Chapter 74 Chapter 74 Harvest Season
The Dior show that followed was lackluster. Lee Joo Hyuk and Jeon Seong Ae attended the Dior show together, while Ryu Kwon Ji Ryong was the only one from the Chanel camp. They had quite a few Korean friends when they arrived that night, including Nam Joo Hyuk, who was well-known, and a few others whose names they couldn't remember. Jeon Seong Ae was still very active in socializing, as if she were the leader of the Korean ecosystem. A bunch of seniors and juniors who she didn't even know came to say hello.
"Oh my, I'll definitely add you on Kakao later."
"Okay, okay, let's have dinner together when we get back to Seoul."
"Yes, Kang Sang Mi Da, the rumors are all fake, the cooperation is real."
"See you later."
No matter how good Jeon Seong-ae is at socializing, she would get tired after talking for a long time. Lee Joo-hyuk was free on the side. After all, his personal image and aloof temperament made it difficult for people to approach him. That night, he stood next to Jeon Seong-ae but did not speak, so netizens called him a "bodyguard". You know what, he looked quite pleasing to the eye and they seemed to be a good match.
After all, Xing Mei is a gossip-mongering personality, a couple-loving personality. Anyone she's with is instantly recognizable. During Paris Fashion Week, netizens were treated to a daily drama, like watching a Korean drama. One day, it was Lee Joo Hyuk and Jeon Byul shopping at a piano store. Another day, it was Kwon Ji Yong and Lee Joo Hyuk shopping, with Kwon Ji Yong rolling his eyes. The next day, it was Lee Joo Hyuk and Jeon Ji Yong sitting on the sofa, waiting for Jeon Byul to shop at the Champs-Elysées. The nickname "Human Chanel" (or "Human Chanel") spread like wildfire.
However, the guests attending Dior's show were obviously more famous than those at Margiela's. In addition to Korean celebrities, we also met Natalie Portman and "cousin" Jennifer Lawrence. Natalie was a bit aloof, but Jennifer was quite cheerful. She even greeted Quan Xingai when she saw her:
"I'm a Ferrari fan. I know you, Sarah. You've become quite famous lately."
"Well, thank you Jennifer, I hope next time it will be my music that becomes famous." Quan Xingai shrugged.
"So you're really not in a relationship with Leclerc? Wow he's pretty hot isn't he?"
"Maybe. It's hot, but Ferraris are hotter."
Both of them have a "silly girl" personality, and they communicate smoothly and had a happy chat at the show.
Most of the media gathered around the show, asking questions focused on gossip. Jennifer, after hearing a few of them, stood up for Star Love and said, "This is Dior, not a dating show. Can you give us beauties some space?"
Quan Xing Ai immediately agreed, and Jennifer nodded and added, "If Sports Weekly shows up, I'd be happy to talk to them about F1."
Then the media and people around started laughing, and the atmosphere was good.
After the Dior fashion show, the result of the business talks between Margiela and her came out, and she turned out to be the global spokesperson for the Margiela fragrance line.
After the Margiela endorsement deal was finalized, Dior also expressed interest in collaborating, promising further collaborations with Xing Ai in terms of appearances, ribbon-cuttings, and event attendance. Furthermore, if Xing Ai needs to participate in any events, Dior's ready-to-wear and custom-made lines would be happy to accommodate her. Givenchy, another renowned LVMH brand, also extended a collaboration invitation.
These two LVMH collaborations were the result of the matchmaking of her new stylist Kimi, who worked for the LVMH Group before becoming the creative director of the Japanese version of Harper's Bazaar. So after returning to Korea to set up his own team and confirming the collaboration with neon, the Dior line and Givenchy cosmetics collaborations can be regarded as a gift for his collaboration and also a display of his abilities.
At the same time, Korean Vogue also invited Jeon Star-ae to return to the country to shoot the cover of the May issue. It was a group cover, and the collaborators included models, singers and actors, including the trio who have been firmly in the spotlight in Korean entertainment news in recent days - Kwon Ji-Dong, Lee Joo-hyuk and Jeon Star-ae.
Jeon Star-Ai is busy again. In the last two days in Paris, she will shoot official photos and advertising photos for Margiela, then stay in Milan for three days, and then fly back to South Korea to shoot for Vogue magazine. After the shooting, she will also negotiate with Netflix for the guest role of a chaebol daughter in "Squid Game". Then there is the trip to Italy at the end of the month that she promised to watch the Lock & Lock race and visit the Ferrari base.
