Chapter 54: Expensive, Altering formal wear
(Part 1)
When Chu Yao saw Lu Anran wearing the dress, there were flames of jealousy in her eyes as though she wanted to burn a hole though the dress. Such a beautiful dress is wasted on Lu Anran! The only worthy to wear it is herself! Chu Yao clenched her teeth and said,”Anran, you are so pretty. You look beautiful in anything you wear!”
Lu Anran nodded, “En.”
Chu Yao pretended to put on a look of pity, “Anran, I also love this dress. I will also be attending today’s banquet, but I don’t even have a decent dress! Could you let me have this dress ah!”
Chu Yao’s request was evidently within Lu Anran’s expectations. She was not surprised, instead she turned towards the shop assistant, “If this lady was the one buying this dress?”
The shop assistant was very disgusted with Chu Yao’s behaviour, but still maintained a polite smile that a shop assistant should have, “If it is this lady, then we need to charge the original price.”
“Why!” Chu Yao said with a face full of displeasure. Why was it free for Lu Anran, and not for her ah!
A smidgeon of disdain flashed past the shop assistant’s eyes, “Because this is what our store manager instructed.”
Chu Yao clenched her fist in dissatisfaction. Isn’t Lu Anran’s status just a little higher? Other than that, She can’t even compare to her Chu Yao in all other aspects! Chu Yao clenched her teeth and asked, “How much does this dress cost?”
The shop assistant replied, “The price of this dress is $5.6 million.”
Hearing what the shop assistant has said, even Lu Anran and Lu Anxin were stunned. No one had expected this dress to be so expensive.
Chu Yao became even angrier such that she became tongue- tied, “This dress is 5.6 million! So expensive? It’s made of gold ah?”
The shop assistant nodded and said, “There are 142 diamonds on the skirt itself, and 70 on the gloves. Every diamond is equally weighted at 0.23 caret without exception, and its clarity of FL (Flawless) category. The cut is also conformed to the perfect diamond cut proportion. This part of diamonds is worth $500 000. The rest of diamonds used in other parts are equally weighted 1 caret, worth $600 000. The diamond used in the star pattern at the waist weigh 8.7 caret, this one costs $2 million. At the same time, the gauze used in this dress is also……”
“What rubbish! Don’t want it anymore!” The shop assistant was still speaking when she was impatiently interrupted by Chu Yao, who discontentedly clenched her fist again and looked towards Lu Anxin. Lu Anxin was also unable to accept it. This kind of price, even she cannot afford it!
Lu Anran was a little triumphant, luckily it was given by the store, if it was her who had to pay…… Definitely cannot afford ah! But when she ordered her custom- made dress, she seemed to have said for it to be approximately $500 000…… But anyway, since it was also given by others, Lu Anran decided to help this store advertise.
Chu Yao and Lu Anxin silently looked at each other. Even though they do not have the means to wear this dress, they will never let Lu Anran gain an advantage! The things that they cannot get, she Lu Anran should also not think of getting!
After Lu Anran changed her clothes, the shop assistant also carefully wrapped Lu Anran’s dress and placed it into a paper bag. When handing it over to Lu Anran, Lu Anxin suddenly slipped and fell, seizing the opportunity to hit the paper bag onto the floor. Seeing the situation, Chu Yao hurriedly went forward to support. The two of them looked at each other. Chu Yao blocked Lu Anran’s and the shop assistant’s line of sight while Lu Anxin took the opportunity to reach her hand into the paper bag to tear a large hole into the dress. Since they were unable to obtain it, then it is best to simply just ruin it. No one should think of wearing it!
After doing this, Lu Anxin got up from the ground with Chu Yao’s support, “Scared me!” Chu Yao then picked up the paper bag that contained Lu Anran’s dress and handed it over to Lu Anran, “Quickly take it!”
Lu Anran frowned and wondered what these two were up to. She took the bag, thanked the shop assistant and turned to leave the formal wear shop. Sitting in Old Zhang’s car, Lu Anran muttered, “A bit hungry. Let’s go and eat something together.”
Lu Anhu and Lu Anwei looked at each other before saying, “Before eating something, you should look at your dress!”
“Hm?” Lu Anran frowned and opened the paper bag. However, she found that the originally good dress when turned on the side, had a palm- wide hole on its most outer layer gauze. “This!” Even if Lu Anran used her knees to think, she also knew that Chu Yao and Lu Anxin did it.
Although the line of sight of Lu Anran and the shop assistant were blocked and both of them did not see anything, but the two brothers had seen everything clearly. These women ah! Really terrible creatures!
Lu Anran immediately lowered her voice and said, “Uncle Zhang, drive to the side of the Pedestrian Street!”
Old Zhang nodded and drove towards Pedestrian Street. Pedestrian Street was not too far, about 10 minutes away.
After Lu Anran alighted from the car, she said to Old Zhang, “Uncle Zhang, you go back first! We will walk around here for a while. You can come over at 8.30PM to pick us up.”
Old Zhang nodded after listening, “Okay Eldest Young Miss!”
As Old Zhang drove away, Lu Anran led Lu Anwei and Lu Anhu and made a beeline for the innermost shop on Pedestrian Street with a log cabin exterior. Pushing open the door, the wind chime on the door rang tinkly, a short- haired woman in her thirties came out to the front of the shop, “Eh? Anran? Why are you here?”
