After Cheng Lang left, Yu Jin didn't go back to the shop immediately, but stayed in the coffee shop for an hour.
She was considering Cheng Lang's proposal.
The reason why she went from outright refusal to serious consideration, aside from Cheng Lang's excellent negotiating skills, and more importantly, she found that Xu Qiao was not happy here.
Leaving aside her career, she felt that Xu Qiao's current state was very unhealthy.
If Cheng Lang hadn't come that day, she wouldn't have known that Xu Qiao was just pretending to be nonchalant these days. It turned out that she was really happy in a different way. It turned out that she had a very temper, but she had no place to vent it.
Xu Qiao's illness also made her realize that she and Elio are not objects that Xu Qiao can rely on and trouble at will. On the contrary, Cheng Lang seemed to be a trash can that she could pour all her negative emotions into without feeling guilty.
From this point of view, in front of this man, she seems to have the upper hand that she will never suffer.
When Yu Jin came back to the store, Xu Qiao was sketching inside, her phone was vibrating, but she seemed to have nothing else to do.
Yu Jin sat down beside the easel: "The phone is ringing, why don't you answer it?"
Xu Qiao stopped writing, and said silently: "It should be my girlfriend who borrowed someone else's phone to call, and I blocked her number."
Yu Jin was taken aback: "Is that Miss Zhu?"
Xu Qiao nodded.
The Zhu family didn't want to get involved in the Xu family's troubles, so at first, when the news of the Xu family's accident spread in a small area, Zhu's father immediately sent his daughter out of the country.
Xu Qiao didn't get in touch with Zhu Li at that time, because Zhu's father asked Zhu Li to go overseas to take charge of a project. Once it was completed, he would no longer interfere with her marriage and would fully support her career.
Zhu Li, who didn't know anything, went abroad in such a hurry, and didn't understand his father's intention until he learned the truth a few days later.
After that, against the wishes of his family, Zhu Li insisted on contacting Xu Qiao despite his father's obstruction, wanting to help her.
But Xu Qiao suddenly disappeared.
"Why block her? She probably couldn't help herself at that time." Yu Jin said.
"I know, that's why I have to reject her even more. She has put a lot of effort into her career over the years, and she is going against the wind. She has finally improved. Don't make her father unhappy because of me, and everything will be empty." Xu Qiao said lightly.
Yu Jin was taken aback.
"Do you think these words don't come from my mouth?" Xu Qiao looked at her.
"Yes, you shouldn't be so sensible."
"I didn't really understand it before. It seems that I suddenly understood a little bit someday." Xu Qiao shrugged. Now I have nothing, and she doesn't owe me anything, if I get into trouble with my family, I will be very uncomfortable."
Xu Qiao smiled when she said this, and leaned into Yu Jin's ear as if telling a little secret: "I'm actually a little proud."
Yu Jin also laughed: "Then I'm curious, don't you have such concerns about Cheng Lang? He sent you a letter all the way to visit you, don't you feel a psychological burden?"
Xu Qiao had an expression of "what kind of international joke are you making?": "Why should there be a burden? Zhu Li doesn't owe me, but he owes me!"
"What do you owe?"
"I regretted running away after he teased me. This kind of scumbag, let alone thousands of miles, is not a pity! And I even touched his hand, touched his hand! My hand can be given to him casually." Did someone touch it? He made a lot of money this trip!" Xu Qiao became angry again when she said this, "Dog man, it's best not to appear in front of me again, if he still comes to the door, I will knock him A mental damage fee is not allowed!"
Yu Jin couldn't laugh or cry, but he had an answer to Cheng Lang's proposal in his heart.
She went outside and sent a text message to Cheng Lang: "Mr. Cheng, if you want me to accept your proposal, I also have a condition: I can't transfer the studio directly to you, but ask you to buy a 50% share with you." Partnership. Can you accept it?"
Cheng Lang replied quickly: "No problem."
This speed of reply made Yu Jin feel that he might have expected this result long ago.
In the room, Xu Qiao was tired from painting, so she came out with a cup of coffee, and while exercising her muscles, she asked her, "Just now, did you take an order again?"
"No," Yu Jin turned around and said, "I was talking to someone about the jewelry studio in China."
"Huh? Do you still have a studio in China?"
