Summer night rainstorms, lightning ripped through layers of dark clouds, muffled thunder followed, rumbling.
In the Imperial Oil Painting Institute, the medieval church-style glass stained-glass windows are heavy with bright lights inside, where Zero Degree is hosting a fashionable charity dinner tonight to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the publication.
Before the dinner, there is a talk, guests or in front of the panels to sign and pose for photos, or in the social.
On an occasion like this, if you don't stay with people you know well and joke about something, you'll inevitably look awkward and out of place.
It was good that Ji Mingshu never had this kind of trouble.
"Jiang Chun isn't coming tonight?"
"Shouldn't be coming."
"That's right, spending millions to order a pile of rags and wanting to do charity for the time being, I'm afraid I don't have the heart to do it."
Several female voices gentle and soft, do not listen carefully really think it is concerned about regret. The topic also stops at the point, the young ladies exchanged glances, and coincidentally laughed.
Being clustered in the center of the Ji Mingshu has not made a sound, although followed by light laughter, but it is not difficult to see her lack of interest, and even a few distracted.
Seeing this, someone jumped off the topic without a trace, "Ming Shu, is this dress the one you tried on in Paris two days ago? It's very beautiful."
"No, the one I tried two days ago only made a first sample, this is the one that was ordered during the Fall/Winter High Fashion Week last year." Ji Mingshu replied.
High-fashion everyone has done, there are a few pieces is not a rare thing, but the dress skirt can easily be a million dollars, but also not good to repeat more wear, like JiMingShu such as ordinary dinner dress wear out is also too extravagant.
Several people did not hide the envious look, as usual, along with the words and praise.
Ji Mingshu also do not know whether to listen to it, the expression is flat. At the end of the day, he gave them face, drank half a glass of red wine, and left a sentence "enjoy", before leaving with "Zero Degree" will soon take office as deputy chief editor Gu Kaiyang together.
As soon as Ji Mingshu left, the ladies were secretly relieved.
Tonight, Ji Mingshu was clearly out of form, saying Jiang Chun jokes didn't interest her, complimenting her skirt didn't react either, I don't know how she was so hard to serve.
"What are you thinking about you, there is still time to listen to those plastic flowers kissing ass, quickly help me to watch the banquet hall, tonight is your sister's big day, if Shi Qing that bitch dares to make trouble in the banquet hall, you tear her up for me!"
Gu Kaiyang had a smile on his face, and nodded frequently as he walked towards the banquet hall to greet the guests. The voice drifted out from between his upturned lips, and was squashed three times while being lowered.
Ji Mingshu raised his eyebrows, not waiting for her to answer, behind a sudden commotion, the two turned back one after another.
I don't know which big name arrived, the doorway flash clicks become urgent, originally still doing interviews with reporters are nimbly give up the object at hand, scrambling to the end of the red carpet around the display board, crowded into a ball.
Gu Kaiyang half squinted her eyes to recognize, "It seems like Su Cheng has arrived, you help me watch this side, I'll go over first."
She reacted quickly, halfway through her words, her steps were already moving away.
Ji Mingshu looked at the crowded outer room from afar, originally did not care too much, but suddenly glimpsed the familiar and unfamiliar figure beside Su Cheng from the gap, her back instantly straightened.
As if there was a sense, the figure standing on Su Cheng's side also looked in her direction, and his gaze passed through the heavy crowd and gusts of white light, as if it was tainted with the wisps of coolness of a rainy summer night, cold and distant.
A quarter of an hour later, the red carpet shooting interviews in front of the exhibition boards were all over, and the guests were introduced into the banquet hall and seated one by one according to the positions arranged long ago.
The design of the banquet hall tonight came from the hand of Ji Mingshu.
The hall was lit up like a waterfall, and the orchestra played Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor. In the center of each table were warm white roses that had arrived by air this morning, with fresh and full rose petals, the edges of which were still warm and light pink. The waiter in a vest and bow tie lifts a tray with one hand and moves back and forth between the sideburns and the scent of the clothes in this room.
