Chapter 89 (Under the Skin)
Chicago, Gold Coast Building, 23rd floor, VIP bathroom, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Xiangnon carefully inspected the space of more than 100 square meters, as she wished, she was the only one here.
Exhaled deeply into the bust, damn it, this dress on her was going to make her breathless.
After half past two, Zhao Xiangnong needed to go to two appointments, and in order to save time, she set both dates here, one on the twenty-third floor and one on the twenty-seventh floor, which was more of a negotiation than an appointment.
She negotiated with her father's lover and her fiancΓ©'s girlfriend.
Zhao Xiangnong didn't have much time or patience with the two women's mothers-in-law, so she needed this dress to give the other party a dismount so as to solve the problem at one time.
Padded shoulders, corseted waist, skirt just over the knee, black, the only embellishment is the red belt around the waist, Zhao Xiangnon learned crisis public relations, one of the major elements of crisis public relations handling is the first impression.
The combination of black and red will achieve an aggressive effect.
Straightening her waist, Zhao Xiangnong looked at her face in the mirror, she had just celebrated her twenty-fourth birthday a week ago.
The year of ten was a turning point in Zhao Xiangnong's life, she still remembers that in that summer, in the black coal mine, she was carrying briquettes in her hand, she secretly hid from her mother to work in the coal mine, and she could get a penny for moving three briquettes.
In the summer dusk, the honorable man appeared in front of her and called her "Xiao Nong".
That's her father, Zhao Yanting.
Since that day, Zhao has changed from Li Xiangnon to Zhao Xiangnon, and she and her mother, who has been sick, came to the United States, from a child laborer in a coal mine to the sole heir to a billionaire.
Zhao Xiangnong had a childhood of scarcity, which belonged to her childhood and received very little nutritional supplements, all, her development came later than that of girls of the same age, when other girls developed slim, her body began to rise, and when other girls said goodbye to baby fat and freckles, she ......
Twenty-four-year-old Zhao Xiangnon has an apple face, coupled with the baby fat that has been relying on her for a long time, Kashiwahara always says that he always has the urge to bite on her face, and he also said that when he bites, he will definitely hear a crisp "jump".
Many people will say that the young lady of the Zhao family is like the morning breeze in the countryside and the fresh matcha ice cream in the summer.
Is that really the case? Is that really the case?
Hooking the corners of his mouth, Zhao Xiangnong smiled.
The hand gently touched the face in the mirror that was likened to a breeze matcha ice cream, yes, her face is indeed easy to confuse people's eyes, looking sweet and fresh, unworldly.
And only she knew that under such an ignorant skin was a rotten soul.
Zhao Xiangnong was stunned for a long time in the mirror, and waited until the mobile phone message reminder put aside before he came back to his senses and took out the lipstick from his handbag.
Wearing a thick lipstick, Zhao Xiangnon is still not very satisfied, her face looks too tender, her face is matched with the dress on her body, and her red lips look like a yellow-haired girl who stole her mother's beautiful clothes.
Add another layer of color to the lips, accentuate the eyeshadow, and replace the diamond earrings with pearl earrings.
Well, it looks better that way! At least as long as her eyes don't bend downwards and the corners of her mouth don't go up, she still looks like that.
Fifteen minutes to go.
For the next fifteen minutes, she needs to practice how to communicate with her two negotiators, such as the tone of her expressions.
The higher the status of people in this world, the more afraid they will be of telling the truth, and the things about smashing people with checks in the movie are all nonsense.
Zhao Xiangnon practiced his expression and mouth shape in front of the mirror, what he needed to say to the one on the twenty-third floor, and what he needed to say to the one on the twenty-seventh floor.
Something happened in the last five minutes of those fifteen minutes.
There was a mobile phone ringing in the last compartment of the VIP bathroom, even if the mobile phone was set to vibrate, even if the owner of the mobile phone chose to turn off the mobile phone just rang, Zhao Xiangnon still heard it.
In other words, there was another person in the bathroom, which meant that that person had heard all her muttering for half an hour, including her outburst!
"Whoever you are, come out for me right away!" Standing outside the door, Zhao Xiangnong said coldly to the people in the door.
A minute later, Zhao Xiangnong still didn't wait for any response.
With his hand stretched out, Zhao Xiangnong tried to push the door open.
The door slowly opened with the touch of her hand.
After a long time, Zhao Xiangnon remembered that style of painting.
The door depicted with golden dahlias slowly opened.
Almost, at that moment, Zhao Xiangnong thought that he had fallen into some ancient period: the Garden of Eden, the apple tree, the thousand-year-old daylight, the gorgeous apples, the winged dragon, and the colorful bird.
Many, many colors mingle on the walls of that boxy space, a restroom that addresses a certain aspect of human needs.
The man who has been to the 23rd floor of the Golden Mansion greets his friends like this: Be sure to go to the VIP restroom.
Now, Zhao Xiangnon knows that it would be a great loss if he came to the twenty-third floor and did not come to the bathroom, and Zhao Xiangnong knew at a glance that it was from the hand of the mural master in this boxy space.
And that person, the young man with a huge body and hands behind his back seems to be the only character embedded in the painting, if it weren't for the ringtone of the mobile phone just now, if it wasn't for the man smiling at her, then Zhao Xiangnong would have thought that the man standing under the apple tree was the person in the painting.
If the Arabian horse is used to describe Kashiwahara embroidery, then the man in front of him is an elk in the Garden of Eden.
She looked at him, he looked at her, and none of them spoke.
After a few seconds, Zhao Xiangnong's eyes stopped on the man's sneakers, and she roughly guessed why the man appeared in this women's bathroom.
