gui: "Looking for someone to collaborate with?"

“That’s right!” Qin Zhongyi gestured to the documents in Xu Gui’s hand and said, “I have already selected the candidates: the Lu family, the Fu family, the Tang family, and even the Li family… These are all well-known companies in City A. As long as you can persuade these companies to cooperate with you in developing this area of ​​the orphanage, then all the problems will be solved.”

Money is no longer an issue.

Xu Gui: "...Why should they want to cooperate with me?"

Qin Zhongyi smiled and said confidently, "Just because you are Xu Gui, the only diviner in China, no, in the entire world! As long as these companies have a little foresight, they will not refuse to cooperate with you."

Who wouldn't want to befriend a fortune teller who can predict the future?

Qin Zhongyi even felt that as long as Xu Gui announced that she wanted to build an amusement park, many people would want to cooperate with her.

Xu Gui seemed to be thinking, "Do I really care that much?"

Qin Zhongyi nodded firmly.

In this day and age, although everyone says they believe in science and don't believe in feudal superstition, they still have some doubts in their hearts, especially the richer people who believe in these things. Otherwise, why are those so-called feng shui masters guests of the wealthy?

Xu Gui's skills are no less than those of feng shui masters, so naturally many wealthy people want to befriend her.

Xu Gui understood, and she thought happily: In the end, he was just saying that he was very capable!

Qin Zhongyi: "...That's roughly the idea."

...

When it comes to work, Qin Zhongyi becomes much more energetic, and his gloomy face looks much more positive.

After receiving Xu Gui's permission, he turned around and hurriedly left the orphanage, preparing to contact these families. When he left the orphanage, he only had his pursuit of his career in mind, and no desire for worldly things.

The dean came in and asked with some confusion, "Zhongyi, why are you in such a hurry? Aren't you going to have lunch?"

After a few seconds of contemplation, Xu Gui said, "He's probably off chasing after his dream girl."

Dean: ? ? What's going on?

Xu Gui felt that for Qin Zhongyi, career was equivalent to his dream lover, so there was nothing wrong with what he said.

*

Around noon, Fashion magazine posted a Weibo post officially announcing their brand's autumn theme.

The autumn theme for this issue of "fashion" is: sea. All their autumn designs revolve around this ocean theme.

The fashion magazine they also announced at the same time also featured this issue of their fashion magazine.

However, to the surprise of netizens, the model for this issue of "fashion" magazine is actually Xu Gui! Xu Gui later reposted the "fashion" blog post, which confirmed the news.

Netizens: Surprised.

Does Xu Gui really have no connections? His first resource after entering the industry was a luxury brand like "Fashion" magazine. Is that reasonable?!

Didn't you see what *fashion* magazine said? Their lead photographer thought our little turtle perfectly matched their theme for this issue! Their lead photographer was extremely satisfied with our little turtle! Two "extremely"s!

[Industry insiders are secretly saying that the lead photographer for this shoot for *Fashion* is Mr. Mom Bell, the lead photographer for *Denla*. It's said that he saw Xu Gui's amazing photo, was inspired, and volunteered to take charge of the autumn theme shoot for *Fashion*.]

[Is this the amazing picture I know? It's still my phone wallpaper, it's really super beautiful (no verification needed, not a Xu Gui fan)]

[Mommy Bell? Is that the Mommy Bell I know? But didn't Mommy Bell stop filming "Dunla" a long time ago?] — In recent years, Mommy Bell has mostly photographed landscapes or extremely impactful war scenes.

He hasn't been involved in the filming of "Denla" for many years.

But this time, he not only participated, but also participated in the autumn-themed photoshoot for "fashion," a sub-brand of "Denla."

Netizens couldn't help but comment: 【What merit does "fashion" possess? What merit does Xu Gui possess?!】

At this time, Mom Bell also posted a Weibo post in which he praised Xu Gui repeatedly. At a glance, the entire post was full of compliments for Xu Gui.

In conclusion: Ms. Xu is absolutely wonderful! She's simply my muse!

Mom Bell concluded by saying, "...You can look forward to this issue of *Fashion* magazine; I think it certainly won't disappoint."

Mom Bell's praise for Xu Gui was so exaggerated that netizens were somewhat surprised and suddenly became more curious about this issue of "fashion" magazine.

As for Xu Gui's fans, needless to say, they will definitely support Xu Gui.

As for Xu Gui, the work with *fashion* was already finished, so she didn't pay much attention to it. After forwarding the message, she stopped reading the online comments. Mom Bell, however, contacted her around noon to say that they had already mailed her the latest issue of the magazine.

Mom was clearly very satisfied with this shoot, her words filled with excitement and joy.

"I haven't produced such a satisfying piece of work in a long time!" he told Xu Gui. "Once the magazine is released, everyone will go crazy for our collaboration!"

He used a lot of exaggerated words to describe the work in this issue, which included some foreign words. Xu Gui could only say that he didn't understand any of them.

However, Xu Gui could hear the excitement in Mom's voice, which made her curious about the final product – even though she was the main subject of the shoot, she wondered what the final product would look like.

Xu Gui thought about it for a while, but still couldn't imagine it. She shook her head and stopped thinking about it.

*

The fall issue of Fashion magazine went on sale online at 9 p.m. Fashion went all out, preparing three million copies.

For Xu Gui, a newcomer with few works, this number is indeed quite bold, and it makes people wonder whether the three million copies can be sold out. After all, it would be really funny if they weren't sold out.

Even if Xu Gui is a diviner, he would probably still be ridiculed.

So, whatever the reason, this issue of "fashion" magazine has garnered a lot of attention online.

Soon, it was the night the magazine was released.

