After Lin Yao moved out of the hospital dormitory, she rented Yue Mingyuan’s flat. Yue Mingyuan’s parents were both ordinary civil servants, but the departments they worked in were related to Shanghai’s planning and construction. So, twenty years ago, when housing prices had not yet skyrocketed and there were no purchase restrictions, the clever Yue parents bought properties in areas that had the potential to be demolished according to Shanghai’s future twenty-year development plan. They bought property that had cost just over one thousand yuan per square metre, which was now worth sixty to seventy thousand yuan per square metre.
As a result, Student Yue Mingyuan had somehow, without even realising it, accidentally become worth hundreds of millions.
So when he heard that Lin Yao needed to rent a place, Yue Mingyuan waved his hand generously and said, “Rent? What rent? This young master has plenty of houses. Pick whichever one you want.”
Lin Yao did not stand on ceremony with him either. She directly picked a mid-to-high-end apartment near the city centre, with a subway station right outside the entrance.
Of course, she still had to pay rent. Although Student Xiao Ming had stubbornly refused to accept any at the time, Lin Yao got so angry that she brought out her silver needles. Only then did he compromise, though in the end he still gave Lin Yao a forty percent discount.
Lin Yao carried a sack of medicinal herbs into the flat. Hot as a dog, she threw the sack straight into the entrance hall, kicked off the sandals on her feet, sprawled out on the living room sofa, and stopped moving.
“It’s only May. How is it already this hot? Won’t this summer kill me?” As Lin Yao complained, she picked up the remote control beside her, turned on the living room air conditioner, and lowered the temperature to the minimum.
Once the heat slowly faded, Student Lin Yao, who still did not want to move at all, was awakened by the notification sound from Taobao Wangwang.
Lin Yao struggled to sit up. Now that she no longer had a job, she had to be a little more enthusiastic about her Taobao business.
**Customer:** Shop owner, are your Chinese medicine mosquito-repelling sachets out of stock?
Lin Yao looked and saw that the ID belonged to an old customer. Her fingers quickly tapped across the keyboard in reply.
**Lin Yao:** I restocked today, but the sachets haven’t been prepared yet. You may need to wait another two days.
**Customer:** Then I’ll place an order for two first. Once you’ve prepared the sachets, send them to me.
Then two dinging sounds rang out, indicating that someone had placed an order.
Lin Yao replied with an “okay,” but did not put down her phone. Instead, she continued using it to set up a pre-sale for her mosquito-repelling sachets. On the Taobao page, she wrote a notice saying that in two days, the shop would add three hundred mosquito-repelling sachets, and anyone who needed them could place an order in advance.
Ding.
**Customer:** Are you there?
It was another old customer.
**Lin Yao:** I’m here.
**Customer:** The mosquito-repelling sachets don’t seem to be as effective as before.
Lin Yao could not help frowning. It was not that she was bragging, but she had been selling these mosquito-repelling sachets for several years, and this was the first time she had ever encountered an after-sales complaint.
**Lin Yao:** Dear customer, what happened?
**Customer:** Mosquitoes are still biting me.
**Lin Yao:** Dear customer, even when you carry the sachet with you, mosquitoes still come near you? Lin Yao could not help confirming.
**Customer:** Not during the day, but it seems to happen at night. When I woke up this morning, I found several mosquito bites on myself.
The other person seemed to be very meticulous. After that, they even uploaded a picture of the mosquito bites. There were quite a few red spots on the arm.
Lin Yao held her phone and stared at the picture they had sent for a long time. Then she blinked and calmly replied:
**Lin Yao:** May I ask, dear customer, did you wake up in the middle of the night because mosquitoes were biting you?
**Customer:** Not really.
**Lin Yao:** Dear customer, as a doctor, I can responsibly tell you that you’re having an allergic reaction. Go buy some medicine and apply it.
**Customer:** Allergic? I’ve never had allergies.
For the sake of the fact that the other party was an old customer, Lin Yao patiently explained:
**Lin Yao:** Poor immunity can also cause allergic reactions. Dear customer, you should sleep early, wake up early, and avoid staying up late. Summer is hot, humid, and stuffy, which makes it a peak season for allergies, so you need to pay more attention.
Lin Yao remembered that this customer ID, “Yan Yilüji,” placed orders every time at two or three in the morning. A complete night owl. If this continued long-term, it was inevitable that his constitution would worsen.
In a high-end office building in the Expo Park district, Yan Lüji stared at the swollen, itchy rash on his arm. It itched so badly that he was almost unable to stop himself from reaching out to scratch it. After hesitating for a while, he still decided to follow the shop owner’s advice and go to the clinic to ask the doctor for some ointment.
“Old Yan, where are you going?” HR Director Xiao Dong happened to run into Yan Lüji in the corridor.
“The clinic,” Yan Lüji replied.
“The clinic? Are you feeling unwell?” Xiao Dong looked worriedly at his old classmate.
