Chapter 177 - Young Master Lu, Please Stay (1/2)
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
The news of Ning Qing’s return to the entertainment industry swept through the entire film and advertising industry. This was the first step for the 20-year-old film queen after “Dust and Wind”. Xiao Zhou received so many invitations and interview requests that she couldn’t cope.
Ning Qing politely rejected the works of several well-known film directors, and finally chose to endorse a well-known international clothing brand.
Today, she was taking several sets of fas.h.i.+on photoshoots. During her break, Xiao Zhou came running excitedly. “Ning Qing, didn’t you ask me to take note of what Guang Qing is doing? Good news, Cabbage Plume, Guang Qing’s new cosmetics brand, is about to be launched. They are looking for this term’s endorser, Ning Qing. I think this opportunity is for you.”
Ning Qing took over Cabbage Plume’s brochure. This Cabbage Plume was developed internally by Guang Qing and had been sold in Europe. Now it has been officially launched into the domestic market.
Ning Qing raised her lip and stood up. “Xiao Zhou, let’s go.”
Xiao Zhou followed her. “Ning Qing, where are we going?”
“Guang Qing, we must not lose this opportunity. I want to recommend myself.”
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Guang Qing.
The front desk clerk brought Ning Qing and Xiao Zhou into the VIP room. “Miss Ning, please wait for a moment. The Marketing Manager in charge of Cabbage Plume will be here later.”
“OK, thank you.” Ning Qing nodded politely.
Xiao Zhou sat beside Ning Qing and whispered, “Ning Qing, do the employees of Guang Qing call you Miss Ning now? They didn’t use to call you that.”
Ning Qing’s face was gentle. She took a sip of coffee from the front desk and answered casually, “Yes, they used to call me the president’s wife or Madam. My mother-in-law sent someone to erase all traces of our marriage in T city. Everyone knows my relations.h.i.+p with Shaoming well, but no one dares to say it and they treat us as strangers. Now, even I sometimes feel as if it was all just a dream.”
Xiao Zhou knew Ning Qing was sad. She put her arm around Ning Qing’s shoulder and comforted her. “Your mother-in-law can erase all the traces, but the only thing she can’t erase is your marriage certificate.”
The marriage certificate represents a relations.h.i.+p, a marriage.
Ning Qing was comforted and her lips curved into a smile.
Then the door of the VIP room was opened and the marketing manager came in.
Ning Qing looked up at the person and was very surprised; she had not expected to meet such an old acquaintance here – Ye Ting.
Ye Ting and her had gotten into a fight before.
Unexpectedly, Ye Ting was the marketing manager of Guang Qing, and she was also in charge of Cabbage Plume.
Ning Qing sighed a little. She was out of luck.
Ye Ting was surprised to see Ning Qing, but she laughed quickly. “Oh, Miss Ning.” She sat on the sofa opposite Ning Qing, with her chin lifted haughtily. “I wonder why Miss Ning has come to the office today?”
Xiao Zhou: So sardonic!
If she didn’t know what they had come for, why did she have to enter this VIP room?
She was putting on airs and displaying her power.
Xiao Zhou wanted to talk, but Ning Qing said, “Hi, Manager Ye, we’re here today to talk to you about Cabbage Plume’s advertising endors.e.m.e.nt.”
“Oh.” Ye Ting seemed to suddenly understand. She looked Ning Qing up and down with narrowed eyes and obvious irony and sneered. “Miss Ning wants to cooperate with us and be the spokesperson star of Cabbage Plume for this term? But I have a lot of candidates on hand now. Miss Ning, why don’t you tell me what are the advantages of choosing you?”
Xiao Zhou was angry at Ye Ting’s arrogant att.i.tude and began to retort. “Manager Ye, although we don’t know who your candidates are, can you compare your candidates with our Ning Qing? With Ning Qing’s present fame and status, she lowers herself by coming here.”
“Why should Miss Ning come here if it will lower her status?” Ye Ting quickly retorted.
“You!”
“Xiao Zhou,” Ning Qing waved to Xiao Zhou, indicating that she did not need to speak. Ning Qing laughed politely and said, “Manager Ye, I just received the endors.e.m.e.nt contract to be the Chinese spokesperson for an international clothing brand, Slly. Once this advertis.e.m.e.nt has been launched, I will hold a press conference to formally announce my entry into the entertainment industry. After that, I will certainly be in the headlines of the entertainment industry for a considerable period of time. Cabbage Plume, as my second endors.e.m.e.nt then, will definitely follow my momentum. To be blunt, no one in the entertainment industry can bring more star power to Cabbage Plume than I can.”
Ye Ting was looking at the little woman opposite her. It seemed that Lu Shaoming’s incident had not had much of an impact on her. She did not show melancholy or negative emotions, and she actively worked hard on her career. The hope flas.h.i.+ng in her autumn pupils was still so beautiful and bright.
Ning Qing did not seem to have changed, but Ye Ting still felt that she had changed somewhere.
She was more charming than a year ago. She was more relaxed and free-flowing than before, and she was straightforward.
Her words were not modest; they could even be considered arrogant. It was said that women with careers would become more confident and charming. Ning Qing was precisely like that. She had returned to the entertainment industry, and after taking the time to find her own territory, she would stand gracefully and calmly on the top and began to emit a faint glowing light all over her body.
Ye Ting took another look at her. Maybe it was because she had come out in a hurry. She was still wearing Slly’s latest early spring orange maxi dress that tapered at her waist. She was afraid of the cold and had covered herself with a military green down jacket. In fact, it was a very casual mix of clothes, but there was an unspeakable and beautiful aura when she wore it.
Ye Ting’s eyes were colder. To be honest, she despised Ning Qing. She thought that if she left Lu Shaoming, she would be nothing.
But now she realized that she was wrong; the woman was still Ning Qing even without Lu Shaoming.
She was still living her best life.
How could she live her best life like this?
Ye Ting was jealous.
Not because Ning Qing had Lu Shaoming, but because she was such a resilient woman.
“Miss Ning, even if you are the best and most suitable, we, Cabbage Plume, will not use you.”
Ye Ting rejected her with one sentence.
Ning Qing’s smile didn’t falter, but her beautiful autumn eyes were a little colder. “Why? You are professionals. You want to sell your products, and it would take half the effort with me on board. Why won’t you use me?”
“It’s very simple. Why did Miss Ning come to Guang Qing today? Your purpose is known to all. You want to be in a favorable position and get preferential treatment. But as an employee of Guang Qing, I have the obligation to help our president filter the women who are deliberately trying to approach him.”
“So nothing can be discussed?” Xiao Zhou jumped up instantly and sneered pointedly, “Some people are really shameless. Do I even need to say who has tried to approach Young Master Lu deliberately? Young Master Lu treats some people as air, but she still treats herself as someone important. Ning Qing, let’s go, we’ll try something else.”
Ye Ting’s face changed from red to white. Lu Shaoming had ignored her for a long time, so wasn’t it because he regarded her as the air? Now someone had laid it out in the open.
She felt embarra.s.sed.
Ning Qing stood up slowly. She knew that she couldn’t negotiate with Ye Ting anymore, and there was no need to waste her words. “Xiao Zhou, let’s go.”
Ning Qing took Xiao Zhou to the door.
Just then, Ye Ting sneered behind her and said, “Miss Ning, do you really think you can try another way? There are some things that can’t be decided by our small staff. You will never be able to get close to the president.”
Ning Qing understood what she meant. Someone didn’t want her to approach Lu Shaoming. Although Ye Ting also had such intentions, she had been ordered to do this.
Who was this person?
Does she still need to ask? It was her mother-in-law Song Yajing.