Yu Cheng Feng shows up at Jingshi and once again Zi Qi offers Xing Ren his handkerchief to mop up her drool. He's gonna need a whole lot more of them as everyone is fangirling over the designer. Kai Er's gold digger radar is off the charts and she quickly tries to insinuate herself into the conversation. Yu, however, cuts everyone off as he pulls Xing Ren aside for a private chat. He's leaving for Paris later to take care of business, but if he does decide to sell his clothes line in a department store, he assures Xing Ren she'll be his top priority. Before he leaves he gives her a parting gift: the original sketch of the (ugly) white dress he sold her eight years ago.
Kai Er's boss gets after her to up her game. He doesn't want the sales department to outshine the merchandise department. Plus he's creepy touchy. Kai Er quickly goes to wash her hands to try and get his creepy touchy feel off her skin. She starts to become emotional but manages to suck it in.
Manager Shi Te Long is so pleased with Xing Ren he promotes her to acting team leader and gives her a raise. So how about paying Zi Qi back the money you rightfully owe him??? The promotion causes conflict with some of the other office girls. Mandy at least has good reason as she has more time and experience than Xing Ren and should have gotten the position.
You know, here in America women who work in offices don't get to wear super short shorts to work. And men don't usually wear a vest and no shirt underneath. Just sayin'.
Kai Er is working late at the store and so is Zi Qi. They take a break to flirt with each other. He asks her out to the movies but she's playing the hard-to-get card. She goes back to her cubicle and, thinking back to what her creepy touchy boss said, she makes up an email insinuating the reason why Yu Cheng Feng is willing to come to Jingshi is because Xing Ren slept with him.
As these things go, the email spreads like wildfire. The sales department bickers amongst themselves and as a team leader Xing Ren does not do a good job of controlling them. In an attempt to get everyone to get along, she invites them over to her apartment for a barbecue.
Zi Qi goes grocery shopping with Xing Ren and needles her into shirking her thrifty ways for at least one night and buy expensive meat for the gang. As a thrifty person myself, I can feel Xing Ren's pain as she forces herself to buy luxury items she usually denies herself.
Outside the store, Zi Qi gets a call from Kai Er. She's agreed to go to the movies with him. Now if only he had some money to pay for the movies. He asks Xing Ren for a loan but she cuts him cold on that idea. He ditches the barbecue for his date. Using office equipment, he sets up an outdoor theater on top of the store. I'll give him credit for the romantic gesture. He and Kai Er flirt some more, but when he discovers no one else is coming to the dinner (as we all knew would happen) he starts to feel guilty. But what to do with Kai Er?
The answer is to invite her to the dinner as well. Kai Er congratulates Xing Ren on her promotion and gifts her with a bottle of wine, but then turns right around and says she has to leave because she has an early day tomorrow. Xing Ren walks Kai Er down and orders the assistant manager a cab. Kai Er is all nice to Xing Ren, telling the naive girl if she ever needs any advice to not hesitate to ask her. Xing Ren is quite touched by the offer, never realizing it was Kai Er who had spread that nasty story about her.
Xing Ren and Zi Qi talk some more about her frugal ways and how she's saving up for a house. He says he has a friend in the construction business who may be able to get her a good deal. The friend shows them a display house and Xing Ren ooh's and ahh's over it. Zi Qi, who has taken to carrying around a manpurse this episode, has a goofy grin on his face as he watches her enjoying herself. His pal, Paul, notices the look and asks Zi Qi if he likes Xing Ren or something. Naturally Zi Qi is in denial, saying he's just trying to help a girl out. Xing Ren is in love, though - with the house. Even though it's jaw-droppingly expensive in my opinion, she takes it. It will be two years before she can actually move in, though, so for now she's still going to be living upstairs from Zi Qi. And his manpurse.
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