Chapter 7: The left hand grasps talent, the right hand grasps wealth
Tang Wan looked at Zhang Yunya's car disappearing from view, then pressed the doorbell. The door opened quickly and she walked in. This was a villa area, where Lin Qiujun had moved in with her two daughters three years ago, also when she and her daughter Ji Chuchu were finally able to see each other.
It was just after noon, and except for the nanny, there was no one else at home.
Tang Yao left this place for over a decade, feeling somewhat unfamiliar. She felt her head was a bit muddled, quickly went upstairs and found her own room according to the impression in her memory. Looking at the familiar yet strange room in front of her, she finally let out a sigh of relief, once again confirming that she had indeed been reborn.
This is a room suitable for a princess to live in, with snow-white furniture, pink curtains and bedding, and a huge bed with pink mosquito nets. The floor is covered with a pink carpet sprinkled with white flowers, and cute stuffed animals are placed everywhere. This is a carefully arranged room, but Tang Yao doesn't feel warm because this is the room that Ji Shengyang prepared for her mother and sister to live in, she is just an extra, this is not her home.
Tang Wan thought that if she wanted to leave the Ji family, then she couldn't follow her mother into the Ji family's mansion, nor could she continue living here. She could only return to the house left behind by her father, which was truly her own home.
Next to the floor-to-ceiling window, on a large desk, there were many books and several crystal jars, all of which were very cute chubby little Cupid-like figurines. Inside, they were filled with her neatly folded colorful paper cranes - exactly one thousand of them. She had originally planned to give them to him on his birthday, but she was still a bit shy and thought it would be better to wait until the Double Seventh Festival when they could be alone together. Little did she know that she wouldn't have another chance to do so.
"Lan Li, did you ever really love me? Maybe it was just because I yearned for warmth in a cold and indifferent world, so I was drawn to you. After all, you shone brightly like the sun, full of life. Unfortunately, I forgot that the sun can also scald people."
Tang Wan thought to herself, picking up the books that had been pushed to the corner of the table one by one, and found that the questions that seemed so difficult at the time now looked so easy. After all, she was a university graduate, and these questions were just child's play.
Looking at these books, Tang Yao thought of her past self whose grades were not good. Because she was young and her mother was a mistress to someone else, she was often scolded by others and felt extremely inferior. She never dared to ask questions in class, and later because she did well on an exam once, people said she cheated. From then on, she didn't even dare look at the blackboard, let alone try to do well on exams. Gradually her grades got worse and worse, barely making it into her current school. If she hadn't been reborn, she probably wouldn't have even made it into a third-rate middle school.
In her previous life, Tang Yao attended the best high school in Lin Hai City, Yingdi High School. Of course, it wasn't because of her academic achievements, but because after entering the Ji family, they thought it would be too embarrassing for her to attend a bad school, so they let her attend Yingdi High School as well. Yingdi High School was a private school, and the Ji family was the largest shareholder, making it very easy for someone to get in.
This lifetime, I must rely on my own abilities to get in, so that the people of the Ji family won't look down on me, and also let Lin Qiujie have a slightly better life in the Ji family?!
Tang Yao picked up the electronic watch on her desk, which was Lanyi's. Once he took her ice-skating and fell to protect her from falling, the watch broke at that time. Lanyi threw it away, but Tang Yao picked it up and wanted to repair it and return it to him. She didn't expect that before she could return it, the sweet moments that belonged to them had already passed.
The date on the table is May 15th, 1996, one month before the college entrance examination.
Tang Yao took out her school bag, pulled out all the books inside, and then gathered all the books on the desk together. After carefully tidying them up, she pulled out a piece of white paper and wrote a study schedule.
This last month, Tang Jiao planned to review at home. She had been in junior high school once and knew that the last period before the middle school entrance examination was a war of questions every day. Students did questions, teachers lectured on questions, and everyone was confused by the test questions. Tang Jiao felt that she had left the classroom for more than ten years and didn't have the confidence to integrate into it. It's better to review by herself. She knew where her strengths and weaknesses were, wouldn't waste time, and besides, she had just experienced that thing, which would definitely become a laughing stock. This wasn't speculation, but fact. In her previous life, she was ridiculed enough until the exam didn't calm down, and the result was terrible!
If she reviewed at home, she had to buy materials, which also cost money. Tang Yao found the place where she kept her pocket money according to her memory, but there were only a few scattered dollars left. She remembered that at that time, she always gave her pocket money to her sister Ji Chuchu, so there was no more money. Fortunately, she still had 200 yuan given by her mother in the hospital, which was enough to buy supplementary books.
Encountering a problem with money, Tang Yao thought of the things she had taken from Xu Mei. She took out a magazine from her clothes bag.
It was a very popular fashion magazine, and on the pages with colors like tender grass in spring, that message made Tang Yao's calm heart also come alive like growing small grass. It was an announcement of a grand competition for essays from Yashang Fashion Company under the Hong Kong Mengshi Group, with huge bonuses for the top three winners, as well as many style awards, and if they were favored, they could be signed.
Tang Wan had no interest in signing contracts, she was still young, and she wasn't very interested in fashion design either, although in her past life she had studied design to the point where she could make patterns. What she was interested in were those prize money.
In her previous life, although she dressed conservatively, being in a wealthy family meant she couldn't help but see those beautiful clothes. Especially after she was confined to a secluded life and learned countless skills out of boredom, including fashion design. She had read many related books and images. So the fashionable clothes 15 years ago were not impressive to her, which made her see an opportunity, an opportunity to make money!
Mom Lin Qiujie is about to marry into the Ji family, this time she doesn't want to follow in and also doesn't want to accept mom's money anymore, she must be completely independent, only then will she have a chance not to be caught by the Ji family to make her do those annoying duties, only then will she have a chance to let mom feel indebted to her and not let her go sacrifice.
The Meng Group is a giant in the business empire, on par with the Ji family. However, its apparel industry was not outstanding in the previous life. This time, I'll make my first pot of gold from it! Who knows, maybe I can cooperate with them for a long time and life won't be too difficult.
Tang Wan took out the painting tools she had bought on the way back and started drawing fashion design drafts. Looking at the bright sunshine outside the window, she thought of several stunning yet not too shocking clothing styles. She didn't want to reveal all her 21st-century colorful designs at once, not to mention whether people in this era would accept them or not. For herself, she wanted to use these designs as a long-term investment for the future. She planned to become an amateur fashion designer and make a living from it. She believed that with these designs, even if Yashang Fashion Company didn't value her, other companies would be willing to cooperate with her.
Before nightfall, Tang Yao finally finished drawing the design drawings. She carefully sealed them and thought that this was her first investment after rebirth.
After sitting for several hours, Tang Yao felt a sore waist and backache. She walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked out at the sunset's afterglow, feeling extremely relaxed. After half a day of hard work, she felt a brand new sense of fulfillment. The suffocating feeling of being trapped like a beast in her past life was completely gone. She thought, this must be the driving force for living for oneself!
Tang Wan thought that there was only one month left before the college entrance examination, and Lin Qiuju would also enter the Ji family at that time. It was a major turning point in her life. In her previous life, she had walked into the trough of life from there, but in this life, she would walk towards brilliance from there!
Now the key to moving towards prosperity is: one hand grasping talent and the other hand grasping wealth!
The sunset has disappeared, the night curtain falls, Tang Yao sits in front of the desk, under the lamp light, doing sheet after sheet of papers, outside the window, the fragrance of the Cinnamomum camphora tree wafts over.
