132 START OF SOMETHING NEW

In the succeeding days, Xue Jinxu busied herself in preparing for the launch of her pastry shop. She had named it 'Saccharine Decadence'. She had found a convenient location at a corner of two busy streets in Beijing which made it quite an eye-catcher for the passers-by.

Her concept was simple. She wanted the sweets to have such colorful and animated visual representations which were by themselves, such eye-candies already. It was just like Chen Linyun's bento which were thought of carefully, and excellently prepared with all the ingredients' texture, color schemes complementing each other - the backdrop and the whole concept - without sacrificing the nutritional value.

She was quite confident in her business. However, before she even started her preparations, Chen Linyun had forbidden her to create and offer commercially any bentos other than to him privately.