The crystal chandelier in the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel shimmered brilliantly.
The air hummed with the murmur of hushed conversations.
Quite a few guests attending the conference instinctively stopped in their tracks the instant they recognized Secretary Chen and Zheng Qiudong.
Their faces showed that they wanted to come over and strike up a conversation, yet did not dare disturb them rashly.
Thus, gazes mixed with curiosity, scrutiny, and envy converged on the young, beautiful woman.
At that moment, Shen Yuyan keenly felt that she stood at the absolute center of this invisible storm of power.
Just minutes ago, she had still been quietly wallowing in sorrow in the car.
Tang Song's emotional PUA and the uncertainty in her career had filled her with confusion and fear about her future.
Yet in what seemed like an instant, everything had turned upside down.
Secretary Chen had personally greeted her on behalf of Ms. Ouyang.
Zheng Qiudong, hailed as a "talent scout of the business world," had personally welcomed her in the lobby and frankly admitted that Tang Song had specially arranged for him to be there to "escort" her.
They had even all addressed her as "President Shen."
She did not fully understand the deeper implications behind that title, but she knew it itself carried a powerful implication of status.
It was enough to leave her dizzy and shaken.
In a daze, she recalled the scene from a few months earlier, when she had first met Zheng Qiudong at the MAHA Cloud Club.
Back then, how desperately she had wanted this "big shot" to take notice of her, how much she had wanted to exchange a few words with him.
Yet in the end, she had merely been an awkward foil beside the dazzling Xiao Jing.
And now—
Only