Super-rich: Spending money is just a job!

Xiao Jiu is an online blogger who has loved making handicrafts since she was a child. She started by live-streaming the creation of clay cartoon figurines online.

Later, she joined the Hanfu club at school, where she came into contact with Hanfu headdresses and other handicrafts.

If everyone had to buy these things, the supply would be endless.

For students from poor families, it's best to do it themselves.

Then she became the dedicated hairpin maker for the Hanfu club.

When she attended a high-end Hanfu gathering with her club friends, she became aware of the velvet flower category.

By chance, she went with a Hanfu expert to customize velvet flowers, and she was stunned by the exquisite and gorgeous flowers and the high price.

After returning home, Xiao Jiu bought the tools for making velvet flowers online and started trying. Unfortunately, the finished products were all mediocre.

One day, she saw a news report about an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of velvet flower making. The inheritor was very worried that his velvet flower making skills would be lost. Since they lived in the same city, Xiao Jiu went directly to visit him and asked him for advice, showing him her own work.

The master craftsman was very kind and patiently guided Xiao Jiu. Xiao Jiu herself had a talent for it and quickly mastered the knack of making velvet flowers.

Xiao Jiu's velvet hairpins and other accessories are famous in the Hanfu community.

She usually takes orders on Xianyu (a second-hand marketplace app).

By chance, she met a wealthy woman named Lin Xiaomeng.

Xiaomeng is one of the customers who buys a lot.

Moreover, they rarely bargain and only buy large, intricately crafted styles.

After a while, Xiaomeng complained that the materials she used were not precious enough and asked her to use an 18k gold hairpin base instead of the original wooden base.

Fearing she couldn't afford the raw materials, we purchased them online and mailed them to her, so she wouldn't run away.

With the raw materials provided by the wealthy woman, Xiao Jiu's hairpins were upgraded to a higher level.

To complement the velvet flowers, plastic beads are no longer used; instead, jade, tourmaline, and cultured pearls are used directly. This makes the hairpin appear even more luxurious.

As a result, her work was recommended to some film crews by her friends, and those directors loved it.

She commissioned many large and small velvet flowers, specifically for use in period costumes, which appeared on the heads of empresses and noblewomen.

Those were all made by her and her studio staff working together to finish them. They brought in a lot of business for her mentor's studio, and they must have made quite a bit of money. Even her mentor's son is willing to come back and help.

Later, due to differences in philosophy, Xiao Jiu left her mentor's studio to work independently.

Then, she was taken care of by Xiaomeng, and she could make any design she wanted, gaining more creative freedom.

The online store remained open, selling about ten or eight relatively inexpensive items each month. This provided her with living expenses.

Occasionally, she attends anime conventions or Hanfu exhibitions, where she encounters wealthy women and can usually sell ten or twenty relatively expensive styles. This makes her life much more comfortable than the average college student, allowing her to essentially buy whatever she wants.

Because of her excellent craftsmanship and diverse styles, she has gradually gained recognition in the Hanfu community.

Gradually, film crews started coming to her every now and then to commission custom orders.

So she also started customizing props and making exquisite jewelry, and gradually she became too busy to handle everything.

She started hiring employees to assist her and do tedious, repetitive tasks.

She only needs to worry about liaising with clients and putting effort into designing new styles.

She gradually transformed her small studio into a thriving velvet flower workshop with an annual income of millions.