Resumo do episódio 19 de Dream of Golden Years
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Reporters cornered Wu Kaili backstage, demanding to know if her endorsement fee for Elegance was truly 100,000 yuan, as rumored, compared to the 10,000 yuan paid to Teresa Li. Ji Ya, sensing the growing PR disaster, hurriedly escorted the actress away under the pretense of preparing small gifts for the press. However, the journalists were far from satisfied, remaining uninterested in the bribes and shouting for a clear explanation regarding the massive pay gap.
After the event, Xia Xiaolan and her team gathered to celebrate. Chen Xiliang was full of admiration for Xiaolan, noting that her strategy—including her last-minute decision to step in as the event host when the original host fell ill—had completely overshadowed Ji Ya and Wu Kaili. During the meal, Teresa Li admitted that seeing the crowd’s fervor for a superstar like Wu Kaili made her realize the gap she still had to bridge.
Xiaolan reassured her that once their commercial aired, she would be a superstar in her own right. Later, Chen Xiliang saw Teresa off to her taxi, watching the car pull away with a lingering look of longing. Xiaolan teased him for his obvious affection but reminded him they had more work to do, specifically regarding the school uniform donation in Longcheng, which would serve as a public shield for Teresa’s reputation.
In the following days, Ji Ya was incensed to find that newspaper coverage was focused on Teresa Li’s charitable acts and the scandalous fee rumors rather than her own fashion show. When her assistant suggested Teresa might be faking the donation, Ji Ya dismissed the idea, knowing Xiaolan was too meticulous to leave such an opening. Her anxiety shifted to the news of Luna’s upcoming TV advertisement.
On the night of the broadcast, Ji Ya sat with George, her foreign boyfriend, and watched as the advertisement flashed onto the screen immediately following the news broadcast. The ad featured Teresa Li and prominently displayed the franchise hotline, 0577-688888, along with a bold promise: Luna would donate one yuan for every garment sold. The impact of the commercial was explosive. Crowds swarmed Luna stores, and Chen Xiliang was soon overwhelmed by a non-stop stream of calls from prospective franchisees.
During an interview with Mr. Liu of the Jingcheng Evening News, Chen admitted that his initial motivation for entering the clothing business was purely profit, even buying a luxury cell phone with his first earnings. However, he claimed he was inspired by Teresa Li’s selflessness and vowed that Luna’s donations would continue as long as the brand existed, even dreaming of the day they could donate millions annually.
Despite the skyrocketing demand, Xiaolan remained composed, deciding to raise the franchise fee from 50,000 to 80,000 yuan to capitalize on the brand’s newfound prestige. Ji Ya’s own investigation into the matter yielded a shocking result: Xiaolan had not used personal connections to get onto the television station. Instead, she had simply signed a standard contract and paid a staggering 1,000,000 yuan upfront.
Stunned that Xiaolan could command such significant capital, Ji Ya decided to shift her strategy to a direct-sales model, vowing to open an Elegance branch wherever a Luna store appeared to reclaim her market share. Amidst the business success, Xiaolan visited Granny Yu to return the money she had borrowed for the advertising fees.
Granny Yu took the opportunity to share a long-held secret, showing Xiaolan a photograph of her son, Xu Zhongyi, who had left for Nanyang twenty years ago with two crates of antiques and never returned. Believing her son was still alive but trapped by some misfortune, Granny Yu had stayed in the same house all these years waiting for him.
Xiaolan promised to help, planning to use her contacts in the antique and auction world to track the movement of the items Xu Zhongyi had taken with him. The search for antiques caught the attention of Du Zhaohui, who called Xiaolan to brag about his information network and lured her to a meeting with the promise of a "huge surprise." The gift turned out to be the capture of the traitorous agent Yuefeng and the actress Wu Kaili.
Du Zhaohui forced them to slap themselves in front of Xiaolan as punishment for their betrayal, but Xiaolan was disgusted by his illegal and violent methods, ordering them to stop immediately. She told Du Zhaohui that she preferred to strike back at her competitors through legitimate business means.
When Du questioned why she chose a "small-time attorney" like Zhou Cheng over someone wealthy and powerful like himself, Xiaolan explained that Zhou Cheng respected her for who she was, regardless of whether she was a village girl or a successful entrepreneur, whereas Du only sought to mold her into a version he liked. Focusing on her long-term goals, Xiaolan rented an entire floor of an office building to house Yuanhui and her future real estate ventures.
That evening, she and Zhou Cheng stood on the rooftop, reflecting on the two years that had passed since their first meeting in Dahe Village. Xiaolan admitted her fear that everything they had built could one day vanish, but Zhou Cheng promised to always be her anchor, making her feel brave enough to reach for a broader future.
Overwhelmed with emotion, Xiaolan told Zhou Cheng that once she handed the daily operations of Luna over to Chen Xiliang, she wanted the two of them to get married. Six months later, the sound of celebratory music filled the air as a wedding ceremony began, and the happy couple prepared to make their grand entrance to the applause of their gathered friends and family.
