My capital is quite large.

Europe, Italy, Milan.

The moment Liu Shishi and Tang Yan, wearing sunglasses and surrounded by their entourage, stepped off the plane.

Looking at this legendary "fashion capital" before them, the two women couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity, as if they had "entered a village."

The streets were narrow and old, and a slightly damp haze hung in the air.

When they actually rode the Milan Metro, the graffiti everywhere, the overwhelming smell of urine, and the filthy and chaotic environment that was almost suffocating shattered all their beautiful fantasies about Europe.

"Seriously, Sugar."

Liu Shishi tightened her trench coat, muttering under her breath with a hint of helplessness:

"The urban infrastructure here is really not even a hair's breadth behind that of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in China."

"Even the urban infrastructure in Xuzhou is much cleaner than here."

"Who says otherwise?" Tang Yan pouted, somewhat disillusioned.

However, since they were already there, the two women restrained themselves and, escorted by bodyguards, arrived at the landmark building—Piazza del Duomo in Milan.

As the drizzle stopped, tourists from all over the world gathered in front of the magnificent Gothic cathedral.

Just as the two women stood in a corner of the square, watching with some curiosity as several street performers put on a show.

A petite young Gypsy girl casually squeezed through the crowd.

The moment she got close to Liu Shishi, the gypsy girl's nimble fingertips, hidden under her sleeve, secretly reached for the zipper of the Hermes bag hanging at Liu Shishi's waist.

However, before her fingers could even touch the metal zipper, the female bodyguard who had been guarding her like a hawk suddenly turned cold.

"Snapped!"

A crisp sound of bones grinding together rang out.

With a cold gaze, Chen Shuang made a lightning-fast move, employing a military-style capture technique.

With a single palm strike, he grabbed the Gypsy girl's wrist, twisted it behind her back, and pinned her firmly to the ground.

"Ah—!" the girl cried out in pain.

The sudden turn of events drew the attention of the surrounding tourists.

Tang Yan first gave Chen Shuang an approving look, then pulled Liu Shishi over with concern and checked her over:

"Shishi, are you alright? Did you lose anything from your bag?"

"I'm fine."

A flicker of fear crossed Liu Shishi's pretty face, but then she looked at the small, terrified Gypsy girl on the ground, who was being held down by Chen Shuang.

Her overly soft and kind nature inevitably surfaced in the end.

......

Liu Shishi, feeling a little soft-hearted, tugged at Tang Yan's sleeve and whispered:

"Tangtang, let her go."

"It looks like it's really tough for him, he's so young, he feels like just a child..."

As he spoke, he reluctantly took out a 50-euro note from his bag, bent down, and gently handed it to the female thief.

Seeing her best friend not only not pursuing the matter, but also giving money to the thief, Tang Yan was speechless and rubbed her forehead.

But knowing her best friend's personality, she could only sigh helplessly and wave to bodyguard Chen Shuang:

"Shuangshuang, let her go."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shuang expressionlessly released her grip and stepped back to the two of them.

The freed Gypsy girl grabbed the 50 euros from the ground, looking at Liu Shishi as if she were a goddess, and repeatedly murmured gratefully in Italian:

"Grazie! Grazie! Dio ti benedica..."

Liu Shishi naturally couldn't understand a word of Italian, but looking at the other person's grateful expression, she could roughly understand what they meant.

He replied in slightly broken Italian, which he had just learned from the translator on the plane:

"Niente. It's okay."

After seeing off the profusely thanking Gypsy, the two women quickly crossed the square and entered a private room in a high-end café next door, under Tang Yan's disdainful gaze.

As soon as she sat down, Tang Yan couldn't help but throw her handbag onto the sofa and begin to rant about her recent experience:

"You don't know until you come here. I shook my head when I saw it. Italy is supposed to be a long-established developed country, right? But it seems like everyone here doesn't have much money, and they're just stealing on the street. Their manners are just too poor."

"In the past, those public intellectuals and magazines in China would boast every day about how 'people in developed countries have high moral character and don't pick up lost items on the street,' but it turns out that it was all made up to deceive people."

However, Liu Shishi's focus on this recent street theft was clearly on a completely different wavelength from that of the indignant Tang Yan.

She excitedly leaned on the table, like a little girl who had just gotten a perfect score at school, and excitedly reviewed her performance with Tang Yan:

"Tangtang! Did you hear that? I responded to her in Italian!"

"Thank you is Grazie, hello is Ciao, goodbye is Ciao, it's okay is Niente..."

"See? Aren't I clever? I can communicate in Italian so quickly!"

Looking at her best friend's carefree and adorable appearance, Tang Yan felt a little helpless, but couldn't help but find it amusing.

The woman in front of me, even though she's already a mother, still has the pure and innocent spirit of a college student who has just graduated.

But this is precisely the fundamental reason why Tang Yan is only willing to stick together and confide in her.

If you team up with someone like Liu Shishi, you'll never have to worry about her plotting against you behind your back in matters of the heart.

As for the benefits, as long as Li Feng gives to Liu Shishi, Tang Yan will naturally get her share as well.

"Yes, yes, our Shishi is the smartest."

Tang Yan pinched Liu Shishi's delicate cheek affectionately and teased her:

"If you had this kind of drive when you were in school, you definitely wouldn't have only scored around 200 points on the college entrance exam!"

Hearing Tang Yan reveal her embarrassing college entrance exam history, Liu Shishi puffed out her cheeks indignantly and said coquettishly:

"You have the nerve to say that to me? You only scored around 400 on your college entrance exam!"

Tang Yan smiled smugly:

"So what if it's four hundred? Four hundred is still two of you!"

......

After a period of playful banter, Tang Yan's expression gradually became serious, and she steered the conversation back to the main topic of their European trip:

"Alright, stop fooling around, let's get down to business. Shishi, don't forget why we flew all the way to Milan."

Liu Shishi blinked somewhat sheepishly:

"I know, you're just here to look into investment projects in the luxury goods and fashion industry..."

At this point, Liu Shishi seemed hesitant, biting her lip somewhat reluctantly, and asked in a low voice:

"But Tangtang, are we really going to invest all the dividends?"

"The combined profits from the two of us are almost a billion RMB."

"With so much money, if we just honestly deposited it in the bank and earned interest every day, it would be enough for us to live on for several lifetimes, right?"

"Why bother with all this investment stuff?"