Floating sound and color, but so.
Gu Kaiyang's previous worries are somewhat superfluous, learned that the dinner scene by the Ji Ming Shu personally manipulated, would like to make a demon of people as early as eight hundred years on the rest of the mind, until the president of the group on the stage to speak, the banquet hall did not appear the slightest error.
The president finished speaking, and then to "zero degree" editor-in-chief May on stage.
May loves to talk about expired chicken soup, probably to pay homage to the "female devil" Miranda's planning, this time the chicken soup is also wrapped in the magazine's internal seismic changes.
Everyone on the scene is a savant, when she cued "new deputy editor-in-chief", everyone subconsciously looked at Gu Kaiyang.
Gu Kaiyang, like a small white swan that has won a victory, stood up in a reserved manner, her eyes and eyebrows were overwhelmed with joy.
There were also people who only swept her a glance and then looked at Ji Mingshu sitting next to her, such as Su Cheng.
Su Cheng this year forty two, holding numerous trophies after the movie, and successively married three big brother, whether in the show business fashion circle or in the current celebrity circle, have a pivotal position.
She slightly inclined her head, close to the side of the man, in a tone of listening to the gossip of the younger generation joked: "Why did not accompany Ming Shu? Got into a disagreement?"
The man raised his eyes and looked toward Ji Ming Shu not far away, his fingertips gently knocking on the wall of the cup, the frequency and the platinum watch's needle on his wrist was surprisingly consistent.
After a long time, he did not answer, as if he was smiling, but the smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes.
Su Cheng only thought he was acquiescent, and quietly taught him the way to coax a girl.
He nodded his head, and his gaze was not withdrawn-
Two years have not seen, Ji Mingshu is still the same as before, even if it is cold and expressionless, that face is also bright and colorful, half not losing the room full of starlight tonight.
After the dinner, the after party was arranged as a charity auction, and the guests who stayed to participate moved to the other side of the small hall.
"Lot 029 Tahitian natural black pearl diamond necklace, donated by Ms. Su Cheng ..."
The auctioneer on the stage was introducing the lot, but Ji Mingshu finished scanning the information of the lot on the roster first.
Her heart was lightly concerned, guessing that someone was going to throw away a lot of money tonight to get a smile from the movie queen.
This thought had just swirled in her mind when the auctioneer reported, "Starting price, eight hundred thousand dollars!"
"Eight hundred and fifty thousand!"
"Nine hundred thousand!"
"One million dollars!"
As soon as the words fell, the price quickly refreshed.
When the bidding came to three million, many people looked sideways at Ji Mingshu's right rear, and some people even couldn't help but whisper on such occasions.
Ji Mingshu didn't move, without turning around, she could imagine the man's calm and relaxed appearance as he frequently raised his cards.
"Five million, it's five million now."
"Five million once, five million twice, five million three times!"
"Dang!"
The closing gavel fell with a dull sound.
"This necklace, five million ... dollars? Who is that man?"
The starlet who just joined the circle and sat at the end of the table also saw that the necklace was sold at an excessively inflated price, and couldn't help but inquire softly to the agent at his side.
"Censen ..." the agent murmured thoughtfully, "Why did he suddenly come back."
The young girl is new to the world of fame and fortune, see and hear everything feel fresh, catch the key words and ask: "That man called Cen Sen? Is he very good?"
The newcomer can't get along with Cen Sen for the time being, and was only brought out today to see the world. The agent didn't bother to explain more to her, and only lowered his head, crackling under the table and pressing his cell phone to pass on first-hand news to a few other actresses under his command who had more seniority.
There are a lot of people like this agent who have been tipped off about the situation.
The Crown Prince of the Cen Family of Jingjian had traveled to Australia to develop overseas markets, and hadn't appeared in the country for two years. Appearing without warning at an occasion like tonight, and acting in an uncharacteristically high-profile manner, it's as if it's a signal--
The years-long civil war in Jingjian was over.
