She poured half a glass of wine and threw two cubes of ice into the vodka.
Then Nie Qingru leaned back on the sofa and gracefully picked up the wine glass and shook it.
This is the scene Shadow saw when he came in.
He walked behind Nie Qingru and reminded her softly, "Queen, the doctor told you to drink less alcohol, which is good for your health. Your blood pressure has been quite high recently."
"Yeah." Nie Qingru responded, but he didn't put down the glass in his hand. Instead, he put it to his lips and took a sip of the strong liquor. He half-narrowed his shrewd eyes and asked him solemnly, "You haven't contacted those people yet?"
Shadow looked at the vodka in her hand worriedly and bowed his head respectfully: "The old man and his family don't want to come back."
"Heh." A sneer escaped from Nie Qingru's lips, as if he was annoyed, and seemed to be mocking Nie Tao and others for overestimating their own abilities.
This time she sat up and placed the wine in her hand on the coffee table. Her aura grew colder uncontrollably.
"He just wants to force me!"
"… "
Shadow lowered his head and stayed with her silently.
The Queen is right.
Old Master Nie refused to answer the phone and refused to come back from the Independent Continent. To put it bluntly, he wanted to force the Queen to bow her head and do what they wanted.
As a servant, he had no right to talk about the Queen's family affairs. When Yingzi heard what the Queen said, although he felt sorry for her, he could do nothing about it.
After Nie Qingru's initial anger, she quickly came to her senses.
"Where has the APE competition gone?"
"Designers from various companies have submitted their designs."
Shadow stood behind her, his hands crossed in front of him, in a very submissive manner, and reported to her in a low voice.
"I followed your instructions and looked at the design drafts with the organizer. Apart from a few untouchable drafts, there are quite a few newcomers this year. One of the newcomers' work is very good and innovative, and it fits the theme of this competition."
The theme of APE this year is nostalgia. Many works by well-known jewelry brand designers can be recognized at a glance.
Because they focus on the nostalgia of their own brand's classic designs, the design drafts are almost replicas of their own classic models, with minor modifications made to the classic models.
In order to ensure the fairness of the competition and not be influenced by brands, APE does not allow designers to mark the source of the drawings they submit.
Shadow can still pick out those that cannot be used and some that can be used by them from these unmarked manuscripts.
"Are you sure the other person is a newcomer?" Nie Qingru relaxed the expression on his face.
Shadow was sure.
"I specifically asked a friend of the organizer. It was his first time participating in the APE competition and he was not well-known in the circle."
Nie Qingru drooped her eyelids and said lightly: "Yeah."
This kind of person is exactly what she expected.
This is the kind of person she asked Yingzi to find: unknown, new, easy to control, not likely to cause trouble afterwards, and even if there is some trouble, it will be easy to deal with.
Nie Qingru gave orders without any psychological burden: "Do it cleanly and don't let anyone catch you."
It was obviously not the first time that Shadow had done something like this, and he agreed very easily.
"Don't worry, Queen."
"Um."
Nie Qingru picked up the glass on the coffee table again, shook it, and the vodka inside shook out some ripples.
She did not hide her disgust on her face, and said with a sullen look, "After you're done, send them a message and tell them to get back here and stop embarrassing themselves in public!"
(End of this chapter)