I calmly looked at Yang Sisi, who had been speaking rudely to me, and said to her, "Go to your room and put on a coat. We'll talk slowly on the second-floor platform."
"He's acting strangely and mysteriously."
Yang Sisi complained as she went back to her room to find her coat. When she came out again, her hair was tied up in a braid with a hair tie, seemingly prepared for my prolonged harassment. She then said to me in a threatening tone, "You'd better talk to me about something serious later, otherwise tomorrow I'll definitely make you regret it… How can an old man like you have the nerve to knock on a young girl's door so late… If this gets to Coach Ma and the others' ears, they'll never treat you like a human being again."
"You're such a great actor!"
...
When we arrived at the second-floor platform, Yang Sisi sat down opposite me. She yawned and said to me, "Just say what you have to say. I haven't had a proper beauty sleep since I came to Dali!"
Before I spoke, I glanced at her again. She still had the scars from when she fell while dodging the city management officers last time, and she didn't look well either. I guessed she had been worrying about making a living these past few days...
Her stubbornness touched my heart. I even wished I had never met her before. She was a stranger we found at the guesthouse in Dali. We treated her like a younger sister, and then we all became like family, using our strengths to make the guesthouse a success.
But she just happens to be Yang Sisi, a rich young lady from Shanghai who is engaged to the son of my former boss. I have no choice but to avoid suspicion to put Lao Huang at ease, otherwise I can't expect to live comfortably in Dali.
I finally spoke to her, saying, "Let's make the best-case scenario plan. Let's assume the guesthouse can reopen before November, and then our promotional efforts need to keep up... I've redefined this guesthouse; I want to make it a trendy, Instagram-worthy guesthouse in Dali... And we already have the conditions for that, because the landscaping in our common areas is perfect for taking photos, and we also have an open-air infinity pool, which is a favorite among those with a sophisticated taste. So now I need you to contact some photography studios in Dali and have them bring their clients to our guesthouse for photoshoots... Initially, we won't charge them and can provide free hourly rooms for them to rest."
"Then what?"
"Then you take these photos and promote them on various travel guide websites... You need to know that a significant proportion of people travel just to take photos and show their best side to their social circles... If we can meet their needs in this regard, then we can become a popular hotel."
Yang Sisi gave me a disdainful look and replied, "You keep calling me an internet celebrity, don't you think it's a vulgar term?"
"A 'celebrity inn' and a 'celebrity inn' are not the same thing at all. An inn that becomes a 'celebrity inn' must have exceptional qualities; its fame is built on word-of-mouth, not on vulgar online hype."
"Oh, I see."
"So starting tomorrow, you need to contact various photography studios in Dali."
"Okay, I'll go do it."
"You also need to write a travel guide specifically about our guesthouse."
"I wrote."
"By the way, we don't have any promotional materials yet, so you'll have to assist Coach Ma as a model in shooting a set of promotional photos."
"My pleasure!"
"Also, Bai Lu might send you to his friend's star-rated hotel for training soon, which probably won't be easy."
“I know about this; she's talked to me about it.”
I tentatively asked, "Don't you feel any pressure?"
“The capable should do more!” Yang Sisi replied with a smile at first, then her face turned cold, and she said, “Don’t think I don’t know what you’re up to, but I, Yang Sisi, won’t be so easily looked down upon by you… Michael, let me tell you this, even if you treat this inn as a tool to make money, I won’t… I will only treat it as my home in Dali, and run it well, because I love everyone in this inn except you… Sometimes, I really want to ask you, when you compare yourself to Coach Ma, Tie Nan, and Bai Lu, don’t you feel ashamed at all? They all treat me like a younger sister, pampering and spoiling me, but you treat me like an enemy… But we should be the closest people, because we are the two people who came to Dali together from Shanghai!”
"You're right, I am a villain."
"You're not the villain, you're cold-blooded!"
Looking at Yang Sisi, I felt inexplicably sad, so much so that I couldn't speak for a long time. Yang Sisi also lost interest in continuing the conversation. She gave me a cold look and left... So, that night, there was no one to talk to in the inn. I had a lot of time to reflect on myself, but the more I reflected, the more I felt like a nobody, which is why I was always passively living in the troubles that life created for me.
Perhaps it's time for me to find a suitable opportunity to be honest with my parents. I need to tell them that I'm actually doing quite well in Dali. That way, I won't have to live in the shadow cast by Lao Huang, and I can break free from the constraints of lies.
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