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Chapter 608 - 264: Professional Freeloader

Chapter 608: Chapter 264: Professional Freeloader

"Too late?"

Su Huai closed the catalog calmly, "What do you mean by too late?"

The sales manager from Van Cleef & Arpels in the Imperial Capital showed a face full of apology, "Sorry, sir, there isn’t enough time to customize it. You need it by the 12th, and in 20 days, we can’t even coordinate the jewelers..."

"Such a simple thing."

Su Huai didn’t understand, "It’s just a classic Western princess crown. Just add some more gems to it. How can such a big company like yours not be able to do it?"

"We really can’t do it. Let alone 20 days, it might not even be possible in half a year."

The manager’s expression was very firm, with deep "are you kidding me?" skepticism hidden in his eyes.

Su Huai had never dealt with top international jewelry brands before; he was someone accustomed to the efficiency of Huaxia and suddenly realized that these Western big brands were all incompetent. He immediately woke up; he had brought the life experiences from the future to the present.

In our country, those rising domestic jewelry brands operate like this—

Submit intentions online, and within a few minutes, a salesperson connects with you. If you want a haute couture, they check your digital currency account. A senior designer immediately takes over the service. If you like their design concept, you pay the service fee, and the designer can parachute in that very afternoon to begin the design discussion.

Then, within three days, they produce designs. If not satisfied, they continue to modify. If satisfied, you directly pay a deposit. Complex designs may take about a month to make, while simple designs can be delivered in as fast as five days.

The quality is not bad at all, and some designs could even be called stunning.

Some companies that have trained their AI exceptionally well can produce AI drafts within an hour. After adjustments by designers and returned to AI, then finalized by the designers, the whole process only needs six hours.

During that era, all the so-called international big brands were outperformed by domestic brands, and Su Huai knew many female anchors who all wore domestic haute couture.

The cheapest was twenty or thirty thousand; more expensive ones were over a hundred thousand. The materials they used were completely on par with the top luxury brands.

Sometimes, jewelry inlaid with Henan diamonds looked like South African national treasures, sold for only 3999. It was outrageous.

But now obviously, without such conditions, Su Huai still had to pinch his nose and communicate with them.

"What about your company’s high-end jewelry inventory? Do you have any similar accessories?"

"Our company’s jewels are currently on tour in several countries, which also couldn’t possibly be called back. You could fly over and participate in the exhibition and purchase on-site," she said.

The manager verbally called him a VIP, but Su Huai could feel that in her heart, she didn’t really consider him a VIP.

Still not rich enough, otherwise, she would have eagerly brought all the exhibits over.

A private jet shuttle, specifically clearing a day for his personal exhibition; what’s so difficult about that?

It was merely that his wealth wasn’t substantial enough to warrant an exception.

Su Huai wasn’t angry, nor was he in a hurry.

His wealth was increasing very rapidly; it just needed time to accumulate a qualitative change.

In the year 2016, starting from scratch, only five industries were more lucrative than traffic-dependent businesses: the big five illicit businesses, meddling with cryptocurrency, conducting online scams, organizing large-scale predatory loan businesses, selling illegal fireworks to the desert; which could Su Huai do?

Actually, this era was particularly fascinating and interesting, but censorship made it vulgar...

Ah, stop that.

"Do you have a catalog? Bring it here for me to see."

Su Huai wasn’t opposed to making a trip abroad for Gu, but they needed to have something worth buying.

Upon inspecting their so-called archival-level artistic jewelry, they were all tacky, outdated junk; to put it bluntly, most of the jewelry was older than Su Huai’s grandmother.

Some pieces looked pretty good, but they were far from what Su Huai required—luxurious, fresh, simple, suitable for Gu’s age.

After hearing his requirements, the manager expressed understanding but couldn’t help.

"High-end jewelry mainly targets women aged 30 and up. In your case, you can only pre-order and design specifically. Not just our brand, all other brands don’t have the ready-made product you need either."

Su Huai didn’t believe it, so he ran to three more stores in one day.

They were Cartier, Tiffany & Co., and Bvlgari flagship stores or Imperial Capital Headquarters.

He wore the Richard Mille that Wang had given him, dressed neatly, and arrived in a Bugatti, so the visiting process went very smoothly, but still, there was nothing.

Luxury jewelry for young girls simply didn’t exist in the world; it had to be custom-made.

After running around for a day, he wasn’t tired, but Su Huai was mentally exhausted.

With less than 20 days, where could he find a meaningful gift for Gu?

Actually, this was when his lack of connections and insufficiently high social circle became apparent; it was difficult to solve higher-level problems in a short time.

Once out of his comfort zone, what did he know?

"But I can seek solutions within my own domain."

Thinking this, Su Huai took out his phone and booked a flight to Jinling.

Upon landing, he went straight to the Jinling Brocade Institute.

Gu was from Jinling, and among Jinling’s intangible cultural heritage, Yunjin ranked very highly.

Among the four famous brocades, Yunjin was number one and, together with Suzhou Embroidery among the four famous embroideries, termed as treasures and had always been the royal tribute, hence the saying, "an inch of brocade, an inch of gold."

Su Huai was provoked, "I may not understand foreign luxury goods, but I know a lot about our ancestors’ luxuries!"

Later influencers did all sorts of things: successors of Yue opera, Suzhou embroidery, Yunjin... not all were necessarily popular, but all were striving to promote cultural heritage.