Chu Xiang was completely confused and felt a little uncomfortable, but she didn't understand why Qian Cheng was keeping her hanging on.
If you like your junior sister, just say so. Why bother showing her kindness while also being with her, making her seem like a third party who can't be seen in public?
"What kind of looks are those?"
"Chu Xiang, you don't know yet, do you?" her roommate said with a hint of sympathy. "Didn't Qian Cheng take you home? After he came back, he told people that your mother worked as a nanny for a wealthy family. You know what kind of person he is. He only became the student council president to train himself so he could get into the system after graduation and climb the ladder as soon as possible. He's very goal-oriented. Your family is ordinary, and you're from the countryside, so you can't help him in his career. But that Xu Shanshan... her mother is an administrator at our school, and her father works in the education system. She comes from a well-off family and is an only child. It's really not surprising that Qian Cheng chose her."
I see.
Chu Xiang still found it strange that Qian Cheng had said a lot of irrelevant things yesterday.
It turns out that he had weighed her and his junior sister in his heart, and then gave up on her.
Chu Xiang felt a little uncomfortable.
Qian Cheng had always been good to her. With such a capable and handsome man showing her such attention, it would be a lie to say that Chu Xiang wasn't tempted at all.
She always believed that feelings had nothing to do with material things; as long as she and Qian Cheng liked each other, family background was secondary.
Although she doesn't have a local household registration, she is only 19 years old and owns several properties. Her family assets are at least several million yuan, and she also owns two wildly popular fast food restaurants. In terms of wealth, her family is much better off than Qian Cheng's family.
Although she wasn't as capable as her older sister—not as good at making money or investing, and not as discerning in her judgment of men—she published several best-selling books, her novels were adapted into TV series, and she even wrote screenplays for Hong Kong films.
Her personal abilities are in no way inferior to Qian Cheng's.
But Qian Cheng only looked at the surface and gave up on her. What made Chu Xiang even more dissatisfied was that Qian Cheng secretly probed her family background, and his self-righteous behavior was disgusting.
Chu Xiang picked up the book expressionlessly. "There's no need to be so materialistic, is there? If you make friends based on family background and wealth, is he still a boyfriend?"
Her roommates shrugged, knowing she was upset. It's not that society is so materialistic; it's quite normal for Beijing guys to want to find well-off only girls. It's just that some people say it outright, while Qian Cheng chose to hint at it indirectly.
"Chu Xiang, don't be sad. Even if your family isn't as well-off as Xu Shanshan's, you're prettier than her. You've already won."
Chu Xiang found the constant comparisons really boring.
Women are not commodities, so why should they be picked and chosen by men?
Chu Xiang had been in a bad mood these past few days, and Chu Chu noticed it. She secretly asked Chu Chu, "What's wrong with your second sister?"
"Who knows? Maybe she's heartbroken. Women's love always comes and goes quickly."
Chu Yu couldn't help but chuckle at Chu Chu's precocious and shrewd demeanor. She knew that matters of the heart were something she had to handle herself, and she couldn't always stand up for her sister.
"How's your signature coming along?" Chu Yu asked.
Chu Chu stared at the autographed paper beside her and sighed:
"My hands are killing me. I've only signed less than 10,000 copies. Editor-in-Chief Qiao said it would be best to sign more if possible. It's really too difficult."
This can be considered a sweet burden.
Mandarin Cosmetics Company has completed all the preliminary preparations.
The registration in the port city is complete, the outer packaging of the products is finished, and the trademarks and logos have all been successfully registered. The raw material company in Guangdong Province has also brought Chu Yu foreign raw materials. Liu Mingchuan is trying them out one by one, and plans to add good raw materials to Mandarin's skin care products.
What Chu Yu needs to do is use her experience to help Liu Mingchuan adjust the colors of lipstick and eyeshadow.
"Are you sure you want this color?" Liu Mingchuan asked.
The current trend is bright red, and Chu Yu also made several shades of red, including apple red, rose red, and imperial red. These reds have subtle differences, but they are all very bright.
But Chu Yu still felt it wasn't enough.
The lipstick colors that are currently popular are too unrealistic.
On the streets of Beijing in 1986, how many people were wearing full makeup and bright red lipstick?
Chu Yu felt that bright red was not suitable for Asian skin tones and that more everyday colors, such as mauve, should be developed.
"Red bean paste color? I don't understand your women's vocabulary. Just tell me, what color is this? It's not the color of the red bean paste in a red bean bun, is it?" Liu Mingchuan said expressionlessly.
Chu Yu laughed. Indeed, it's harder than climbing to heaven to get a straight man to understand the color of bean paste.
Not knowing how to describe it to Liu Mingchuan, she picked up a few of her lipsticks and drew a few lines on her wrist.
Last year when Chu Yu went to the port city, she bought a few light-colored lipsticks, but the current mauve color has a fluorescent feel and looks like a dead Barbie pink. Chu Yu wanted a low-saturation, gentle mauve color, so she layered several lipsticks together to try to present the color closest to her ideal color.
She succeeded on her third try.
"It's roughly this color."
In later generations, with the rise of domestic brands, the first cosmetic product to surpass foreign brands was lipstick.
Mixing lipstick shades isn't a complicated thing, but many big-name lipsticks have brands that are just there for show, but their shades aren't very relatable.
Asian skin tends to be dull, and many Chinese people hope that lipstick can make their skin appear whiter, which is something that foreigners don't understand.
Chu Yu knew her customers' needs. Previous customer surveys also showed that many girls were afraid to wear lipstick because the color was too dark and not suitable for everyday makeup. They would be pointed at and gossiped about if they wore brightly colored lipstick.
You might even be attacked by malicious people who believe you are engaged in some kind of improper profession.
The reserved and introverted nature of Asians determines that we have our own preferences when it comes to lipsticks.
"Look how gentle this mauve color is. I also want to create an orange-toned lipstick with lower saturation, and a light pink like a peach."
Chu Yu's few lipsticks couldn't mix to create so many colors, so she simply took out crayons and used the mixing of different colors to draw the closest color to what she wanted. Liu Mingchuan's brows never relaxed.
He said he should die in the hospital.
It's just making lipstick, why are there so many requirements? This color and that color, it's nowhere near as easy as making skincare products.
"I'm not sure what to do, this is too much trouble! I might as well recruit some of my students. They just graduated from university and are perfect for working. As long as they're paid, they'll do whatever you ask. They're easy to fool!"
"..." There's no need to portray college students in such a negative light.
Chu Yu was truly exasperated. "You call yourself a genius, but you can't even handle something this simple? Even the donkeys in the production team wouldn't be as lazy as you! And you still recruited your students? Why should I waste this money? I won't hire anyone; I'll make you do the work of ten people and pay off my debts."
Chu Yu was thrown out the door by Liu Mingchuan's shoe.
However, along with the toner and face mask that Liu Mingchuan had just prepared, they were also thrown out.
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