Even if a man is dressed decently, his sneakers still reveal some aspects of his attributes, and shoes worn under a man's feet usually appear in department stores on the annual Black Friday for two pairs of ten dollars.
Her dad is a department store magnate.
"Come out!" Zhao Xiangnon shook the mobile phone in his hand and said.
The man moved one step earlier, and Zhao Xiangnon turned around and the man followed her.
Back at the previous place, Zhao Xiangnong was face to face with the man, and the man in front of him was about the same age as her, and he was also black hair and yellow skin like her.
Men have very beautiful eyes, and Zhao Xiangnong is sure that among the 100 million people, he will not be able to find such beautiful eyes, which are pitch black, just like the eyes of animals in the forest.
With beautiful eyes and delicate outlines, Zhao Xiangnong thought in her heart that this was a face that would make girls crazy.
"Hold your hand out." Zhao Shannon said to the man.
The man is of tall stature, and she must keep her head up when talking to him.
After a moment's hesitation, the man slowly stretched out his hand, which had been pinned behind his back.
Really!
Zhao Xiangnon has heard some things, some people will change into decent dresses and try to sneak into some pies, cocktail parties, weddings, and then secretly take the expensive red wine, and they will take the stolen red wine to the red wine market to sell.
Zhao Xiangnong knew that someone was holding a wedding on the twenty-fourth floor, and she also knew that someone had infiltrated the wedding scene and stole the red wine that the bride's father had treasured for a long time.
It is said that the bottle of red wine was a wedding gift that the bride's father wanted to give to his daughter.
Therefore, the man in front of him was a thief stealing red wine, and Zhao Xiangnong picked up his mobile phone in front of the man.
The fair-skinned, slender hand snatched her phone.
"I didn't mean to snatch your phone." The man held the mobile phone and said, very nice and standard Chinese pronunciation.
Bastard! I took it in my hand and said it wasn't a robbery.
The man with his mobile phone in one hand and red wine in the other spoke quickly and urgently: "It's not what you imagined, I don't want to be like this at all, please give me a minute to explain, the bride on the twenty-fourth floor has dated me a few times, it was a very cute girl, because of cuteness, I would like to spend a little time with her to see it. Two movies, or spending a little time in the park, but she seemed to misunderstand, she asked me to marry me, I told her that I didn't mean that to her, and then, she seemed to be sad, last week she told me that she was getting married, and she offered to let me go to her wedding, so I borrowed a dress from my friend and came to the wedding, and then, she suddenly asked me to take her out of here, and her words frightened me, and I told her that it was impossible. β
So......" The man lifted the collar of the gown.
Zhao Xiangnon saw that the white shirt under the man's gift had red wine marks.
The man said helplessly: "She splashed me with red wine and it became like this, what made me feel a headache was that this dress was borrowed by my friend from his friend." β
In a more embarrassed tone, the man continued: "All the money from my part-time job this month was used to buy wheels, so I don't have the money to buy a new dress to compensate my friend's friend, so I took this when I left the wedding scene!" β
The man shook the red wine in his hand: "At that time, I was thinking, maybe I can use it to change into a dress, and then it will be like this...... do you understand when I say this?" β
Zhao Xiangnon nodded!
"So, you're not going to call the police?" The man asked again.
"Yes, you've already explained, so I'm not going to call the police." Zhao Xiangnon and he said.
The man handed the phone into Zhao Xiangnon's hand.
What a deceitful person, who listened to her muttering and swear words clearly in the past half an hour, this person is going to be unlucky today!
This time, Zhao Shannon did not let the man succeed in snatching her mobile phone, she called the manager of the restaurant.
"Didn't you say you wouldn't call the police?" The man looked depressed.
"You're asking a stupid question!" Zhao Xiangnong put her phone in her handbag and glanced at her watch, damn it, this uninvited guest who suddenly appeared made her delay for dozens of minutes.
"Just now, I really believe you won't call the police."
Another simple-minded stunned young man! Zhao Xiangnong is sure that the person in front of her belongs to a character who will never intersect with her, so there is no need for her to pretend with him.
So, she looked at him with contempt, and then she just had to wait for the restaurant manager to come in and take the person away, and she didn't want to take the time to talk to him.
It's just that the man seems to have something to say.
Slowly, the man pointed to her eyes: "Your eyes tell me that you are a sincere person, you are not a person who will lie." β
Suddenly, Zhao Xiangnon seemed to have received a heavy blow.
Once, once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there was a man who said exactly the same thing to this man.
Following the fingertips pointed at her, Zhao Xiangnong clearly saw the man's eyes.
Innocence, as if, not stained with dust!
In a long, long time ago, such a trait appeared in another person.
In this world, you are not the only one who has secrets, and many people understand that 80% of the unspeakable secrets belong to the gray area.
Zhao Xiangnon also has an ulterior secret in her heart, that secret always swallows her heart in the middle of the night, gradually, Zhao Xiangnong understands, the best way to put aside a secret full of negative energy is to choose to ignore it, choose to look at it coldly when it has the upper hand.
Ignorance - numbness - forgetting.
Zhao Xiangnon has always thought that she has done a good job, at least, she has rarely dreamed of that person's face in the past few years.
It's just that at this moment, this red wine thief who appeared inexplicably suddenly revealed her ugly scars in the past.
"Your eyes tell me that you are a sincere person, and you are not a person who will lie." Slowly, the man pointed his finger at her.
Zhao Xiangnon turned his face away and chose to ignore it.
At this moment, the knock on the door outside the bathroom also sounded cooperatively, Zhao Xiangnong walked to the door, and as soon as his hand touched the doorknob, such a sentence sounded behind him.
"Just now, I accidentally turned on my phone to record."
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