Chapter 199
Two pictures were paired below.
One shows Luo Ziyue standing by the lake, the breeze blowing her long hair.
The other is under a tree, her fiery red dress dress set against green branches and leaves, the colours are distinct.
Although Luo Ziyue hasn’t been seen on Weibo much for over a month, there has been a lot of marketing and fluff from her team.
It’s either a racy press or a pull-stomp, and both male and female celebrities can’t escape.
Some netizens also know that Luo Ziyue is able to debut from Youth 101 with a golden master behind her, but most pa*sersby don’t care.
They go on Weibo just to read the news or to find a bit of gossip for fun.
Fans poured in first under this Weibo post.
[Crap crap crap, I’m dying madly, Zi Yue’s outfit is too too good looking!
[I’ve never seen this style of outfit before, is Ziyue going to some kind of party?
The dress has something to do with the Vermillion Bird, a divine beast from cla*sical mythology, right? It’s really beautiful.
Most netizens didn’t know who Luo Ziyue was, but they were also drawn to these two photos.
Soon, a hot search was topping the list.
#Luo Ziyue, Vermilion Bird Dress
But the hotness wasn’t too high, reaching the 18th position.
But with Hua Xiu’s push, the heat was still rising.
Hua Xiu originally planned to hire a professional model, but chose Luo Ziyue in order to open up awareness.
Black and red is still red anyway, they don’t care.
When she saw Luo Ziyue’s Weibo post, the female secretary’s first thought was that someone within the company had leaked the design, but on second thought it was impossible.
But if it hadn’t leaked, how come the dress on Luo Ziyue looked so much like the one they had made, and it was all related to the vermilion bird.
“Boss, something is not good.” The female secretary’s expression purged for a few moments, “We also have a publicity campaign behind us, but how come it’s late, if after Emperor Shang and Queen Xie’s Weibo post, I’m afraid they’ll be said to have plagiarised.”
Ying Ziji slowly closed his eyes.
At the end of her eyes, a faint white mist gathered and then dispersed.
After a long time, she opened her eyes and said indifferently, “No, proceed as planned.”
“Good.” The female secretary nodded, “The PR department is standing by.”
Hua Xiu wanted to send out the gown to create momentum before she attended the finals, but First Light Media didn’t need to.
After Luo Ziyue wore that gown, the sense of awe was strong.
But when compared to the four gowns produced by First Light Media, it fell straight down a notch.
Besides, how could a star who had only made her debut for a short time compare to a movie star or a movie queen?
The female secretary left the office with confusion.
Ying Ziji leaned back in her swivel chair and twirled her pen, thinking that she was still too lazy.
The last time she was on Earth, she had also thrown her unsatisfactory ancient martial arts manuals into the rubbish, and no one had picked them up.
Oh, dress design and ancient martial arts secrets are not the same.
In the latter case, no one could read what she had written.
I’ll keep it in my pocket for Dudu as a cushion, but I won’t throw it away.
**
Qingzhi, Cla*s of Excellence.
Zhong Zhiyan looked at the message Mu Shenzhou sent her, and the excitement inside her heart could not be calmed down.
Her fingers trembled as she sent back a message.
【Thank you for me, I will definitely go there on time.
A minute later, Mu Shenzhou’s side sent another WeChat.
[Don’t be nervous, my mum has already prepared your dress, when the time comes, you only need to go through the motions and attend the award ceremony.
Zhong Zhiyan’s breathing was unsteady.
Madam Mu must have gotten some inside information to know that she would definitely win the award.
All her efforts had not been in vain.
Zhong Zhiyan put her phone back into her desk, stood up and walked up to the podium, patting the table, “To everyone, I’m going to take a few days off, so during the days I’m not here, the deputy cla*s president will be acting for all the affairs.”
Hearing this, the students were inevitably a little curious.
Zhong Zhiyan had never been absent from school, and she would come to school even if she was sick.
This was the first time she had to take a leave of absence.