"Zhilong, aren't you really afraid of having illegitimate children if you just change hotels like this?"
"Don't worry, Nuna. We can only do this now while the epidemic is still under control and we are still relatively free. When we return to Seoul, we can only date at home."
"That's not right. Besides home, we also have a production room and we can write songs." Quan Xingai played with the tablet while Quan Zhilong lay on her lap playing with his mobile phone.
Although these two have only been dating for a week, to outsiders they seem to have entered the old married couple mode. To say that they are not in love, that's not the case. They are inseparable and don't want to be apart for even a day. To say that they are particularly passionate is not the case either. They are just mature rationalists. As long as they are in public, they act like good friends and don't give people any hint of romance.
I really don’t know whether to say they are awesome or that they are a couple that can actually play like this, walking together openly in the name of friends, and even if they are photographed back in Seoul, they don’t need to explain anything.
According to Wu Xianhao, "These two are lucky. Anna is definitely sent by God to help Xing Ai and Zhi Long." Chi Mingzhen nodded seriously.
"Jilong, come to think of it, have you forgotten something?" Quan Xingai threw away the tablet and held Quan Zhilong's cheek and said.
"Mo? What's the matter?" Quan Zhilong frowned. Did he forget something?
"That strange account, huh, you forgot about it. You said you would tell me, but now you haven't told me." Quan Xingai pinched the other person's cheek, then leaned over and kissed her.
Quan Zhilong laughed, pressed the back of Xingai's head and leaned forward to exchange a lingering kiss with his girlfriend before speaking, "There were so many emergencies that I really forgot. If you want to know, I'll tell you, it's just a small account used to record you."
Quan Xing'ai looked curious, and then she saw a small number of photos of Quan Zhilong on his phone. From the earliest one in Japan to the latest one on the day they were together, he took a photo of the piano with the si key, and the caption was still "I love you, I will love you forever." Xing'ai's eyes were filled with tears again.
"Thank you for not giving up on loving me, otherwise we would never be able to be together."
"God has been good enough to me. The first and only person I love deeply has come back to me. Of course I will try my best to hold your hand." Kwon Ji-yong smiled gently. His heart was peaceful and calm in this relationship, as if being with Sarah again, no difficulties were a problem anymore.
"I love you, you cured my love PTSD." Quan Xingai said with a smile.
"It wasn't me who healed him, it was Nuna who decided to believe in me again. You healed yourself. Thank you for accepting my belief in me."
"Then I'll create a small account too and follow you - this is me @ssssi." Quan Xingai took out her mobile phone and quickly registered a small account @ssssi and it was obvious that she was a pair with Quan Zhilong's @xxxxk.
"Did you notice? The Si of the piano keys."
"Should I take a picture of the piano's Do key?" Quan Xingai asked with a smile. The two of them played a tacit joke about S and D.
After Quan Zhilong fell asleep, Quan Xingai was still awake. Looking at Zhilong's face, which seemed to have changed and yet nothing seemed to have changed, she marveled at the wonder of the world. It turned out that healing was so simple. She just had to fall in love with him again. How could one step into the same river twice, unless it was with Quan Zhilong.
Xing'ai felt she had to do something. Zhilong had struggled with his resemblance to Sarah, but he'd finally recognized her and planned a concert for her. Xing'ai figured she had to do something, too. As she pondered this, she carefully walked out of the room, crossed her legs, and began searching for inspiration in the living room of the suite.
After thinking about it, he ran to knock on Chi Mingzhen's door.
"Oh my, Xing Ai, why are you not sleeping so late at night?" Chi Mingzhen opened the door and asked speechlessly when she saw Xing Ai's excited expression.
"Ouni, I'm going to go back and get my revenge. I'm going to prepare a super luxurious confession package to scare Long. What do you think?" Quan Xingai was immersed in the art of imagination and didn't know what the world was.
"..." Chi Mingzhen was speechless for a moment and then said, "I didn't expect Xingai to be so love-brained. How do you want to prepare?"
"Should I decorate my house like a sea of daisies and then pull him over to give him a new melody of happiness, or give him some luxurious jewelry? No, I'm very poor now, and I can't do anything else except writing songs. I'd better write a new song for him." Quan Xingai looked excited. The past FOR G was too sad, and there should be a new FOR G to replace it.
"Okay, don't you have a lot of songs you want to create together?" Chi Mingzhen smiled helplessly. Xing Ai really still has a childish personality.