“A bit of an allergic reaction. I’m going to get some ointment to apply.” Yan Lüji showed him the arm covered in red rashes.
“An allergic reaction? You have allergies?” Xiao Dong had known Yan Lüji since high school, and after all these years, he had never heard of Yan Lüji being allergic to anything.
“Maybe I haven’t been resting well lately, so my resistance has dropped,” Yan Lüji said, not especially concerned.
“You’ve finally realised you haven’t been resting well? Did you have to wait for your body to sound the alarm?” Xiao Dong had finally caught an opportunity, so of course he had to lecture this workaholic. “I’ve wanted to tell you for ages. The IT industry already has the highest sudden-death rate among all industries. And you’re the head of the group’s software development department. If you work this desperately, the people under you can only work even harder.”
“The clinic has already reported it to me. They said several people in your department haven’t been in good physical condition recently. Because their immune systems are low and their bodies have developed drug resistance, even medicine isn’t having much of an effect now. If this continues, they’re all going to collapse.”
“I know. Once this project is finished, I’ll give them time off,” Yan Lüji said. Naturally, he did not want to work his subordinates to the point of illness either, but which IT worker did not work overtime?
“Once the body is depleted, it’s hard to restore,” Xiao Dong reminded him.
“Didn’t we say during the last meeting that we’d hire another TCM health-care doctor for the company? TCM conditioning should be better than Western medicine, right? How’s your search going?” Yan Lüji suddenly remembered and asked.
“It’s hard to find one.” At the mention of this matter, Xiao Dong became worried. “If they’re too young, they look like they have no experience. Those with some medical skill have either opened their own clinics or are doing well in hospitals. Who would come to a private company like ours to be a health-care doctor?”
“Raise the benefits a bit more.” In any case, the company was not short of that bit of money.
“Our benefits are already quite good. The salary is almost higher than that of a chief physician at a Grade-A tertiary hospital. It’s just that we haven’t found anyone suitable,” Xiao Dong said. “I’m planning to go to the University of Chinese Medicine and see if the professors there have any talented people to recommend.”
“Then go take care of that. I’m going to the clinic.”
“Don’t work overtime today. Go home early and rest.” Before they parted, Xiao Dong still could not help reminding him.
“I know.” Yan Lüji agreed casually and turned to walk towards the clinic.
==
Three days later.
Ding!
**Customer:** I applied the ointment, and the rash went down. Thank you.
**Lin Yao:** You’re welcome.
Ding, ding, ding.
Lin Yao saw that this “Yan Yilüji” had bought another three mosquito-repelling sachets. Out of friendly appreciation for a loyal customer, Lin Yao could not help giving a few extra reminders:
**Lin Yao:** Pay attention to your routine. Don’t reverse day and night. Exercise more usually. When your body functions decline and your immunity drops, allergies are the first reaction and also a warning sign. You should take it seriously, dear customer.
**Customer:** Thank you.
**Lin Yao:** If you feel inexplicably tired, it’s best to see a TCM doctor and get your body regulated.
**Customer:** Okay.
After giving so many reminders, Lin Yao felt that she was truly far too caring towards her customers. She was practically a conscientious seller. No wonder her business was so good.
The medicinal herbs she had bought last time had made a total of 306 mosquito-repelling sachets. Each one sold for thirty yuan, and the total cost had been 356 yuan. They would probably sell out in about ten days. After deducting courier fees, she could earn six or seven thousand yuan.
Calculated this way, if she bought herbs two more times, she could make almost twenty thousand yuan in a month.
Compared with her intern salary at the hospital, that was several times higher. Lin Yao was so happy that she called Yue Mingyuan.
“Xiao Ming.”
“I told you, don’t call me Xiao Ming,” Yue Mingyuan demanded as usual.
“Xiao Ming, I’m treating you to a meal.”
“Found a job?”
“Finding a job? There’s no rush. Your big sister can stay at home without going out and earn fifteen thousand a month. As for work, I’ll just leave it to fate.”
“Looks like the mosquito-repelling sachet business is doing well.”
“Of course!” Lin Yao said proudly.
“But… summer only lasts a few months. What will you do once summer is over?”
“That’s a matter for later. How can I let future worries affect my current mood?” Lin Yao asked somewhat impatiently. “I’m treating you to a meal. Are you coming or not?”
“Yes, yes, yes. Rich lady, may this humble one request somewhere slightly higher-class?”
“Fine. I’ll upgrade you. Sixty-nine yuan barbecue buffet. You can eat until you’re full.”
“…” The corner of Yue Mingyuan’s mouth twitched. From a thirty-nine-yuan buffet to a sixty-nine-yuan buffet. It seemed he could finally say goodbye to pork and eat beef.
One hour later, at the barbecue restaurant.
Lin Yao drank cola while taking food from the meat Yue Mingyuan had grilled. Yue Mingyuan looked as if he had long since grown used to it.
“How is this you treating me to a meal? You clearly just found someone to grill meat for you,” Yue Mingyuan said speechlessly.