“You guys don’t know about this, do you?” The girl at the same table as Zhong Zhiyan was excited, “Did you guys read that Weibo post that Luo Ziyue posted in the morning?”
“That dress she’s wearing is designed by Zhiyan, and now she’s going to the finals over in o-continent, so of course Zhiyan, as the designer, is going to be there.”
The students in the cla*s were taken aback.
Those who made it into the Talented Cla*s were all proud children of the sky.
But before the entrance exams, everyone’s attention was focused on their studies and their interests would be put aside.
I didn’t expect Zhong Zhiyan to be able to hold the top spot in her grade while also winning awards in clothing design.
“Zhiyan, you’re too good, a goddess is a goddess, strong in everything.”
“There will be a live broadcast of the final by then, right? Let’s watch it together and cheer you on.”
Ying Yuexuan, who was still writing and drawing, raised her head, bewildered: “Zhiyan, when did you learn design? You don’t know how to design, how come you’re still competing?”
The voices in the cla*s gradually stopped.
The cla*smates looked at each other in disbelief.
Zhong Zhiyan was first choked and a little annoyed.
She was most annoyed with Ying Yuexuan for looking like this and not being able to speak.
Then Zhong Zhiyan’s expression cooled down and added a bit of mockery to her words: “You’ve been in O Chau for a year, didn’t you also start doing some scientific research? Cousin doesn’t understand the truth that a person should be treated with respect when they are separated for three days?”
“Yes, yes.” Some students agreed, “Zhiyan will design, Yuexuan, you know how to do research, unlike Ying Zidian, she knows everything ……”
Before she could say the word “all”, she was interrupted by Ying Yuexuan in an angry tone, “Everyone’s situation is different, what does it matter if your sister doesn’t know anything, she’s still young, there are still many opportunities behind her.”
She stood up, clutching her book, “I’m going to cla*s 19 to deliver something to my sister.”
**
Ying Zigui was not in cla*s 19.
She had privileges with the headmaster, and the other students knew it.
The headmaster was also generous, and whoever could do the paper of the Talented cla*s to get full marks in the exam was free to do as they pleased.
But after senior year, it was the uniform mock exam paper, which was taken almost once a week.
Knowing this, Ying applied to the headmaster that it would be better for her to take the senior exams directly.
Once a week, her hands were going to be gone.
There is an ancient street on this side of Shanghai, which has preserved some ancient buildings and is now a tourist attraction.
But on a weekday afternoon, and with the sun shining heavily, there weren’t particularly many people.
Fu Yunshen looked sideways at the girl next to him, his eyelashes twitched, “Yao Yao, after a while, do you want to go out and play?”
Ying Ziji took a bite of her cone: “Where to?”
“Well…” Fu Yunshen pondered for a moment and smiled, “It’s kind of a fun place, you should like it.”
Ying Ziyi nodded, “Go on then.”
Fu Yunshen smiled, the ends of his eyes raised, “You’re so quick to agree, aren’t you afraid I’ll sell you?”
“Not afraid, I should sell you.”
“?”
Ying Zidian turned her head and examined him for a few seconds: “Good looks, good body, good nature, many famous ladies want it, auction it off to the high bidder.”
She could earn a lot of money.
“Yoyo, no conscience.” Fu Yun Shen leaned back, after a low laugh, faint, “One thing wrong, bad nature.”
“I think it’s quite good.” As if she remembered something, Ying took out a box of sunscreen from her backpack, “I improved it, I haven’t had anyone try it yet.”
The tone was still very calm, the voice was cool, with little emotion.
But in the human ear, it carried a few moments of desire.
“Brother try it?”
“……”
**
This time the venue for the final is inside the a*sembly Hall of the Royal Academy of Arts in O Chau.
The final was scheduled for July 23rd, starting at 7pm.
So in the afternoon of that day, after discussion between First Light Media and the judges of the Royal Academy of Arts, it was finally decided that there would be one set of dresses for each gender.
But for some reason, no matter what the men’s dresses were, the women’s dresses had to be the “Vermilion Bird” dresses.
