Faced with this invitation, Yanliang couldn't help being taken aback.
The first thing she reacted was to look up at the manager in charge. Although she knew that the manager in charge would not hear her conversation with Lu Zheng, but for some reason, she always felt a little guilty. She took two steps away with her mobile phone and was about to refuse. Lu Zheng at the other end did not hear back after waiting for so long, so he made his own decision: "I will pick you up at your company at 6 o'clock in the evening?"
"..."
"how?"
Yanliang hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Okay."
She is indeed going back to the company in the afternoon, and the "secret" will be released soon, even without Xu Ziqing's invitation, Yan Liang has to go there in person to see if the brand developed by gathering all the elites of the Xu family can really be a hit as expected.
Yanliang rushed back to the company before 1:30. The press conference was held in the media hall on the 24th floor of Xu's Building. As soon as he entered the door, he saw that many media reporters had already set up their interview equipment, and the venue was full of seats.
The first row of seats in the auditorium is reserved exclusively for Xu's executives. The name tags of the principals in charge of the secret project have been arranged in order of position. Naturally, the word "Xu Ziqing" is in the middle position.
As soon as Yan Liang appeared, he was surrounded by sharp-eyed reporters. The spotlight flashed non-stop, Yanliang could only cover his eyes with his arms, and walked forward with difficulty.
"Miss Yan, Miss Yan! Why don't you attend with your sister?"
"Miss Yan, I heard that Yayan intends to start a strategic cooperation with Mingting, is it true?"
"Miss Yan, Libo Group also chose to hold a new product launch conference for European products today at two o'clock sharp. What do you think about this?"
"When interviewing Ms. Xu Ziqing before, she said that the relationship between Xu and Libo has always been very good, and there is no need for vicious competition at all. But when our colleagues interviewed Mr. Jiang, Mr. Jiang said that he was very confident that he could cooperate with Xu Miss Yan, can you tell me about your father's attitude on this matter?"
"Miss Yan..."
Voices one after another rang in Yanliang's ears, she couldn't even hear the question of the previous reporter, the voice of the latter reporter overshadowed the previous one.
It took Yanliang a lot of effort to dodge the crowd of reporters, and hurried into the backstage through the side door on the left side of the press platform.
Xu Ziqing was making the final confirmation of the press conference in the backstage, and he looked up to see Yanliang walking towards him while he was busy, he was really a little surprised.
Xu Ziqing immediately handed over the matter at hand to the product director of Secret to follow up, while he walked slowly towards Yanliang: "You are still here."
"I'm curious about your real strength, so let's take a look."
Xu Ziqing guessed that he was really busy so he didn't say those sarcastic remarks in the past, not because everyone was present.
Yanliang found a corner to sit down by herself, acting like a bystander. There were two large screens hanging on the wall in front of her, one of which switched to the lively scene outside the press conference, and the other, which was broadcast directly from the TV station. Libo Group's press conference screen, Libo has always been Xu's strongest opponent, Libo's president Jiang Shijun is a very difficult target, Xu Ziqing's fear of Libo can be seen.
Since the backstage can see all the pictures of the outfield, Yanliang is really annoyed by the reporters, and she doesn't want to show her face, so she simply sits here in the backstage.
Seeing that it was exactly two o'clock, all the members of the secret team headed by Xu Ziqing walked out of the lounge one after another, while Yanliang declined their invitation and did not intend to move.
Soon, Yanliang saw Xu Ziqing on the screen—
Xu Ziqing and other high-level executives sat in the first row of the auditorium. Only Secret's project vice president came to the stage at the invitation of the host and took the lead in meeting friends from the media.
In addition to major journalists, well-known domestic and foreign make-up experts, agents from the five major regions of the world, and global spokespersons were invited to attend, of course there were senior executives from the North American region representing Johnny Welle.
The live broadcast of the TV station froze for a moment on the scene where Xu Ziqing had a happy chat with the North American executives, and then returned to the release stage.
The models and make-up artists are already ready. Under Xu Ziqing's setting, the press conference is like a high-end show, full of cold metal futuristic sense—
When the lights dimmed a little, it meant that the press conference had officially started.
Yanliang has a launch schedule in his hands: the futuristic series for eye makeup, the color series, and the perfect base makeup series for the finale.
Because Caucasian skin defects such as freckles and pores are more serious than Asians, the perfect base makeup series is naturally positioned by Xu Ziqing as a competitive product, and will be promoted in the fourth stage of the conference.
Secret's press conference was proceeding step by step according to the schedule, Yanliang temporarily focused on Libo's press conference on another screen.
Different from the process of launching star products in the secret conference layer by layer until the end, Libo launched the star products in the series of new products in the second session.
