"Boss, did the swimwear go live today?"

In her office, Pei Youwei was smiling. "It's live, it's live. I'm looking at the backend figures now, but we've only had a few orders so far."

Xu Ye: "Don't rush it. The higher the sales figures go, the better it sells. I've noticed the reviews have been climbing pretty fast lately. The lingerie sales are holding fairly steady, aren't they?"

Pei Youwei: "Mm. At least five hundred orders a day now, and on a good day it can go over eight hundred."

Xu Ye: "Let me give you one more suggestion."

Pei Youwei: "Go ahead."

Xu Ye: "We could set up a fan group and turn the customers into people we can reach directly. Then whenever there's a new product, the link goes into the group first."

Pei Youwei: "Mm. I'll have them set that up."

Pei Youwei agreed without a moment's thought. Xu Ye had never once been to the factory, but a great deal of the credit for getting the Youwei brand off the ground was his, and she trusted him now.

Xu Ye: "I've got finals at the end of the month. How about I come back and work for you again over the summer?"

Pei Youwei: "I'm not putting you on the payroll."

Xu Ye: "Ha. I'm not short of money these days."

Pei Youwei: "Neither am I."

Xu Ye: "But you're short of a man."

Xu Ye: "Want me to introduce you to a young, good-looking puppy?"

Pei Youwei: "I'm not looking to be an old cow eating young grass."

Xu Ye: "It's fine. Haven't you heard the saying — reading ten thousand books is worth less than walking ten thousand li, and walking ten thousand li is worth less than running into a rich lady. I'll definitely find you a puppy who'll volunteer to be a kept man." [TL: 读万卷书不如行万里路 — "reading ten thousand books is not worth walking ten thousand li" — is a classical maxim about experience over study. The third clause is a modern internet addition that inverts it into a joke about…