The next day.
Kong Yuzhen got up early in the morning to dress up. She picked out the dresses she had chosen yesterday and compared them on herself, but she was not very satisfied with any of them.
Su Qingci yawned, her eyes still sleepy.
This is such a chore! I stayed up until midnight yesterday helping her put together outfits, and we only managed to pick out three dresses. And this morning I was dragged out of bed again. What did she do to deserve this?
"Yu Yan, do you think my purple one looks too old-fashioned?"
"But when I compared this orange one to others, it made my skin look darker!"
Su Qingci pointed to a light blue modified jacket and dress on the bed, "Why don't you try this one? Put your hair up with that pearl headband and wear a pair of pearl earrings. You'll look fresh and gentle!"
Kong Yuzhen picked up the light blue skirt and looked at it. "But I think the color is a bit too light..."
Su Qingci took the dress and held it up against her. "Where is it bland? You're at the prime of your youth, why are you always trying to dress maturely? Fresh and cute is your style!"
Kong Yuzhen was taken aback. "I... I just thought Zhou Mingyue dressed very femininely, so..."
Su Qingci said speechlessly, "Why do you want to learn from her? Your styles and ages are completely different, and your body types are worlds apart."
Zhou Mingyue was in her twenties and already married, with a voluptuous and sexy figure. In contrast, Kong Yuzhen looked like a high school student from a later era, only seventeen or eighteen years old. When she tried to dress like Zhou Mingyue, it was as if she was a child who hadn't grown up yet had stolen an adult's clothes.
Listening to Su Qingci's words, Kong Yuzhen thought about Zhou Mingyue's voluptuous figure, then looked down at her own. Well, she could barely have waves, let alone surging waves.
"Sigh~"
"What did that bitch Zhou Mingyue eat to grow up like this? It's infuriating to compare people like that."
Su Qingci sat down next to Kong Yuzhen. "So why do you want to compete with her in terms of your weaknesses? You can also show your strengths. Look at your neck, it's so thin and long, it's definitely a swan neck. Zhou Mingyue's neck looks short and thick because of her big breasts."
"And your calves are also very beautiful, slender and rounded, and you are so fair-skinned, which is a huge advantage of yours. Your skin is as white as milk, I am envious."
"Hurry up and wash off that mess of scribbles on your face."
Su Qingci pulled Kong Yuzhen to the mirror and said, "Look at your face, and then look at your neck."
"Doesn't your neck look much better in skin tone than your face?"
Kong Yuzhen stared wide-eyed at the mirror, "It really is! Did I put on too much makeup? It looks a bit dirty..."
Su Qingci sighed inwardly, "What's the point of putting so much powder on your face?"
"People apply so much skincare products to make their skin tone more even and beautiful. Your skin is already fair and smooth, is it really necessary?"
"Look, your eyebrows are very nice, it's just that the tail is broken. You just need to draw on the tail and apply a thin layer of lip rouge and it will look great!"
At Su Qingci's suggestion, Kong Yuzhen washed her face again, drew her eyebrows, and applied lip rouge.
Su Qingci took the pearl headband from the dressing table, gathered all her hair behind her back, and secured it with the headband. She also braided two cute little braids on both sides, making her look youthful and beautiful, with a sweet and playful girlish charm.
Finally, adding a pair of delicate pearl earrings adds a touch of femininity to the whole look.
"Very good! Come on, take a look at yourself and see how different it is from before."
Kong Yuzhen looked at herself in the mirror, her eyes lit up, and then her eyes began to blaze with fury.
"Zhou Mingyue, that bitch!"
Su Qingci has become immune to Kong Yuzhen's habit of scolding Zhou Mingyue for no reason.
“I misled her before. She said that Brother Mengbai likes feminine girls, so every time I see Brother Mengbai, I dress up in a similar way to her.”
Kong Yuzhen recalled the banquets where people often gave her strange looks. At the time, she had thought she must have looked stunning, but now, thinking back, she guessed...
"Waaaaah, I'm so embarrassed! They're definitely laughing at me behind my back."
Su Qingci's lips twitched. "You were dressed up like that before? Your face was covered in all sorts of colors? And your lips were painted so brightly they could eat a child?"
Kong Yuzhen nodded with a dejected look on her face.
A hint of suspicion flashed in Su Qingci's eyes. "Didn't your brother say anything?"
Kong Yuzhen shook her head, "My brother dotes on me. He approves of everything I do, even if my face is covered in mud, he still says I look the best."
Su Qingci remained silent. No matter how much she loved her younger sister, she would at least offer a reminder in that situation. She refused to believe that Kong Liulian lacked even the most basic aesthetic sense.
Considering what Kong Yuzhen said before, such as "Brother won't let me get close to Brother Mengbai," Kong Liu's attitude now seems like he deliberately made Kong Yuzhen look ugly.
If that's the case, then his actions last night must have had a deeper meaning.
Last night during dinner, Kong Liu said he would recognize Su Qingci as his younger sister and even gave her a whole set of dresses, shoes, hair accessories, earrings, bracelets, etc., telling her to dress up nicely so that he could introduce her to some friends when he went out with everyone today.
They will also publicly announce that Su Qingci is their cousin, and that Jiang Yuyan will be the Kong family's cousin from now on.
Downstairs, Abu, who was helping Kong Liu straighten his tie, was also asking the same question.
"Sixth Master, are you really going to bring Jiang Yuyan along? She's from the countryside and has never seen anything like it; she wouldn't be ready for that kind of occasion..."
Kong Liu reached out and took the vest that Abu handed him, saying, "Precisely because we haven't seen much of the world, we need to broaden our horizons even more."
"You don't really think I brought her back to Shanghai out of gratitude for saving Yuzhen, do you?"
Abu asked, puzzled, "Does Sixth Master have other plans for her?"
As Kong Liu was buttoning up his vest, he asked Abu, "What do you think of Jiang Yuyan's face?"
Abu suddenly realized, then asked worriedly, "But Sixth Master, will she agree?"
"Is it up to her whether she agrees or not? What can she do if she doesn't agree? She's an orphan from out of town with no relatives or friends, and she has no one to rely on in Shanghai. Without me, where can she go after leaving the Kong family? Without a letter of introduction, she can't even leave Shanghai."
"Besides, she comes from a small place like Hunan. Once she gets used to the wealth and luxury of Shanghai, she might just throw herself at us without us even having to say a word."
"I'm not some great philanthropist, do you really think I'd raise her like a daughter of the Kong family? There's no such thing as a free lunch!"
"With her face in front of us, Yuzhen isn't so conspicuous anymore!"
"In order to keep each other in check, the Zhou family has already gone to great lengths. Yuzhen is still young now, but what if it's two more years later?"
"I was worried about this before, but now with Jiang Yuyan's move, we've killed two birds with one stone!"
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