"Oh, yes? When it comes to fashion trends, I'm always behind in the news, and it looks like I'm missing some important moments. Lan Li is still the same Lan Li, smiling and warm, gentlemanly and decent, the shallow upward arc of the corners of the mouth makes the facial lines softer, and all emotions are secretly hidden in those eyes.

Melvin Braders, who was standing in front of him, had a slightly stiff flattering expression, and his jaw line tightened slightly.

Melvin, this is really a long-lost face, and the memory has to go back to very, very long past.

At that time, the premiere of "Pacific War" as a TV series at the Chinese National Theater in Los Angeles also gave Lan Li the opportunity to officially stand on the red carpet, and Andy had just signed a contract with Lan Li, and this premiere was the first public event after the two worked together.

For the red carpet, Andy took Lan Li to visit a stylist to choose clothes for Lan Li, but the stylist's attitude was not professional enough, Lan Li launched a counterattack lightly, and attacked the other party to the point of being speechless, and the cooperation ended in unhappiness, and later Lan Li still chose his own clothes.

That stylist was Melvin Brades.

Actually, that was the only time Lan Li and Melvin met, he was not a personality who would be reciprocated, and he directly fought back on the spot, which was enough, not to mention, it was the norm for Vanity Fair to go high and low, and that was just a small person, who had nothing to do with Lan Li's career as an actor, and he didn't want to waste any extra time on such trivial things. Turning around, Lan Li had already left behind.

Lan Li has such a heart, but Melvin does not.

That head-on confrontation disgraced Melvin, and although there were no outsiders on the spot, the news still spread, and there is never an absolute secret in the fashion industry. This has almost become a big stain on Melvin's career, although it has no impact on the follow-up work, but the damage to word-of-mouth and reputation is still inevitable.

For Lan Li, Melvin's teeth itched with hatred. Over the years, in order to go toe-to-toe with Lan Li, he took the initiative to take over the work of Vin Diesel, Chris Hemsworth and others, and even tried to contact Natalie Portman and Jennifer Lawrence, and continued to spread bad words about Lan Li within the fashion circle, hoping that one day he could stand in front of Lan Li again with dignity and look at that face condescendingly with contemptuous eyes.

But......

He failed.

To be precise, in the whole of Hollywood and the entire fashion industry, it is an impossible task to find an industry practitioner who has reached the height of the blue ceremony, actor or director or stylist or etc.

At a party six months ago, someone inadvertently asked Melvin, "I heard that when Lan Li first entered the industry, you did styling for him?"

The ghost sent the god to the ground, and Melvin nodded in affirmation.

After that, the development of things gradually went off the track, the strong influence of the name "Lanli-Hall" in the entertainment industry and fashion circle was verified again, Melvin's career successfully opened up the situation, and there were more and more voluntary door-to-door job opportunities and voluntary sponsorship brands, even if it was just the halo of Lanli, it was enough for him to be infinitely useful, and in less than six months, Melvin's career that had been difficult for many years made a breakthrough.

This year's awards season, Melvin was among them for the first time in his career, first picking out Golden Globe dresses for Jonah Hill, then Oscar dresses for the production team of "Crazy Primitives", and most importantly, he was represented by Chris Hemsworth for the Oscar dress, hand-picking the evening dress for "Thor".

It is no exaggeration to say that Melvin's stylist career has only now really entered the advanced stage, and then it can enter the stage of full-scale high-speed development.

But all this is always a little uneasy: what if someone personally asks Lan Li for verification? What if Lan Li deliberately walks around his negative rumors? What if Lan Li is not used to his success and deliberately dismantles the stage? What if Lan Li uses Chris Hemsworth to attack him?

Melvin still doesn't like Lan Li, and even hates Lan Li, and the memory of shame always lingers, but deep down he knows how the changes in the past six months have come about - almost everyone looking for his cooperation will ask Lan Li what he looked like when he was a fledgling, and the details of the story of that "cooperation", he can only make up the story head-on, and then it snowballs, getting bigger and bigger, and when he realizes it, things are irreparable.

