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
On the other side, White Group’s budget perfume project participated in another smaller investor’s roadshow, but White Group’s misfortune hadn’t ended yet; John had failed once again.While in the car, John listened to the information his assistant had gathered from Jones Enterprise. He was furious when he heard that Melanie had registered to participate in the International Fragrance Gathering!“What qualifications does she have to be able to participate in the International Fragrance Gathering? Can it be...that she’s Elder Gibson’s last disciple, just like the rumors say?”John’s eyes became vicious as he remembered how his subordinates had discovered that Melanie had personally blended quite a few fragrances ever since she joined Jones Enterprise’s perfume department, and almost all of those fragrances had become the top recommended ones in Jones Enterprise.Just like how Tyler was when he was at his peak. John felt that the only reason that the Jones could suppress White Grou
“What do you mean?”Melanie could feel something was wrong with the atmosphere, so she looked at Jeffrey and asked, “Are you trying to ask if I changed after the surgery?”Before she could finish, Jeffrey suddenly took a step forward, bringing him so close that he almost touched her body, staring at her with blazing eyes.Melanie tensed as she stared back at him, wondering why this man had suddenly gotten crazy again.“What are you doing?”Jeffrey didn’t respond and simply pinned her down. “Have you ever felt like you’ve seen me before when you see me?” His voice was low and somehow had a strange sense of temptation.“Huh?”Melanie hadn’t even been able to react to what he meant, but the man’s lips were already on hers, starting to invade her mouth.“Mm... Hey!”Melanie was stunned for a second before immediately pushing him away with her elbow.If she was still suspecting that he was being playful at the beginning, now she was sure he wasn’t. She couldn’t help but feel like