After returning from Nanjing, Gao Yuan rushed off to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, where he discussed cooperation with other fast-fashion companies, such as Global E-commerce Group, which owned the Zaful brand.
As expected, these companies were also **shocked by the formidable performance of the fiber.
Especially after learning that Xiyin Group had already signed a cooperation agreement with Gao Yuan, they immediately signed without hesitation and solemnly promised that they would abide by the somewhat strange terms in the contract.
Perhaps that was the brutal pressure technology brought to business.
Once smartphones appeared, button phones were destined to be eliminated.
Once automobiles were invented, horse-drawn carriages lost the ground for survival and became tools for carrying tourists around.
As August arrived, undercurrents began to stir throughout the global fast-fashion industry.
Across China, from north to south, tens of thousands of garment factories began receiving an entirely new kind of fabric.
This fabric had a unique molecular structure and unprecedented water permeability. It was nearly three times more powerful than COOLMAX, DuPont Company's top-grade fiber and currently the world's best quick-drying fabric.
Although China's garment industry had suffered considerable losses in recent years, it still occupied half the global market and remained a true behemoth.
Now, this behemoth was rapidly coming to life. Container after container filled with finished garments was transported by road, sea, air, and rail to every corner of the world, placed in shop windows and on store shelves.
"Dad, Mom, look what I brought you!"
That evening, Gao Yuan dragged an enormous woven sack home with great effort and called out to his mother, who was cooking, and his father, who was watching television.
Gao Yuan had been busy with work lately and had not come home for a full week. Naturally, his mother was delighted to see him, while the woven sack, nearly as tall as a person, also filled her with curiosity.
"What's in the bag?" his mother asked.
"Clothes," Gao Yuan answered.
His mother immediately froze. "You rascal, why did you buy so many clothes? When will we ever finish wearing them all?"
"What a pretty dress."
"There are shirts too."
"They're all brand-new, good-quality clothes. Why did you put them in a woven sack? That's far too casual."
Gao Yuan paid no mind to his mother's nagging. In his eyes, the clothes were not the important part. What mattered was that every one of them used fabric he had produced!
Inside every garment was a mountain-shaped logo, with the Chinese characters Kunlun beneath it, along with the fiber model, X1.
"Cool, right? From now on, this will be our family's unique symbol. Any textile using X Fiber fabric must carry our brand trademark," Gao Yuan excitedly explained to his parents.
In fact, this was also standard practice in the textile and garment industry.
If you were an outdoor sports enthusiast, you might be familiar with the GORE-TEX brand. It was the mark of North American Gore-Tex fabric and symbolized the world's strongest windproof and waterproof performance.
Then there was the bright yellow VIBRAM logo on the soles of hiking boots. That logo belonged to the famous Italian rubber company and represented the world's best wear-resistant sole technology.
And if your T-shirt bore the COOLMAX logo, it meant that it used the world's best quick-drying fabric, proudly produced by North American DuPont Group.
In short, clothing fabrics had brands too. A hard-shell jacket using Gore-Tex technology often cost twice as much as an ordinary one because it was backed by top-tier technology.
Now, even the Gao family's little factory had a brand, and it had been adopted by so many manufacturers. Gao Yuan's father could not help reddening his eyes as he excitedly stroked two shirts in his hands.
"It feels so comfortable, soft and light. It's a little like long-staple cotton, but far more breathable. Better still, it isn't see-through. Even white fabric offers excellent coverage under the sun. Its UV protection must be very strong too."
Although Gao Yuan's mother did not work with fabrics, she knew very well how to judge their quality.
Before X Fiber, overly thin fabrics often had the drawback of being see-through. Forget girls—even for a grown man walking down the street with his nipples clearly visible, it was hardly decent.
But X Fiber did not have that flaw. Its lightness and quick-drying properties were not achieved by reducing the amount of fiber, but through a chemical process that formed dense honeycomb structures inside the fibers.
To put it simply, because of its unique internal honeycomb structure, even a thick-looking wool coat woven from X Fiber could be easily lifted with one pinky finger.
Of course, the current X1 Fiber focused on breathability and quick drying. It was a summer fabric. If it were really woven into a wool coat, a winter breeze would send cold air rushing in and freeze a person stiff.
Dr. Xu Qingzhou's team was currently improving and restructuring X1 Fiber while developing X2 thermal fiber. Once X2 Fiber hit the market, they could target the autumn and winter markets.
In addition, sports X3 type, waterproof X4 type, and many other improved fiber versions were all being developed at full speed.
In short, X Fiber was like a solid foundation. Once that foundation was in place, all kinds of buildings with different styles, functions, and forms could be constructed upon it.
X Fiber had finally left the factory and transformed into products displayed in store windows. It was undoubtedly a tremendous success, so Gao Yuan suggested that the family go out for dinner and have a couple of drinks to celebrate.
His parents happily agreed, but Gao Yuan's father firmly obeyed the doctor's orders. He would not drink a drop of alcohol or eat a bite of greasy food. Even when eating meat, he chose lighter dishes like steamed mandarin fish and boiled shrimp.
Gao Yuan could not help marveling at his father's willpower. To resist the temptation of delicious food—someone who had once loved braised pork belly so much now would not even glance at it. He truly was a man forged by the military.
Besides watching his diet, Gao Xiangnan also kept up two exercise sessions every day, took his medicine on time by watching the clock, and so on.
Such strict self-discipline completely reassured Gao Yuan and his mother. Everyone knew that cerebral infarction was most feared for recurrence. If the blood vessel became blocked a second time, whether it could be cleared again would be anyone's guess.
After dinner, Gao Yuan watched television with his parents for a while, then helped his mother pack up the clothes. These clothes had all been sent by their partners, and many of the styles were too trendy for his parents' age.
But in keeping with the principle of not wasting anything, Gao Yuan's mother planned to pack them up and give them to relatives and friends, taking the opportunity to boast about how capable her son was, how he had developed a new fabric, how so many downstream manufacturers were purchasing it, and how the business was flourishing.
Gao Yuan had no way to stop her, so he could only let his mother do as she pleased.
Having lived at the factory for so long, Gao Yuan felt both familiar warmth when he returned to his room at home. That single bed with its latex mattress was truly comfortable to sleep in.
In the middle of the night, a light rain began to fall outside. As Gao Yuan drifted between sleep and wakefulness, the system suddenly emitted a string of beeps.
"Could the mission already be complete?"
Gao Yuan hurriedly closed his eyes and summoned the system panel.
The words on the enormous light screen left him dumbfounded, and the sound of his heartbeat rapidly magnified in the darkness.
Mission 2: Complete. Mission 3: A bloodbath in the global synthetic fiber market!
"Holy shit!" Gao Yuan blurted out after seeing the mission details.
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