Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 161 - 158: As Familiar as One’s Own Possessions

"Daddy, mommy—no peeking now; you can scurry downstairs." Yan Yan urged her parents, given the current situation, the way of greeting each other up and downstairs was extremely bizarre.

As the couple Yan Dabang turned to go downstairs, Qi Yi was still a bit confused. He couldn’t ask Yan Yan why she hadn’t reminded him because the fact was right before his eyes—Yan Yan had been trying very hard to remind him all along.

It was his failure to properly understand his master’s intentions that had led to this situation.

It probably could be considered a rather serious point-deduction offense, couldn’t it? After Yan Dabang and his wife had disappeared from view, Qi Yi was still standing there, dazed.

"Xiao Qizi, scared silly? When did you become so timid? Don’t worry, my dad and mom are very open-minded. The kind of behavior where you come to someone’s home and don’t follow the rules—just make sure my uncle doesn’t see it," Yan Yan said with a smile all over her face, cheerfully comforting Qi Yi.

Although caught in the act, Yan Yan was still inexplicably in a good mood, looking somewhat schadenfreude.

Yan Yan decided to try to restrain herself.

"Why do I feel like one kiss ruined everything?" Qi Yi had accepted the fact that there was no antidote for regret.

"Really? Then you shouldn’t end up with any phobias or traumas about kissing, right?" Yan Yan asked, barely holding back her laughter and feigning concern.

"I’ll have to try it later to find out," Qi Yi said, amused by Yan Yan trying not to laugh.

"Not bad, you’ve got a strong mental quality now, still in the mood to joke around," Yan Yan said, laughing even happier than Qi Yi upon seeing him laugh.

"If I don’t joke, should I start crying, making a scene, and threatening to hang myself?" Qi Yi said, his tone filled with resignation.

"Now, can you reveal what graduation gift you’re planning to give me?" Yan Yan asked Qi Yi with a cute pout.

After all, the incident that had just occurred was mainly Yan Yan’s responsibility.

If Yan Yan hadn’t deliberately said that Qi Yi was going to take advantage as a gift to her, Qi Yi probably wouldn’t have taken the opportunity to try to kiss her.

Yan Yan decided to change the subject before Qi Yi realized that she was the one who had caused the "disaster."

"Over the Spring Festival, when you wrote me about fashion, you said you really wanted to go to the Polimoda Fashion Institute in Florence because you wanted to make a pilgrimage to the Shoe Kingdom of Italy and to see the birthplace of Salvatore Ferragamo, right?" Qi Yi picked up on Yan Yan’s topic.

"Exactly, Salvatore Ferragamo is a luxury leather shoe brand that originates from Florence and is the brand I’ve always thought makes the best leather shoes.

Although the brand spent a short time in the United States at the beginning of its creation, its roots and culture are firmly Italian.

It doesn’t have the same fine segmentation of shoe models as Christian Louboutin, nor does it engage in product placement marketing like Jimmy Choo.

But Salvatore Ferragamo is the luxury shoe brand that pays the most attention to the practical wearability of its shoes.

It can be considered the most liberating fashion shoe brand for the feet, a blessing for girls who love high heels.

I’ll tell you, many people might think expensive shoes are generally more comfortable to wear, but that’s not actually the case."

The red-soled shoes, that cost tens of thousands, can perfectly showcase the lines of the legs when worn, but the places that are meant to rub will still rub, which, in this respect, makes them no different from shoes that cost a hundred.

Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, and Salvatore Ferragamo all started out as cobblers.

But Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo only established their brands in the 1990s. For these two more modern brands, the most important aspect is still the appearance of the shoes.

While Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo are also incredibly talented shoemakers, compared to Salvatore Ferragamo, who has been active in the shoemaking scene since the early 20th century, there is a great difference in their level of dedication.

Salvatore Ferragamo, in pursuit of making more comfortable shoes for himself, specifically went to study human anatomy at the University of California, researching the structure of the foot. His dream was to create shoes that would forever fit perfectly.

To make a better supportive shoe last, Salvatore Ferragamo was the first to add a metal shank to the arch of the shoe sole.

Later on, because of the war and restrictions on the use of metal, Salvatore Ferragamo invented the wedge heel and the platform shoe.

The wedge heel is that kind of indented shoe heel, which is actually similar to a platform shoe—the type with a thinner front part at the ball of the foot, but a little more fashionable than the platform shoe.

Did you know, both of these shoe styles were invented by Salvatore Ferragamo in the 1930s?

To this day, they are still constantly being imitated but never surpassed," Yan Yan said, discussing Ferragamo with complete mastery.

"That amazing? Then do you know who the president of Polimoda Fashion Institute is?" Qi Yi asked Yan Yan.

"I don’t know, I only know that the director is Linda Loppa, the mother of the ’Antwerp Six’," Yan Yan thought that, as a student, it was a little more important to know who the director was than who the president was.

"Then do you know who Ferruccio Ferragamo is?" Qi Yi asked Yan Yan. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

"Isn’t that obvious? Ferruccio is the current CEO of Ferragamo; there’s no way I, a die-hard Salvatore Ferragamo fan, wouldn’t know that," Yan Yan didn’t understand why Qi Yi was testing her with this question.

"Then how come you, a die-hard fan, don’t know that the current CEO of Ferragamo is also the president of the Polimoda Fashion Institute?" Qi Yi asked with a bit of curiosity.

"Really? Is the president of Polimoda still single? If not, why would I care about him?" Yan Yan started to be playful again.

"I don’t know if he’s in a state of seeking a mate, you should do some research yourself," Qi Yi said with a displeased face.

"You’re getting angry over this? Come on, I was clearly just joking. What is it that you want to tell me? I’m dying of curiosity here," Yan Yan began to press Qi Yi for answers.

"Didn’t Polimoda open its new Villa Favard campus last year? During the preparations for the new campus in the previous years, the institute was seeking funding, and it was our bank’s VP Ian who led the investment. Because of this, Ian got to know the president of the fashion institute that you are about to attend," Qi Yi quickened the pace of his story.

"And then?" Yan Yan still hadn’t understood the gift that Qi Yi was about to give her.

"And then, after you get to Florence, you can intern at Ferragamo’s shoe-making department," Qi Yi finally revealed the graduation gift he was giving to Yan Yan.

"You’re not joking with me, are you? Is this for real? Can an advanced student like me also get an internship? I’m not planning to enroll in a degree program there," the surprise was too great for Yan Yan; although she understood, she still couldn’t quite believe it.