Here, the product director of secret is still explaining the overall concept of the futuristic series, and the product director of Libo solemnly introduced it to the reporter: "The following is the high-definition base makeup series for you."
Yanliang was stunned immediately.
Shocked, he looked down at the flow chart of Secret, and then looked up at the five major products of the Libo Group's high-definition base makeup series that appeared on the big screen—Yanliang's brain hadn't reacted yet, and he had already stood up and rushed towards the door.
When Yanliang rushed to the front desk, the voice of Secret's product director rang in his ears: "Now, let me introduce the protagonist of our press conference: the perfect base makeup series..."
At that moment, Yanliang was already on the spot.
At the position next to the side door, Yanliang has already seen that many reporters in the audience have received a call. Although Yanliang doesn't know what the content of the call is, seeing the expressions of the reporters who are either surprised or surprised as if they found a new world, Yanliang is already A bad premonition took over.
At this moment, it was too late for Yanliang to take any rescue measures until he saw Xu Ziqing's assistant rushing to Xu Ziqing who was in the front row and whispering to Xu Ziqing for a long while, regardless of so many cameras -
The assistant seemed to speak more and more anxiously, and Xu Ziqing's face changed from being slightly stiff to livid. Yanliang has never seen her sister, who has always been in danger, look like this. Even when she exposed what Xu Ziqing had done to "Yayan" in front of her father not long ago, Xu Ziqing was not as panicked as she was at the moment At a loss.
Xu Ziqing left the stage in a hurry, and then someone stopped the product director who was presiding over the press conference. The scene was extremely chaotic for a while, and the five series of perfect base makeup that had just been pushed on stage were pushed back, but it was such an attempt to conceal A group of media became cats who smelled fishy smells. They broke through the restrictions of the media area and rushed to the release stage one after another, surrounding the product director.
"Our colleagues at Liberty Launch just sent a message saying..."
"One is perfect base makeup and the other is high-definition base makeup. Is there really such a coincidence?"
"Is it just a name resemblance or..."
…
…
Just when the product director was surrounded and unable to move, a large number of security guards from outside the venue finally came to maintain order, and the reporters were forced to retreat to the media interview area. With the microphone in his hand: "Friends from the media, don't be impatient. We just found out that there are some problems in the process of our press conference. Let's continue now."
One word to appease everyone.
But when all the reporters were eagerly waiting for the debut of the perfect base makeup series, the press conference was temporarily changed to a section where the makeup artist demonstrated the overall makeup.
A reporter stood up and protested on the spot: "Makeup concealment is the content of the next session, shouldn't it be the perfect base makeup series now?"
As soon as the reporter's words came out, not only did they get the unanimous approval of the media colleagues, but all the cameras were focused on Xu Ziqing who was back in his seat.
Even the product director on the stage was silent for a while, and cast a questioning look at Xu Ziqing. Xu Ziqing looked at the director, and silently signaled the director to ignore the provocations from the reporters.
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Yan Liang, who was watching the whole process, had already decided to leave the venue.
Xu Ziqing's assistant was still busy on the phone when passing by her: "Secretary Li said Mr. Jiang will be here soon..."
Jiang Yunan
Yan Liang only paused her steps for a while, and then left at a fast pace.
Libo Group…
It really is their Xu family's nightmare.
Such a bad press conference ended half an hour earlier than the original schedule. Even though the launch of the perfect base makeup stopped abruptly in the middle, Secret's leading product has already been linked to the word "plagiarism".
Should the perfect base makeup be released
Before finding out why Libo Group launched a high-definition series that is almost indistinguishable from the perfect base makeup, it would be wrong to rashly release the perfect base makeup.
But if you choose to temporarily put aside the launch of the perfect base makeup, then the most basic and important part of the base makeup is missing from Secret's products, which means that the original complete product chain is considered to be cut, and buyers are naturally not happy.
Yanliang left the venue all the way, thinking about this question all the way.
Although these are the problems that the secret team needs to solve and have nothing to do with her, she doesn't have to be nervous about Xu Ziqing, but Yan Liang just can't help but worry—
In such a conflicted state of mind, Yanliang kept refreshing the follow-up status of various media on the perfect makeup incident on the computer, until six o'clock in the afternoon, she suddenly remembered: she seemed to have agreed to a date with someone.
Yanliang hastily turned off the computer, and before the computer screen went black, her phone rang.
On time, at six o'clock—
When Yan Liang picked up the phone, he heard Lu Zheng's unhurried voice: "I'm downstairs from Xu's."
Under the gentleman's attitude, there is a sense of self-importance, this is Yan Liang's first feeling when he heard his short sentence.
"I'll be down right away." Yanliang said while picking up her bag and walking towards the office door.
