Chapter 473 All the socialites in Hong Kong begged for my hand cream!
The lobby was filled with elegant ladies dressed in designer suits and adorned with jewels, enjoying afternoon tea.
Their conversations revolved around stocks, horse racing, and beauty.
"Hey, have you heard? That 'Eternal Light' face cream is going for 8,000 yuan a bottle on the black market! And it's still impossible to find even one!"
"Really? That's incredible!"
"Why would I lie to you! Mrs. Li got her hands on a bottle a couple of days ago, and it really does reverse aging! The spots on her face have faded away! I dream of buying a bottle now, I'd sell my diamond ring for it!"
As Su Yue listened to these discussions, a playful smile appeared on her lips.
Eight thousand yuan?
It seems that Huo Wenxuan's scarcity marketing strategy is quite effective.
Just then, the elevator doors opened.
A group of people walked out towards us.
The woman at the head of the group was dressed in a flamboyant manner, wearing a tight-fitting cheongsam and sporting large wavy curls. She was none other than Lin Yaozu's wife, Chen Manni, a notorious socialite in Hong Kong.
She was holding a bottle of "knock-off" face cream that she had somehow gotten her hands on, and she was showing it off to her girlfriends.
"See that? This is the Eternal Light! My husband pulled a lot of strings to get it!" Chen Manni proudly held up the bottle. "Tonight at the banquet, I'm going to outshine everyone!"
Su Yue glanced at the bottle.
The color is too dark and the texture is cloudy; it's obviously petroleum jelly adulterated with pigments.
Chen Manni also saw Su Yue and her group.
She had obviously received a call from her husband and knew that these people had embarrassed Lin Yaozu.
"Oh, isn't this Doctor Su?" Chen Manni swayed over and said sarcastically, "What? The Huo family's car dropped you off here and left? Well, Old Master Huo was just being polite; he wouldn't really treat a few people from the mainland like relatives."
She pointed with her rhinestone-studded manicured nails at the canvas bag in Su Yue's hand: "This is the Mandarin Oriental. We do not receive guests who are not properly dressed. People who don't know better would think you're here to deliver takeout."
Gu Ningjing suddenly let go of Su Yue's hand and walked over to Chen Manni with her short legs.
She looked up, stared at the bottle in Chen Manni's hand, and said seriously, "Auntie, this is fake."
The entire room fell silent for a second.
Chen Manni's face instantly turned a deep purplish-red: "Where did this wild child come from! What nonsense are you spouting! I bought this for ten thousand yuan!"
“Really.” Gu Ningjing pointed to the bottom of the bottle. “The true eternal light will exhibit the Tyndall effect under light, which means a blue light path will appear. Moreover, its refractive index is 1.33, while yours… is at most 1.1.”
The little girl recited a string of physics terms that no one could understand, but her confident tone made people believe her without even realizing it.
"You...you don't know anything!" Chen Manni was furious and raised her hand to shove Gu Ningjing.
Her wrist was caught in mid-air by a large, iron-like hand.
Gu Beichen was already standing in front of his daughter without anyone noticing.
With just a little force, Chen Manni let out a bloodcurdling scream like a pig being slaughtered.
"Ah—! Someone's being hit! These barbarians from the mainland are hitting people!"
Su Yue slowly walked forward and took out the genuine little blue bottle from her bag.
She unscrewed the lid.
A delicate and unique seaweed aroma instantly filled the air, a scent that no industrial fragrance could replicate.
Su Yue picked up a little with her little finger and casually smeared it on the back of Gu Ningjing's hand.
A miraculous scene unfolded.
The pale blue ointment melted quickly upon contact with the skin, like water droplets dissolving into a sponge, and was instantly absorbed.
Gu Ningjing's already fair and delicate hands now shone with a lustrous sheen, like the finest mutton fat jade.
The ladies around them stared in disbelief.
That's true!
That's the legendary genuine article!
“We use this as hand cream at home.” Su Yue put the cap back on the bottle and casually stuffed the priceless face cream into Gu Ningjing’s little backpack. “After all, the sun is strong on the island, and the child’s skin is delicate, so she needs to take good care of it.”
Hand cream?
That's a miracle drug that costs eight thousand yuan a bottle!
You actually used it to wipe your child's hands?!
Chen Manni looked at the bottle of counterfeit goods in her hand that smelled cheap, and then at Su Yue's nonchalant expression. She felt a burning pain in her cheeks, as if she had been slapped hundreds of times.
“Miss Su…”
A wealthy woman who had just been discussing face cream walked forward shakily, her eyes fixed on Gu Ningjing's bag. "Your face cream... are you selling it? I'll offer ten thousand! Cash!"
"I'll offer twelve thousand!"
"Fifteen thousand! I'll take it!"
The lobby instantly transformed into an auction hall.
Those once high-and-mighty ladies were now practically ready to fight over a schoolbag.
Su Yue smiled.
She smoothed her bangs, which had been ruffled by the sea breeze, and looked at the dumbfounded Chen Manni.
"Sorry, this is not for sale."
“However…” Su Yue changed the subject, “If someone performs to my satisfaction at tonight’s banquet, I might consider giving them a few bottles as… a gift.”
After saying that, she took Gu Beichen's arm and walked calmly toward the elevator under the fervent gazes of the crowd.
All that was left for Chen Manni was a silhouette that said, "You can't afford to be near me."
The moment the elevator doors closed.
Gu Pingan tugged at Su Yue's sleeve: "Mom, that light, don't we have a box of it? It's all under the bed."
"Shh." Su Yue held up a finger. "That's a secret weapon. Remember, scarcity makes things valuable. If they find out we use this to wipe our feet, it'll be harder to make money from it."
Gu Beichen looked down at his wife's shrewd businesswoman-like appearance, his eyes full of amusement.
It seems I won't have to worry about being bullied on this trip to the port city.
This woman is the kind of person who's bound to cause trouble wherever she goes.
The elevator went straight to the top-floor suite. As soon as the door opened, Huo Wenxuan rushed out in a hurry, holding a thick stack of orders.
"My dear aunt! You've finally arrived!"
Huo Wenxuan was sweating profusely, his tie askew. "Those foreign devils have gone mad! That old woman named Elizabeth said she'd cut off our centrifuge parts supply if we didn't sell her the face cream! And those old fogies from the Lin family are pressuring us in the conference room, demanding we hand over the formula!"
"A coup?"
Su Yue took the order, flipped through it casually, and then threw the stack of papers worth millions onto the coffee table.
"Then let them force us."
She walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the bustling Victoria Harbour below, her eyes flashing with a light colder than the neon lights.
"At tonight's banquet, I will show them what it means to invite a god in but not to send him away."
“Honey,” Su Yue turned around and winked at Gu Beichen, “get me that battle robe. Tonight, I’m going to cause a ruckus.”
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