As the saying goes:
Everyone loves beauty.
Everyone is naturally drawn to beautiful things.
Beautiful people were naturally among the things considered beautiful, and there was nothing derogatory or frivolous about that.
For a girl like Chen Junyi, even without makeup, her natural features were simply too good. She had fully inherited her parents' good looks, so even amid the collective assault of makeup—the greatest of Asia's four dark arts—her naturally pure, orchid-like elegance, coupled with the upright posture she had developed through years of exercise, still allowed her to stand out in any setting.
Even Wu Fang, another woman, could not help feeling a little envious and jealous when she saw her.
After the banquet began, she maintained an enthusiastic conversation with Chen Junyi, who was seated beside her.
First, she knew that Chen Junyi was Huang Chong's personal coach, so she had to take the initiative to get on good terms with her.
Second, Chen Junyi had begun by helping Huang Chong pick out food and ladling him soup. Those intimate gestures, almost like those of a girlfriend, made Wu Fang wonder whether she might actually be Huang Chong's girlfriend.
Somewhat awkwardly, one of Wu Fang's close friends from work suddenly called around dinnertime and asked her out for dinner.
After thinking it over, she decided that they were acquaintances anyway, and Du Wei knew her friend too, so she simply invited her to come have a bite at the banquet.
In the end, after her friend had barely taken two bites and seen how intimate Chen Junyi and Huang Chong were, she found a flimsy excuse and left early.
Wu Fang could naturally guess what her friend was thinking, but she deliberately pretended not to know.
Because she knew full well that once some opportunities were missed,