Chapter 3 Potato Omelette
Yu Yin was immersed in her work. Xiang Yue knocked on her office door and came in. "Would you like to have lunch with me?"
Yu Yin's thoughts were finally diverted from her work. After thinking about it, she agreed.
"What do you want to eat?" Yu Yin asked Xiang Yue while clearing the table.
Xiang Yue said, "I found a new Spanish restaurant downstairs..."
In the Spanish restaurant, Xiang Yue thought that eating Spanish food must include the classic paella, but since Yu Yin didn't eat it, she enjoyed it alone and didn't share.
Yu Yin ordered another classic Spanish dish, Potato Omelette. Yes, the name of this dish is that simple. She was once confused by its Spanish name.
At that time, she and Zhao Shunian were on their honeymoon trip in Spain and randomly walked into a local restaurant. There was no English menu in the restaurant and she didn't understand Spanish, so she picked the dishes that seemed to appeal to her.
She and Zhao Shunian were unfamiliar with each other at the time and didn't talk unless necessary, but since it was their honeymoon trip, they spent every day together. She was new to Spain, it was her first time there, and he was the person she knew best.
She felt too stuffy, and even the cool sea breeze outside couldn't blow away the stuffiness. He was calm and didn't care. Her skills were not as strong as his, so she couldn't help but bring up the topic and asked what the dish was called.
Zhao Shunian raised his eyelids and asked her casually, "Don't you know that this is the dish she ordered?"
Yu Yin was speechless. She really didn't know that it was her order. She thought it was inappropriate for them to talk.
A faint sense of awkwardness hung in the air, and then Zhao Shu uttered the five words, "Potato and Egg Pancake," in a youthful and airy voice. Yu Yin found it inexplicably amusing. She didn't laugh out loud, but the smile in her eyes couldn't be suppressed. He covered her eyes with his hands.
The waiter who served the food enthusiastically said, "Tortolitos!"
Yu Yin didn't understand what was meant, but knew it was a joke, and the two of them immediately became serious and distant again...
Yu Yin and Xiang Yue ate dessert after dinner and chatted casually. There is no habit among friends not to talk while eating.
At this moment, Yu Yin's phone vibrated. A message came in. She checked the message and found it was from her personal assistant, Yu Meimei, saying that the stylist had come to the villa.
Yu Meimei carefully asked her whether she wanted to come back or change the time and asked the stylist to leave.
Yu Yin's personal stylist Lana comes at a fixed time every month. If there is an emergency need, Yu Meimei will inform Lana in advance and ask her to come over.
Today is the fixed date, and Yu Yin forgot about it for a moment.
Xiang Yue asked her, "Who sent you the message, Zhao Shunian?"
"It's Meimei. She said the stylist is waiting at home."
Yu Yin had to scroll through several times before she found the chat box between her and Zhao Shunian. They basically didn't chat online, and the latest chat history was still on the message she sent by mistake.
She had originally intended to send it to Xiang Yue. By the time she realized she'd sent it by mistake, the time to withdraw it had passed. The person on the other end of the chat box remained silent, so she pretended to be deaf and dumb, as if nothing had happened.
Xiang Yue said, "See you tomorrow?"
"Okay, I'll come on time tomorrow and work overtime with you and Qianyao."
Xiang Yue looked at her in disbelief: "Really?"
Yu Yin said firmly: "Of course!"
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Yu Meimei entertained Lana in the side hall and brought her a cup of coffee. "Madam said she'll be back soon."
Lana took the coffee with both hands and said thank you. The two chatted briefly while drinking coffee.
Yu Meimei envied Lana's fulfilling work, while her role as a personal assistant was practically a decoration. Yu Yin rarely needed her and didn't like having anyone around. Yu Meimei was always worried that Yu Yin would find her useless and fire her.
Yu Meimei felt that one should not think that the wife was easy to bully just because she was easy to get along with and had no airs. If someone under her made her unhappy, she would ruthlessly eliminate that person.
Two years ago, Lana's predecessor's stylist was one of the most famous in the industry. She offended Yu Yin, who ended her cooperation with her without saying a word. This was equivalent to her being blacklisted by the Zhao family. Soon, she and her studio could no longer stay in this circle and had to change circles.
After hearing about Yu Meimei's work, Lana envied her free time and high salary, considering her own constant busy schedule. Lana had also heard rumors about her ex, and she was trembling with fear as she served Yu Yin, fearing that something might go wrong and ruin her career.
When Yu Yin, the woman they both thought was "not easy to mess with", returned to the villa, Lana and her studio members had already laid out the clothes, shoes and bags they had brought today in the reception room next to the cloakroom, with Yu Meimei supervising them.
Lana's studio would bring new styles from certain brands to the villa if they matched Yu Yin's style. Styling studios, which provide long-term services to wealthy individuals, often build extensive fashion connections. Furthermore, prestigious families are often frequent guests of luxury brands.
Lana helps Yu Yin choose clothes. Yu Yin may not know what is in the closet at home, but she and Yu Meimei know it all.
Lana was accompanied by a tailor today. The clothes the studio received were all in Yu Yin's size. She picked out a piece she liked, and the tailor took her measurements. They discussed with her and Lana how to modify the details to make the piece more tailor-fitting to her figure and temperament without ruining the overall style. Once everything was agreed upon, the tailor would take the piece to be altered before sending it back to the villa.
The studio will return the clothes that Yu Yin has left over. The Zhao family is rich, but they are not suckers. They will not keep unwanted things to gather dust and waste money.
If the clothes are completely tailor-made, the brand's tailor and Lana will come together. They will select the style and fabric, measure Yu Yin, and then make the clothes.
These are all outfits for Yu Yin's daily life and work. When there are important events such as dinner parties, Lana needs to bring more studio members to the villa to provide her with one-stop service.
Yu Yin remembered the dream, which seemed to be a warning. She suspected that she was used to extravagance, which was why she squandered all her savings in a short period of time.
She felt that she needed to correct her high-spending behavior. After all, it was easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. In order to avoid being at a loss when she left the Zhao family in the future, she did not keep anything she liked as she did in the past, but simply picked a few things.
Yu Yin was just about to say that this was all she needed, when she suddenly wanted to look at the price list. She wanted to know how much she would spend on her daily clothes, because she might have to pay for them herself in the future.
"Lana, where's the price list for these things?"
Lana was confused because she usually never looked at it, but she didn't dare to ask, so she gave it to her as she wished.
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