dtnovels Chapter 182 Golden Nails 2
Chapter 182 Golden Nails 2
"Um, beautiful lady. Ninety-nine yuan really can't make real gold, and besides, I'm..."
Su Su tried to patiently explain to Xu Qi, but before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted again by Xu Qi's impatient complaints. The complaints grew louder and louder, echoing in the small nail salon and making the originally warm atmosphere somewhat tense.
"No, you said it's possible? How much would it cost with real gold?"
Xu Qi frowned, her tone full of dissatisfaction, her eyes wide as if Su Su had committed a terrible mistake.
While Su Su seemed to be mentally assessing the price, her eyes were actually glancing at the barrage of messages on her phone's live stream. The viewers in the live stream were sending comments, all wondering who was so eccentric as to insist on getting real gold nail art for ninety-nine yuan.
"The nicest one, the style in the photo, would probably cost around 30,000 to 40,000 yuan." Su Su thought for a moment, then told the truth about the price.
"What? I don't care, I want gold nail art, I want real gold, at this group-buying price. The videos other people post all use real gold, you're using fake gold, aren't you deceiving consumers?!"
Upon hearing the price, Xu Qi jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, her voice becoming increasingly shrill, her demeanor self-righteous, as if Su Su's refusal to give her a real gold manicure was a grave sin.
"I'm really sorry, I can't do that. Why don't you try another store? The group purchase hasn't been used yet, so you can get a refund." Su Su shook her head helplessly, still maintaining a polite smile, but her attitude was firm.
Seeing this, Xu Qi gritted her teeth and roared, "You can't understand human language! I said I want real gold nail art!"
Her eyes held a fierce glint, and her hands gripped the hem of her clothes tightly, as if she were about to rush up and argue with him at any moment.
"What are you doing!"
Xu Qi suddenly felt something was strange. She saw the phone next to Su Su and picked it up. Instantly, Su Su's face appeared on the live stream screen.
"Hey, customer. I'm live streaming..." Su Su quickly explained, appearing very calm.
"What? Why didn't you tell me it was being broadcast live?"
Xu Qi's eyes widened, her face filled with shock and anger, wondering if her words had been known to netizens.
How can she even show her face in public?!
“I’ve been trying to tell you this, but you keep interrupting me. Also, our 99 yuan group-buying deal includes the option for the shop owner to livestream the nail salon session, but customers don’t have to show their faces.”
Su Su hurriedly and patiently explained that this was a group-buying method that the store had changed a few months before she arrived, and it had been clearly stated on various group-buying platforms at the time.
"No, it's impossible for a manicure that costs 300 or 400 yuan to be done for only 99 yuan. It's all to attract customers. There are precautions in the group purchase agreement."
As Su Su spoke, she gestured for Xu Qi to look at the precautions in the group-buying details.
But Xu Qi had no time to look at those things. She was looking at some of the negative comments posted by netizens on the screen, and she was burning with anger. She forced herself to suppress her temper and shouted at Su Su, "Turn it off right now!"
"This won't do. Why don't you go to another nail salon and take a look?"
Su Su remained steadfast in her principles, a standard smile on her face, as she looked at the aromatherapy diffusers on the shelf in the distance, and the fine powder visible under Xu Qi's fingernails.
This was specially prepared by Su Su for Xu Qi!
Aromatherapy can amplify emotions and temporarily lower IQ within the fragrance; otherwise, Xu Qi would have reacted much earlier and wouldn't have been so slow to react.
"I give up. They really have nothing. If they don't want to do it, they don't want to do it. They deserve to have no business."
Enraged, Xu Qi launched into a tirade of complaints before slamming her still-live-streaming phone onto the table. The phone made a dull thud as it hit the surface, a sound that echoed her anger.
After walking a few steps, Xu Qi seemed to suddenly remember something, turned her head sharply, and was about to ask something, but her thoughts were still hazy.
She suddenly remembered the live stream incident and realized that her carefully planned event was impossible to complete. Her anger flared up again, and she could only stomp her foot in frustration, turn around, and stride away from the nail salon.
Actually, when Xu Qi first saw the video of gold nail art, she knew that, under normal circumstances, unless she brought real gold herself, the gold nail art done by ordinary nail salons would most likely use fake gold jewelry.
She simply wanted to get a pretty manicure.
But recently she hooked up with a rich second-generation heir, and the two are now deeply in love.
At the same time, her boyfriend, who was involved in organized crime, suddenly proposed to marry her, and she had already accepted a dowry of 280,000 yuan, as well as three gold pieces.
But she had already squandered all that money.
In Xu Qi's heart, she despised her boyfriend who was involved in the underworld. She felt that after so long, he had only given her a dowry of over 200,000 yuan. This amount of money was not even enough to buy her a designer handbag, let alone satisfy her material needs.
Compared to that extravagant rich kid, it's like night and day.
She didn't want to spend the rest of her life living such a meager and miserable existence.
But if her boyfriend finds out she's cheating, she's doomed.
Until she came across those videos of gold nail art, where the wealthy women used real gold they brought with them to have their nails done. Looking at those glittering nails, Xu Qi was filled with envy and jealousy.
She glanced at her fingernails instinctively, and a wicked thought suddenly flashed through her mind; a plan quietly began to take shape in her heart.
To carry out this plan, Xu Qi spent a lot of time investigating the backgrounds of various nail salons. After some screening, she finally set her sights on the nail salon opened by the original owner, Su Su, which had no money or background.
She planned to get a gold manicure first, and then, regardless of whether the gold used in the manicure was real or fake, the most important thing was to make her boyfriend think that she had a real gold manicure.
A few days later, suddenly pretend that you've discovered the gold on your nails is fake and that you were scammed by the nail salon.
She knew her boyfriend, who was involved in gangs and was impulsive and easily angered, all too well. If he heard that she had been bullied, he would definitely go to the shop owner to settle the score immediately.
If her boyfriend impulsively injures the shop owner, even if it's discovered later that her manicure was originally fake but was actually made of gold, she can still argue that she redid it with real gold afterwards.
Her boyfriend would at most be detained for a few days, and she could use that as an excuse to make a scene, claiming that the gold he bought was fake, and then break up with him.
This way, she could pursue that rich second-generation without any scruples, and also give those around her a reasonable explanation.
However, she also knew that her boyfriend would not let her off easily and would continue to pester her for a while.
But Xu Qi had an even more terrifying thought in her mind: what if her boyfriend accidentally killed or seriously injured the shop owner so badly that he couldn't speak during the conflict? That would be wonderful.
In this way, she could not only get rid of her boyfriend completely, but also be with the rich second-generation cleanly and live the luxurious life she had always dreamed of.