Seeing the woman, Lu Anran’s little face crumpled and wailed, “Auntie Xiao, only you can help me now!”
Chapter 54: Expensive, Altering formal wear
(Part 2)
“What’s wrong?” Xiao Ruyan was also astonished. She and Ji Rou were University roommates. After graduation, they have always maintained contact, naturally she knew Lu Anran. Seeing Lu Anran like this, Xiao Ruyan was also shocked.
Lu Anran took out the dress from the paper bag, “I will be wearing it tonight! But it has been torn!”
Xiao Ruyan opened the dress and had a look, “Italian- crafted. Such a beautiful dress!”
Lu Anran asked, “Can you mend it?”
Xiao Ruyan smiled and said, “Mending it is impossible, but I can alter it a little!”
Lu Anran put both her palms together. “Then I’ll leave it to you! Auntie Xiao!”
Xiao Ruyan smiled and said, “Go out for a walk and come back in two hours.”
Seeing Xiao Ruyan’s smile, Lu Anran was even more relieved, “Then we’ll go and eat something and come back later!”
Xiao Ruyan waved and said, “Go go!”
Lu Anran left the shop with Lu Anwei and Lu Anhu and then went into a Chinese restaurant in Pedestrian Street and ordered a few dishes. While waiting for the dishes, Lu Anran fell into a trance. If Lu Anxin and Chu Yao saw her appear again wearing this dress tonight, what kind of expression would they have? This time she was lucky that Lu Anwei and Lu Anhu noticed and told her in time, she could then repair it but what if the two of them did not see it? IF she realised at the very last moment just before the banquet that her dress was spoiled, it would be too late to even cry!
“Anran, how did you know that this Auntie Xiao would be able to help you ah?” Lu Anhu asked curiously.
Lu Anran raised the corners of her lips, “If she can’t help me, then nobody in this world would be able to help me!” Lu Anran looked at the confused expression on the two brother’s face and said, “You may not know if Xiao Ruyan but you must have heard of Roxanne Ess!”
Lu Anhu’s face was still at a loss but Lu Anwei narrowed his eyes, “The British royal wedding dress designer.”
Lu Anran snapped her fingers, “Yep! That’s her!”
Lu Anhu asked the puzzlement in his heart, “If she is the British royal wedding dress designer then why did she open such a small store on Pedestrian Street?”
Lu Anran replied, “I heard from my mother that Auntie Xiao is waiting for a man whom she had fallen in love with at first sight. She won’t always be there la. She will just be in that store every summer to wait for that man for a month that’s all.”
“Another touching love story ah!” Lu Anhu nodded thoughtfully.
Lu Anwei’s eyes were somewhat melancholy, perhaps he was thinking about his and Qin Shuhan’s matters again!
After a while, the dishes were served, Lu Anran picked up her chopsticks and started eating from the vegetable dish.
Lu Anhu said while he ate, “In any case, I know why you hate Chu Yao so much now!”
Lu Anran glanced at him, “Why ah?”
Lu Anhu said, “My brother and I personally saw and heard with our own ears!” He frowned and said, “Really cannot see it ah! She is actually such a cowardly and jealous girl ah! Really scary!”
Lu Anran heard and coldly harrumphed, “Hng, you don’t know anything!”
Lu Anhu retorted, “Why wouldn’t I know, I already said I personally saw and heard it!”
Lu Anran swallowed the vegetables in her mouth and frowned. The skills of the chef in this small store was really unimpressive! She lifted her head and looked towards Lu Anhu and said, “She was the person who pushed me, the one who did not know how to swim, into the swimming pool, and is also linked to the person who wants me dead. You can even say she is an accomplice because I was kidnapped on my way to meet her! Also, the reason why my relationship with Lin Da was not good is because of Chu Yao. Because I had a very good relationship with Lin Da before, Chu Yao wanted to kill her!” After saying everything in one go, Lu Anran looked at the tongue- tied brothers Lu Anhu and Lu Anwei.
Lu Anhu was obviously shocked, “You! Why didn’t you say so earlier!”
Lu Anran lifted the corners of her lips, “Say? Say to whom?”
“You can tell your Grandpa or Aunt ah!” Lu Anhu looked at Lu Anran with an unfathomable expression. Why did she not mention such an important matter ah!”
Lu Anran admired Lu Anhu’s record of eye- rolls, “Chu Yao’s father is Chu Wanhai. He is my grandfather’s secretary. If I tell this matter to Grandpa, and he accidentally expose this matter, how am I supposed to draw out that person behind the scenes ah! Not to mention my mother. She was born with no acting skills, if she were to know that Chu Yao is linked to the person who wants me dead, use your own brains to think about the consequences!”
Lu Anwei and Lu Anhu thought for a while and understood Lu Anran’s actions. However, they could not underestimate this fifteen- year- old younger cousin who chatted and laughed merrily with people who wanted to kill her, and at the same time, became estranged with her own best friend…… Such a painful matter thing this is ah! What kind of things did she experience for her to have such mentality now?
When Lu Anwei and Lu Anhu finished eating, the three of them went back to Xiao Ruyan’s store to collect back the dress. Under Xiao Ruyan’s dexterous hands, the dress became even more dream- like and beautiful. Looking at herself in the fitting room, Lu Anran smiled smugly. She was really looking forward to tonight……