It was cold inside the factory, and none of the workers were there. Qin Xiaoyu reached out and touched the radiator; it seemed to only emit warm air, just enough to keep her warm. She sighed. A considerable amount of money had been allocated to this place; what exactly was Wang Lingling planning?

She walked up to the factory manager's office and went in without knocking.

Wang Lingling and the former factory director Zhang Zufeng sat facing each other, both lost in thought.

Upon seeing Qin Xiaoqian enter, Wang Lingling trembled, stood up but her legs gave way, and she fell back down.

"Director Qin, you're not going to send me to jail, are you?"

"Wang Lingling, you know your problem is serious now? I'm really letting you off easy by not sending you to jail." Qin Xiaoyu was seething with anger and was just waiting to vent it on her.

"I'll listen to whatever you say, I was wrong about this." Wang Lingling covered her face and sobbed.

Actually, she wasn't targeting Qin Xiaoyu; it was Master Liang who was suppressing her too harshly.

Wang Lingling was promoted from a worker to the technical department by Qin Xiaoyu. She felt that it was partly due to her good luck and partly due to her own talent.

It was also because of her own hard work that she consistently performed admirably. Later, when she followed Director Fei to conquer Kunming and acquired the garment factory, she became a bit arrogant.

She could also see that Qin Xiaoyu was ambitious and would definitely expand outwards in the future, requiring a large number of talented people. Someone like her, a direct descendant, would be very promising, so she was just waiting for the right opportunity.

Master Liang is a bit rigid and inflexible; he treats everyone the same. Wang Lingling is the second-in-command in the technical department and is known as Sister Ling. But no matter what she says, it won't work with Master Liang, and after a while, she couldn't stand it anymore.

When Wang Lingling heard that they were going to open a counter in Guangzhou and bring Master Liang along, she was overjoyed. This was clearly a way to sideline Master Liang. Recalling the previous argument between Qin Xiaoyu and Master Liang, she became even more convinced that this was Qin Xiaoyu's ploy to lure Master Liang away.

When the tiger is away, a new king must be found. This week, Yue gave birth to triplets, so it's no longer feasible for her; only Wang Lingling will have to take her place.

But she never expected that she would be sent to the new factory and become a puppet. Before leaving for Guangzhou, Director Fei repeatedly told her to listen to the head office and not to act on her own.

Looking at the sample garments sent by the main factory, Wang Lingling couldn't suppress her anger.

She designed more than a dozen styles overnight. She refused to believe that her fashion designs were not as good-looking as Master Liang's. She refused to believe that she could not conquer the Shanghai market.

This was something that required increasing boldness as you went along. At first, she only wanted to make two or three models, but the more she did, the more comfortable she became. She discovered that the head office trusted her completely and there was no oversight whatsoever; in the new factory, she was the boss.

Factory Director Fei and Qin Xiaoyu are not at the main factory, and Factory Director Xie is getting old and inevitably lacks the energy. It's simply impossible for them to come to the new factory to check on the situation.

Wang Lingling is free.

When she woke up from her daydream, she realized there was no turning back. Several trending items that were originally planned to be added were repeatedly postponed and never launched.

Just then, she received a call from the head office urging them to ship the goods, and she had to bite the bullet and send them out anyway.

Qin Xiaoyu threw the shipping order from Guangzhou in front of Wang Lingling. She was very familiar with the item numbers on it, which she had proudly printed out piece by piece. However, the prices listed were shocking. Was she selling it as rags? Even the old models shouldn't be this cheap.

"You've caused the factory huge economic losses. We can't keep you here any longer. Go back to the main factory and await disciplinary action," Qin Xiaoyu announced the decision. Wang Lingling, her face ashen, walked out of the factory director's office.

"Director Qin, what should we do?" Zhang Zufeng was also disheartened. She had met Qin Xiaoyu before and thought that this young woman was very capable. She could save one factory, and saving another one would not be a problem.

But who would have thought that he would be so unlucky as to run into such a self-righteous Wang Lingling.

"The main factory will send over sample garments soon, and production will resume. Why isn't the heating working?"

"Huh? I thought everyone was on holiday, so I wanted to save some coal." Zhang Zufeng didn't expect Qin Xiaoyu's thinking to jump around so quickly. She was just listening to the production schedule, and suddenly the heating was turned on.

"Start heating up today. Tell the boiler room not to be stingy; buy more coal if needed. The factory is big and spacious; if the heating isn't enough, the female workers will get frostbite. We'll start heating it up when they start work tomorrow; it'll be hard to heat it up all at once," Qin Xiaoyu carefully arranged.

"Director Qin, I understand. I feel reassured now that you're here." Zhang Zufeng was so moved she almost cried. She had been waiting to be criticized. Although Wang Lingling was the one who did it, as the factory director, how could she not bear responsibility?

Unexpectedly, Qin Xiaoyu didn't blame her at all. Instead, she told her not to save money and to make good arrangements for the female workers. No wonder they can make money. She has a kind heart!

Qin Xiaoyu and A Lei found a guesthouse nearby, so they had no choice in terms of conditions. A Lei didn't complain; he'd been becoming more and more pragmatic lately. He just went out and bought a bunch of daily necessities to replace the guesthouse's.

Watching him bustling about, Qin Xiaoyu suddenly remembered what Madam Fang had said, telling her to bring A Lei back to the human world so he could live a more peaceful life.

But this felt too reassuring. At night, the two of them huddled under their own blankets, shivering from the cold.

Qin Xiaoyu thought to herself, "What kind of stable life is this? It's clearly being ground down and rubbed into the ground by life."

"Do you regret marrying me?" Qin Xiaoyu stepped forward and whispered to A Lei.

"I regret it." Are nodded.

When Qin Xiaoyu had drawn his forty-meter-long sword thirty-nine meters, he continued, "Why didn't I marry you sooner?"

"Why?" Qin Xiaoyu put the knife back down.

"If I had married you sooner, I probably wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble. I was somewhat prepared for that."

"It'll be a hassle no matter when you marry me, this is my life," Qin Xiaoyu sighed.

"You have a very clear understanding of yourself, but why don't you change it?" A Lei said resentfully, turning over and pinning her down. Qin Xiaoyu felt a warm sensation on her body and smiled sweetly.

"Am I just giving you a chance to experience life?"

"My life? In the past, I was always flying around, traveling to different places, sometimes flying thousands of kilometers just for a good meal. Doing what I wanted in various places, meeting different women. You really enriched my life. For a while, I thought I had experienced enough of life, and I was even a little cynical. You made me realize that what I was doing was so childish. I had just finished reading '100,000 Whys,' and you threw a whole Encyclopedia Britannica at me." A Lei vented his anger, and the bed beneath him groaned in pain.

Qin Xiaoyu gritted her teeth and dared not make a sound, afraid that the wall was not soundproof.

But the unbearable heat in his body caused a groan to escape his lips without his notice.

Anyway, it's a place where nobody knows you.

Who cares? Come on, let's have some fun!

Qin Xiaoyu has let go...

"Can't a person get any sleep?!" Someone banged on the wall next to them a few times.