"John is investigating me?" Melanie was puzzled. After years of competition between Jones Enterprise and White Group, John's understanding of Jones Enterprise was undoubtedly deep. What reason could he have to investigate her? Or, what value did she possess that warranted John secretly mobilizing forces for an investigation? "I'll have someone continue to keep an eye on him. Just be careful," Annie said. Melanie couldn't figure it out and decided to put this matter aside for now. "Tomorrow morning, I'm going to Waukeen’s Agora headquarters to finalize the shooting plan. Come with me." "Sure,” Annie agreed. Her public relations company was involved throughout the process of accepting Waukeen’s Agora's invitation to shoot the cover. The details of the plan had been modified twice, and the final version was basically confirmed. The theme of this shooting plan was a perfume forest. When the new issue was released, it would undoubtedly promote Jones Enterprise's perfumes. Moreover
Melanie and Annie confirmed the final shooting plan at Waukeen’s Agora, and everything was going smoothly. The shoot was scheduled to begin officially the next day. The renowned genius photographer, Mr. Smith, had also arrived in Harbor City. He preferred tranquility and stayed in a highly private hotel. That night, Mr. Smith sat in a corner during the buffet. Two girls at the nearby table were chattering away, and their words occasionally drifted into his ears. "I heard that Mr. Smith will collaborate with Waukeen’s Agora this time. It's truly something to look forward to!" "But I heard the model is Melanie, which is quite off-putting!" "Yeah, that Melanie has no real talent. She's two-faced, flaunting her family's wealth and mistreating servants. She only got to where she is by falsely accusing Madam Morgan. She creates chaos in the socialite circle with her scheming." "Actually, she does have some talent—she's good at flattering others and sleeping around with men!" The
In that instant, Melanie felt that she had stepped on something soft.She was so surprised that she darted away and tried her best to calm down.“Who is it? Show yourself!”“Don’t worry, I don’t have any bad intentions,” came the reply.A man’s voice came from under the table.After a while, the tablecloth was lifted, and the man slowly crawled out of there before standing in front of Melanie. He was slender and tall with pale skin. He looked young, but there was a deep understanding in his eyes. Most importantly, he had long, curly brown hair, and he was holding a bottle of opened wine.Melanie quickly realized who it was. Wasn’t this Mr. Smith?This was the prodigious photographer whose work had won him many world-class awards since he was twelve. Whether the subject was a human or just an object, as long as it was in front of his camera lens, it would be given a life of their own.Mr. Smith put down the wine bottle before going over to the prop room and closing the door. “I’
Melanie’s eyes narrowed. “What do you want now?”“Have you seen a photographer? A man with long, curly, hair, wearing a pair of glasses?” The reporter asked. “We’ve received news that he’s hiding in the prop room.”Melanie sighed. Looks like the reporters didn’t find anything.But she still put on a show and said, “Didn’t I already tell you just now? I was resting here and didn’t see anyone.”The reporters nodded in disappointment and wanted to leave, but an idea suddenly came to Melanie’s mind, and she quickly stopped them.“Wait! You’re saying a man with long, curly hair?” She asked as she pretended to think about it.“That’s right!”“Brown, curly hair,” another reporter added.Melanie still pretended to think and said, “Before I came into this room, I saw a man with curly hair walk past me...”“Where did you see him?”The reporters grew excited.“Over there!”Melanie walked over to the door and then pointed in a random direction. “I saw him turning into that corner!”“D
The elevator reached the first floor after coming from the fifty-seventh floor.Melanie had already told Annie about what happened in the prop room, to which Annie couldn’t help but get shocked. “You should have used that chance to threaten him. If he refused to do a photoshoot for you, you could’ve exposed his social phobia and the fact that he’s not the virtuous prodigy like others have described, but rather a drunkard that has a bad temper!”Melanie’s lips slightly twitched. “What’s the point of smearing the reputation of a prodigious photographer?”As soon as they reached the first floor, however, Melanie’s phone started to ring.She took out her phone and found that Rogan was the one calling her. Melanie was already able to guess why.“Ms. Melanie, I’m so sorry about that. But... Can you please come back? We’ll do the photoshoot today as planned...” Rogan explained from the other side of the line.Melanie smiled slightly. Looks like Mr. Smith really was a person ruled by his
“That’s right. The model on our cover will be Ms. Melanie. Mr. Smith personally handpicked her,” Rogan said firmly.Mr. Smith didn’t like reporters interviewing him. Before Rogan had been hired, Mr. Smith’s assistant had even emphasized this trait. He didn’t know where the reporters came from to block Mr. Smith while demanding an interview. It was so bad that Mr. Smith split up with his assistant, almost permanently severing ties with Waukeen’s Agora.If it weren’t because Mr. Smith suddenly decided to use Melanie, saying that she was the source of his inspiration and that he would only take her, Mr. Smith would have immediately left.That was why Rogan immediately unleashed his anger when he heard that Grace had arranged for the reporters to be there.“Ms. Melanie has always been the first choice for our model. Perhaps you heard the news wrongly. The person that was switched out is Grace. The magazine has decided to delay her interview indefinitely.”After that, Rogan gave the se
“Do you have photos of yourself in your daily life? If you don’t mind, could you show some of them to me?” Mr. Smith asked.Melanie showed him some of the photos without hesitation. “Feel free to look through them, but they’re all old photos. I’ve been quite busy lately, so I don’t normally have time to take any photos.”Mr. Smith enjoyed looking at Melanie’s past photos. The light in his eyes grew stronger as he looked through each one. He was sure of it now; the two women had intentionally gossiped about Melanie so that he would hear them.How could a woman with such a warm, bright smile be a woman with such a vile side?“Looks like you had a happy childhood,” Mr. Smith sighed as he put down her phone.Seeing that he was somehow touched, Melanie then asked, “What about you? Were you happy?”Mr. Smith shook his head. “I was forced to participate in all kinds of competitions. My parents were proud of that, and they forced me to accept interviews from reporters from all around the
“Who knows? He had such a bad temper.”Annie complained as she gave Melanie her phone. Melanie gave the number a look and instantly realized why Annie had complained the way she did. Not everyone could handle Cyrus’s temper.Melanie called him back after she got into Annie’s car. “What is it, master?”“I’m in Harbor City!” Cyrus then said, “Didn’t you say you used the Emerald Vine to create a base fragrance, which you then used to create a new kind of fragrance? Take me to see it!”“Alright, I’ll give you the address. I’ll go over now, too.”Melanie knew Cyrus was very impatient and would refuse to wait for even a second, so she immediately asked Annie to send her back to Jones Enterprise. Once there, she waited for him at the perfume department’s fragrance blending room.Cyrus came over in a rush just as she had thought. After he took a whiff of the perfume she’d blended, the wrinkles on his face grew deeper. “You made a man’s fragrance!”“I did.”Melanie nodded. “You’ll def