"There is one, just in Beicheng. At the beginning, I invested a lot of capital, and it looked decent, but it was abandoned after I came to Italy."
"Wow, then I should have visited before."
Yu Jin looked at her for a while: "You can also visit now."
"Are you kidding? Air tickets are so expensive." Xu Qiao pouted.
"If it's public money, will you go?"
"Public expenses?"
Yu Jin nodded: "I took root in Italy with Elio, and I didn't want to pick up that studio at first, after all, we have no resources, but now we have you. Are you interested in taking care of it for me?"
Xu Qiao was dumbfounded: "Are you serious?"
"Of course. For me, it's a pity to let it be so deserted. For you, Beicheng happens to be a place you are familiar with. Instead of groping in a strange foreign country, you can only stay in my shop every day. It’s also good to start there. You can lay a good foundation there first, and then come to Italy for further development. During this period, I will provide you with teachers, board and lodging, hardware equipment and other expenses, part of which will be deducted from your salary, and part of it will be recorded in the account Come on, pay me back after you generate income. What do you think?"
"It's so sudden..." Xu Qiao was a little confused, and after thinking for a long time, she said, "I can't even take care of myself. How can I take care of a jewelry studio? I will smash it!"
"Believe me," Yu Jin said with a smile, "Compared to your body with hypoglycemia and fever, it is stronger than you, and you can't break it."
"But… "
"But are you worried that when you go back to Beicheng now, you will meet someone you don't like?"
"how do you know?"
"Maybe it's the artist's sensitivity? Don't worry, the geographical location is relatively remote, and I will also prepare a temporary stage name for you in the studio." Yu Jin pondered for a moment, "There is a character for '羽' in 'qiao', and the surname is How is Yu?"
Xu Qiao blinked lightly: "You asked me to think about it."
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Half a month later, Beicheng Airport.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the golden winter sun fell on the tarmac, and the plane from Milan slowly stopped on the runway.
The cabin door opened, and a young female passenger wearing a beige woolen coat, black sunglasses and a mask walked into the corridor bridge first. Her waist-length curly hair was blown so fiercely by the draft that the passers-by in the arrival hall all paid attention —They all thought they were lucky to meet a female star who had just got off the plane.
But passers-by's illusions were quickly shattered.
When they saw the woman chasing after her in high heels in the airport hall because of two disobedient 24-inch suitcases that slipped down the slope, they withdrew their sizing eyes.
How can there be such a miserable female star.
Xu Qiao is also thinking at this moment, how can there be such a miserable future jewelry designer as her.
Someone used to carry her luggage for her. How could she know how to push this thing so that it is not easy to run!
Fortunately, her tragic situation was quickly discovered by the people who came to pick up the plane.
A woman slightly older than her hurried over, stabilized two huge suitcases for her, and asked, "Hello, is this Miss Yu?"
"You recognize..." Xu Qiao almost blurted out "You recognize the wrong person", remembering that this is a stage name that she is not used to, she changed her words, "Recognized the right person!"
The other party was stunned and laughed: "Hello, Ms. Yu, I am Lin Bai from Berg Jewelry Studio. I will be your assistant from today onwards. I will be responsible for your daily life and daily work in Beicheng."
"Oh, hello." Xu Qiao looked at her through the sunglasses, "You can recognize me dressed like this, I'm so beautiful and recognizable?"
"Ah, I recognized it because Mr. Yu took a picture of your outfit when you went out to show me." Lin Bai said after a pause, "Oh, of course you are also very beautiful and recognizable."
Xu Qiao looked around vigilantly, and raised her hand to say hello: "Then it's not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's go."
Lin Bai was taken aback again, and swallowed "why": "Okay, come with me."
Xu Qiao followed Lin Bai into a Porsche.
Lin Bai turned around and asked in the passenger seat: "Mr. Yu said that you hope to keep a low profile in Beicheng. Do you think this Cayenne is okay?"
"Okay, this is the one for normal travel." Xu Qiao nodded, turned his gaze out of the window, looked at the familiar airport road, and suddenly felt as if he had passed away.
Half a month ago, she was moved by Yu Jin's proposal.
The reason why she agreed to return to Beicheng was not because she was too greedy for this city, but because the "new identity" that Yu Jin said gave her a fresh sense of expectation for life.
