Chapter 423: Secret Competition
"You don't have to agree to me now. I'm just telling you so you can be mentally prepared." Pei Lan leaned on the windowsill and took Su Jiaojiao's hand. "I don't know why, but the first time I saw you, I felt a sense of familiarity. It's not because you're Lu Jingyou's girlfriend, but because I feel like we must have met in a previous life."
"Probably!" Su Jiaojiao didn't believe in past lives or afterlife, but when this happened to her, she couldn't deny it.
"Don't worry about it. I'll take care of things with Jingyou's mother and won't put you in any difficult situations." Pei Lan looked at Wu Jingbo, who was still busy downstairs, and murmured, "I thought this was how my life would end, but I didn't expect that in my middle age, I would still be worried about things like this. I'm a loser."
"A person's success or failure cannot be measured by marriage. Marriage is only a part of life, not the whole." Su Jiaojiao racked her brains to comfort her. "I saw a copy of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' on your desk. I've read this book too, and what touched me the most was this sentence: A person's spiritual sustenance can be music, sports, mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, but not people, because people are fickle. It's wrong to punish yourself and define your own life by the mistakes of others."
If she encountered such a thing after marriage, she would also be sad, but she would turn around and leave without hesitation.
If she has children, she will raise them well and will never cry and become a shrew.
"You're so young, yet so clear-headed. Lu Jingyou is lucky." Pei Lan felt relieved when she heard her say that. "Okay, I won't keep you any longer. Go get busy!"
The dozen or so autumn and winter styles that Su Jiaojiao put into production had already been given to Wang Xiaoyu to make samples. Although Wang Xiaoyu worked slowly, he was very serious and made them completely according to the production process sheet. Even the stitches were adjusted to standard standards.
Wang Xiaoyu made the samples herself and put them into production on the assembly line. Su Jiaojiao was only responsible for purchasing the auxiliary materials, and she would come over to take a look at the finished products.
Among her dozen or so styles, the largest quantity is one thousand pieces, and the smallest is four or five hundred pieces. There are no large orders.
Because large orders are easy to imitate, she is put in a passive position.
Just like this popular floral shirt, the price has been lowered again and again, and her 20,000 pieces in stock are definitely a backlog.
Small orders are different. Before her competitors can react, they are already sold out. So, no matter what you do, it is important to seize the opportunity.
Now, apart from jeans and baseball jackets, she has small orders of hundreds of pieces, all with millennial elements. There is no doubt that sales will be good, it just depends on the price.
Lin Manling was very proud when she knew that Su Jiaojiao’s goods were suppressed. Aren’t her two stores, Su Jiaojiao, very popular and awesome?
Didn’t you just give in to the price?
The most popular store in Wudaokou now is Changyuan. Changyuan has a good location and good feng shui, and it easily took down Su Jiaojiao's two stores.
Although Su Jiaojiao is an expert, she is too young after all. She doesn't understand that cheapness is the bottom line.
Although her goods are of better quality, retailers still value profits more. They will only favor goods with large profit margins.
Su Jiaojiao insisted on lowering the price, so of course her business was not doing well.
After all, she is still too young.
The more Lin Manling thought about it, the more proud she became. With Su Jiaojiao's two tricks, she still wanted to fight with her?
It’s so funny!
Lin Manling told this to Lin Manli as a joke, and Lin Manli was annoyed: "When did you become so mercenary? If you want to sell goods, just sell them properly. Why are you competing with her?"
"How could I possibly be competing with her?" Lin Manling was unhappy. "She was competing with me. You're not biased towards your future daughter-in-law, are you?"
"Who is my future daughter-in-law?" Lin Manli was most reluctant to hear this. "Because of her, Jingyou doesn't want to talk to me anymore. In Jingyou's eyes, I've become a villain."
"Young girls nowadays may look innocent on the outside, but they are actually very scheming. They rely on their youth and beauty to charm men." Lin Manling said, shaking her head and sighing, "Our Jingyou is such a good young man, but he actually fell into her hands."
"I had hoped that the old couple in our family could take care of it, but who knew that none of them would say a word. They are really senile!" Lin Manli didn't believe that Mr. Lu and Mrs. Lu didn't know about this, but so far, all they knew was to repair the house and didn't mention a word!
"Jingyou is your son, and you have to step in on this matter. Can you count on your parents-in-law to do it?" Lin Manling said incredulously, "They are so obsessed with having a great-grandson right now that they don't care about whether it's appropriate or not. Believe it or not, they can't wait to marry Su Jiaojiao back right now."
"If they think so, there's nothing I can do." Lin Manli knew that she couldn't persuade her parents-in-law, and she also knew that she had no say in her son's affairs.
"I really can't stand the fact that you've become a young wife in the Lu family. How can you not have the final say over the son you raised?" Lin Manling suggested to Lin Manli, "Talk to Su Jiaojiao and ask her to break up with Jing You."
"I'm not going." Lin Manli looked at her sister in disbelief. "If I go, Jingyou will definitely sever our mother-son relationship."
"Then go back and prepare to marry your daughter-in-law!" Lin Manling spread her hands. "The wedding room is ready anyway, and she won't live with you."
"What wedding house?" It was the first time that Lin Manli heard about the wedding house.
"Don't you know?" Lin Manling was stunned. "Jingyou prepared the wedding room in the lakeside villa outside Beijing!"
"Who told you that? How come I don't know?" Lin Manli was also stunned.
"I heard it from Jasmine. Didn't Jasmine go to the outskirts of Beijing to celebrate Yu Mingyuan's birthday two months ago? She heard it from Qi Heng."
"Such a big thing, and I didn't even know about it..." Lin Manli's eyes turned red with anger. "Jingyou no longer sees me as his mother."
"That must be Su Jiaojiao's idea," Lin Manling snorted coldly. "She knows you don't like her, so she definitely doesn't want to live with you. Beijing's suburbs are so far away, you can't go there even if you want to."
"They can't go to the suburbs of Beijing!" Lin Manli was about to faint with anger. "I've been to the suburbs of Beijing. It's just barren mountains and wasteland everywhere. It's just a rural area. It's not even as good as my hometown in northern Tianjin. How can they live there?"
It turns out they all live in the city center.
Her son moved to the countryside with that Su Jiaojiao... She couldn't accept it.
"Or, you can ask Jingyou, maybe Jasmine heard it wrong." Seeing that her sister was angry, Lin Manling didn't know what to say.
"I'm going to find the old lady right now. It seems like everyone is hiding something from me. What do they think of me?" Lin Manli couldn't stand it anymore and drove to the old house.
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