A restaurant with a nice atmosphere, suitable for a date.
Yanliang's professional suit is not suitable for dating.
She always has a distracted attitude, and she is not suitable for dating.
The first few dishes have been withdrawn, Lu Zheng is sitting opposite her tasting the foie gras as if nothing had happened, Yan Liang is experiencing the fifth distraction—
As he was eating, Lu Zheng paused with the knife and fork, but he couldn't hold it any longer, he put down the knife and fork with a frown, raised his head and said, "Miss Yan, is it because the food disappoints you too much, or because I am too disappointing?" Are you disappointed?"
Only then did Yanliang suddenly come back to his senses, and in just a second, he had covered up his emotions, and raised his head with an innocent look: "I'm only concentrating on eating, what did you just say?"
Lu Zheng's eyes seemed to say that he lost to her... But he just smiled and shook his head: "I just asked if the food suits your taste."
Give each other a step up before the date turns into a more awkward situation.
Yanliang felt that it was necessary to find a topic, and after much deliberation, she finally found it: "Mr. Lu must come here often, and the waiters seem to recognize you."
Lu Zheng's expression is much better than before, although the so-called "much better", it's just that the corners of his lips and brows have a slight curvature of joy, only to hear him say: "The French cuisine here is one of the best in the country."
As if reciprocating, Lu Zheng also asked a question: "You were distracted frequently before, were you thinking about the Rashomon incident between Libo Group and Secret?"
Yanliang's face changed.
Lu Zheng immediately understood: "Don't worry, I'm not a gossip person, I won't ask you too much."
Hearing what he said, Yanliang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, just about to unknowingly lead the topic elsewhere, but Lu Zheng immediately added: "The only thing I'm curious about is that I heard that you and your sister, I thought, you don't I would be worried about her, let alone worry about—” He said, taking a fork to order some of the untouched main course in front of Yanliang, “—the dinner was not touched at all.”
Is such a date considered pleasant
At least Yanliang doesn't think so.
But it seems that Lu Zheng doesn't think so: "Will you eat at another place next time?"
Yanliang can only smile, whether to agree or refuse, depends entirely on how this man imagines her smile.
There are only Yan Liang and Lu Zheng in the descending elevator. The light can be seen on the wall, one is silent and can't tell what to think, and the other is the sixth time to be distracted...
Fortunately, halfway down the elevator, a lady walked into the elevator with her child. The child was very noisy and could run for several rounds in the small elevator room without stopping.
The more the wife tried to grab the child, the louder the child laughed, which made Yan Liang's heart more peaceful.
Quiet and quiet in my heart, I thought about the company's affairs: Xu Ziqing, secret...
"Be careful!"
Suddenly someone shouted.
Yan Liang came back to her senses, only to see that boisterous child tripped over her toy ball, and fell directly towards Yan Liang with her small body.
Yanliang couldn't dodge it enough and almost twisted her foot, at this moment, a hand stretched out and grabbed her shoulder.
Yanliang looked along the stretched out arms and saw Lu Zheng's face—
There was still no special expression on his face, it was indifferent, but his arm obviously gained some strength.
The moment Yanliang separated from him, the elevator reached another floor, and the elevator door opened in response.
Yanliang was busy lowering her head to avoid Lu Zheng's gaze, and missed the momentary expression fluctuations on the faces of the couple outside the opened elevator door.
And when Yanliang adjusted her expression and raised her head, the couple outside the door had already walked into the elevator.
it turns out…
yes…
Jiang Yunan.
and Xu Ziqing.
When Yanliang discovered Jiang Yunan, Jiang Yunan had already recovered his expressionless face. His gaze flicked past Yan Liang: "Boss Lu."
Lu Zheng was quite surprised: "Coincidentally, are you also eating in this building?"
Jiang Yunan replied with an ambiguous smile.
Xu Ziqing's expression at this moment? —
Yanliang will never pay attention to half-eyed.
A group of people came to the underground parking lot in this way.
Yan Liang had already secretly contacted her assistant during dinner, asking her to bring her car, but now she excused that the company still had something to do, so she directly got into her own car instead of taking Lu Zheng's car to leave.
The car slowly drove out of the parking lot, Yan Liang closed his eyes and rested his mind, but the mind kept popping up—
The scene of Jiang Yunan and Xu Ziqing walking into the elevator together.
Suddenly, the car braked sharply.
Yanliang immediately opened his eyes.
And before she saw clearly what happened in front of the car, someone walked up to the door on her side and opened the door for her.
Yan Liang was startled: "Jiang..."
Before she could finish speaking, the man outside the door interrupted her coldly: "I asked you to do business, not to sell yourself."
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