In the past half a month, she had made some preparations in Milan. Until now, when she returned to this city, looking back on the past twenty days of suffering, it seemed as long as a whole century.
But anyway, it passed.
Yu Jin took apart the character "依" which means "new day" and combined part of the character "Qiao" to give her the stage name "Yu Li".
Not a feather that blows with the wind and has no support, but a feather that has no roots to stand on its own.
It sounds kind of cool.
A voice from the passenger seat interrupted her longing for the future: "Miss Yu, shall we go to your residence first, or to the studio first?"
"Studio." Xu Qiao couldn't wait for the hardware equipment that Yu Jin said "invested a lot of capital".
After turning off Airport Road, the Cayenne turned around and headed in the opposite direction from downtown.
Xu Qiao said "Hey": "Isn't this the way to Xinglin Bay?"
"Yes, the studio is not far from Xinglin Bay. The housing price in the center of Beicheng City is too high. Mr. Yu didn't have much money at hand back then, and he invested all in the hardware of the studio, so the location is not so ideal."
That's really bad luck.
Xu Qiao secretly wondered if she would be famous in the future, could she write an autobiography called "Legend of Xinglin Bay"—from a highway toll collector to a generation of jewelry masters, let us open the title page and read together Ms. Xu's amazing and brilliant life...
After thinking about it all the way, Cayenne drove into a business park, and finally stopped in front of a three-story gray small bungalow.
Lin Bai took Xu Qiao upstairs.
Xu Qiao followed her through the reception hall, all the way up from the white spiral staircase, looked at the retro murals on the four walls and praised: "I really like your taste, Mr. Yu."
Lin Bai led her into a room on the second floor with a smile, opened the door and said, "It's fine as long as you like it, this is an independent studio, Mr. Yu said that you are currently improving your painting skills, and there is a great need for a studio, so we specially re-opened the studio. The arrangement was tidied up."
Xu Qiao looked at the open space in front of her and the huge transparent glass curtain wall, and nodded with satisfaction: "The lighting is good." After glancing at it, she followed Lin Bai into the craft room next door.
"The craft room is the most valuable place here. Before you came, we didn't dare to unlock it." Lin Bai opened the door with the key, and Xu Qiao walked in and stopped.
Large metalworking tables, professional and first-class equipment for lighting, cutting, quenching, welding, grinding, and polishing, a complete range of chemicals and hand tools, and a variety of semi-finished products—this is simply a paradise for jewelry designers to create their dreams.
There is no jewelry lover who can not be moved by such a scene.
Just like meeting love, Xu Qiao's heart jumped up, and after a long time of sluggishness, she said with tears in her eyes: "Fortunately, I'm here..."
Lin Bai laughed, watching her lingeringly wandering around every corner of the room, while muttering in his mouth: "Such a good device is ruined, it's a waste of money, luckily I'm here..."
It took Xu Qiao half an hour to finally come out of this paradise reluctantly, pointing to the spiral staircase and asked Lin Bai: "What is the third floor? My office?"
"Ah, no." Lin Bai was a little embarrassed, and pointed to the room on the other side of the second floor, "Your office is there, and the third floor is the office of Mr. Yu and another partner of the studio."
Xu Qiao was taken aback: "You, Mr. Yu, still have a partner?"
"Yes, it's a new boss who bought shares a while ago."
"Who is it?"
"I don't know too well. The new boss is a bit mysterious. He hasn't shown up these days, but he's here today, and he's waiting for you to sign the contract."
Xu Qiao nodded in doubt, a thought flashed through her mind in a flash, but unfortunately she couldn't catch it for a while.
Lin Bai led her to continue going up. But she walked more and more slowly, and the more she walked, the more she felt that something was wrong.
When Lin Bai knocked on the door of the independent office on the third floor, she stopped suddenly: "Wait, what's your new boss's name?"
At the same time, there was a sound of "enter" from inside the door, and Lin Bai moved the frosted glass door.
Xu Qiao stood outside the door and looked in, and saw the man in the neat suit sitting on the boss's chair, looking at her with the eyes of a rabbit.
"Miss Yu, I've been waiting for you for a long time." He pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with a faint smile.