For the first two days after getting home, Xu Ye enjoyed the treatment of an emperor.

Describing it as hand-and-foot service would not be putting it too strongly.

First thing on the fourth he drove to the Youwei garment factory. After several months of growth the Youwei brand's lingerie now held a substantial share of the market — sets like the JK schoolgirl one and the bunny girl one had passed ten thousand units in sales long ago.

The factory's workers had gone from a little over twenty at the start to fifty, and two production lines were running: the first line devoted to lingerie, the second to swimwear. Swimwear didn't sell as well as the lingerie, but it was doing close to a hundred orders a day now. The factory as a whole, it was fair to say, was developing in the right direction.

When Xu Ye got out of the car and walked into the factory building, he was very nearly thrown out by the workers inside, since hardly any of them knew him. Pei Youwei had put the word out long ago that strangers weren't to come and go on the factory site as they pleased, and Xu Ye, stopped at the door, could only call her.

Hearing that Xu Ye was downstairs, Pei Youwei came down herself and took him up to her office.

Pei Youwei asked with a smile, "Well? Isn't the factory completely different from the last time you came?"

Xu Ye nodded. "Obviously. There was nothing here at all back then."

"You've seen for yourself — there are a lot of people at the factory now and not much space, so in a bit I'll have Xiaonuan put another workstation in my office. You'll be working in the same office as me over the summer."

"Whatever suits. I'll go with whatever you arrange."

"Let me take you around the factory first and introduce you to a few people while we're at it. Whatever else, you're my partner — they need to know who you are, or the next time you come you may…