The patent was approved the same day, a hidden benefit of Xia Lei’s working for Bureau 101 as a consultant. The selfie stick had also been trademarked and its name was ‘Aimei*’. 

Once these were settled, the sales department of Thunder Horse Manufacturing got busy looking for sales avenues for the company’s two products. 

Beauty of Beauteous Supermarket became the testing ground of Thunder Horse Manufacturing’s new product once again. Qin Xiang opened a counter for Aimei and arranged for a promoter to push the product. The few hundred selfie sticks on the shelves were sold out on the day itself. The people who bought these sticks were mostly youngsters and there were some middle-aged consumers too but not many. This reaffirmed Liang Si-Yao’s statement about the product being one for youngsters. 

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. 

“Come with me after work, Lei,” said Liang Si-Yao in the office, “I’ve set the appointment with Lu Sheng and his boss has agreed to meet with us. We’re going to his home.”

“His home?” said Xia Lei, “I’d have thought it would be at a hotel and we could treat...