Chapter 41: CH 27

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Rebirth After Being Abducted – Chapter 27

Translated by: Oinkoink

Names mentioned in this chapter:

– 苏秦 (Sū Qín) – Female Lead

– 黎川 (Lí Chuān) / 黎教授 (Lí jiàoshòu) – Male Lead

– 陈美心 (Chen Meixin) – Su Qin’s lady boss

– 王琳 (Wáng Lín) – FL’s mother

– 苏正国 (Sū Zhèngguó) – FL’s father

– 孟思思 (Mèng Sīsī) – Abductee

– 包包 (Bāo bāo) – daughter of the Female Lead with the Male Lead

Chapter 27 – School Admission

This novel is only hosted on Foxaholic, copies found elsewhere are either stolen or plagiarized.

Having attended high school, her mother, Wang Lin, has no difficulty typing pinyin.

Although she can only use the ‘index fingers’ to tap one letter at a time, Su Qin has confidence in her as practice makes perfect.

What she wants is to build-up her mother’s customer service skills.

Whether her age or perhaps her mentality, her mother, Wang Lin who is already in her thirties, is downright an ‘old woman’. Yet Su Qin intends to train her mother to be a ‘young customer service’.

During the first two days, Wang Lin was unable to act cute whenever she tried chatting with the customers.

Su Qin, who was beside her, brainwashed and cheered her on, “Mom, you have to visualize yourself as a young girl and when the customers have enquiries, your intuitiveness must be cute.”

Biting her lips, Wang Lin said, “I’m already this age, how can I still have the gall to act like you young girls?”

“Mom, who knows who you are on the internet?” Su Qin reassured her patiently. “In the cyber-world, you can pretend to be a beauty, a lady-killer and all kinds of characters you want to be. Open-up. In any case, the customers won’t charge to our home to see if you are a man or a woman, right?”

Hearing what her daughter said, Wang Lin was actually a little relieved that she gritted her teeth and started to act cute.

Su Qin went to help the lady boss sell clothes in the store during the day, while Wang Lin stayed home to help her manage Taobao. Every night she would check her mother’s ‘assignment’ once she returned home.

She realized that Wang Lin performed relatively better when she was not around.

To improve her chatting skills, Wang Lin registered a QQ account and added many online friends to chat with. She met a male user called ‘Wandering Saber’ and chatted with him every day as a young girl. She felt happy whenever he complimented her ‘lovely as a flower’.

The cyber-world is indeed too wondrous. Wang Lin only realized how wonderful the outside world actually is after leaving her husband, Su Zhengguo.

After spending a month with her daughter, Wang Lin felt as if she had returned to the days before she got married and the freedom of being single. Every day she is busy until noon and goes to buy groceries then cook before her daughter gets off work.

Due to the hot summer, Wang Lin went to buy an electric fan in the wholesale market to set it at home. With the blowing fan, the quality sleep of mother and daughter was much better at night.

Su Qin would buy two bowls of cold jelly when she came home from work every night. Not mentioning how happy the days were for both mother and daughter to eat cold jelly with the electric fan blowing on the stifling hot evenings.

Her daughter gave her 1200 for the first month’s salary, which she alone couldn’t spend it all. After deducting their living expenses, she saved all up.

Using her mother’s ID card to get a bank card, Su Qin deposited all she earned into the account since she wasn’t at ease leaving so much money at home.

Adding up the July sales, the lady boss noticed that Taobao sales had already surpassed the retail shop sales.

But, just at this moment, some regular customers called one after another, asking Su Qin what actually happened with their Taobao store? Why were there always huge discounts? Even talks about the boss running off?

Chen Meixin had worried about this from the beginning, but since Taobao sales were not particularly good at that time and there was also no feedback from the regular customers, she wasn’t concerned then. When Taobao sales gradually increased later, she forgot about it as she was too immersed in the joy of making profit while lying down.

While Chen Meixin and Su Qin were attending to some customers today, a regular customer dashed into the shop overbearingly.

Being a northerner, the customer was almost as big and tall as a 1.8 meters man. The moment she opened her mouth, the entire shop seemed to shake.

“Boss Chen, aren’t you guys rather dishonest doing business like this? Your shop is properly here, yet the boss was said to have run off online? Furthermore, the clothes you sell online are so cheap while the clothes in the retail shop are so expensive, isn’t this intentional deception?”

Rendered speechless momentarily, Chen Meixin glanced at Su Qin.

Su Qin calmly explained, “Sister Zhang, you are also our shop’s regular customer, how can you not know how ethical our business is? We have already given our Taobao store to others and the current seller is my sister. She just helps sell our retail shop clothing and at the same time also sells those 55 yuan low-priced clothes. Those bargains are not available in our shop.”