Hua Xiu had already made the judges very unhappy by sending out the dresses in advance.
Usually you can’t send out your entry until the competition is over.
[@ShangYaoZhiv: See you live tonight.
In less than a minute’s time, the comments broke 10,000.
[I have to say, the resources of First Light Media are really too good, my brother this just got in and was able to go abroad, trash Star Entertainment.]
The first thing you need to do is to get a few more shots. I don’t even have material to edit]
The actual fact is that you’ll be able to get a lot more than just a couple of the actual actual actual actuality. We are mum fans in private, but on the surface we are girlfriend fans and wife fans, don’t let Yao Zhi know.
The word “cub” is very sensitive to Shang Yaozhi and he saw it at once: “……”
The first time I saw it, I saw it.
After Shang Yaozhi’s side finished tweeting, Xie Manyu followed suit under the arrangement of First Light Media.
[@XieManYuv: No nine-gallery, see you live tonight.
Xie Manyu has always kept a low profile, and although the traffic is not high, there are many die-hard fans.
[Yu Bao, you finally remembered your Weibo pa*sword.]
My sister is killing me with her energy, these eyes, this body, absolutely!
These two Weibo posts didn’t even need to be promoted by the water army, and they quickly became a hot search.
The two tweets didn’t even need to be promoted by the water army. The pattern is the same, right?
What is the situation? Xie Manyu is a movie queen, right? And a double gold, right? She’s reached such a high level, she’s not going to try to portray Ziyue, is she?
[That’s a condescending tone, even a movie queen doesn’t have to be so overbearing, right?
[Xie Manyu is a senior and a queen, Zi Yue is just a newcomer, but she sent this dress five days ago, please don’t lower your status to portray [smile]]
Chapter 200
Xie Manyu is a child actress who started doing dramas when she was eight years old.
If you do the math, this is the twenty-fourth year of her debut.
Three years ago, she managed to become a film queen with the movie “Wordless Tablet”.
And, it won both the Golden Flower Award and the Golden Rooster Award.
A film that sealed the deal.
In The Wordless Tablet, Xie Manyu plays the role of Wu Zetian, the empress of wu.
She plays the three important stages of adolescence, youth and old age, all by herself.
She plays the role of Wu Zetian with a sense of pride as a young girl and with a sense of grandeur once she has ascended to the throne.
The role is so deeply rooted in her heart that many fans still affectionately call her Her Majesty.
Luo Ziyue herself knows very well that her name and Xie Manyu put together is a moonrise bumper.
Even if she pulled and stepped on anyone, she wouldn’t dare to pull and step on Xie Manyu.
But now the opportunity has come.
Originally, she hadn’t worked for more than a month because of what happened in Hengdian Film City last time.
The young master from the imperial capital, whom she had been ingratiating herself with, had only recently contacted her and asked her to go over to O Chau to walk in a show.
Although she was not given any money, Luo Ziyue was willing to do so.
Who knew that fortune would not be on her side and Xie Man Yu would be wearing a replica version of the Zhuque dress.
“Quick, send out the circular.” Luo Ziyue was excited and grabbed her agent’s hand, “Good chance, I can have heat again.”
Big stars bullying their juniors was always the netizens’ favourite melon to eat.
As long as she used it well, she could totally step on Xie Mangyu and move up the ladder.
“Don’t rush yet.” The agent frowned, “How many years has Xie Manyu been in the circle, can she not know how serious plagiarism is? It’s not like this is an ordinary clash of shirts.”
Once compared to that picture of Xie Manyu, the picture Luo Ziyue posted five days ago was set off as a maid, no matter how finely retouched it was.
“Because of my low fame, Xie Man Yu only knows that I can’t defend my rights even if I copied it.” Luo Ziyue was not impressed, “Luckily we posted early this time, otherwise I would have had to be blocked.”
When the agent was about to say something else, Luo Ziyue smiled, “And Ke Shao said that it was designed by their family company.”
