binnovel Chapter 224 Incident at the Shopping Mall
Chapter 224 Incident at the Shopping Mall
Chapter 224 Incident at the Shopping Mall
"What suspicious person?"
"It's hard to say. There's no evidence, but the mercenary who's been following you just had a bad feeling. It wasn't convenient for you to talk to my mom, so they called me."
"Yes, being cautious is the right thing to do."
Shen Wancheng and Gu Jinxing were driving slowly down Queen Street when suddenly, the sound of police sirens rang out from afar.
Shen Wancheng and Gu Jinxing exchanged a glance, both sensing that something was amiss.
Gu Jinxing turned around and looked back through the car window.
They noticed that all the cars on the street were parked on the side of the road, and the people inside got out and looked back curiously, wondering what had happened.
Several fire trucks drove towards them, passing by the car where Gu Jinxing and Shen Wancheng were sitting.
The driver asked Gu Jinxing, "Mr. Gu, should we stop the car?"
Gu Jinxing turned around and sat up straight.
"No need, let's go to the club instead."
Gu Jinxing then said to Shen Wancheng, "Let's go to the club first. I'll have someone follow up here and see what happened."
“Okay.” Shen Wancheng nodded. “I don’t know why, but I have a feeling that something happened at the mall where your mother and I were shopping.”
Gu Jinxing looked at Shen Wancheng for a long time and then said, "I also have a gut feeling about it."
After Shen Wancheng and Gu Jinxing's car arrived downstairs at the club, they got out and stood there for a few minutes before Wen Nan's car arrived.
After Wen Nan got out of the car, she asked Gu Jinxing, "Jinxing, do you know what happened on Queen Street? The sirens have been going off the whole time."
Gu Jinxing shook his head, "I don't know, it's none of our business anyway."
"Yeah, I'm glad we were just about to leave. I wonder if there will be traffic jams over there. It's okay if we get hungry because of traffic jams, but we can't let Wancheng get hungry too."
Shen Wancheng smiled and took Wen Nan's hand, walking together with her.
"Mom, I'm fine. I ate a good breakfast."
"You get hungry more easily if you eat a full breakfast, don't you think? When you don't eat breakfast, you don't feel hungry until noon, but once you eat, your stomach starts growling at 11 o'clock."
Shen Wancheng thought about it, and realized she really had that experience.
"Sometimes that happens; breakfast makes the stomach move faster to digest the food."
"I don't know anything about stomach peristalsis, Wan Cheng, you know so much."
"Mom, you really know how to praise me in every way."
Wen Nan glanced at Gu Jinxing with a puzzled look after hearing Shen Wancheng's words.
Meeting Gu Jinxing's gaze, Wen Nan seemed to be saying: Kid, learn something.
Wen Nan had never heard Gu Jinxing say anything nice; he always spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, which is why she thought Gu Jinxing was incapable of praising people.
Little did she know that her son never hesitated to praise Shen Wancheng.
Shen Wancheng was used to eating at the club, and had lunch as usual.
Because Wen Nan was present, Shen Wancheng and Gu Jinxing couldn't talk about the accident that happened that morning.
In the afternoon, Shen Wancheng and Wen Nan were going to the Oriental Elegance store. Fortunately, the first Oriental Elegance store was also in Victoria Harbour, which was very close to the club where they were having dinner. It was only a ten-minute walk away.
Shen Wancheng and Wen Nan decided to walk over there to digest their food.
Since the details of what happened that morning were still unclear, Gu Jinxing was worried about Shen Wancheng, so he went to the store with Shen Wancheng and Wen Nan.
Wen Nan glanced at Gu Jinxing, who was traveling with her, and said to Shen Wancheng.
"Thanks to you, I actually got to go shopping with Jinxing one day."
"Mom, please stop teasing him. You know he's always busy with work."
"You're protecting him too."
"No."
Shen Wancheng and Wen Nan spoke in voices that were neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for Gu Jinxing to hear.
As Gu Jinxing listened to the conversation between his mother and daughter-in-law, the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up.
