Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Lian Shikan picked up the clothes and pants that Yu Ru had picked out and looked through them, becoming even more disgusted. "Your face is much better now, why don't you pick out something nice to dress up. I wanted to complain about you before, but the clothes you bought from me, once you put them on, every set looks like a Western European country kid from the 1990s, and a homeless boy with no one to take care of him. You are so good at making clothes, you must have studied the aesthetics of fashion design and color matching, right? How can you pick out ugly clothes so accurately?"

She paused for a moment, then continued, "No, maybe you know how to design, so you can buy ugly clothes more accurately. Fortunately, your image can still hold up, otherwise it would be unbearable to look at."

This description made Yu Ru laugh. She took out her phone from her coat pocket and sent a message to Lian Shikan to explain: "Before, I was casual because my face was not good-looking and I didn't know how to put on makeup, so it didn't match with nice clothes. Now I buy ugly clothes for convenience. I will be out for a while, so it's better to buy some quick-drying and low-key clothes."

"Shouldn't you buy prettier clothes when you go out? So you can take nice pictures. Are you going to survive in the mountains and wilderness and buy clothes like this?"

Yu Ru shook her head and sent a message: I'm going to visit a friend of mine abroad and stay there for a while. Aren't there many people who like to rob people abroad? I can buy this kind of clothes to hide all my valuables.

"You're going abroad?" Lian Shikan was a little surprised. "Which country are you going to?"

Yu Ru sent a message: United Kingdom.

"Oh, that's okay." Lian Shikan nodded, "But you still have to be careful."

Yu Ru nodded.

"I studied there for a while and I know a lot of people there. If you have any problems that you can't solve, you can ask me and I can find someone who can help you."

Yu Ru nodded and sent a message: OK, thank you Sister Kan. How much are these clothes?

"One hundred and fifty." Lian Shikan opened the drawer under the table with one hand, took out a bag from it and used it to put the clothes that Yu Ru had picked out. "Hey, I got a few nice skirts yesterday, the kind that were more like formal dresses. One of them was taken down from a fashion show. They're really beautiful. I wanted to keep them for myself, but I can't wear them. You should be able to wear them. Do you want to take a look? Don't just stare at those ugly clothes all day long."

Yu Ru thought about it and nodded with a smile.

After packing the clothes, Lian Shikan led Yu Ru to another room in the warehouse. The scene inside was very different. There were a few more lights installed on the wall, and the skirts hanging inside were all as colorful as flowers, with colorful patterns that made people unable to take their eyes away.

She stopped Yu Ru in front of a dress with a large hem, took it out and introduced it, "Is this one nice? It's from a fashion show, it's not a big brand, it's a small brand, the original price is just over 50,000, if you want it I can give it to you for 800."

The skirt she introduced was a sea blue skirt with a heart-shaped collar and sleeves that could be turned into small cap sleeves or worn as a one-shoulder dress. The upper body was made of satin, and the outside was made of mesh gauze with pleats to seal the satin. The large skirt of the lower body was a cake skirt design with small and large layers. The fabric was very strange, like gauze but not gauze. It was solemn when still, shining with the luster and softness of satin, and elegant when moving, with the lightness and agility of gauze. Each layer of the skirt was full of pleats, which was extremely heavy. The skirt was also paired with a long trumpet sleeve of the same color ankle-length outer cape, which was full of accordion pleats. The pleats on the two sleeves were neatly arranged together, as delicate as the wings of a bee-sucking bird.

Yu Ru reached out to take the hanger with the blue dress on it. The moment she touched the hanger, her hands sank down and she almost dropped it. She looked at Lian Shikan with her eyes slightly widened, somewhat surprised at the weight of the dress.

Lian Shikan laughed, "It's very heavy, right? I even weighed it at the time, and it weighs more than ten kilograms. Look at the big hem of the skirt."

She lifted up one hem of her skirt. "It's made of real gauze, not the kind of skirt that's made of skeletons and puffy. How about it? Do you want to try it on? If it fits you, you can take it away."

The skirt was indeed very beautiful, and Yu Ru really wanted to try it on, but when she thought of the scars on her body, she was too embarrassed to do so.

She looked at the skirt again, hung it back in its place, and sent a message to Lian Shikan: Sister Kan, I won’t try it on. It’s so big and it’s troublesome to put it on and take it off. I should be able to wear it. It really looks good. I’ll buy it.

After reading the message from Yu Ru, Lian Shikan stuffed the phone into her pocket. She smiled and said, "Yeah, I'll pack it for you. This skirt is quite exaggerated, but it's not so bad. The hem and cape should be just above your ankles and won't drag on the ground. If you have a boyfriend, you can wear this on a date with him. I guarantee you'll charm him to death."

Yu Ru smiled and nodded.

"Then do you want this one? This color is very rare. I sell so many clothes, but it's rare to see purple that looks so beautiful." Lian Shikan took a step forward, picked up another skirt and asked.

This is an empire-style long skirt, with the same elements and craftsmanship, simple but not simplistic, a little lighter than water chestnut purple, and a little richer than grape purple. This skirt is also made of mesh, with a small hem, and is quite casual. The skirt is embroidered with a few purple three-dimensional roses regularly from the waist down, which is very special.

Seeing that Yu Ru was interested, Lian Shikan stuffed the skirt directly into her hands and asked her to take a look at it slowly. Then he picked up an apricot-colored mid-length skirt that looked like a Tutu skirt and said, "This one is not bad either. I got eight of them, in two colors in total. Take a look."

There were so many skirts that Yu Ru was a little dazzled. Before she finished looking at the purple skirt in her hand, she hurried to take the skirt that Lian Shikan was holding.

"Haha." Lian Shikan laughed twice. "Too many, right? I can't watch them all. It's okay. If you don't have time to watch them today, you can watch them on your phone later when you get home."

She took out her phone and recommended two electronic business cards to Yu Ru, then held up her phone and explained to her, "These are two new store accounts I opened. You can add them. The items sold in them are all luxury goods and branded items. The first one has more clothes and skirts, which are like dresses. The second one sells shoes. You can take a look when you have time. Just transfer money to this account and leave the address and you can buy it."

Yu Ru nodded.

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Yu Ru originally came to Lian Shikan to buy clothes for going out, but in the end she was coaxed into buying eight skirts. Some of the skirts had very large hems, and one suitcase took up almost an entire seat, so her car could hardly fit them all.

"Yu Ru, next time you come to see me, wear the purple one and I'll see how it looks." Lian Shikan said with a smile.

Yu Ru smiled and sent her a message: I feel that the piece is not suitable for daily wear, I am embarrassed to wear it, but it looks good just for show.

"What's there to be embarrassed about? Wear it if you want to. You can even wear it to the market to buy groceries."

Yu Ru nodded and sent a message: "Okay, if I dare to wear it, I'll wear it. I'm leaving now and will come to see you next time."

"Okay, bye, be safe."

Yu Ru was about to open the car door and get in when Lian Shikan suddenly called her, "Wait a moment."

Yu Ru stopped pulling the car door, turned to look at her, and asked with her eyes if she had anything else to do.

"Yu Ru, are you free recently? A friend of mine gave me some plain brocade and I want to make some skirts."

Yu Ru nodded and sent her a message: Let’s go back to your office, I’ll measure your size and see if there are any changes.

Yu Ru spent quite a bit of time measuring Lian Shikan's size and discussing the effect she wanted to achieve for the skirt. It was already noon and time for lunch, so Yu Ru had lunch with Lian Shikan in Yuancheng before returning to Huacheng.