Chapter 525.
At tea time, Sakai Rie, who was fully dressed and had her car keys, was about to go out for an appointment when Mizuhara Yuki suddenly visited her home.
Sakai Rie’s instinctive first reaction was to blurt out, “You don’t have class this afternoon?”
“There are classes, but I don’t want to go to them. Sis, seeing as you look like you’re going out? It’s too bad that I came at the wrong time.” Mizuhara Yuki said in a regretful tone while revealing the truth.
“Come on, let’s go together.” Sakai Rie immediately invited her on.
Yuki Mizuhara happily followed her out the door and got into the passenger side of Rie Sakai’s red Ferrari supercar.
Sakai Rie started the car and drove a distance. With her hands on the steering wheel, she was in no hurry at all to get to her appointment saying, “Why do you keep skipping class?”
“Why force yourself when you don’t want to go to class? Even my mom said that instead of reading books well, a woman should find her husband well. If a woman finds a good husband, then she’s stepping on the right spot.
Besides, my mom and dad both think that I should learn more from you.” Mizuhara Yuki looked at her sideways is what’s there to say said.
Sakai Rie just smiled a little. Of course she knew that a girl from the upper class like Yuki Mizuhara and a girl from the common people going to college were completely different.
A diploma was more of a facade for the former. Their lives were basically already planned out. Except for major changes, a decent life is not a problem.
For the latter, a diploma is a knock on the door to find a job. If one wanted to enter a big-handed enterprise and become an official member of it, a prestigious university background was absolutely indispensable.
Even if one became an official member of a big hand enterprise as one wished, one might not be able to do better than someone like Mizuhara Yuki in the future.
She naturally thought of her best friend Watanabe Saeki. She worked overtime almost every day. Watanabe Saeki complained, but was able to have a good income, so that she could afford to spend money on LV, Gucci, Prada and other famous brands.
These brand-name goods are not only a symbol of class, but also a reflection of a woman’s value. A woman wearing luxury goods to go to the mall and a woman wearing stall goods to go to the mall, will be subject to the sales staff of two very different attitudes and treatments.
As for yourself, you can long ago not have to go directly to the mall. All year round, there would be door-to-door sales by the VIP customers of the famous Japanese shopping malls.
Whether it’s the latest clothing, bags, shoes, or anything else that you want by name, you’ll be served by a section chief who brings his subordinates to your own home.
The turnover of a large shopping mall is not only made up of casual shoppers, but also of high-end customers.
The head of the department makes a special trip every season, and there is basically no such thing as not being able to sell a single item; after all, people who live at home will always have a need for it.
If it’s a few hundred thousand yen, it can be a few million yen, or even tens of millions of yen, and it’s a one-time deal. It doesn’t even take half a day.
Compared to casual consumers, the high-end customer base has better loyalty and less sensitivity to price, and the sales staff at the big malls are able to get more performance commission from it.
Mizuhara Yuki saw that Sakai Rie didn’t say anything, so she smiled and asked, “Sis, do you think I’m particularly unambitious?”
“Nope. That one in our family comes up with this line every now and then, a woman’s lack of talent is a virtue. It just goes to show that men like him think pretty much the same way about us women, or just as much.” Rie Sakai said calmly.
“What can we women do when we get into a first-class, big-handed business? Competing with men, we are, for one thing, constrained by the general environment, and for another, we have an inherent disadvantage.
Men don’t have to come in every month for their period. They don’t have to get pregnant and have babies. For us, you then have to face a series of choices about work, family, having children or not.
If your family is doing well financially, you can be a full-time wife. On the contrary, it’s time to continue working.” Mizuhara Yuki said as if she had been through a lot.
“How old are you!” Sakai Rie couldn’t help but laugh and said.
“I call this saving for a rainy day.” Mizuhara Yuki swore.
“A topic like yours is only good for us women to talk about amongst ourselves. If you were to post what you just said above society in the form of the internet, you’d immediately attract a lot of attacks from people, especially men.
They will say, “Aren’t you tired just from doing some chores at home? Nowadays, there is a vacuum cleaner for sweeping the floor, a washing machine for washing clothes, a dishwasher for washing dishes, a rice cooker for cooking rice and so on.
Who is paying the mortgage? Who is doing the housework? Try going to work for ten hours a day and having to squeeze into the subway for a long time, what’s that like?
Do you know that many Japanese men commit suicide every year because they can’t stand this kind of life?” Sakai Rie said with a smile that didn’t change.
“Hearing you say that, I feel more and more that being able to be a full-time wife is also a kind of happiness.” Mizuhara Yuki then grinned along with her and said.
“Japanese men are still considered good. Apart from their machismo, they will still shoulder the responsibilities they should shoulder. Of course, scumbags are excluded.
Most of the Korean men still have to do compulsory military service. Bullying is also said to be quite strong in the Korean military. The food in their army is also not very good.
So, it’s caused a lot of Korean men to try to avoid military service.” Rie Sakai spoke eloquently as she drove.
“For us women, it’s still especially important to find a rich husband who can love you.” Mizuhara Yuki said with a widening smile.
“Rich men are, after all, a very small minority in society. The young people among that very few are even rarer. If one still wants to find good-looking ones among them, how low the probability should be!
Women all want to marry rich men, then it means absolutely not enough points. The rules of the game set by human society always follow the principle of distribution from top to bottom.” Sakai Rie hit the nail on the head.
“Smart women often don’t go straight for rich men, instead they will go for potential stocks. Sis, you’re that one smart woman.” Mizuhara Yuki really wasn’t kissing her ass, but genuinely admired her.
“I’m not smart, but I have no choice. Masayoshi Kishimoto and I entered into a marriage contract a long time ago. I was still pregnant in my mother’s womb at that time!
For a woman to tap into the potential amongst men is a risky endeavor in itself. It’s like my family used to say, it’s similar to making risky investments.
The only difference is that we women use ourselves as the capital for the investment.” Sakai Rie said, half-seriously, half-jokingly.