Wen Meixin is one of Xu Gui's fans, and a die-hard one at that. But unlike those so-called career fans or looks fans, she is Xu Gui's "mom fan". No matter why, when she first saw Xu Gui, she felt that Xu Gui was very lovable and cute.

"It's my daughter, it's my daughter!" She's an absolute die-hard mom fan.

For mothers, their children are absolutely supportive, so before nine o'clock, Wen Meixin was already waiting on the official website of "fashion", ready to click the buy button as soon as it was nine o'clock.

Finally, it was nine o'clock in the evening.

The instant the second hand turned, Wen Meixin pressed the left button. The next second, after a slow loading process, the interface jumped to the payment screen. Wen Meixin took out her phone to scan the code and pay, the whole process was incredibly smooth.

After paying, she finally breathed a sigh of relief when the page redirected to "purchased." Then she clenched her fists and realized they were covered in sweat.

However, once she had bought it, Wen Meixin felt relieved. At this moment, she returned to the purchase page and took another look, only to find that the remaining quantity of the magazines had already reached the beginning of the "one".

Wen Meixin was stunned: Of the original three million, only a little over one million remain?

She almost thought she was seeing things, but when she looked closely, she was sure she wasn't mistaken. The column for the remaining quantity of the magazine was indeed starting to show "one," and only forty seconds had passed since the magazine went on sale.

And perhaps because the quantity is dropping so quickly, people who haven't bought it yet are panicking, so the number of magazines remaining is decreasing at a very rapid pace in real time.

As Wen Meixin watched the numbers change, she became somewhat nervous. She kept an eye on the time passing while watching the number of magazines decrease.

Finally, all the numbers were reduced to zero.

When she saw the quantity become 0 and the buy button change to "Sold Out", Wen Meixin subconsciously glanced at the time on the computer screen, which showed: 21:01:25.

Wen Meixin was a beat slow to realize what this timeframe meant: the magazine had sold out in just two minutes, for a total of three million copies!

Wen Meixin: ? ! !

"Ahhh!" Coming to her senses, she jumped up from her seat in excitement, and then, with her roommate looking at her as if she were crazy, she hugged the person tightly and continued to scream wildly.

After Wen Meixin screamed excitedly, she plopped back down at her desk, picked up her phone, and joined a group chat named: "Protecting the Best Turtle Daughter".

That's right, this is a group of mom fans. All the fans in this group are Xu Gui's mom fans.

When Wen Meixin clicked in, she saw everyone in the group screaming. Most people were excited, while a few were wailing—those who were wailing were the ones who hadn't managed to get one.

[My goodness! In less than two minutes, three million copies of the magazine sold out! What an achievement!! Our daughter is truly amazing!]

[Damn it, I only managed to buy two copies each time. They sell CDs, but you can only buy one every fifty seconds. I was planning to buy ten for my collection! Mom Bell, my favorite photographer, plus Turtle, my beloved daughter—this collaboration is going to be amazing!]

[I was so envious, I went to get a glass of water, and when I came back I found they were all sold out! You bunch of animals, you didn't even leave me a single copy!]

[Hahaha! I got it! I got it! I'm such a genius!]

My daughter is so amazing! If she keeps going like this, I'm really going to become a career fanatic. Being a career fanatic for my daughter must be so awesome!

[I'm going to check out Weibo, Turtle is so amazing!]

At this moment, Xu Gui's fans on Weibo were celebrating, even feeling very proud and smug. As for non-Xu Gui fans, they were simply surprised.

While Xu Gui's fan base has grown rapidly in recent months, the actual spending power of these fans remains unknown. After all, just because netizens follow you doesn't mean they'll spend money on you.

This issue of "fashion" magazine undoubtedly showed both investors and other netizens the spending power of Xu Gui's fans.

In this era of declining print media, three million copies of a magazine sold out in two minutes. Even top-tier media couldn't achieve that.

Meanwhile, in the Lu family mansion, Lu Baiyi was listening to his secretary.

"...We ended up buying about five hundred copies of Master Xu's magazine," the secretary said. "We didn't expect to buy CDs, otherwise we could have bought even more."

The secretary was actually a little surprised. Around noon, his boss, Mr. Lu Boyi, suddenly asked him to do something for him. The secretary thought it was something important, but he didn't expect it to be buying magazines for him at nine o'clock in the evening.

Secretary: Sure enough, their boss is a domineering CEO!

However, neither the domineering CEO nor his secretary expected that the magazine purchase would include CDs, which led to their lack of preparation, and they ended up only buying about 500 copies.

"I'm sorry, Manager," the secretary apologized to Lu Baiyi.

Lu Boyi: "It's okay, as long as I got it. I feel bad that you had to do all this for me after get off work."

The secretary didn't think anything of it. After all, Lu Boyi hadn't asked her to do things for free; he had given her five thousand yuan in overtime pay! Five thousand yuan—for a mere magazine, he'd buy gold for their general manager, okay?

It's just a pity that he disappointed their general manager.

"General Manager, this time I was not very familiar with the entertainment industry, it was my dereliction of duty, but rest assured, next time I will be fully prepared and will not let you down again!" The secretary's voice was full of fighting spirit.

Lu Baiyi: "...That's not necessary."

Secretary: "Yes, yes."

He thought to himself: Their general manager is a domineering CEO! As his secretary, how could I possibly disappoint him?

The secretary was heartbroken and promised it would never happen again.

Lu Baiyi: Occasionally, he would wonder what his secretary was thinking.

...

After hanging up with his secretary, Lu Boyi held his phone and hesitated for about eight minutes before finally giving in and calling Xu Gui.

"Hey, am I bothering you?"