"Yeah, JY and SA are here, so SA has to take action." Quan Xingai fell into deep thought, and when she came back to her senses, she saw Wu Xianhao standing not far away with a midnight snack in his hand, frowning and looking at her with an idiot expression.
"Oh Mo, brother, why are you like a ghost..." Quan Xingai said.
"What are you mumbling about? I just said I thought I heard your voice as soon as I got out of the elevator."
"Oh, it's okay. Let's talk about tomorrow's plans. What time is tomorrow? Brother, aren't you on a diet? Why are you eating a midnight snack?" Quan Xingai became serious again and put the drama in his mind behind him.
Wu Xianhao raised his eyebrows and said nothing. He only told her that his last job in Paris tomorrow was the Margiela fragrance advertisement.
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It was still dark in Paris when Quan Xingai was taken by the Margiela team to a rose garden in the suburbs. She was shooting a campaign for Margiela's new fragrance, Untamed Rose. The scent sounded similar to her usual "Round of Roses," but it was actually completely different.
As if about to begin a new life, a new rose blooms within her heart, a new rose replacing the scent of the past. Untamed Rose opens with an elegant, sweet wild rose fragrance, tinged with berry and citrus freshness. The heart and back notes reveal the rich, thorny wild rose and gin, as if reflecting an untamed nature, before the enduring woody aroma.
On a cool and misty April morning, in the rose garden outside Paris, she was wearing a linen long dress, revealing one eye among the roses, or leaving a beautiful silhouette beside the stream. In the overhead shot, she was running barefoot on the wet dirt path, with fresh rose petals scattered around her footprints, and the end of her footprints was the disappearing mist.
The final subtitles gradually emerge: mysterious, free, and fleeting traces of wildness.
This clip, shot before sunrise, will eventually become a 15-second commercial that will be played repeatedly in stores around the world. Although it was cold, the work had to continue. When the sun rose, she had completely changed her makeup, and she had emerged from the forest elf into the studio.
Today, all advertisements and posters speak of the vitality of the wild. A young girl's wildness stems from her own instincts, not the allure of a mature woman, and is closer to the purity of the "untamed." This vase of roses doesn't belong in a garden; it was born in the misty wilderness, embodying the courage of a young girl running barefoot, the curiosity of her fingertips touching thorns, and an innocence untouched by the world.
Her wildness is the most luxurious fragrance.
When the last shot ends, the sun is about to set. She is wrapped in a blanket, with freckles on her face added by the makeup artist. She turns her head to look at the golden sun gradually setting in the garden. The little prince with half-long hair lowers his head and sniffs the fragrance in the rose garden.
Jeon Seong-ae leaned against the windowsill, watching Quan Zhilong, intently photographing roses in the golden sunset. The corners of her mouth lifted unconsciously. She seemed genuinely happy to be in love with Quan Zhilong again. Even though she had rejected so many times out of fear—as Seong-ae, as Sarah, each of which she had completely rejected—Kwon Zhilong remained unafraid of the thorns on his back.
The courage to run? The curiosity of touching thorns with fingertips? And the innocence that has not been polished by the world? It is the courage to start over again, the fearlessness to touch thorns despite knowing that they are thorny, and the innocence that has not been lost despite being tempered by the world.
Courage is truly the most valuable quality of human beings. Her Zhilong is truly precious.
Quan Xingai smiled and shouted, "Princess Zhilong, you are so beautiful like this."
Kwon Ji-yong looked up and saw that the girl was still wearing the crown made of fresh wild roses and thorns that she had worn during the commercial shoot. A solid-colored blanket was draped over her shoulders, revealing her collarbone and painted-on freckles - she was so beautiful.
He couldn't help but take a picture of the girl's unbridled smile, which resembled the theme of the advertisement, "Untamed Rose"
"I'm here to pick you up. We're going to Milan tomorrow. Do you want to visit Paris tonight?"
"Huff—I'm going to change my clothes first. Or maybe we can take all the staff out for a big dinner tonight." She said while sneezing.
"Hurry up and change your clothes! It's very cold in the suburbs! Don't catch a cold, Mingzhenxi, take this child away quickly." Quan Zhilong sighed. It was still very cold in Paris in spring, and he couldn't help but worry about her.
"Alaso Alaso, think about the dinner tonight first. I don't eat snails!" Quan Xingai rubbed her nose and was pushed by Chi Mingzhen to remove her makeup and change clothes while she had to explain loudly.
Quan Zhilong was already smiling. How could he not know what she liked to eat?
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