It had lost all its usual coldness and solemnity.
As soon as Shen Wancheng and Wen Nan appeared at the store entrance, the store manager and all the sales staff came out to greet them.
The store manager of this shop happens to be Liu Leqi, whom Shen Wancheng had previously asked to find Li Su to apply for the job.
It seems that Liu Leqi has performed very well at Dongfang Yasong, and was promoted to store manager by Li Su so quickly.
Shen Wancheng became more confident in her judgment of people.
The sales staff lined up in two rows and bowed in unison to greet Shen Wancheng and her group.
"Chairman Shen."
Perhaps because Wen Nan and Gu Jinxing were both there today, Shen Wancheng felt inexplicably a little embarrassed.
She cleared her throat before speaking.
"Everyone's gone. My family and I are just strolling around by ourselves."
Upon hearing this, the ordinary sales assistants dispersed and went back to their own work.
Even if there's nothing to do, find something to do for yourself.
In reality, ordinary sales assistants rarely have the courage to voluntarily show off their most eye-catching bags to the big boss.
Store manager Liu Leqi was still by Shen Wancheng's side, but just like when she was a sales assistant, she silently followed Shen Wancheng without being told to.
Shen Wancheng led Wen Nan upstairs to the second floor.
The second floor of the store is not open yet, but all the finished garments have been transported over, organized, and hung on the window racks.
Wen Nan said as she went upstairs.
"Wan Cheng, you were really impressive just now. No wonder you're a boss."
"Mom, you're making fun of me again."
"Hey, I'm really praising you. Actually, when you think about it, you're doing great. Having your own career makes life more meaningful. Like me, I've lived for half a year and have never worked. All I know how to do is spend money."
"You're being modest again. The list of invitees you gave me was really useful. It was so detailed that it helped me avoid many unexpected situations at the event."
Wen Nan smiled and said, "I'm so happy to hear that. I'm glad I can help."
"I'm not exaggerating, it really worked very well."
"That's good."
Upon reaching the second floor, Shen Wancheng went directly to a shop window and took out a new Chinese-style dress.
This dress is not a traditional fitted cheongsam; the lower part is a light green, vertically pleated skirt made of matte satin with bamboo leaf patterns. The upper part is a black high-waisted coat with a Chinese knot button design.
The entire dress is a vibrant and eye-catching aqua green, yet it is toned down by black to avoid being frivolous.
This dress would be quite common in later times, but it was unprecedented in Hong Kong at that time.
Shen Wancheng took off her dress and showed it to Wen Nan.
"Mom, what do you think of this dress?"
Wen Nan fell in love with it at first sight.
"nice."
"I'm glad you like it. When I saw this dress, I thought it would suit you perfectly. Since you like it, would you like to wear it to the banquet?"
Wen Nan readily agreed, "Okay."
Because of her shopping experience with Shen Wancheng that morning, Wen Nan has now broken through her inherent aesthetic habits and is challenging herself with colors and novel styles that she hasn't tried for many years.
"Okay, I'll arrange for a stylist to style you to match the dress."
"That would be best, of course."
Shen Wancheng then showed Wen Nan some dresses that she thought were also very beautiful among these exquisite custom-made gowns.
Based on the list provided by Wen Nan, we briefly identified a few options for the most important guests.
Although due to time constraints, it was not possible to tailor-make dresses for every guest at this banquet, Shen Wancheng still wanted to invite these guests to the store in advance to choose and try on dresses. All the ready-made dresses in the store were available for the guests to choose from.
Shen Wancheng originally thought that not all guests would have time to come to the store to choose, but she did not expect that after one guest came, she would call other people she knew and say how novel and beautiful the dresses in the Oriental Elegance store were, and that those who had invitations should definitely come and choose for themselves.
In this way, word spread quickly, and the reputation of the Oriental Elegance Special Dinner spread far and wide.
In the time leading up to the dinner, almost every wealthy woman on Hong Kong Island was asked about her situation.
Have you received an invitation to the Oriental Elegance Special Dinner?
"Did you try on the dress at the store after receiving it?"