288: Eat a bite of national trend rice

"Not bad, Old Ye, you're a factory director again." Hearing this news, Ye Ruo's eyes instantly lit up.

"Keep working hard to make money, and Mom and I can just lie flat in the future."

"Hey..." Before Ye Xin could even swallow the meat in his mouth, he exposed Ye Ruo. "You're the one who wants to lie flat, don't drag Mom down with you, okay?"

Su Wan asked in confusion, "What is 'lying flat'?"

"It means retirement."

"Oh, please." Hearing this, Su Wan immediately looked at Ye Ruo with disdain.

"You're only twenty-four, and you haven't even brought a boyfriend home yet, but you're already thinking about retirement. You have absolutely none of the vitality of a young person."

Roasted by both her brother and mother, and having the topic dragged into her love life, Ye Ruo pouted aggrievedly. Not daring to argue back, she could only vent her frustration on the food on the table.

Fortunately, today's food was delicious enough. As soon as she cracked open a crab shell, Ye Ruo threw the roasting out of her mind and happily took a big bite of the crab roe.

"Hehehe—"

Seeing his younger sister's behavior, Ye Xin made no attempt to hide his mocking grin, which immediately drew Su Wan's ire.

"Still laughing? You're already twenty-six by nominal age, and you'll be thirty in a few years. You still haven't brought a girlfriend home for us to see. Do you really want to stay a bachelor for the rest of your life?"

"Pfft—"

How the tables turn. Now it was Ye Ruo's turn to mock her older brother.

"Wait, no!" Ye Xin said anxiously. "How come when you were lecturing her, you used her actual age, but when it's my turn, you start using my nominal age? I'm legitimately only twenty-five, okay!"

"Do you think twenty-five is young!" Seeing her eldest son dare to talk back, Su Wan got even angrier. "When I was your age, I had already given birth to you."

"Uh..."

Left speechless, Ye Xin could only follow Ye Ruo's lead and obediently bury his head in his food.

Once Su Wan finished lecturing the two, Ye Jianguo finally told Ye Xin about Ye Su's plan to mass-produce the [great sage swimsuit] and sell them to individual buyers and online shops.

"Sure." Having tasted success several times before, Ye Xin agreed to Ye Su's plan without a second thought.

"I'll talk to him tonight to see when we should start stocking up."

"Also, ASu plans to register a clothing brand to see if he can turn it into a trendy brand later. Then we can either convert your shop into a flagship store or buy another shop to use as the flagship."

"Sounds good!"

Being able to slap a trendy brand label on the clothes to sell them at a higher price was naturally something Ye Xin was more than happy to see.

"I don't understand this young people's stuff. You can think of the brand name yourself. Once you decide, I'll go register the trademark."

"Alright, I'll look into it tonight!"

"Mom, look at them!"

Forgetting her previous lesson the moment she had food, Ye Ruo saw Ye Jianguo and his son discussing back and forth, completely ignoring her. She immediately got excited again and tried to sow discord with Su Wan.

"The three of them are doing business without asking for a single opinion from us. They're clearly isolating the two of us. How can you stand this!"

But Su Wan didn't buy it.

"What isolation? Your brother and brother made money together and transferred some to me too. Otherwise, whose money do you think bought the food you're eating right now?"

"What!" Ye Ruo widened her mouth in disbelief, not forgetting to swallow the crab meat in her mouth first. "He transferred money to you? How come I didn't get any!"

Su Wan rolled her eyes at Ye Ruo. "You're the older sister and you're already working. Do you have the cheek to take money from your younger brother?"

"Why wouldn't I!" Ye Ruo was indignant. "You raise a younger brother for a thousand days just to use him once! Why should I feel embarrassed to take his money!"

Ye Ruo then looked at Ye Xin. "What about you? Confess! Did he secretly transfer money to you behind my back too?"

"He didn't transfer money directly."

Just as Ye Ruo felt a sense of balance in her heart upon hearing this, she heard Ye Xin start to humblebrag.

"But lately, he's been funding inventory to sell in my online shop, and he split the profits with me. It's not that much, just about two to three hundred thousand yuan in total."

"Ah!" Learning this fact, Ye Ruo stood there like a wooden chicken.

Previously, after Ye Su won the 200,000 dongdong e-card, he had transferred ten thousand yuan to her, which had made her secretly smug for a long time, thinking that as the second sister, she held more weight in her youngest brother's heart than their eldest brother did.

Who would have thought that these two brothers had already colluded in secret, hiding things from her after making money and keeping their little secret so tightly under wraps!

Ye Ruo felt like she was about to develop breast nodules from sheer anger!

"Hahaha!!" Ye Ruo's reaction made Ye Xin burst into a Stephen Chow-style laugh.

"Now that you know, do you feel a lump in your chest and can't even eat?" Ye Xin pretended to be considerate:

"Please don't force yourself. If you can't eat, then don't. Let me help you carry the burden of this table of food."

"In your dreams!"

Fuming with rage, Ye Ruo didn't stop eating. She stuffed crab, mantis shrimp, and marinated goose into her mouth bite after bite, washing it down with Su Wan's slow-cooked soup.

At the same time, Ye Ruo made up her mind that once Ye Su came home for summer vacation, she would definitely make him realize the consequences of isolating his sister!

Inside the Ye household, the meal was eaten in such a noisy yet harmonious atmosphere.

...

While the four members of the Ye family were feasting, far away outside of Yangcheng, Ye Su suddenly felt a wave of panic for no reason, accompanied by a chill down his spine.

"Could I be getting sick? That makes no sense. With my current [Physique] and [Health] attribute points, falling ill should be harder than getting rich."

Feeling that there was nothing wrong with his body, Ye Su didn't dwell on it. Dismissing it as a mere illusion, he focused back on controlling his gamepad.

Not long after his takeout was delivered in the evening, Chen Xinyi also returned with the script and contract for the short drama.

After finishing her meal, Chen Xinyi started reading the script in advance, clearly taking this opportunity to star in the short drama very seriously.

As for Ye Su, after eating, he communicated with Ye Xin, who had contacted him on WeChat, about some matters regarding the [great sage swimsuit].

According to Ye Xin's idea, since the [great sage swimsuit] Ye Su wanted to make was designed based on the image of Sun Wukong, Ye Xin planned to name the trendy brand [Han Charm].

To make it sound more impressive, Ye Xin also came up with an English name, [HAN·VERSE], combining the pinyin of the Chinese character "Han" with the English word "verse".

From the name alone, it was clear that Ye Xin wanted to use the promotion of the [great sage swimsuit] to see if he could hype [Han Charm] up as a Guochao-style trendy brand.

Trying to achieve instant success and hyping it up into a well-known trendy brand just through the promotion of the [great sage swimsuit] was absolutely impossible.

Therefore, Ye Xin could only think of having the newly started [Han Charm] cater to the style of the [great sage swimsuit], focusing on the Guochao field to build brand hype within a small circle first.

Later on, they could see how to integrate other Guochao elements into traditional clothing with higher popularity and audience appeal, such as Qipao and Mamian skirts, to naturally build it into a niche Guochao brand.