Chapter 24 : Oh Ho, What a Coincidence, Junior Su Mo
24: Oh Ho, What a Coincidence, Junior Su Mo
Milk Candy Party lingerie store was a recently emerging domestic underwear brand.
With silky fabrics, soft textures, and sexy designs as selling points, it immediately received strong positive reviews from men nationwide upon launch.
As for why women's underwear would receive male approval?
The reasoning, while complex, was also logical.
In today's era, boys giving girls gifts was technical work.
Gifts too cheap would be mocked as stingy. Too expensive wasn't necessarily good either—it might not match the girlfriend's taste, spending big money only to receive eye rolls, truly thankless effort.
As for directly giving girlfriends money?
While easily pleasing, considering long-term consequences, this behavior could easily develop bad habits in girlfriends.
Thus, Milk Candy Party underwear appeared as gospel for boys giving gifts.
Since Milk Candy Party underwear mostly featured sexy and bold designs, giving them to girlfriends made boys the beneficiaries from every angle.
At least one enjoyable experience—this alone made many boys unable to resist.
Secondly, beyond the sexy design angle, just hearing "Milk Candy Party" suggested high comfort. Girls enjoyed wearing them, plus being intimate apparel that girlfriends felt embarrassed discussing with boyfriends made Milk Candy Party increasingly popular for 'girlfriend' gifts.
Finally, most importantly attracting customers was Milk Candy Party's pricing. Not too cheap at tens of yuan nor expensive luxury at thousands, generally around 200 yuan per set—an affordable range that didn't hurt to buy yet wasn't stingy.
Due to these various reasons, Su Mo, currently hesitating at the entrance, wasn't suspected of being a pervert but was enthusiastically invited into the store by a sales associate.
"Sir, are you buying a gift for your girlfriend?"
As senior sales associate Xiao Ru who had worked at Milk Candy Party for a year, she had seen all kinds of customers in her work experience.
Among various difficult customers, male customers like Su Mo who hesitated at the entrance were her favorite type.
Unlike girls who picked carefully and often tried on many items only to leave empty-handed due to price or style factors after keeping staff busy.
Boys were different. Since this was a women's intimate apparel store, boys understood little about it and panicked just entering the store, much like buying sanitary pads for girlfriends at convenience stores.
Basically, just asking about girlfriend's height, cup size, and making recommendations would close the deal.
However, facing this fat sheep Su Mo, after welcoming him into the store, as the display lights illuminated Su Mo's face, Xiao Ru preparing to make sales suddenly found herself speechless.
Earlier in the store, she had only seen Su Mo's neat boyish short hair and flat chest, instinctively assuming he was male. But now up close, seeing those slender weak limbs and lustrous white features tinged with sickly femininity, Xiao Ru felt both worried and confused.
Emmmmmm had she called the customer's gender wrong?
Misgendering customers during shopping was taboo—not only might it prevent sales, but could also bring complaints.
Regarding Xiao Ru's internal struggle, Su Mo, enthusiastically invited into the "Milk Candy Party" lingerie store, was unaware and had no time to consider it.
As a 19-year-old boy without girlfriend or perverted hobbies, Su Mo naturally had never browsed girls' underwear stores. Her understanding of underwear stopped at ordinary bras and triangle panties.
Now entering the store and seeing colorful sexy underwear on mannequins—strings, double layers, transparent lace trim, even legendary thongs—just looking made one's eyes heat up and heart race. The upper body bras were even more suggestive than panties. Black lace trim was nothing—some even had the most important parts cut out entirely.
Watching these lifeless pure white models transformed into tempting figures by underwear decoration.
At this moment Su Mo felt her heart racing wildly, a sense of transgression, shame, and a tiny bit of eagerness welling up. She gently pressed her jacket's left chest to suppress her heartbeat, then belatedly recalled the sales associate's question and answered:
"Yes, I'm buying underwear for my girlfriend."
Sales associate Xiao Ru heard Su Mo's current male voice and breathed a sigh of relief. After all, bad reviews would deduct performance—something working people didn't want to see!
After confirming Su Mo's gender, Xiao Ru quickly demonstrated her sales experience. Seemingly noticing Su Mo's shyness in the store center, she directly pulled him to a corner location.
"Sir, do you prefer this sexy black lace style, cute warm-toned style, or stimulating style with very little soft fabric?"
While speaking, Xiao Ru took three different style underwear sets and handed them to Su Mo to let him directly feel the differences between the three underwear types.
Su Mo actually never understood how the 90+ rating in the second stage of Heartbeat Hide and Seek was evaluated.
However, after touching the underwear fabric, Su Mo suddenly discovered rating numbers appearing on the underwear. The standard light pink underwear set only scored 63 points, while the nearby sexy black lace set scored 84 points.
As for the final piece with soft minimal fabric that made one blush and heart race just looking at it—the defensively weak sky blue string panties + sky blue bra covering very little skin—directly reached 92 points.
Looking at these three numbers, Su Mo felt somewhat puzzled.
Emmmmmm whether it was her imagination or not, why did it seem like the more suggestive the underwear, the higher the rating?
Seeing the qualifying sky blue stimulating underwear, having found her target, Su Mo's fair cheeks blushed slightly as she directly said:
"Um... I'll buy this one."
Sales associate Xiao Ru looked at the well-behaved Su Mo actually choosing the boldest, most suggestive of the three, and couldn't help raising an eyebrow.
You really couldn't judge a book by its cover. Some young men looked quite weak—she'd thought he'd choose the most conservative piece, but he was more suggestive than most tough-looking men.
But could such a weak young man really handle a wife wearing this underwear without crashing?
Or maybe crashing would also be nice?
Hiding this inappropriate thought, sales associate Xiao Ru continued professionally inquiring:
"Sir, what's your girlfriend's height and weight, and do you know her size?"
Regarding this question, since she was buying clothes for herself and only wanted to wear panties for the mission without touching bras, Su Mo didn't hesitate and answered directly:
"Height about the same as mine, weight 90 jin. As for size... um... just normal girls' average size!"
Hearing Su Mo's requirements, sales associate Xiao Ru silently noted them and quickly brought out the retail product, handing it to Su Mo. Unlike the display samples, the retail product had an unopened plastic film layer, looking very refined and clean.
"Sir, this Tianyu underwear costs 277 yuan. If you're giving it to your girlfriend, you can choose packaging—50 yuan packaging fee including a gift box, two roses, and a big bow that all girls love."
Su Mo at the checkout counter heard the price of 277 yuan.
At this moment she finally understood through personal experience why women were the main consumer force.
The fabric of these panties and bra combined couldn't match her previous boxers. Yet the price was over 20 times higher—pure profit, basically robbery!
And what was this packaging fee about—how was a box and two flowers worth 50 yuan?
However, Su Mo felt helpless about this situation.
After all, the mission was right there. Not doing it meant really becoming a girl.
Feeling the gazes of girls shopping for underwear around her, Su Mo felt even more helpless. Seemingly buying a 'girlfriend' gift, not spending this 50 yuan packaging fee didn't seem right either.
Silently opening her phone and scanning 327 yuan, Su Mo felt her heart bleeding.
327 yuan—how many part-time hours would that take!
Just as Su Mo walked toward the exit with heavy heart holding the gift box, an evil loli voice that made her hair stand on end suddenly rang out behind her:
"Oh ho, what a coincidence! Hehehe, Junior... Su Mo, what are you buying here?"