“No matter how high Xie Man Yu’s status is, it’s only in the entertainment industry, those broad youngsters wave their hands, no matter how high and mighty Xie Man Yu is, she still has to bow her head.”
Ke Shao, the nephew of Ke Manzhu, regularly adopted female celebrities, and Luo Ziyue was not the only one.
Luo Ziyue saw that her agent was still hesitating and got impatient: “I’ll do it myself.”
She first had her marketing number send out a circular about Xie Manyu bullying her, and sent out another Weibo post herself.
[@LuoZiYuev: I didn’t think I could get such high regard from seniors as a newcomer, but isn’t it too much for seniors to do this, I’m a newcomer and I can’t stand in the way of seniors [aggravation]]
When this tweet came out, Luo Ziyue’s fans got angry.
Most of these fans are also young in age, especially once they were stirred up again by the marketing number’s circular, they ran to Xie Man Yu’s Weibo to be gloomy.
“This Luo something, I’ve never even heard of it.” Xie Man Yu’s agent laughed in exasperation, “How can she have the nerve to say something like that?”
“It doesn’t matter.” Xie Man Yu shrugged, “I’ve been through more than this in my earlier years.”
“A love interest who is this mushy dares to step on you to get to the top.” The agent was angry, “I’ll arrange for a publicist first.”
He got up and went out, and came back a few minutes later, “Man Yu, the company said that the boss wants to respond for you. See if you want to respond yourself, or what.”
“To the company.” Xie Manyu didn’t hesitate in the slightest, “I won’t bother with what the company can do.”
The agent nodded and replied to the female secretary.
After the female secretary received the message, she said, “Boss, Queen Xie’s side said that you are fully in charge.”
Xie Manyu already had an independent studio.
Ying Ziyi took a look at it, retweeted Luo Ziyue’s Weibo, and posted a message.
[@chuguangmediav: lie aside, you don’t even deserve to be a stepping stone.]
The agent and Xie Manyu who saw the retweet: “???”
Their boss, a bit fierce and a bit protective.
Xie Man Yu silently turned off her phone and turned her head: “Then again, I’ve only just finished my work abroad and haven’t met my new boss yet, Xiao Shang, have you met him, male or female?”
Shang Yaozhi was helpless: “The same gender as you, senior.”
Not only was Xie Manyu’s status in the circle high, there were also many people who pursued her.
But Queen Xie’s aura was too strong and her eyesight was too high, and she had been single until now.
“It’s too bad.” Xie Manyu sighed deeply, her eyes rippling with life, “It’s so hard to give birth to the idea of wanting to marry someone.”
She looked up and murmured, “Are all girls so handsome these days ……”
**
7pm.
Inside the a*sembly Hall in Qingzhi.
The film curtain descends and drops to the centre of the stage.
The projection equipment above turned on, reflecting the live feed of this final runway show.
This was something that Mrs. Zhong had requested from the school after learning that Zhong Zhiyan had been invited to O Chau by Mrs. Mu.
Zhong Zhiyan was able to give her face, so naturally she wanted to publicise it more.
As long as it did not affect the students’ studies and lives. The students and their parents have always been willing to meet the requests of Qingzhi.
All the students from the Yingcai cla*s came, and many other cla*ses came too.
They were honoured that their cla*smates were able to go to such a top fashion design competition to receive awards.
It was the arrival of Cla*s 19 that took the students by surprise.
Jiang Yan stretched out his long legs and took up the aisle tightly.
Xiu Yu stomped on him, “Make room for your sister and your father and Dudu.”
Jiang Yan: “……”
f*ck, he had no family status anymore.
“Ying Dad, sit down.” Xiu Yu patted the seat next to him, “You’ve finally managed to get settled by me for our cubs.”
The last time Shang Yaozhi had woken up from his fainting spell, she had made a special trip to send him home.
After seeing the real situation at his home, she was even more flooded with motherly love.
Ying nodded her head and looked at the curtain in front of her.
The live broadcast had already started and the camera turned first to the judges’ table and the invited guests.
