An Ran wanted to escape from Fu Lengyu, who was as terrifying as a demon, but her feet seemed to be disobedient and her brain became sluggish. Under his oppressive gaze, An Ran struggled to walk towards him.
"Hmm."
An Ran groaned in pain.
Impatiently, Fu Lengyu pinched her chin and forced her to look up at him, like a hunter not allowing his prey to escape.
"You seem...very afraid of me today? Am I that scary to you?"
An Ran nodded, but when she saw Fu Lengyu's face visibly darken, she quickly shook her head, denying it too late and without sincerity. Fu Lengyu felt that she was being insincere and perfunctory.
"Don't you dare be afraid of me, do you hear me?"
Fu Lengyu was annoyed, and seeing her cowering made him even more angry.
When Tang Yu boldly walked over and kissed him just now, he had a moment where he remembered his encounter with An Ran, who was still a confident and charming lady at the time, even more elegant and charming than Tang Yu.
But after the bankruptcy of the An family, she went through a huge change, and a series of blows had completely worn away her past arrogance, leaving only this servile andobsequious attitude.
As the culprit who caused An Ran's current situation, Fu Lengyu suddenly felt a wave of regret when he saw Tang Yu. But this regret was quickly drowned out by endless disgust.
"I hear you." An Ran trembled in fear, but she calmly looked up at him and acted as if nothing was wrong. Her calm demeanor was like a cold water that suddenly extinguished Fu Lengyu's annoyance.
He lowered his eyes to hide his complex thoughts and turned around to leave, saying to An Ran's back, "From now on, you're not allowed to show that servile attitude in front of me again! Even if you're pretending, you have to pretend to be the confident and arrogant lady like Tang Yu! Your dog-like wagging and bowing makes me sick."
An Ran shuddered all over, lowered her head in silence for a long time, and felt a sharp coldness pierce her heart as if her whole body's blood had frozen.
Fu Lengyu had disappeared from An Ran's sight, but she still lifted her face and said to the air, "I understand."
She walked alone on a lonely road, one hand touching her slightly cold cheek that was blown by the wind. Was it because of this face? Because this face, which looked exactly like Lin Ranyu's, made her feel that her meek and submissive behavior was damaging the image of her dream goddess?
An Ran smiled self-deprecatingly. Lin Ranyu, you never did anything to me, but because of you, my whole life has beencompletely ruined.
Should I hate you or be grateful to you? Grateful for your face, which looks exactly like mine, giving me a chance to survive?
The next day, An Ran appeared in front of Fu Lengyu again, no longer the hesitant and indecisive person she was before. She was cold, but not arrogant.
Fu Lengyu glanced at her and then looked away. When An Ran was going to take the bus to work as usual, Fu Lengyu suddenly stopped his car in front of her.
"Get in the car!" he ordered.
An Ran couldn't guess what kind of person he was or what he was up to. Even though she was uneasy, she replied calmly, "I can take a taxi by myself."
"I said get in the car! Don't make me say it again!" Fu Lengyu's voice was stern.
An Ran looked straight at him in silence, and finally lowered her head and said, "Okay."
In the car, An Ran couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere and desperately tried to find a topic to ease the suffocating pressure. "Which area of work will I be responsible for? After Anna was fired, my work hasn't been reassigned. Do you have any plans for my work?"
Thinking of Tang Yu, Fu Lengyu said, "You will be responsible for the model runway business of a new entertainment company invested by the Emperor Group."An Ran thought she might be assigned some trivial and irrelevant work, but she didn't expect to be responsible for the model runway business.
Although it wasn't related to styling design, An Ran was still very happy to be involved in this area. She smiled coldly and said softly, "I will do my best to do my job well."
Fu Lengyu glanced at the corner of his eye and gave a meaningful smile, saying, "Then work hard for it."
An Ran felt a bit uneasy with such a smile and couldn't wait to get off the car and walk in the opposite direction from him as soon as they arrived at the company.
Fu Lengyu didn't say much, just watched her leaving figure with a hint of amusement in his eyes. An Ran was very satisfied with her new work arrangement and spent the whole morning browsing through the information about the models who had already signed long-term contracts with the company, as well as the information about the behind-the-scenes staff of the models.
After reading it, An Ran wished she could go and observe the various types and styles of the models during their runway shows on the spot, but it was impossible to do so in such a short time.
Because An Ran was responsible for coordinating how much profit these models could bring to the company in a year, the changes in profits, and the valuation of the models' worth, all kinds of trivial matters bound her, and the overall image design was still an unattainable dream.
With the idea that there should be some free time after the busy early stage, An Ran was the most proactive one in recent overtime work. However, when she met with the behind-the-scenes staff after finishing these tasks...
She saw Tang Yu!
That Tang family's young miss, Tang Yu, who was from a top-notch family, openly kissed her husband in public!
This company was located next to the Emperor Building, and An Ran had been here several times for handover work in the early stage, but she had never seen Tang Yu before.
In the office, both men and women were dressed very brightly and beautifully, because their profession was related to fashion image. They were the best spokespersons for fashion image themselves, so the people who worked here were more concerned about their image than ordinary people.
When she first came in, An Ran thought she had come to the wrong place, because it didn't look like a place where people worked, but more like a scene from a fashion party!
"Miss An, let me introduce you. This is Tang Yu, the latest special hire of our company. Miss Tang was very popular in the fashion circle overseas before returning to China. She won the Best Image Award in the entertainment industry for her first overall image design after returning to China. Her ability in fashion design is outstanding!"
The agents of those models were introducing enthusiastically on the side.
"Tang Yu, who just joined our image design department, was rated as the flower of our design department! She will be the overall styling consultant for us models in the future..."
Under the praise of everyone, Tang Yu lifted her chin slightly, arrogantly extended her hand to An Ran and said, "Please advise me more, Mrs. Fu!"