In the lobby, Jiang Xuanxuan and Wang Xiuzhen stood in a conspicuous spot, supporting each other.
Wang Xiuzhen was crying and sobbing. Jiang Xuanxuan had put on a "pitiful makeup" look. Her slender figure was wearing a loose long dress, making her look like Lin Daiyu, who could fall at any moment.
Even with the sickly makeup and those clothes, it still felt out of place.
A person's temperament cannot be completely concealed by makeup. Jiang Xuanxuan's temperament makes it impossible for people to feel sadness or pity.
On the contrary, she exudes a strong sense of determination to achieve her goals.
A sickly person will typically have a pale and haggard complexion, a slightly hunched back, and a weak expression.
Jiang Xuanxuan stood ramrod straight, wearing sky-high heels. Her pale face wasn't due to a lack of color, but rather to a thick layer of foundation. The obvious contrast between light and shadow on her neck was quite striking.
Although she wore droopy makeup around her eyes, making her look pitiful, her eyes still had a seductive quality, not the empty and powerless look of a sickly person.
Although most people don't know where this sense of incongruity comes from, the presence of incongruity will always attract gossip.
The Jiang family has been in the news a lot lately, and these two women are showing up in the crowd of people pointing and whispering without any attempt to hide it, so they must be someone special.
Especially Wang Xiuzhen, whose acting skills are not very good, glared at the gossiping onlookers several times, which made the gossip even more rampant!
This is the scene that Mrs. Xia saw when she walked out of the office area.
"Madam Jiang? Miss Jiang? What brings you here today?" Madam Xia walked up to the two of them unhurriedly, but maintained a safe distance of two or three meters. Her formulaic smile was distant yet polite.
"Madam Xia! Madam Xia, please help me!" Wang Xiuzhen saw Madam Xia come out and tried to take her hand.
But before they could get close, Madam Xia took a step back and dodged them.
"Help? What do I have to help Mrs. Jiang with?" Mrs. Xia smiled. "I run my food court, and you live your life as a lady of leisure. It seems we have no connection, do we?"
"Mrs. Jiang, haven't you seen the rumors online?" Jiang Xuanxuan asked impatiently.
"Rumors?" Madam Xia asked doubtfully, deliberately inquiring of the lobby manager standing beside her, "Xiao Ji, what rumors are you talking about?"
The lobby manager, Xiao Ji, glanced at Madam Xia, guessing she was trying to evade the question, so he chimed in, "President Tao, I'm busy with work every day, and when I get home I'm harassed by my child. I'm exhausted, how can I have time to care about gossip?"
"Oh dear!" Mrs. Xia deliberately changed the subject. "This is my fault! You were so busy last year that you didn't even have a proper New Year's celebration, were you? This year you must remind me to give you a long New Year's leave."
"No, Mr. Tao! No!" The lobby manager shook his head repeatedly. "The store is so busy, how can we have enough staff if I take leave?"
"Isn't there still Yang girl? Let her take the lead. Young people can't always think about enjoying life and getting something for nothing!"
"Pfft!" The lobby manager couldn't help but laugh. "President Tao, you're always exploiting Manager Yang's free labor like this. She's bound to complain!"
"It's not like we're not paying her salary, it's settled then!" Madam Xia's face was completely arrogant, with an air of utter arrogance, as if she would do whatever she was told. "At most, I'll give her a nicer red envelope for the New Year!"
Jiang Xuanxuan and Wang Xiuzhen waited for a long time, and when they heard Madam Xia talking about trivial matters that had nothing to do with them, they felt a little embarrassed.
“Mrs. Xia…” Jiang Xuanxuan’s aggrieved voice finally drew Mrs. Xia’s attention back.
"Oh! I forgot there's a living person right in front of me!" Mrs. Xia nodded self-deprecatingly. "Shall we talk about the vacation later?"
Before Jiang Xuanxuan could continue speaking, Madam Xia suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Oh dear! Am I getting old? Is my memory failing me? What did I just say?"
"Gossip circulating online!" One onlooker is still waiting for the next development.
"Oh! Yes, yes, yes! It's a rumor circulating online!" Mrs. Xia nodded, then looked at the onlooker and asked, "What rumor? Do you know about it?"
"It's about the rumors surrounding your lost daughter," the man replied.
"Ah! I've found my daughter? Where is she? I need to dress up. My daughter must be so beautiful. I can't let her down!" Madam Xia started to digress again.
"Mr. Tao!" the man called out to Mrs. Xia, "Rumors online suggest that your missing daughter might be this Miss Jiang standing right in front of you!"
"Her?" Madam Xia immediately suppressed her excitement, her composure was truly remarkable, even a movie queen would have to admit defeat. "How could that be! She has parents!"
"We don't know if she's his biological mother, but she's definitely not his biological father!" someone else chimed in.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Mrs. Xia pointed at the one who shouted, "My husband would never cheat on me!"
"Oh! No..." The man was interrupted by Madam Xia before he could finish speaking.
“My husband has excellent taste; he would never be interested in Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Even if he were to be interested, she would have to be a virgin unmarried woman who looks like Maggie Cheung!”
"Pfft!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Many people were amused by Madam Xia's serious rebuttal, which was quite dramatic. Was she choosing a concubine for her husband?
"Ahem! Mr. Tao!" The lobby manager coughed awkwardly, trying not to laugh, and pointed at the person who had spoken, saying, "He shouldn't have finished speaking yet."
"Oh! What do you mean?" Mrs. Xia nodded.
"It's said online that the Chiang family switched babies."
"The babies were switched at birth?" Mrs. Xia thought for a moment. "But if they were switched at birth... what about my daughter? Oh! No, what about the one I switched at birth? I didn't get to hold any of them at all!"
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