After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 828

"What if she wasn’t clean?"

The words of those women rang in her ears, making Sahara’s strong facade crack bit by bit. She hid herself in the bathroom, covering her face.

"I want to go home…" she whispered but she immediately pushed it down.

There was too much anchored in her success and she could not fail just because of her own weaknesses.

Whenever she remembered that night, she felt shame. It was something she refused to acknowledge, yet couldn’t forget no matter how hard she tried.

Although the memory was a little blurry, she could still remember that man. She could remember his dark skin, his light hair, his handsome features. More importantly, she could still remember his warmth and gentleness—

She shook everything off and her poised stance returned. She headed out, hoping to find the people who could help her out.

…

At this time, another shop of the Golds was raking in money. This time, it was of beauty products.

Olga’s items were displayed in the new beauty shop she and her sister-in-law Hilda had been planning for a while.

This was scheduled to launch in a month when their prospect products and that pharmacist advisor was finally ready, but now they didn’t have to wait!

Of course, they still paid the pharmacist the agreed upon money, though he seemed absolutely offended that they started offering other products as well.

He even demanded they didn’t sell their items or lose their partnership with him.

However, they had seen his products. They were good, but nothing compared to what Alterra could offer. Further, he still wasn’t finished!

He was so arrogant. She recalled Miss Althea who was at the same level (and had better skills) yet did not even have a bit of arrogance.

Fortunately, they had signed a partnership oath before and he couldn’t back out of their deal, at least providing them exclusivity for certain products, which would be added offerings within the next few weeks or so. For now, the focus was to have an explosive opening!

As she had predicted, her items were a hit! She also sold with similar margins to Oslo’s, which was silver and gold raining down. Olga was so happy, that she didn’t even care to look at the judgemental looks from various noble ladies.

Although most women didn’t have power, they still had some money. In high society, a daughter or a wife’s spending habits also reflected the pride of her family. That was to say, if a woman could spend a lot, it meant her family was also very rich and therefore prosperous.

This was in exchange for a woman’s entire soul and being, but this was the norm in Xeno that few people actually questioned.

If there were any questions, it’d be from men asking questions like "why would women have to get anything we worked for?" instead.

Further, what Olga and Hilda had been doing wasn’t actually welcome. After all, women generally didn’t do business; they usually didn’t have their own money—at least nothing more than what was considered ’pocket money’.

In aborigine minds, what the women showed expressed how well their family was doing, and making their own money seemed to undermine that in a twisted way.

Like ’property’ shouldn’t be doing anything more than what it should. It shouldn’t be doing anything that cannot be controlled by men.