When Ye Hao arrived at the store, Gu Yi and Li Yitian were busy hanging clothes on the display rack.
The store was newly renovated, and although Gu Yi and the others had already cleaned it, there was still a bit of paint smell upon entering.
"You’re here, must be tiring."
Gu Yi smiled and said when he saw Ye Hao coming over.
"Not tired at all. Where should I hang this?"
Ye Hao saw Gu Yi holding clothes, so he hurried up to take them.
"Just hang them over there."
Gu Yi pointed to a rack not far away.
"It still smells a bit in here, you shouldn’t stay inside too long, they say it’s not good for your health."
Ye Hao hung up the clothes and pulled Gu Yi aside to say.
"It’s fine, just open the doors and windows to ventilate, it was really strong in the morning, but it’s much better now. We’re not open for business yet, so we’ve just kept the door open. There’s an exhaust fan installed in here, and it’s on now."
Gu Yi showed Ye Hao the exhaust fan.
Li Yitian was moving clothes from the warehouse when he saw Ye Hao and greeted him.
"Ye Hao, you’re here?"
"Yeah, now you’re a big boss, how come you’re not hiring anyone to help?"
Ye Hao laughed as he saw him struggling to move things.
"Ye Hao’s teasing me. Big boss, huh? I haven’t hired anyone because I’m afraid others won’t handle it well. These clothes, one piece per size, if they get damaged, we’d have to reorder from the factory, which is too much hassle."
Li Yitian said after putting things down.
"Don’t just chat, hurry up and tidy everything, then we can go eat."
Ye Hao’s arrival was perfect for helping with the tidying.
Ye Hao and Li Yitian moved the clothes out of the warehouse, while Gu Yi was responsible for hanging them.
The three of them worked quite fast, finishing before 12:00.
They went for lunch, and Gu Yi and Ye Hao went back home.
Li Yitian also went to the first store.
They agreed to meet at the store tomorrow morning at 8:00 to prepare for the opening.
In the afternoon, Gu Yi and Ye Hao went to the flower shop to buy lots of fresh flowers and ordered some flower baskets to be delivered to the store tomorrow at 8:00.
"Ye Hao, I’m so happy."
Gu Yi, holding a bouquet, said suddenly as she walked home with Ye Hao.
"Are you happy because of the flowers or because the store is opening tomorrow?"
Ye Hao also wanted to know. Earlier at the flower shop, Gu Yi had bought some carnations and lilies.
But she kept glancing at the roses.
Ye Hao asked the flower shop owner to wrap a bouquet for Gu Yi.
"Both, but mainly because you gave me flowers, I’m happy."
Gu Yi lowered her head to sniff the fragrance of the flowers.
"If you like them, why didn’t you say anything before I bought them?"
Ye Hao thought since you like it, just say so. If he hadn’t been constantly watching Gu Yi, they might have missed the flowers.
"A man should be the one to give a woman flowers voluntarily; it’s meaningless if a girl has to ask for them."
This was the first time in two lifetimes that Ye Hao had given flowers to Gu Yi.
In the previous life, it was their daughter who reminded her dad on Gu Yi’s birthday to buy flowers for her.
"Alright, I’ll remember next time."
Ye Hao didn’t know what to say to her.
Ye Hao felt sometimes Gu Yi was very easy to understand, but sometimes he just didn’t know what she was thinking. She always seemed to have many reasons; although he found these reasons useless, as long as Gu Yi was happy, it was fine.
"Alright, you must remember what you said today."
"Yiyi, sometimes I can be quite dumb. If I don’t understand your meaning at times, could you please remind me?"
Ye Hao suddenly stood in front of Gu Yi, looking at her, and said very seriously.
"Of course, I admit I can be a bit unreasonable sometimes, but you can’t get angry and ignore me, got it?"
Gu Yi looked at Ye Hao seriously and said.
"Of course, we’re a couple; we should understand each other."
Ye Hao smiled and patted Gu Yi’s head.
"And another thing, I don’t like being hot and cold. If one day you don’t like me anymore and don’t want to be with me, you must tell me directly. I don’t like to guess what’s in your heart and spend all day wondering what’s wrong."
"No way, how could I not like you? I always want to hold hands and grow old with you just like now."
Ye Hao hurried to promise.
"I know, I’m just saying if, if that happens, I will choose to let go. Even if you regret it later, I won’t turn back. Do you remember?"
Gu Yi, in this life, had always been good with Ye Hao, but she couldn’t help but think of their previous life, where they had a polite relationship. She always feared that everything now was just a dream, and once awoken, she’d be alone in a house without its man.
"Why is this getting less and less likely? I promise it won’t happen; I’ll love you forever until we’re old. You can never think of leaving my side."
Ye Hao clasped Gu Yi’s face with both hands and said forcefully.
"Who knows what’ll happen in the future?"
Hearing Ye Hao’s promise, Gu Yi’s heart felt like it was filled with honey. She deliberately left this remark and ran ahead.
"Did you remember what I said?"
Ye Hao shouted after her.
Ye Hao and Gu Yi’s laughter scattered along the way.
Early the next morning, Ye Hao returned to the army.
Gu Yi also went to the store early. The store was now closer to her house, making future visits convenient for her.
Gu Yi opened the store’s doors and cleaned up a bit more inside.
Before long, the flowers she ordered the day before were delivered.
Gu Yi had them place the flower baskets outside, while she carried the fresh flowers inside, arranging some in the display cabinet.
The whole store was filled with the scent of flowers.
A little after 8:00, Li Yitian arrived with three others.
"Gu Yi, these are the new employees. This is Xiao Li, and this is Xiao Liu. I hired them some time ago and had them learn at the first store. You should teach them later. You know Xiao Yang, right? She used to do pretty well at the first store, so I thought she could be the manager here and lead them."
Li Yitian introduced the three people.
"Great, welcome, welcome. Of course, I’m familiar with Xiao Yang. Come in, all of you."
Gu Yi was quite happy. She was just thinking, without asking Ye Hao about the personnel arrangements here, she wouldn’t be able to stay at the store every day since she’s about to return to school.
She liked Xiao Yang quite a bit. She’s very diligent and quick-minded.
With her at the new store, Gu Yi felt at ease.
The three of them were quite proactive, getting to work as soon as they came in.
"What made you think of buying some flowers to place in the store? You know what, they really look great here, and smell nice too; can’t even smell the renovation anymore."
Li Yitian touched the lilies placed on the cashier’s counter.
"I thought since it’s opening day, why not make it festive? Today’s the first day of business; how about we do a promotion - 20% off everything, what do you think?"
Gu Yi and Li Yitian forgot to prepare some small gifts for customers entering the store, so Gu Yi thought they might as well offer a discount to create some buzz and get their name out there.
"Sure, there’s paper and pens in the back; we can write it down and hang it up somewhere visible in the store."
Li Yitian remembered there was paper and colored pens given by suppliers in the warehouse.
"Then let’s quickly write it and hang it up."
Gu Yi spoke as she headed to the warehouse at the back to find the paper and pens that Li Yitian mentioned.