The only way now is to start from the ground up, change the impression of Lan Li, like patching, maybe things can turn around, if all goes well, he even begins to imagine that he can really connect with Lan Li, and then use Lan Li to open up the situation and fully develop his career - Eton Thomas is the goal he hopes to pursue.

So, knowing Lan Li's itinerary today, Melvin chose to take the initiative.

But the opening seems to be a little different from what I imagined.

Melvin took the initiative to flatter Lan Li, and Lan Li's response seemed to be a joke lightly, without any special meaning, but Melvin always felt that there was a deep meaning in Lan Li's eyes, as if he had already seen through his plan.

Is this his whimsy?

But Melvin didn't have time to think about it, he cleared his throat, and said with a smile on his face, "It seems that our trends are outdated." For some people, following trends is the only criterion, but for others, their own style can be a bellwether for them. ”

Complimenting him again, Melvin quietly gave all the praise to Lan Li.

Lan Li looked at Melvin, faintly a little weird, because Melvin's flattery was too obvious and too clumsy, and the faint sense of urgency was already a little, but Lan Li didn't know why.

He remembered Melvin, because of the polite customs brought about by the aristocratic education, and he remembered what had happened, but it no longer meant anything to him, and naturally he could not understand Melvin's current state. But the hereditary aristocracy knows nothing more about human sophistication, Melissa Benoist has not been able to deceive Lan Li before, and Melvin can't do it now.

Although Lan Li didn't understand Melvin's motivation or reason for doing this—he didn't want to know, it didn't mean he was going to sit still.

However, Lan Li has no time or need to worry about Melvin, such nobodies are really countless in Hollywood's Vanity Fair, even Oscar Night. Therefore, Lan Li took retreat as advance, he didn't speak, refused to respond positively, just nodded with a smile, and then shifted his gaze, and said in a relaxed tone, "No matter what the current trend is, there is only one trend above the Oscars, I think, this is already a consensus." ”

Skimming over Melvin's topic, and then cleverly cutting into today's topic, expressing his attitude and position in this way.

But the trees want to be still, and the wind does not stop.

Melvin is not the only stylist and designer here today. In fact, there were more than double digits of stylists and designers in attendance. Even some big brands have sent senior stylists to the scene, on the one hand, to help Lan Li choose a dress, and on the other hand, to know Lan Li's needs at any time, so that they can make changes and adjustments, and then look forward to their own dress can be selected.

Considering Lanli's status in the industry, even first-line brands such as Burberry and Dior are no exception, not to mention those independent little designers.

Melvin and Lan Li just talked in two sentences, and the other people standing next to them also moved, not completely closing the distance, but still forming a semicircle around Lan Li.

Lan Li changed the topic, but someone next to him pulled the topic back again, but there was not much gossip in his tone, but with a hint of curiosity, "Lan Li, I heard that your first red carpet was in charge of Melvin's look?

In normal times, no one would bother Lan Li with such a small gossip, but now that Lan Li is surrounded by stylists and designers, the situation is naturally different.

Lan Li could clearly perceive that his burning eyes were projected - was there something going on in the fashion circle that he didn't know about? Why was everyone so eager and so gossipy? In all kinds of eyes, there were good intentions and bad intentions, positive and negative, and everyone felt extremely excited.

What Lan Li didn't know was that in addition to Eaton Dormer, Melvin was the only stylist in the fashion circle who could be directly linked to Lan Li, and it was because of this that his career was booming, and naturally everyone was curious. Of course, there is also malicious jealousy among them, just to see how Lan Li responds, whether he is willing to endorse Melvin?

Before Lan Li's eyes could turn around, Melvin had already preemptively said, "It was just a short cooperation, and in the end I just gave some advice, mainly because of Lan Li's own decision, he has his own knowledge and opinions about fashion and suits." I'm just an assistant. ”

It's a set of rhetoric that has been repeated hundreds of times, and every time the subject is brought up, it is answered like this, and even Melvin himself is almost convinced that this is the truth—the same lie, repeated a hundred times, and it becomes true.

But Melvin could feel Lan Li's gaze, a sight without temperature or emotion, obviously calm and calm, but he began to soften his mouth as he spoke, and that irrepressible weakness of heart made him panic.

What to do?

Will Lan Li poke him to his face?