Chapter 1259: Thoughtless Remarks
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Jin Ling’er greeted him politely. “President Du.”
Du Zheng looked at her, an undetectable fascination flashing across his usually solemn eyes. When he had run into this girl, she had been thrown out of the filming set like a holess little beggar looking so frail. Now that she had on makeup and was all dressed up in a pale pink floral little formal dress and was standing in front of him gracefully under the autumn sunlight with a pair of virtuous eyes, it was like she had beco a different person.
He had seen many beauties and, in all honesty, Jin Ling’er was not especially beautiful.
But maybe because the difference between the two tis they had t was too strong, she felt an even deeper impression.
He nodded at Jin Ling’er. “Welco.”
Xia Yingluo said lightly next to him, “Jing’er was still worried that she wouldn’t be welcod before coming here. I told her that she didn’t have to worry. Brother Du Zheng, thank you for helping her at the filming set last ti, and for helping too. You have to continue helping us in the future, okay?”
Du Zheng said, “Of course I should.”
After a pause, he looked at Jin Ling’er. “You are Yingluo’s friend, so of course, I have to take care of you too.”
Jin Ling’er felt a little gloomy. She was only taken care of just because she was Xia Yingluo’s friend? Although she understood that if not for Yingluo, such a man with a high position in society wouldn’t even notice her, to be recognized as soone’s accessory instead—even if it was her best friend, she still felt a little grudge inside her. “It was an accident last ti. Thank you, President Du,” she said. “I don’t need President Du’s extra care in the future. I’ll use my own abilities to get a role.”
Xia Yingluo seed to detect her unhappiness. She turned and glanced at her.
She didn’t know if Du Zheng heard her unhappy tone, he only said calmly, “You have ambition.”
Jin Ling’er was even more gloomy.
Xia Yingluo smiled and changed the topic. “Brother Du Zheng, where are my parents?”
Du Zheng also changed the topic with her. “My second uncle is with uncle and aunt. They’re discussing matters with Old Mister Shan Kouya.”
He was highly skilled at flower arrangent and had good relations with Li Lei and Xia Ling. Xia Yingluo also liked him. Hearing that, Xia Yingluo grinned. “Grandpa Shankou is here too? Let’s go, Ling’er. Let’s go and find him.”
Du Zheng said, “I’ll bring you two there.”
“What’s the point of being brought there?” Xia Yingluo rejected his offer. “Go do your things and don’t tell anyone that I’m here. I want to sneak in with Ling’er and eavesdrop on them.” She turned and smiled at Jin Ling’er. “Grandpa Shankou is amazing at ikebana and is also handso. He’s even more handso than my father.”
Jin Ling’er said, “I’ve seen your father in the newspaper before, he’s so handso.”
Xia Yingluo giggled. “Old Grandpa is more handso.”
Du Zheng listened to her and felt a little pity towards Li Lei. To be honest, how did he raise such a daughter who secretly helped others outside? Old Mister Shan Kouya was indeed handso, but he was mainly charismatic and his ikebana skills and ditation had made him full of peacefulness and mysteriousness. How was he as handso as Li Lei, who had perfect features and was incredibly good looking?
Forget it. Since this little girl wanted to bring her little friend to peak at the handso grandpa, he couldn’t care.
Du Zheng closed an eye. Since it wasn’t a big thing, he just instructed them not to do anything too overboard.
There, the thin afternoon sunlight shone on the grass patch.
At the champagne tower, a few noble ladies held a glass of beverage and chatted.
One of them looked over and was extrely shocked. “Look over there, who are those two girls Du Zheng is talking to? The one wearing the off-shoulder little fairy dress is so pretty, and the bag she’s carrying also matches so well.”
The other ladies also turned to look.
One of them called Du Jingjing also said, “It does look pretty. But I’ve never seen the two of them before, do you know them?”
Another lady called Jin Ying said, “Isn’t the bag she’s carrying the limited edition just released by Master Eric last week? Jinxiu, it’s the one you wanted to buy but failed to. That’s strange, how could she have the bag that’s so difficult to buy?”
Among the noble ladies, the lady that wore a silk Western-style dress and held a goblet with an aloof attitude was Gu Jinxiu. Hearing that, she frowned unconsciously. She had already seen Xia Yingluo, but why was Xia Yingluo here at this banquet? And the bag on Xia Yingluo’s arm was even more piercing. It was indeed the bag she had specifically ordered her assistant to purchase last week, but she had been inford that it was sold out.
Hearing Jin Ying poking at her sore spot, she smiled elegantly. “It’s indeed the bag I wanted, I didn’t expect her to have taken it. Forget it, she’s different from us. I’ll just give it to her. I don’t want it anymore.”
The crowd couldn’t help but be curious at her reserved tone. “Who on earth is she?”
Gu Jinxiu said, “She’s not an honorable person, it’s not worth ntioning.”
The group of ladies was even more curious now and pestered her to tell more.
Gu Jinxiu appeared to have no other choice and said, “She’s called Xia Yingluo. She’s a poor student in Imperial’s training camp. I t her at Pei Yan’s engagent banquet last ti and she was performing a dance on stage. I heard she and Pei Yan’s fiancee Zhao Yixuan...” Before she finished, she halted and shook her head. “But it’s all in the past. Thank goodness Pei Yan and Zhao Yixuan’s relationship is alright.”
How smart were the group of noble ladies? They understood what she was implying imdiately.
Du Jingjing rolled her eyes. “You’re saying that this Xia Yingluo had a thing with Pei Yan’s fiancee?”
Gu Jinxiu said ambiguously, “She caused a scene at the engagent banquet. Yan Yan wanted to chase her away last ti, but this Xia Yingluo has so thods up her sleeves. I don’t know how, but she made Imperial’s Chairman Pei take a fancy on her and protect her. Yan Yan was so angry she almost cried.”
“I’ve heard of that too.” Jin Ying ca to a realization. “It turns out she’s that mistress that interrupted Pei Yan’s engagent banquet?” Of course, since they were noble ladies, they stood on the side of the noble ladies. Hearing how a naless little mistress had tried to seduce a man from a prestigious family, they were all filled with resentnt.
Gu Jinxiu said, “That’s her. She didn’t give up even after making a ss at the engagent banquet. Zhao Yixuan already didn’t want her, but she turned and sohow managed to seduce Li Rui. Pei Yan bumped into them a few days ago at a bar—Li Rui brought along that golden-haired girl and had them in his arms.”
Her words were enough to completely drag Xia Yingluo’s na down.
The resentnt in the noble ladies deepened further. No wonder a poor, naless student could attend such a prestigious banquet and own the bag that Gu Jinxiu couldn’t even buy. Didn’t she just seduce a few n? She even worked together with that golden-haired girl to attend to hedonistic sons like Li Rui. It was too disgusting!
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