The young lady looked at Shu Jiaying with great envy. She clasped her hands together and said, "This is the first time I've heard a man say such sweet words to a woman. Princess Chen, you are truly blessed."
Shu Jiaying didn't know the girl in front of her.
But the girl's attitude was acceptable. Shu Jiaying responded politely: "It's okay. If you meet a man who truly loves you in the future, you will also hear such sweet words."
"Then I'll take advantage of Princess Chen's good wishes. By the way, Xiao Qiao introduced me here. Xiao Qiao said that the makeup on her face was done by Princess Chen. I think it looks very unique. I wonder if Princess Chen is free now. I also want to ask you to help me with a makeup that suits me better."
Shu Jiaying only just realized that the girl who had asked her to do her makeup was called Xiao Qiao. She smiled and agreed, "No problem. You're Xiao Qiao's friend, so you're my friend too. Putting on makeup is just a small thing."
Just as she finished speaking, several more girls came over and said in unison, "Princess Chen, we are also Xiao Qiao's friends. Can you help us with our makeup?"
"And me, Princess Chen, I'd also like you to help me put on some makeup."
“…”
Shu Jiaying didn't expect so many people to come at such a young age, but having people meant having business, so she said to them, "Okay, line up in first-come, first-served order, and I'll do the makeup that suits you one by one."
"Princess Chen is so kind."
After getting Shu Jiaying's promise, the girls lined up happily. After finishing the makeup for the last beautiful girl, Shu Jiaying counted and found that she had actually done makeup for more than 80 faces. This meant that more than two-thirds of the people participating in the competition came to her, and her newly opened set of cosmetics was completely used up. But it didn't matter. According to her preliminary statistics, the people who came to her for makeup definitely had a 90% success rate, and she would be able to earn 35,000 taels of silver soon.
But there was one thing that Shu Jiaying had not expected. It turned out that the rules of the competition were that all the contestants would vote for each other, with each person casting two votes, but the names could not be repeated. In other words, while a contestant could vote for herself, she could also vote for another contestant, and the person who got the final number of votes would be the winner.
So after each contestant finished their show, they returned to their seats.
After Shu Jiaying finished her show, all the contestants who had had their makeup done by Shu Jiaying voted for her without any prior agreement. Only the remaining 20% of the contestants, in addition to voting for themselves, cast their other vote for Zhong Lihua as requested by the Queen Mother.
During the remaining time, the judges began to count the votes, and then a eunuch came onto the stage holding a thick stack of ballots.
Zhong Lihua looked at the stack of ballots. Since the Queen Mother had already informed her, she knew that the thickest stack of ballots was definitely voted for by other candidates.
After adjusting her clothes, Zhong Lihua thought that she would stand up gracefully after the eunuch announced the answer. She had already thought of her acceptance speech.
The eunuch smiled at all the contestants, then announced, "The winner of this beauty contest is..."
Zhong Lihua was about to stand up, but who knew what she heard was——
"Prince Chen's Concubine—Shu Jiaying!"
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