Footprints of Change Episode 23

Taking advantage and revenge

XiNing has left room to avoid Cantonese opera and helps herself to professor’s noodles. She is quite shameless and opportunistic. She is a smarter and quieter version of Qing and just as annoying. 😝 BeiChuan is also annoying but he’s not as in your face about it. He’s run out of his room to escape the whirlwind of XiNing😂 She wants him to do his laundry in her room at night to get even with loud roommate. She double benefits because she’s invited herself to steal half his food regularly. I would feel sorry for him but consider it karma because that is exactly how thoughtless he’s been with his friend. Mr Li calls the business but her roommate hangs up on him. She calls back and sets up a meeting to check out the factory. He is impressed with what he sees and gives her a contract. If they pull this off, it will forge a partnership. While she is doing this, her roommate is throwing her under the bus. She is just about to tear up the contract when XiNing returns with a deal. These are quickly stamped and returned. I don’t think she bothered to read the penalty clause which is why her prior company was dragging feet. She comes back to find a 20k commission, a roommate with an attitude, and a 40% mark up in raw materials. Here is where she hits up Mr Yan. I find it funny that BeiChuan is used as her human lie detector.😂 They make him a contract and the first batch is made. There is a rainstorm and when they check the shipment they discover it is soaked and there are no labels inside. This breaches their agreement and it has to be redone. What was rather humerous is that the two women had to cooperate. The older one is more maliciously scheming but XiNing is a self serving one. They both know they are in trouble with Mr Li for being late but it would be much more difficult had they been shipped. The roomie knows somebody is sabotaging, so she hits the market to find out who promising to make her new buddy the truck driver beat lumps on them. Turns out Lu and Yan made a side deal. They made a duplicate fake order to get more money for workers. At least that is their argument. 😝 So there are jeans made the right way with wrong fabric and others made wrong with their fabric. It’s a big mess and Yan has hurt far more than helped. He is very like Dalun with business and just as unapologetic. BeiChuan thinks Yan and XiNing well matched and I agree😝 The story won’t go that way, but their skills do complement with opportunistic scheming. She and Yan go toe to toe dealing behind the scenes to correct the problem. So far, I’m not impressed with any of the main characters in this arc😝 The acting skills are very good because I equally dislike all of them.😂

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