Chapter 29: Do Not Let Down a Good Girl

Many girls are driven by their emotions.

That is why some very attractive women may choose to be with a man simply because he knows how to make them laugh.

Even if he only graduated from a vocational school and works as a rapper.

He might even be a two-hundred-pound slob with a head full of dreadlocks.

So, when faced with a woman like that, if you keep treating her well and spending money on her, she will not be grateful.

She will only think it is what she deserves.

That is why women are never won over through sheer effort.

They are drawn in by your strengths.

If you are not handsome, then you need to be funny and entertaining enough to provide exceptional emotional value.

Just like Xu Zhisheng later on: apart from his looks, everything else about him was top-tier!

When Xu Ziqiao heard that, his eyebrows shot up. “Holy shit! That makes sense! Brother Donkey, you’re incredible!”

After his excitement subsided, he asked eagerly, “So I should show her a screenshot of my bank balance?”

Lü Yao nearly lost it.

Was this guy’s brain made of pig fat?

How had he managed to charm all those girls before?

Lü Yao was so exasperated that he almost laughed. “What the hell are you carrying between those ears? Showing off your bank balance? Does that sound normal to you? Just share some high-quality aspects of your life.”

A newly purchased watch.

A luxury car you had just gotten.

Hell, even a seductive, razor-sharp silhouette of the car would be enough.

Lü Yao continued his lesson. “Post those things on your social feed. That’s you setting the bait. Anyone interested will naturally come talk to you. Then reply a little coldly, and wouldn’t it be easier to ask her out?”

Xu Ziqiao was utterly dumbfounded.

What kind of unorthodox strategy was this?

Why did Brother Donkey make it sound so effortless?

At that moment, Xu Ziqiao almost wanted to kneel before Lü Yao.

With a whole arsenal of tricks like that, what girl could possibly resist?

Xu Ziqiao’s heart was burning. In the passenger seat, he asked impatiently, “What next? After you get her out, what then? How do you seal the deal?”

Lü Yao took a drag from his Huazi cigarette. “Book a high-end restaurant and take her there for dinner. On the way, ask her what she plans to do afterward. If she says she’s going home, pull over and tell her—”

“If you’re going home after dinner, then you can go home right now.”

Xu Ziqiao stared at him. “Huh?”

Lü Yao started driving again. “What do you mean, ‘huh’? We’re adults. Could you learn some basic social rules?”

Although he had yet to put any of this into practice, Xu Ziqiao was already fretting. “But what if she actually goes home?”

Lü Yao was furious at his spinelessness. “Then find someone else! A girl won’t stay eighteen forever, but there will always be another girl who is eighteen.”

Did he really have to hang himself from a single tree?

Wait.

Lü Yao suddenly turned to the passenger seat and raised an eyebrow. “Don’t tell me you’ve fallen for her?”

Xu Ziqiao’s expression immediately grew unnatural. “Haha, how could I?”

Lü Yao understood at once.

Still, he had no intention of offering any advice.

A man’s maturity often began with the failure of a relationship in which he had invested too deeply.

As silence quickly settled over the car, Xu Ziqiao became increasingly restless. “Brother Donkey, I know she isn’t exactly a good girl either. You... you’re not going to talk me out of it?”

Lü Yao laughed. “What would I say? Remember this—”

“Never disappoint a good girl, and never waste a bad one.”

Without even looking at Xu Ziqiao, Lü Yao continued, “As long as you don’t get cheated out of your money, feel free to cheat your way through the romance.”

Xu Ziqiao: “...”

He felt rather aggrieved.

Was he really such a shameless person?

Did his feelings not count as feelings?

Lü Yao could not be bothered with the fool. He floored the accelerator and continued on his way.

At half past three in the morning, Lü Yao and Xu Ziqiao reached the urban district of Guanyun County and found a chain hotel to rest.

A little after nine the next morning, Lü Yao drove Xu Ziqiao onward toward the countryside.

In Jiangsu, many regions had built their economic pillars after local villagers spotted business opportunities and developed them from the ground up.

Donghai had its crystals.

Xinhe had its nursery stock.

Danyang had its glasses.

Haimen had its home textiles.

Guanyun’s economic pillar was even more bizarre. Later, the county would become the capital of adult products for export, drawing numerous media interviews. Yet even the local village officials had no idea such an industry existed on their own land.

So, in the year 2013, even though Guanyun’s adult products accounted for nearly all the adult-product spending in the Pearl River Delta, very few people knew about it.

No wonder none of Jiangsu’s Thirteen Guardians was willing to submit to the others.

They had all started from nothing and fought their way up. Why should any of them give a damn about the rest?

When Lü Yao drove Xu Ziqiao into Dongwang Town, what met their eyes were crude red-and-white signs everywhere, bearing slogans such as:

“Wholesale Schoolgirl-Style Pleated Skirts”

“Wholesale Lace Slip Dresses”

Looking at the dazzling array of signs, Xu Ziqiao’s eyes nearly bulged out of his head.

Holy shit!

Where the hell had Brother Donkey brought him?

These things were actually displayed so brazenly on the signs?

The greatest contrast was that beneath all those signs stood rows of aging, even dilapidated, tiled houses.

What kind of place was this?

It was far too wild!

Xu Ziqiao stuck his head out of the car window, completely dazed.

He knew that Lü Yao’s methods had grown increasingly unconventional lately, and that the man had accumulated quite a few outrageous tricks. When Xu Ziqiao learned that Lü Yao had gone straight after Sister Wang, he had nearly thrown out his back.

But he had never imagined that Lü Yao’s methods could be this outrageous.

He had actually managed to unearth a Spider Cave like this...

Xu Ziqiao pulled his head back inside and looked at Lü Yao with an expression that could no longer be described as admiration.

It was as though he were looking at a monster.

Lü Yao ignored him and concentrated on driving around the village.

Most of the places with signs were small, family-run workshops. Their layout, production capacity, and future prospects all fell short of Lü Yao’s requirements.

Besides, most of these workshops received their orders from the local big shots.

So Lü Yao went straight to the larger factories in the area.

Guanyun’s production of adult underwear had begun in 2008, but during the first few years it had remained a small-scale operation.

Only this year had it truly begun to expand.

Even so, there were not many owners with actual factory buildings, and most of them supplied only one businessman surnamed Lei.

That man had practically monopolized the market supply across the Pearl River Delta.

Under the blazing sun, Lü Yao started his search with the largest manufacturers. Yet after he called on several of them, none of the owners appeared. Only managers came out to negotiate.

The managers were impatient and concerned solely with taking orders.

Once they learned that Lü Yao’s order was not especially large, they lost what little interest they had.

Thanks to the orders coming from the Pearl River region, Guanyun’s manufacturers had enjoyed very comfortable lives over the past few years.

Naturally, they had little patience for customers like Lü Yao.

Lü Yao did not take offense.

His current scale really was too small, so it was perfectly normal that they were not interested.

However, starting next year, businesses in the Pearl River region would come under pressure from the authorities. If these manufacturers failed to transform and establish an online presence in time, they would surely suffer a slump for a while.

Lü Yao continued driving around and visiting the factories in the area.

The Internet was rising rapidly in 2013. Although many manufacturers were still doing business according to the old methods, there were also some willing to adapt with the times and keep pace with the Internet boom.

Those were the manufacturers Lü Yao wanted to work with.