If there were no accidents, after tonight, there would be another popular figure in the city of the Four Nine that people would talk about.
As a matter of fact, attending this charity dinner was not part of Censen's plan.
However, he has always acted without a drop of water, temporarily entrusted to accompany Su Cheng to attend, not only took out the patience of the earlier years when accompanying the elders of the family to attend various activities, but also photographed Su Cheng's donation, claiming to be the pearl necklace that has been a favorite for many years.
This kind of fashion magazine held a small auction is to donate a heart to shoot a heart, Cen Sen this kind of price, can be said to give Su Cheng do enough face.
Su Cheng smiled, slowly said: "Some other day old Pei free, you and Ming Shu to dinner at home."
This was then considered to be accepted.
When the auction ended, many people's eyes fell on Cen Sen.
He was still sitting in the dark of the light, loosening the Windsor knot on his collar, folding his legs and leaning back.
Tonight there were many guests, and he and Su Cheng arrived late, many people did not know he had come.
Now that they know, those who recognize him will naturally come forward to greet him and talk to him, and those who don't recognize him will have to create the conditions for him to get acquainted with him.
Ji Mingshu sat on his seat and did not move, his eyes looked straight to the empty booth, his expression was as cold as ice.
Gu Kaiyang looked at the heart of the fearful, defeated the class enemy of the excitement of the promotion and salary increase, early in the Cen Sen for Su Cheng's pearl necklace repeatedly raise the price of the faded into thin air.
She asked in a low voice, "When did your husband return? Did you two have a fight?"
"No."
Ji Mingshu only answered the latter question, because the former question, she also did not know the answer.
She didn't know how long it had been, but a pair of black leather shoes slowly stepped into her line of sight.
The model of the shoe looked familiar, the way it was laced was unique, and almost the moment her sight touched the upper, Ji Mingshu's mind conjured up the appearance of its owner.
"Ming Shu, home."
His voice was neither high nor low, flat and unusual, giving Ji Mingshu the illusion that they were a normal couple who met every day.
"I drove here...I really ..." Gu Kaiyang stepped on ten centimeters of thin high heels, was secretly yanked outward by Ji Mingshu, and was a little unsteady on her feet, "You guys go home just go home, why pull me on, I Don't need to send ..."
"You have to send."
Ji Mingshu coldly looked at the past, will her remaining words all blocked in the throat.
Outside the Oil Painting Academy, the rainstorm has broken, the night color is so thick that there is not a trace of light, the wind blows over, half cool, half with the summer night heat and humidity.
The driver respectfully pulled open the passenger door.
Seeing that Censen did not show signs of sitting up, Ji Mingshu subconsciously took a step forward, but Censen suddenly raised his hand and blocked it, and then looked at Gu Kaiyang without any trace.
Gu Kaiyang hit a jolt and hurried forward with small steps, especially consciously sitting in the passenger seat, freeing up spacious space in the back row for the young couple.
"That, just send me to Starport International, thanks."
After Gu Kaiyang gave the driver the address, he stole another glance from the rearview mirror at the indifferent husband and wife duo in the backseat.
-The two of them were staring ahead, not talking to each other, and the distance between the seats could probably sit a two hundred pound big fat man.
The Bentley drove into the main road, the whole three minutes, the car did not make half a sound, Gu Kaiyang felt that if it was so quiet again, a car of four people may be suffocated alive.
She was brewing the topic want to break the silence in the car, Cen big boss suddenly spoke out, "Ms. Valley has been promoted, congratulations."
Gu Kaiyang followed her instincts and laughed dryly, "Thank you, thank you." By the way business mutual admiration sentence, "Mr. Cen long time no see, tonight also a burst."
Ji Mingshu blankly glanced at her from the rearview mirror.
Without waiting for Gu Kaiyang to explain, Ji Mingshu smoothly picked up, "You think it's okay to b-burst."