Prince charming, your persona has collapsed!

But Zhou Yuwen said it wasn't good to walk around like that and told her to wear more after her shower.

Lu Lin pouted and said, "What's there to wear when there are no strangers around?"

"What are you saying? What if you catch a cold by not wearing clothes?"

Zhou Yuwen admonished as he playfully slapped Lu Lin on the butt.

Lu Lin said, "Why are you acting exactly like my dad?"

"Aren't I your dad?"

Zhou Yuwen said, then pulled Lu Lin into his arms and asked.

Lu Lin giggled.

Zhou Yuwen's way of doing things was indeed a bit old-fashioned. Sometimes he even made a fuss about Lu Lin wearing crop tops, although she didn't mind him meddling.

Zheng Yanyan asked where Lu Lin had been the past few days.

At that time, Zhou Yuwen was lying in bed playing with his phone while Lu Lin, in a plain strappy nightgown, rested on Zhou Yuwen's stomach, her feet playfully in the air, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "My dad came over these last few days, and I was out with him."

Zheng Yanyan asked, "Really your dad?" with an ambiguous tone.

Lu Lin asked, "Why ask if you don't believe me?"

Zheng Yanyan sent two grinning emojis and said she definitely believed it, but the girls in the next dorm kept saying Lu Lin was fooling around with dubious men outside.

"Damn it, I rebuked them today!" said Zheng Yanyan.

"Oh." Lu Lin actually didn't care about these rumors, saying, "Let them slander if they want to next time. It doesn't matter."

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Seeing this, Lu Lin showed no expression on her face, but who knew what she was really thinking.

That day, Lu Lin indeed returned to the dorm but surprised everyone by bringing loads of things, making even the people from the neighboring dorm come over and say, "My god, Lu Lin, all these are branded goods? Never took you for a rich kid."

Zheng Yanyan was happy too; she was about the same size as Lu Lin, which meant she could wear the clothes Zhou Yuwen bought for Lu Lin.

Lu Lin didn't care much about these things.

If you want to wear them, wear them.

On November 8th, the Double Eleven event officially began. Two days before it, all the part-time job groups were filled with recruitment information. There used to be part-time jobs sorting parcels for eight yuan an hour, but due to Xu Huai's group joining, these jobs quickly escalated to ten yuan, then fifteen!

Any more and they wouldn't be able to afford it because these school brokers weren't large scale and only got their own information from the second or third dealers.

Fifteen yuan was already the limit of what they could offer. To say twenty, even the external brokerage firms wouldn't have that margin.

Zhou Yuwen offered thirty yuan per hour because the consideration was much larger, with large companies like JD.com being unconcerned about such trivial amounts of money as they primarily focused on delivery speeds.

You should know, the years around 2013 were marked by high-speed internet development—an era of spending heavily to seize market shares, where nobody really focused on making a profit but rather on providing massive subsidies.

With university town resources in his hands, Zhou Yuwen found it easy to make money in this era. Soon, promoting QR codes would become real moneymakers potentially earning tens of millions.

Zhou Yuwen was meticulous in his operations while Liu Shuo tended to be more reckless, especially as more people joined Xu Huai's group. He even dared to poach directly from the senior students who acted as second-level dealers.

Liu Shuo's actions had already endangered the ecological balance of the school; disrupting someone's flow of income was tantamount to harming one's parents, and with this move, Liu Shuo had completely cut off some people's livelihoods, making them naturally start different kinds of harassments against him. And Liu operated outright, blending legitimate with shady maneuvers.

In any case, the emergence of new powers and the extinction of old ones always stirred up storms of violence, but with Zhou Yuwen's strategizing, things were kept calm to some extent, avoiding crossing into legitimate legal issues.

In just a few days, four courier stations in the university town had switched to displaying Xu Huai's logos.

Watching one school courier station after another become his territory, Liu Shuo was genuinely excited.

In the days leading up to Double Eleven, students at the school were basically discussing whether to join Xu Huai for a part-time job, earning twenty yuan an hour!

If you worked five hours a day, that was a hundred yuan, enough to buy two pieces of clothing or some cosmetics.

"I heard this Xianlin Labor Service is a company started by that Xu Huai group."

"What is Xu Huai anyway?"

"Don't know, heard it has been around for a long time."

In recent days, some gossip about the Xu Huai group circulated within the university town; of course, this was merely wild speculation by the students. What kind of society was this to still have such gangs?

It was simply a group of aspiring young people dedicated to serving the student community, unhappy with the local brokers exploiting students, who boldly founded Xianlin Labor Service Co.!

Before this company existed, students toiled in part-time jobs earning merely eight or nine yuan per hour, barely reaching ten or so at most. But since Xianlin Labor came into play, the minimum wage rose to twenty an hour, and some even earned up to twenty-five a day!

Outsiders knew a bit about Xianlin Labor, while some gossip-lovers got wind of another version: Xianlin Society, disliking how some students exploited their peers, then established their own company, mainly to protect students in their part-time jobs.