The next morning, Tang Lin got up and looked at her phone.
A message from Shen said, "Remember, two o'clock!"
Lin groaned. "WHY DO I HAVE TO GET UP ON A SUNDAY!!"
It was already one o'clock by the time she finished dressing up for the date. Suddenly, her phone rang. The manager of the jewelry shop that Tang Lin owned was calling her.
"Hello? Is everything okay at the shop?" Tang Lin asked.
"Um...Boss, we have a problem. One of our VIP customers are asking you to come over. They want to sue us."
Lin immediately grabbed her purse and her keys. She ran to the car and drove over to the Tang Elegance, a mall that her family owned. There were shops and stores that were owned by their family. Tang Lin's jewelry shop was the most famous jewelry shop in the capital. Most of the time, wealthy people went to the shop because the jewelry were very rare, high-quality, and expensive. Lin was friends with many celebrities because they would be presenters for her jewelry and watches.
When Lin got into the shop, she saw a woman yelling at her employees and telling them to bring the owner.
"Excuse me, Miss? I'm the owner. Is there anything wrong with our products?" Tang tried to please her customer.
"Wrong?! There's something MORE than wrong!! I bought one of the most expensive necklaces in your shop and I wore it at my birthday party! However, my friend who is a jewelry expert told me that this was FAKE. You took so much money from me and humiliated me at my own party. I'm going to sue you guys!!"
"Miss, I'm sure there's a misunderstanding. Our store transports imports personally. There shouldn't be any problems with our products, unless it was tampered with or switched out after it was purchased by you," Tang Lin said.
The customer looked mad and said, "Are you calling me a liar!! Do you think I'm trying to lie to get money? My family is one of the richest families in the capital. How dare you call me a liar?!"
"Which family do you come from?"
"I come from the Wu family. Shocked, aren't you? Do you now realize that you and your shop messed with the wrong person? A commoner like you would never even dream of being in a wealthy family!"
"Do you have proof that my shop sells fake products?"
The woman took out a necklace and waved it in front of Lin's face. "Is this enough proof for you? I already called my lawyer before you came. He's coming soon."
"There's no need to make your lawyer come here. My shop doesn't sell fake products. I can guarantee it. If you were to check all of the jewelry in this shop, you would see that they are all real and of high-quality. May I see the necklace?" Tang Lin opened her hand out to get the necklace from the customer.
After the lady put in her hand, Tang Lin examined the necklace and said, "This necklace is not fake." She motioned for the employee to hand her a microscope. She put the necklace under the light and kept turning it around slowly.
"I've looked at jewelry for years. I know whether or not a jewelry is fake or real. According to my years of knowledge, this necklace is not fake. I don't know if your friend is actually a good expert in this aspect, but her observation was wrong and this necklace is one hundred percent real for sure."
"Are you certain that it is real? I'm pretty sure my friend wouldn't embarrass me like that when she made a false accusation. She has never been wrong before. Why would she be wrong now?!" The customer argued.
"It isn't any of my business to know any of your grudges between you and your friends. I would just like to ask for you to call your lawyer to tell him to withdraw the lawsuit," Tang Lin said.
Suddenly, a handsome young man walked into the shop next to an older man with a case in his hand. When Lin saw the man, she immediately looked at her watch. It was two-thirty! She was late to their date! Did he call her father?
The customer, Wu Ying, looked at Shen and started to blush. "Hello Mr. Lu. It's a pleasure to meet you. I was jus—"
"Who are you?"
"I'm from the Wu family."
"Why are you yelling at my fiancée? Don't you know your place? A woman from the Wu family is in no place to talk to the First Young Mistress of the Tang family like that," Lu Shen coldly said to the customer.
Wu Ying's eyes widened and looked at Tang Lin. A woman from the Tang family? If there was any family that could match up to the Lu family by wealth and status, it would be the Tang family. And Lu Shen said that she was his fiancée, so her family would go bankrupt if he and the Tang family found out that she offended his woman.
"Your fiancée? Um...well, there was a misunderstanding earlier, but we solved the issue already. Ms. Tang kept thinking that I didn't believe her explanation. I was just about to tell her that I would withdraw the lawsuit," Wu Ying defended herself.
Tang Lin noticed the woman's expression when she saw Shen. For some reason, she started getting mad when she saw the woman blushing. She didn't know why she was getting so angry.
Then, she exploded, "What do you mean 'she kept thinking I didn't believe her'?! YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME AT ALL!! When I gave a you a reasonable explanation, you tried to ignore the truth and make it seem like I was lying. I knew that you initially didn't plan to withdraw the lawsuit. YOU JUST WANTED TO PUT THE ANGER YOU GOT FROM THE HUMILIATION AT YOUR PARTY ON ME AND MY SHOP!! But as soon as you see my fiancée walking through the door, suddenly you're so innocent and you act like you would never do such a thing!! Pretentious woman, I'll sue you for defamation and for slandering my business in public!! So, I changed my mind. Bring your lawyer here! I want to inform him that we will meet in court soon and not because you want to sue me, but because I WANT TO SUE YOU!!!"
Her voice was heard all around the mall. Silently, Lu Shen was watching his girlfriend defend herself so fiercely. He was so proud of his future wife. He chose the right woman.
The older man besides Lu Shen came forward and said, "Hello, Ms. Tang. I am Hao Tian and I will be your lawyer in court. I will submit the CCTV recording of the shop as evidence of defamation and slander. I will also submit the necklace in your hand to prove that it was not fake."
"Okay. Thank you," she responded.
Lin turned the customer and said, "I would like for you, Ms. Wu, to never enter my shop again. I wouldn't want a problem like this to happen another time."
The woman looked at the owner with an angry face. This woman was the only person who dared to go against her in all of her life. When she realized that she was told to leave, she stomped out and left.
The man leaning on a wall walked up to Lin and said, "So, you finally acknowledge me as your fiancée? When will we get married?"
"Dream on! I only said that to humiliate her and I DIDN'T MEAN IT WHEN I SAID IT!" She claimed.
Lin saw that the man suddenly took out his phone and he was scrolling through his contacts.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm calling my future father-in-law. You were thirty minutes late to the date."
Lin suddenly remembered and tried to get the phone. The man raised his hand up so Lin was unable to reach it.
"Okay. If you go on a date with me for the rest of the day, I won't call him."
"Fine. Let's go." Lin walked out the shop and heard footsteps coming behind her. She felt a hand entangle its fingers with hers. She looked besides her and saw Shen holding her hand. Her heart was beating fast.
"If we're going to date, we have to do things that normal couples do. Right?" Shen said.
"Whatever. We're going to break up by the end of this week anyways."
"Honey. Stop thinking negative! I'm for sure going to make you want to marry me by the end of this week. It may not seem like it now, but I can guarantee that you will not want to break up with me," Shen said.
"Wait, how did you even know I was at the shop?"
"As I said, I sometimes have my people check up on you to see if you are going through troubles. They saw that you were being yelled at, so I immediately came."
"So you have people stalking me?"
"Not stalking. It's protecting. Okay, dear?"