“Hehe… why are you stating such honest truths?” Lin Yao said with a silly grin, holding her chopsticks.
“You’ve really got me wrapped around your finger,” Yue Mingyuan said irritably.
“Aiya, don’t say it like that.” Lin Yao reached out with her chopsticks and picked up another piece of bacon. “Once I get a boyfriend, I won’t need you anymore.”
“The prerequisite is that you actually have to find one first.”
“Yue Xiaoming, do you want to be stabbed with needles?” Lin Yao narrowed her eyes and threatened him.
Yue Mingyuan glanced at the small leather bag beside Lin Yao’s seat and very cowardly shut his mouth. This damned girl carried her acupuncture kit with her everywhere.
==
Because the mosquito-repelling sachets were selling so well, Lin Yao did not have to do anything every day, yet her daily income could exceed five hundred yuan. Delighted, Student Lin Yao lived a pig-like happy life in her apartment. However, half a month later, five jin of flesh had appeared on her stomach.
Those five jin of flesh struck Lin Yao’s head like a bolt from the blue. After wailing for a long time, Lin Yao immediately bought a full set of running gear online. From then on, every evening, she went jogging in the park not far from her residential compound.
The park was not big. One lap was about eight hundred metres. Lin Yao ran and stopped along the way, and running three or four laps a day was about enough.
That evening, Lin Yao was jogging with her earphones in when the Wangwang notification sound suddenly drowned out the song that was playing and rang clearly beside her ear. Lin Yao knew someone wanted to ask about something, so she slowed down and chatted with this customer whose ID was “When the Clouds Part and the Mist Clears” while walking forward.
**Customer:** May I ask, how many sachets would I need to make sure there are no mosquitoes or insects in my villa of more than five hundred square metres?
Lin Yao blinked, unable to help laughing out loud.
Buying a thirty-yuan mosquito-repelling sachet and still trying to show off in front of me?
**Lin Yao:** In this day and age, when the per capita living space in first-tier cities is less than twenty-five square metres, can your personal five-hundred-square-metre villa really not accommodate a few tiny mosquitoes?
Having money was fine. Not having money was fine too. Having money or not having money and loving to show off was also fine. Just don’t do it in front of me.
After snapping back at the person, Lin Yao was just about to put away her phone and continue jogging when suddenly, a vigorous figure, with his back to the setting sun, seemed to carry ten thousand rays of light as he ran towards Lin Yao head-on. He came closer little by little, and then brushed past her.
Almost by reflex, Lin Yao spun around with a swish. Looking at the figure rapidly disappearing into the distance, she could not help crying out in surprise.
“He’s my type!”
Who would have thought that in this park, besides elderly uncles and aunties walking their children and dogs, there would actually be a handsome guy?
Ding-dong!
When the Clouds Part and the Mist Clears sent another message.
**Customer:** Do you think I’m showing off?
“You know you’re showing off, so hurry up and get lost. You’re disturbing me while I look at my male god.”
Lin Yao angrily replied:
**Lin Yao:** Are you buying or not? If you’re buying, just place the order.
Almost the instant she sent that sentence, Lin Yao received a Taobao notification saying that fifty mosquito-repelling sachets had just been sold, and all had been paid for.
After paying, When the Clouds Part and the Mist Clears sent another message.
**Customer:** I read your instructions. A twenty-square-metre master bedroom only needs two sachets, which is equivalent to one sachet per ten square metres. Five hundred square metres is exactly fifty sachets.
This magical turn of events left Lin Yao completely puzzled. Could it be that a real rich person had come to her shop to buy mosquito-repelling sachets? Or was it a hater deliberately trying to buy a lot of her things and then spam her with bad reviews?
Fifty sachets cost one thousand five hundred yuan. It was not a huge amount, but it was not little either. There was still a possibility that he was a hater.
In any case, she was not worried about selling the mosquito-repelling sachets, so it was better to be cautious. Considering this, Lin Yao took out her phone and replied:
**Lin Yao:** Sorry, this shop limits purchases of mosquito-repelling sachets to three per person per transaction.
**Customer:** I didn’t see that rule.
**Lin Yao:** Not everyone’s house is five hundred square metres.
**Customer:** There are always exceptions.
**Lin Yao:** If it really won’t work, just carry the mosquito-repelling sachet with you. As long as mosquitoes don’t come near you, isn’t that enough?
**Customer:** So it can be used that way too. Then I’ll cancel the transaction and place a new order.
Lin Yao concluded that even if this person was not a hater, he was definitely an idiot. In any case, his IQ was clearly in arrears.
“My male god…” Lin Yao, who had earned one hundred and fifty yuan, discovered that she had already lost her male god, and immediately began wailing.
“I just met a handsome guy in the park, but I accidentally let him run away.” On the way home, Lin Yao excitedly called her best friend to share this thrilling good news.
“If I were that guy, I’d run too.”
“Get lost!”
**Author’s Note:**
The male lead has appeared…
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