Chapter 1799: Chapter 1644: Stylist 20

After finishing the photoshoot with Xiao Hexuan, Shuangshuang’s clients clearly started to increase. The most direct feeling was that this month, Shuangshuang’s salary plus the tips from clients broke past the 200,000 mark!

And the clients who came to Shuangshuang the most were the rich ladies and heiresses from Wang Ziqing’s circle of wealthy families. Obviously, the look Shuangshuang did for Wang Ziqing before had turned out way better than average.

Even though these rich ladies and heiresses all had very high standards and were picky as hell, Shuangshuang had the skills to make every one of them satisfied.

The one thing these rich ladies and heiresses have the least shortage of is money. As long as Shuangshuang kept them happy, they kept Shuangshuang’s wallet very happy in return.

Then about a month after the photoshoot with Xiao Hexuan, Shuangshuang’s clients spiked again—this time it was all male star clients coming in.

There were ones from the bottom ranks all the way up to second- and third-tier. This was definitely related to the stir caused when Xiao Hexuan’s photos were released.

The day after Xiao Hexuan finished the shoot, the photos went out—every shot was in ancient-style costume, and especially the one where he was holding a brush, writing, which triggered an insane wave of fan support.

Just like Shuangshuang had predicted, with only a few photos, the fans didn’t overthink it at all. Plus, the hired commenters from Xiao Hexuan’s company took the lead hyping him up—saying his temperament was so scholarly and refined and so on—and the fans were completely carried along.

After that, Xiao Hexuan continued to post all the ancient costume photos one after another, then started releasing the modern styling shots. This time, fans smoothly and completely accepted his image change.

His agent was very capable and managed to find several scripts built around a refined, scholarly persona for Xiao Hexuan to act in. Once the news came out, both fans and general audiences started shouting that they were looking forward to it. If nothing unexpected happens, as long as one of those dramas airs, his transformation will basically be complete.

The glamorous shine of stars is inseparable from good stylists. With a living billboard like Xiao Hexuan, it’s no wonder so many male stars are coming to Shuangshuang.

Thanks to Shuangshuang being such a living billboard, Zhou Wensheng’s studio suddenly exploded in popularity. To keep her there, Zhou Wensheng kept raising Shuangshuang’s profit share, afraid that once she really blew up she’d look down on his "small temple."

Zhou Wensheng was overthinking it, though. Shuangshuang honestly had never considered leaving his studio.

What she had thought about was: once she has enough money to open her own styling studio, she’ll collaborate with Zhou Wensheng.

His photography skills are seriously top-notch, absolutely not inferior to those famous photographers. Working together would definitely be win-win.

After yet another all-nighter, Shuangshuang stumbled into the little break room at the studio and fell straight asleep.

Doing styling for stars has this one big downside: you pull all-nighters all the time. Shuangshuang remembered that when she used to style stars before, she never had to work overnight. She genuinely didn’t know where these stars get that kind of energy.

Anyway, even though Shuangshuang is used to staying up late, every time she finishes a job she’s so sleepy she just wants to lie down and sleep on the spot.

One time she was so exhausted after work that she started nodding off while walking down the street. She zoned out and drifted toward the middle of the road, nearly getting hit by a car.

Luckily the driver had already noticed her weaving left and right, didn’t dare to speed up, so in the end Shuangshuang just fell to the ground and scraped the skin on her palms. Nothing major happened.

But after this incident, both Jiang Jiali and Sister He were terrified. The two of them talked it over and decided to find a place to rent near the studio where Shuangshuang worked—they really didn’t dare let her walk such a long way home anymore.

In the end, Zhou Wensheng found out about this. He directly had a small break room partitioned out inside the studio so that whenever Shuangshuang got sleepy she could rest right there.

From then on, Shuangshuang had a place to rest inside the studio.

After every all-nighter, she needed to sleep at least half a day. By the time she woke up, it was usually around three or four in the afternoon.

When she wakes up at that time, she’s especially energetic and basically won’t feel sleepy again until after midnight.

So Shuangshuang really doesn’t like pulling all-nighters—it messes up her biological clock too much, and it’s bad for her health in the long run.

Time flew by, and when her salary for the third month came out, it was 300,000. Adding that to her savings, Shuangshuang now had over 500,000 on hand. She figured it was about time to buy a car.

These days she often goes to do styling for rich ladies and heiresses from wealthy families. Having drivers sent to pick her up all the time is actually quite inconvenient. If she had her own car, it wouldn’t be like this.

Shuangshuang wasn’t planning to put on any kind of big show; she just wanted to stick to her budget and get a car around 500,000. To be honest, even at that price she felt a bit pained.

According to her own thinking, something to get around in, a car around a hundred thousand or so would be totally fine. A car is a car, right?

But the places she goes to now are all high-end, and everyone she deals with is either from wealthy families or stars. If she drove some hundred-thousand-level car, a lot of people would laugh at her. Even a 500,000 car would still look pretty shabby in that circle.

But she really couldn’t bring herself to buy something more expensive. She decided to first get a 500,000 car to drive, and later, when she’s making tens of millions a year, she’ll change cars.

Shuangshuang is decisive in action. Once she thought about buying a car, the next day she took some time to go to a 4S shop and picked out an SUV around that price range. As luck would have it, they had one in stock, and she drove it off the lot that same day.

The reason she chose an SUV is because she doesn’t like small cars, they feel cramped. She prefers big, roomy ones.

The SUV she chose has a high chassis and a very spacious interior, so it can hold a lot of stuff—her backup makeup cases and some everyday items. If she folds down the rear seats, it can even turn into a little bed where she can lie down and rest.

After buying the car, Shuangshuang planned to pick up some good groceries and go home to cook a big meal to celebrate. But when she got home, she saw that Jiali had already bought loads of good ingredients and was in the kitchen with Sister He getting dinner ready.

Seeing all the big bags Shuangshuang had brought back, Sister He smiled and said, "Jiali bought a ton of delicious stuff today, and now you’ve brought back so many goodies too. Is there something happy to celebrate?"

Shuangshuang put the things down, rolled up her sleeves and went to wash her hands. "Didn’t I say before that I was going to buy a car? I bought it today and wanted to bring back some good food to celebrate. But looks like Jiali has something to celebrate too."

Jiang Jiali, who was cooking, had a brilliant, sunny smile on her face, with not a trace of the old gloominess. She laughed and said to Shuangshuang, "There is something good.

Our boss is expanding and opened two branch stores. I’ve been assigned to manage one of them. I’m already a store manager now, and my salary has doubled!"

"That really calls for congratulations!" Shuangshuang congratulated Jiali right away, though she wasn’t surprised that Jiali got promoted. Ever since she shook off that scumbag Zhang Weixiao, Jiali had been working hard at studying jade knowledge.

She’d already loved jade and jadeite before, and now with all this professional knowledge under her belt, she can give much more expert advice whenever customers come in. Her clientele has grown and grown, and she’s got plenty of returning customers too.

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