Bai Wanyi looked at the still beautiful Qin Wan, and felt unwilling in her heart. They were about the same age, but wrinkles had appeared at the corners of her eyes, and her yellow face showed her haggardness that no amount of makeup could hide. Moreover, this morning, she discovered that she even had white hair!
Why is it that Qin Wan is still so youthful and beautiful? From a distance, she looks like a young girl in her twenties. But up close, her delicate skin is as smooth and tender as a peeled egg.
Qin Wan saw Bai Wanyi stopped her, but she said nothing. She smiled softly and asked, "Madam Bai, why are you stopping me?"
Bai Wanyi came to his senses and asked directly, "Given our relationship, there's no need for formalities. I'll just get straight to the point. Currently, do you have most of the raw materials for making rouge and powder in the entire capital?"
"You just found out about this?" Qin Wan was not surprised at all that Bai Wanyi knew about this. After all, she was now the Fourth Prince's person. It was the fact that she only found out about this now that was worthy of surprise.
Bai Wanyi's expression changed immediately, but when he thought about what he had asked of her, he held back his anger and said, "The prices of those raw materials have been rising recently. Can you sell them to me at a lower price?"
"My prices are always fair." Qin Wan said this with a clear conscience. Indeed, she controlled the best raw materials, and the price she sold to Bai Wanyi was also fair - very reasonably expensive.
Bai Wanyi clenched his fists and bowed his head repeatedly: "Haven't you always wanted my eye shadow and mascara recipes? I'll give them to you, and you can introduce me to the merchant who sells the raw materials."
The merchant of this raw material is naturally not Qin Wan, but the merchant who sells the raw materials to Qin Wan.
How could Qin Wan agree? She smiled faintly at Bai Wanyi and said, "I don't want to know your recipe. Besides, our Revlon and your Avril Lavigne don't even have any competing products. How can you say I want to know your recipe?"
"Besides, given our relationship, how could I dare use the recipe you gave me? The eyeshadow and mascara you mentioned aren't just for the face, they're also for the eyes. What if someone uses them and their face gets damaged or they go blind? Wouldn't that hurt them for no reason? Or is that what you're planning? By then, my reputation will be ruined, and those noble ladies will be disgraced. And you'll have the antidote, winning over people's hearts and striking me in return. You'll kill two birds with one stone."
Bai Wanyi's eyes widened. "How could I be that kind of person? I disdain to do such a thing. What's more, I need a favor from you now. Why would I give you a problematic prescription? Wouldn't that be putting myself in a bad situation as well?"
Qin Wan looked at Bai Wanyi with a smile and said nothing. Having fought with her for so many years in her previous life, she knew Bai Wanyi's style best. On the surface, she was upright and honest, but behind the scenes, she always used some unspeakable and unpredictable means that made it difficult for others to find any evidence against her.
In Qin Wan's eyes, he is a hypocrite, and in Bai Wanyi's words, he is a green tea and white lotus.
Bai Wanyi was furious at her gaze and completely forgot about his plan to find her to buy the raw materials. He pointed at Qin Wan and shouted, "I gave you the recipe openly, and you don't want it. Are you planning to steal it?"
"I opened a milk tea shop, and you opened one too. I opened a dim sum shop, and you opened one too! I opened a glass shop, and you opened one too! Is it any use for you to imitate me step by step? I am still me, and you are just a pathetic tool!"
"In your first marriage, you married into the Lu family for the sake of your family. In your second marriage, you married the prince for the sake of your family and reputation. You are so pathetic. You have never had your own life in this life! You imitated me in business, and you have no autonomy in your marriage. You are nothing more than a puppet."
Qin Wan tilted her head to look at Bai Wanyi. After two lifetimes of fighting, sometimes she felt that she still didn't understand this woman from another world well enough.
After thinking for a moment, Qin Wan said seriously: "I don't feel pathetic. I have a strong family background and the confidence given by my family. Now as a second-married daughter, I can also become the Crown Princess. I feel very satisfied."
Qin Wan was serious. She never thought that she was inferior because she was divorced and married for the second time. But from the current understanding of the world, isn't it enviable that she can become the Crown Princess with her status?
Qin Wan sometimes feels that she can be a role model for women. If she meets a bad man, she doesn't have to endure it. She can decisively divorce and still have a good life.
It is said that sincerity is the greatest killer weapon.
Bai Wanyi met Qin Wan's serious and clear gaze and shouted angrily, "Did I tell you that? I told you you're a plagiarist! You're just plagiarizing my stuff! Plagiarism, plagiarism!"
Qin Wan smiled and said, "You're wrong. Our products are fundamentally different. How can it be called plagiarism? Besides, as for the colored glass and the mirror, it was clearly me who made them first. It's just that your Flower in the Mirror blossomed before mine."
Bai Wanyi collapsed instantly. Yes, he said she plagiarized, but he had no evidence.
What's more, many things cannot be made immediately. For example, even if you know how to make simple milk tea, you have to mix it many times before you can fix the recipe. Qin Wan's recipe is definitely different from your own.
So strictly speaking, Qin Wan's actions cannot constitute plagiarism, at most they can be said to be borrowing.
Bai Wan yelled angrily, "You're just a copycat! A copycat!"
Qin Wan smiled. She admitted that she was not upright enough, but if she could watch her enemy collapse and walk step by step into her trap, so what if she was not upright?
She stepped forward, lowered her eyes to look at Bai Wanyi, and raised her eyebrows slightly: "Whether I plagiarized or not, so what? I will continue to walk ahead of you, but you must pay back everything you owe me."
"Also, Madam Lu, have you forgotten why you came to see me?"
Qin Wan smiled faintly. Bai Wanyi, a soul from another world, prided herself on being an independent individual. What she was most proud of was that she did not take her husband's surname after marriage and was always called "Mrs. Bai" in public.
Calling her "Mrs. Lu" was a humiliation to her.
As expected, when Bai Wanyi heard the words "Mrs. Lu," her face instantly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. She clenched her fists and said, "Please call me Mrs. Bai! If you don't want to call me that, you can call me by my first name and surname. Please don't call me Mrs. Lu! I'm not a woman who depends on a man. I'm an independent individual. Unlike you, who is divorced and still wants to rely on the prince to raise your status!"
Qin Wan looked at her with amusement and then provoked her, "Madam Lu, I think you really have forgotten what you are here for. Let me tell you, I control all the raw materials for rouge and powder not only in the capital, but also in the surrounding areas. If you want the lowest price, you'd better look outside the capital."
"And don't let me see you again. I'm afraid I'll strangle you to death."
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