“Look! Look!” Zhong Zhiyan’s tablemate shouted happily, “That’s Zhiyan!”
Zhong Zhiyan was wearing a small white dress today, just right for her age.
She was sitting in the designer’s seat, and when the camera swept over, she subconsciously straightened her back.
Zhong Zhiyan’s fingers were clenched and she was sweating nervously.
But her mood was overwhelmingly excited, and she couldn’t suppress her smile at the thought that she would soon be able to enter the upper echelons of the Imperial City.
“Next, we have Hua Xiu from China, bringing us an oriental style dress -” on stage, the MC read the lines with a hand card, “Vermilion Bird!”
“Please.”
The music played and the applause thundered.
Luo Ziyue curled out from behind the curtain with an enchanting pace.
She was wearing delicate make-up and extremely dark eyeliner, barely holding up the gown.
“Auntie, the nephew’s eye is not bad, right?” A young man sitting next to Ke Huizhu was smug, “Wave your hand and you’ll have a free labourer.”
“Not bad.” Listening to the gasps from the audience, Ke Huizhu was also satisfied, but warned, “But don’t bring these little stars home, your father won’t allow it.”
The youth was perfunctory: “Got it, I’m just having fun.”
The catwalk and presentation lasted just over a minute, and the audience had not yet recovered from the overly expensive and stunning dress.
At the judges’ table, Martha took the microphone: “Next, please ask the designer of Huaxiu, Zhong Zhiwei, to answer a few questions for me.”
This was the normal process.
There would be a separate rating based on the designer’s knowledge of the design.
Mrs. Zhong sensed Zhong Zhiyan’s nervousness and gave her a rea*suring look.
Zhong Zhiyan pressed her chest and stood up, revealing a generous and decent smile, “I am Zhong Zhiyan, please ask.”
“The materials for this gown are all common, but the design is bold and original.” Martha looked at her lightly, “What was your inspiration and intention when you designed the gown?”
“It is well known that the Vermilion Bird is one of the four spirits in Eastern mythology.” Zhong Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief and said in a paragraph, “In the five elements, fire is the main element, so I used different shades of red.”
“And the pattern at the collar, it’s ……”
Zhong Zhiyan spoke for five minutes in one breath, but after she finished, she found that Martha did not show any excitement or delight.
She was still looking at her like that, as if she knew everything.
Zhong Zhiyan’s heart jumped.
“Awesome awesome.” The guests below didn’t know the truth of the matter, they just praised, “At such a young age, you have such a high talent in design, after you graduate, you are welcome to come and work in our company.”
Mrs. Zhong immediately recognised that the person speaking was the design director of a Fortune 500 company and was delighted.
She knew that the daughter she had taught was the best of her generation.
Zhong Zhiyan was flattered: “Thank you.”
“Second question, usually all four spirits appear at the same time,” Martha spoke again, “why did you only design the Vermilion Bird?”
“Because I’m still a student and I don’t have much time.” Zhong Zhiwei smiled, “I only had time to design one, I will design the remaining three later when I have time.”
“One last question -” Martha’s eyes sharpened, “Are you sure, you designed this gown?”
Zhong Zhiyan’s heart beat even harder, she pursed her lips and said firmly, “Yes!”
“Good.” Martha suddenly smiled, “That’s the end of my questions.”
Zhong Zhiwei sat down again, finally not so apprehensive.
But her back was already soaked with sweat, and she was ready to make a trip to the washroom.
And at that moment, the host began to announce the next entry.
“Coincidentally, it’s also from a company in China, but it’s already familiar to everyone.” He glanced at the hand card and gave a mysterious smile, “First Light Media, their designer first sent it over and the judges were so amazed after seeing it that it was used for the finale.”
“Welcome First Light Media for bringing their elaborate design – the Four Spirits Collection.”
The familiar term made Zhong Zhiyan’s footsteps stop.
At the same time, there were more intense shouts of surprise from the entire audience.
Zhong Zhiyan lifted her head and glanced at the t-stage.
“With a buzz, her brain exploded.