Looking around, Sister Zhang, indeed, didn’t see any of those 55 yuan clothes in the shop. Yet there were several of those ‘original price 399, now at 159’ clothes in store. The price listed on Taobao was much higher than the store, which displeased her too.

What if she had bought those 159 clothes on Taobao to realize it was actually only a 100 in the retail shop, wouldn’t she suffer big losses?

Su Qin then added, “Sister Zhang, how can we cheat you since you are also our regular customer? You see, as long as you fancy those discounted 159 clothes, you can get it in the shop. We never charge you any pricier and even give you a discount over discount each time and you can get it for 100 yuan. This is an exclusive benefit for our VIP customers which is not avail to the Taobao customers. Online we are unable to tell if it’s Sister Zhang yourself, thus we certainly are not able to give such a discount.”

Hearing her say so, Sister Zhang felt more at ease. Not only does she buy cheaper than those on Taobao, she actually is also an exclusive VIP customer and her heart is bouncing with joy.

After getting soothed by Su Qin, Sister Zhang glanced at those new clothes in store before asking Su Qin, “Little Su ah, I liked one 55 yuan clothing on Taobao, can you get it for me? Sister went to bed early that day and couldn’t manage to grab it, thus I have felt exasperated for a long time.”

Shaking her head, Su Qin said, “I really wanted to help but I can’t. My sister said, there is really none left once those are sold out. We do have some new styles in store, why don’t you take another look?”

Sister Zhang sighed. Lacking interest, she then left without choosing a single piece of clothing.

When regular customers came to ask Sister Zhang’s similar questions later, Su Qin and Chen Meixin responded the same too. There is already business on their Taobao store now, thus it’s not appealing doing regular customers’ business.

Without doubt, Su Qin is aware this method of ‘misery marketing’ can’t last long. Hence she has started preparing to slowly transform the store.

She has discussed it with Chen Meixin. Once she has altered those 200 pieces of clothing into quality clothes and sells them all out, the store will slowly move to ‘boutique’ styles. Hereafter, they both must jointly review the Taobao store’s selection before uploading online.

In order to standardize the store’s clothing style, Su Qin precisely set the ‘novelty trend’ for their Taobao.

Due to the distinct style perspective, this Taobao store will leave the impression of ‘trendy-avant-garde’, ‘fashionable novelty’ and ‘effective cost production’ to the customers.

Su Qin had her own brand in her previous lifetime and knew the importance of these ‘labeling’.

Once these labeling are deeply rooted in the customers’ minds, customers will first think of their Taobao store when they want to buy novelty avant-garde and cost production clothes in the future.

Su Qin received a call from the school in early August. The high school year-one students must report to school on August 22 since the school will begin the integrated military training.

In her previous lifetime, Su Qin returned to the city at the age of 20 and attended high school as a ‘special student’, hence she didn’t experience military training in high school. She didn’t know if there were any differences between high school military training and military training in the university.

As Li Chuan is busy venturing his business and Su Qin is also busy with work, they haven’t met for half a month though they keep in touch every day.

With the thriving Taobao business, Su Qin has made some money too, so she plans to treat Li Chuan for a meal before school starts.

She called, but Li Chuan’s phone was always engaged and he didn’t reply to her QQ messages either. Worried that something might have happened, she messaged Panda’s QQ and asked what was going on with Li Chuan.

Online 24 hours a day, Panda quickly replied to her, “Boss has just arrived in the USA and should be in a meeting. Just wait, he will contact you himself once he is free.”

Su Qin was puzzled, “USA? What’s he doing in the USA?”

Panda, “To discuss joint ventures. You little Yatou[1] won’t understand even if I tell you. Wait for Boss’ triumphant return, then you can extort him for a nice meal and make him take you to eat the most sumptuous meal in all of Yunyang!”

Disappeared for the whole half month, Li Chuan didn’t even make a single call to Su Qin.

He merely messaged Su Qin, “I’ll call you once I’m done.”

Half a month later, Su Qin packed her luggage to report to school.

In order not to lose her daughter’s face, Wang Lin specially went to the hairdresser to dye her gray hair black and tidied herself befittingly poised.

Yunyang High School is a century-old school with a tree-lined avenue at the entrance that lets people feel refreshed once they enter the campus.

The campus is also well landscaped with stylishly built classroom buildings. Going to the dormitory building, they passed by the rear field and were shocked by Yunzhong’s impressive sports field.

There are asphalt tracks, a turfed football field, even a basketball and a tennis court. There is a swimming pool and a fully equipped indoor gym behind the boys’ dormitory.

