Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 138 - 135: The Gate to Blind Dating (Yan Ling => Silver Alliance => @Top Mo Fan)
Chapter 138: Chapter 135: The Gate to Blind Dating (Yan Ling => Silver Alliance => @Top Mo Fan)
"Want to know? Then come and see for yourself~" Yan Yan deliberately held back the information.
Meina was attending the yacht show, presumably representing a manufacturer. Although with Bao Meina’s figure, she could easily model herself, she had no intention of saving on modeling fees for her company.
Height is a strict requirement for a good model, and Bao Bao was the type—tall and slender. Judging by her appearance, she must be at least ten centimeters taller than the 165 cm Yan Yan.
As identical twins, Meina and Bao Bao didn’t show much difference in height.
If Bao Bao wasn’t barring her chest at that time, her figure would have certainly been as outstanding as Meina’s.
"You don’t need to tempt me with beauties.
If I could go, just having my beautiful cousin like you in Melbourne, I’d be flying there every now and then.
Otherwise, let’s switch—give me the shoe factory, and I’ll go traveling around the world to further my studies." Yan Ling expressed his helplessness and envy.
"Why would you want to hand over your family’s shoe factory to me?" Yan Yan was at a loss for words to Yan Ling.
"You think deep down that you and your cousin are not family, eh? Aren’t you afraid that such talk will hurt your Grandpa’s feelings?" Yan Ling asked Yan Yan.
"As the legitimate heir of the senior line, wanting to squander your family fortune and giving away your ancestral assets, aren’t you afraid that such talk will hurt your Grandpa’s feelings?" Yan Yan was quite conscious.
"As someone from the second branch, bullying the legitimate heir of the senior line, aren’t you afraid that such talk will hurt your Grandpa’s feelings?" Yan Ling continued to ask. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
"Yan Ling, my friend, can you please stop upsetting my Grandpa?" Whenever Yan Yan talked about Yan Ling to others, she referred to him as cousin, but she usually just called him by his name.
"So you aren’t afraid of breaking your Grandma’s heart?" Yan Ling’s inquiries persisted.
"Alright, you win. If you keep asking, the hearts of your parents and my parents will all be broken.
"Bao Bao really has a sister?" Yan Ling asked Yan Yan for confirmation.
"Whoa, you still remember that? It’s none of your business whether she has a sister or not if you aren’t there," Yan Yan was truly distressed.
Yan Yan had thought that Yan Ling would come with Uncle and Aunt, and felt a big disappointment at the airport when she didn’t see her cousin and had no mental preparation.
Moreover, if Yan Ling didn’t come, she would definitely have to constantly accompany her parents, Uncle, and Aunt everywhere.
Otherwise, with her dad’s barely adequate "mechanical English level", Yan Yan really wasn’t too comfortable letting the four elders go out on their own.
Yan Yan, accompanying her family out, couldn’t just leave Yi, who specifically came to Melbourne for her graduation ceremony, all alone in the hotel.
This would turn Yi meeting her parents into an all-day event.
But Yan Yan still understood Yan Ling.
Yan Ling’s philosophy was too different from the original philosophy of the shoe factory.
Additionally, although the manufacturing industry was struggling, Uncle’s shoe factory primarily dealt with high-quality OEM and ODM orders, making it much more profitable than other subcontracting factories.
Due to the large volume of orders each year, Uncle’s shoe factory had a very substantial income, and those who were used to decades-old traditional "old fogeys" wouldn’t likely embrace Yan Ling’s radical changes until the factory began to suffer losses.
Discussing industry prospects, economic background, and industrial upgrading with these people, who had risen from being shoemaking workers, was mostly a futile effort.
Yan Ling had been in the United States for more than a decade, only returning home for the New Year; his uncles treated him as though he were a treasure.
However, once Yan Ling was set to take over the company, these people collectively felt that Yan Ling, having stayed abroad for too long, was completely ignorant of China’s national conditions.
Yan Ling’s family’s company had always been a Wenzhou-based footwear enterprise, involving various complex familial relationships.
This was very different from Yanlu Shoe Machine, which had brought in talents from various places from the beginning.
Yan Ling wanted to use his high-end Wharton Business School and McKinsey management philosophies to reform his family’s shoe factory and achieve the shared ideals he had with Yan Yan, but that really wasn’t something that could be done in a day or two.
Though Yan Yan verbally expressed dissatisfaction, deep down, she still supported her cousin’s methods.
"When you go back to Xiamen someday, take your cousin with you. I’ll carry your bags and even cover the bill for you, how does that sound?" Yan Ling suggested a new solution.
"Why would I go to Xiamen? My close college friends didn’t even stay there for work; if I really were to go back, it would probably just be to attend Bao Bao’s sister’s wedding with Bao Bao," Yan Yan replied in a tone that feigned serious contemplation while addressing Yan Ling’s question.
"You’re really setting your cousin up, aren’t you? She’s about to get married, and you’re saying you want to introduce her to me?" Yan Ling felt Yan Yan was deliberately trying to tease him.
"Just because she doesn’t have a boyfriend now doesn’t mean she won’t have one by the time I return to Xiamen, just like she isn’t married now doesn’t mean she won’t ever marry. It’s the same logic," Yan Yan explained that introducing him to a beautiful woman was indeed a spur-of-the-moment decision, a random matching of names, but she never intended to tease Yan Ling.
After Yan Yan made the casual suggestion, she thought about it and felt if the two really could be together, it would definitely be a very pleasing affair.
However, both the uncle and aunt hoped Yan Ling would find someone from Wenzhou.
It was actually good that Yan Ling wasn’t coming this time; if he really had clicked with Meina, he guessed the uncle and aunt would have come to settle scores with Yan Yan.
Thinking about Yan Ling’s next marriage, Yan Yan suddenly started to feel a bit sympathetic for her cousin.
Last time, he had taken the spirit of free love to the extreme; this time, if he still insisted on doing things his own way, he felt it wasn’t going to be easy to get through.
Yan Yan couldn’t help but imagine what if Qi Yi wasn’t a Wenzhou person, would her parents have supported her dating from the start?
The answer was likely no.
Her dad and the uncle were probably equally stubborn in this regard.
"Talk to my parents, tell them that when you come back to the country, you will introduce a really good girlfriend to me. Get them to stop forcing me to go on blind dates every day. If this continues, your cousin will become nothing more than a dating machine, unable to work with you on the brand," Yan Ling appealed to his cousin for help.
"They just tell you to go, and you go? Since when did you become so obedient?" Yan Yan’s tone was full of disdain.
"Go where? They bring people straight to the company, initially pretending to let me interview new employees, but later they just outright asked me to entertain people in the office with tea. How am I supposed to work like that?" Yan Ling’s complaint was genuinely heartfelt.
"Hahahaha, there’s actually such a thing?" Yan Yan thought about it, and it indeed seemed like something the uncle and aunt would do.
"Is that funny?" Yan Ling felt his cousin was thoroughly enjoying the turmoil without any concern.
"Funny yes, but since that’s the case, why don’t you take the opportunity to come to Melbourne for some peace and quiet?" Yan Yan asked while laughing.
"You think I don’t want to? But if I don’t take advantage of the time when my parents aren’t around to renovate the office and close the doors to blind dates, do you think I’ll have another chance to transform my own work space?" Yan Ling’s helplessness might not be something Yan Yan could entirely understand.
