Spoiled by the CEO after amnesia!-Chapter 1219 - 1197: He Doesn’t Mind the Money, But She Does!
Jiayi finished seeing Chu Xinyue and left the ward.
Chu Xinyue’s gaze froze, lost in thought for a long time.
Sister?
Jiayi actually called her sister.
Turns out, she had forgiven her long ago.
But what right did she have to be her sister?
She sighed and lowered her head, her pale and thin face buried in her knees.
......
Outside the ward, Jiayi saw Xiaotao sitting on a bench, thought for a moment, and walked over: "Xiaotao, I have something to ask you."
Xiaotao immediately stood up: "What would Miss Jiayi like to ask?"
"On the night of Second Miss’s attack, why did she quarrel with the Crown Prince?"
Xiaotao was Chu Xinyue’s loyal personal maid, surely aware of any disputes between Chu Xinyue and Ya Chen.
Sure enough, Xiaotao was surprised, not expecting Jiayi to ask about this, and stammered a bit: "Uh, well... I... I..."
Jiayi saw her reaction and knew she knew, furrowing her brows: "What happened, Xinyue hasn’t had an attack in years, what could they have argued about to cause a heart attack and hospitalization?"
Xiaotao was helpless: "Miss Jiayi... I’m sorry, Second Miss and the Crown Prince’s matters, she doesn’t allow me to talk about it openly."
Jiayi saw Xiaotao’s troubled look, it seemed there really was a significant conflict between Xinyue and Ya Chen to cause her illness.
Unable to pressure Xiaotao further, she nevertheless couldn’t help but ask: 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"What about the cuts on Xinyue’s wrists?"
Xiaotao was surprised, not expecting Miss Jiayi to notice.
"Xiaotao, are all those scars from Xinyue over the years?"
Xiaotao didn’t want Chu Xinyue to continue self-harming, grinding her teeth, she pulled Jiayi aside, whispered:
"Over the years, the Crown Prince hasn’t been home, first using surgery and recovery abroad as excuses to avoid Second Miss, now he finally returned, but still spends all day at the Royal Office Building, ignoring Second Miss. Left without options, each time she uses this method... hoping to make the Crown Prince relent, to stay with her a few more days. Fortunately, every time she doesn’t cut deep, no major incidents. Otherwise..."
Jiayi’s face changed.
Chu Xinyue actually used such a desperate method to seek her husband’s pity.
And it was time and time again.
Xiaotao whispered further: "Miss Jiayi... that’s all I can say. Please don’t tell Second Miss that I told you. If you and Mr. Huo have the chance, please try to persuade the Crown Prince, make him care more about Second Miss..."
Jiayi took a deep breath, did not ask anything more, and left the hospital.
Downstairs, she got into the car.
The car slowly headed toward the Chu Family.
Along the way, Chu Yanhan couldn’t help but ask his silent daughter: "Jiayi, how’s your second sister? What did you talk about just now?"
Jiayi didn’t want to worry her dad, so she omitted Chu Xinyue’s wrist-cutting suicide attempt: "Ya Chen has always been indifferent to her. However, it’s clear she remains very committed to this relationship and marriage."
Chu Yanhan fell silent, it wasn’t his place to intervene in his children’s affairs.
Moreover, Xinyue had originally been a substitute bride into the Ya Family, which initially displeased them.
Now, even though Xinyue faced Ya Chen’s neglect and resistance, he, as a father, couldn’t say much.
***
In the afternoon, father and daughter returned to the Chu Family.
Jiayi hadn’t returned to her maternal home in S Country for years.
Everything at the Chu Family was well maintained by the stay-behind servants, still the same as before.
Yet, the place felt empty, exceptionally lonely and cold.
Xuan Yu was jailed, Chu Xinyue married, and Chu Yanhan had lived in China these years.
Chu Xinyu, after feeling emotionally crushed, remained silent for a long time, unable to bear gossip by the upper echelons, moved out, allegedly frequently away from Nanga, living a life of debauchery domestically.
Chu Yanhan and Jiayi brought a lot of liveliness when they returned to the Chu Family.
The servants arranged rooms for Mr. Chu and Miss Jiayi, then carried their luggage upstairs.
Seeing that Xinyue’s health was okay, Chu Yanhan’s mind returned to his pregnant wife back home.
He rested briefly and before drinking more water, he rushed upstairs to video call Xia Tingxuan.
Jiayi saw the sky still early and had the Chu Family driver take her to visit the S Country branch store.
The location for this branch store was handled by Huo Zhenyang’s people.
The store was situated in the prime area of Nanga City’s center.
The staff here are elites, personally picked by his secretary, who flew to S Country.
Truthfully, it’s quite embarrassing; she, the legitimate owner, hadn’t visited the new store once since it opened, hadn’t formally met the employees.
The store manager, staff, and operations manager, upon seeing the China-based owner, toured Jiayi around the store, reported current operations.
She observed for a while and found business at the S Country branch to be quite sluggish.
Despite the prime location and it being a weekend, there were still few customers.
The rare few customers came, looked, and left.
Upon reviewing the accounts of the past two months, the store was consistently incurring losses.
Actually, losses are normal for a newly opened store, making money a year later is already good.
Yet, the financial deficit shown in the accounts was still too large!
Basically, every month was only expenditures, no income at all!
Worse, not showing any signs of potential profit!
Reading through the accounts, Jiayi realized, if not for Huo Zhenyang’s financial support, these overseas branches of F.WANG would have long been wiped out.
That man didn’t even inform her, yet spared no effort in supporting her to continue opening stores!
Surely, even with abundant cash, not to waste like this.
He may not be distressed by his money, but she is!
No, this can’t continue losing like this!
Since she’s now in S Country, as the owner, she must do something.
Jiayi gathered a few customers for a questionnaire, they expressed that their wedding dresses and gowns were too expensive.
This S Country branch of F.WANG was centered on high-end gowns.
The materials and designs were all top-notch; expensive, yet not surprising.
Certain online knock-offs go for mere tens; cheap, yes, yet match authentic goods? You get what you pay for!
Given it’s a new store, their pricing compared to similar items at other bridal gown stores was already quite low.
In other words, the cost-benefit ratio is high, more reasonable than rival stores.
Yet, knowing doesn’t help, customers aren’t aware!
Jiayi thought it over and convened the staff for a small meeting.
During the meeting, they unanimously decided to quickly advertise for the branch to build its reputation.
**
In the following days, Jiayi went to the hospital daily with Chu Yanhan to visit Chu Xinyue.
Chu Xinyue’s health improved a lot, currently in the pre-discharge observation stage, able to leave in a few days.
These days, Jiayi hadn’t seen Ya Chen at the hospital.
Which meant, since Chu Xinyue’s hospitalization, Ya Chen apart from the initial emergency visit, hadn’t come by to visit his wife.
