Chapter 57 Do you know how expensive Miss Jiang's dress is?
She quickly jumped out of bed, closed the door, and pressed the answer button surreptitiously.
Mu Xingyi's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello, Qingqing, are you up?"
"Well, I just woke up. What's the matter, Doctor Mu?"
"I ordered two dresses for you and had them delivered downstairs, but your apartment doesn't allow outsiders to enter. Do you want to come down and receive them?"
Li Qingqing immediately panicked. Lu Yan was just about to go out to work, and she absolutely couldn't let him see her.
So she could only mumble, "I... I just finished taking a shower, so maybe they'll have to wait for me to get dressed before going downstairs. Could you please ask the person who's delivering the clothes to wait for me downstairs for ten minutes?"
Mu Xingyi said: "Okay, then I'll call and let them know, there's no rush."
After hanging up the phone, Li Qingqing pretended to go to the bathroom to wash up, but she was eavesdropping on Lu Yan's movements.
Five minutes later, Li Qingqing heard the sound of his bedroom door opening and poked her head out of the bathroom to watch him leave.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yan turned back just after reaching the door. He looked around and finally found Li Qingqing's head in the crack of the bathroom door.
Lu Yan frowned slightly, not understanding what she was doing, but still told her: "Someone delivered a new bed today, remember to receive it when you are home."
Li Qingqing nodded obediently, thinking to herself, let’s go, let’s go.
Lu Yan took one last look at her, thinking that this was probably what she looked like after having her head stuck in the door, then he turned around, opened the door, and walked out.
After calculating the time Lu Yan would arrive at the underground parking lot, Li Qingqing immediately got dressed and went downstairs to pick up the package.
As Lu Yan's car drove out of the garage below, she slipped into the lobby on the first floor.
After receiving the package, Li Qingqing took a photo and sent it to Mu Xingyi.
[The package has been received, thank you Dr. Mu.]
Mu Xingyi replied: [I should thank you. Choose one of the two dresses to wear tonight, and consider the remaining one as a gift to you.]
Li Qingqing replied: [No, Doctor Mu, I don't really need a formal dress in my position, so don't waste it.]
So Mu Xingyi finally gave up insisting.
Li Qingqing opened two dresses, one was a goose yellow dress with a large skirt that was more like a princess dress, and the other was a more slim-fitting pure black dress.
Li Qingqing decisively chose the second set, as the first princess dress was a little too exaggerated for her.
In the afternoon, the bed installer who came to her house asked her why the bed collapsed. Li Qingqing stammered and made up a lie.
"I accidentally stepped on it while trying to catch a mouse..."
The installer looked at her meaningfully without exposing her.
After seeing off the installer, Li Qingqing went to the bathroom and filled the bathtub with water, hoping that taking a bath could relieve some of the bruises she had accidentally gotten last night.
Lying in the bathtub, she felt extremely relaxed, and scenes from last night flashed through her mind.
After not seeing each other for a week, she felt a strange sense of longing in her heart. She casually picked up the coral necklace from her neck, and a sweet arc slowly rose at the corner of Li Qingqing's mouth.
After taking a bath, she started to put on makeup. To be honest, she was not very good at putting on makeup and had very few cosmetics. She barely put on a basic makeup look and spent a lot of time covering up the bruises and kiss marks on her body before she was finished.
At 6 o'clock in the evening, Mu Xingyi's car stopped downstairs of Wanhua Apartment on time.
Li Qingqing awkwardly covered her slightly exposed chest and trotted into Mu Xingyi's car.
She did not bring the coral necklace that Lu Yan gave her because she thought Mu Xingyi might ask about the origin of the necklace. She was too lazy to explain, so in order not to cause unnecessary conflicts, she decisively took off the necklace when changing into her dress.
When Mu Xingyi saw her in the dress, his eyes brightened up a bit, "Qingqing, you are so beautiful."
Mu Xingyi couldn't help but praise her, and the look in his eyes when he looked at her became even more greedy.
It would be great if Li Qingqing was his woman, Mu Xingyi thought secretly in his heart.
Li Qingqing smoothed the hair behind her ears and lowered her head embarrassedly. "I'm not very good at putting on makeup either. Doctor Mu, please don't be afraid that I'll embarrass you."
"How could that be?" Mu Xingyi moved his gaze from her smooth face to her empty neck, and then he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to buy her a necklace, so he suggested taking her to buy a necklace first.
Li Qingqing habitually wanted to refuse, but Mu Xingyi said that if she didn't wear the necklace, people at the venue would look down on him. Li Qingqing had no choice but to follow him to the jewelry store. She picked the cheapest one at random and let Mu Xingyi pay for it.
Mu Xingyi smiled and said nothing. The two returned to the car and continued on their way to the event site.
Half an hour later, the two of them came from the underground parking lot to a high-end banquet venue. Everything they saw was magnificent. If she hadn't been wearing a dress today, she would have felt embarrassed.
Mu Xingyi took her to say hello to some old friends, including Mr. Xing, the boss of the biotechnology company whom Li Qingqing had met at the door of Mu Xingyi's office before.
Boss Xing still looked at Li Qingqing with hungry eyes, which made her feel uncomfortable. Mu Xingyi was obviously a very gentle person, and she didn't understand why he wanted to make friends with such a person.
After Mu Xingyi greeted her a few times, he was called away by someone. He told Li Qingqing to wander around by herself and he would be back soon.
Li Qingqing nodded obediently and began to walk around the venue casually.
The men and women here were all well-dressed and behaved elegantly. Li Qingqing felt like she was in a TV drama, which made her feel very novel, as if she had fallen into Alice's Wonderland.
The waiter passed by and asked her if she wanted a glass of champagne. Li Qingqing waved her hand. She never drank alcohol.
After a walk around, she came to the buffet area and looked around. She picked out a few small desserts that looked good. Maybe she could try them. Maybe they would help her develop more new products.
While picking up dessert, Li Qingqing overheard the conversation next to her and realized that today's banquet was for the 70th birthday of the old man of the Jiang family. She had heard Shen Lu mention it before, saying that the Jiang family was the most powerful in the entire Haicheng. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart that she was lucky enough to attend the birthday banquet of such a person.
Thinking of this, she took a few more desserts. The desserts at Mr. Jiang’s birthday party must be specially provided, and you really can’t taste them in other places.
After she picked out her dessert, she turned around and suddenly bumped into a tall figure in a pure white dress, and the small desserts on the plate instantly fell to the ground.
The white satin dress in front of her was obviously stained by her chocolate mousse, and Li Qingqing hurriedly reached out to wipe it off.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I'm so sorry."
"Are you blind?" A sharp curse reached Li Qingqing's eardrums.
She looked up nervously, only to meet a pair of very beautiful eyes that were clearly filled with deep anger.
"Where did this poor fellow come from, being so rude here? Do you know how expensive Miss Jiang's dress is?"
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