Compared to Su Qin’s former Chengnan First Middle School, the two schools are not on the same level at all. Her former school doesn’t even have an asphalt track, let alone a turfed football field.

When she and her mother arrived at the dormitory, there was not a soul in sight.

This is a four-person room with two desks and a wardrobe.

Worried about being disturbed at night, Su Qin chose the top bunk by the window. Wang Lin climbed onto the bed to spread her bedding while she organized her clothes below.

She had just opened the wardrobe when the phone in her pocket rang and the caller was “Li Chuanchuan”.

[T/N: 串串 (Chuàn chuàn) – this chuan (串) means string together/skewer, while Lí Chuān (川) mean province]

In the previous lifetime, when Su Qin typed Li Chuan’s name, her hands shook and keyed in ‘Li Chuanchuan’, and she never changed it.

Because of this, Li Chuan relentlessly carried out his ‘revenge’ by tossing her all night while she begged for mercy the whole night after he noticed Su Qin’s typeface.

As a result the next morning, their four-year-old Baobao sat on a high stool with her little chubby legs dangling as she crossed her arms and questioned Li Chuan with a ‘fierce’ frown, “Chuanchuan! Did you bully Su-su again? I don’t have such a Daddy like you and Baobao won’t acknowledge you as my Daddy! Unless you apologize to Su-su, then Baobao will forgive you.”

Li Chuan spoke good-naturedly, “Baobao, Daddy didn’t bully Su-su.”

Baobao knitted her brows more severely and had both hands akimbo, “You’re lying! I heard mommy’s screams last night! You must have bitten mommy, right?”

Li Chuan went to hug his daughter, but the little girl persistently punched his chest with her small chubby fist, “Bad Daddy Chuanchuan, you let me go, let me go!”

From then on, Su Qin and Li Chuan no longer dare to make much noise at night.

Thinking about these past matters, Su Qin actually found it laughable.

With the corners of her lips curved up, Su Qin answered the call, “Hello, is your business going well? CEO Li who is far away in the USA.”

The young girl’s tone made Li Chuan on the other end of the phone stunned for a moment.

He had gotten used to the young girl calling him ‘Teacher Li’ and the sudden ‘CEO Li’ made him feel unfamiliar and quite formal.

Li Chuan laughed at the other end of the phone, “Of course.”

The man’s voice was clear and mellow without a trace of modesty. As if there is nothing that this man can’t do in this world.

Li Chuan’s ‘31 Antivirus Software’ was renamed ‘31 Security Safeguard’. His trip to the USA was to form a strategic partnership with the global antivirus manufacturer, Castle.

‘31 Security Safeguard’ has taken the country by storm in just three months, surpassing Golden Shield Antivirus in one fell swoop and becoming the most downloaded security system software. Going to the USA this time, he had successfully obtained the joint investment from American Top Point Investment, The Force Investment, Red Parachute Investment and MIJ.

Now Li Chuan’s worth is different from the past.

In fact, as early as a month ago, Li Chuan’s company was elected as ‘2006 Most Valuable Investment’ company. He had lived up to the expectations going to the USA this time.

Li Chuan asked her, “Is school starting today?”

“En.” Su Qin held the phone between her ear and her shoulder while stuffing clothes into the wardrobe, “This evening, the night coaching teacher will check attendance and give out the military camo uniform, and the campus military training will start tomorrow.”

Li Chuan said, “I’ve arrived outside your school. I’m waiting for you at Starry Word milk tea shop on the back street. I’ve brought you a gift from the USA.”

“A gift? You don’t have to do that.”

Li Chuan laughed, “Everyone has one, and the privilege is not yours only.”

“Oh ….. “ It seemed she had made a fool of herself.

They agreed to meet at the off-campus milk tea shop in fifteen minutes. Su Qin dropped what she was holding and looked up at her mother, “Mom, Teacher Li is waiting for me at the milk tea shop outside. I’ll go meet him.”

“Teacher Li is here? Aiyo, then you can’t go empty-handed. Su-su, bring the one kg of apples that Mom bought for you this morning to Teacher Li. People are here to see you, so you should know the etiquette.”

Su Qin thought her mother had a point, so she carried the apples and prepared to go out.

Just as she reached the door, a long-legged girl who was half a head taller than her rushed in and the two people collided.

Su Qin’s forehead bumped the girl’s nose. The other party rubbed her nose and almost cried out as she asked in a slightly weepy voice, “Are you okay?”

This voice …

Su Qin looked up and met the girl’s line of sight when they both called out almost the same time,

“Sisi!”

“Sister Su Qin!”

[1] 丫头 (Yātou) – is now used to describe a ‘cute girl’, but it’s best to use this word only for young girl, especially those who are close to you — since it’s very informal.