"Why are there so many people?"
Standing outside the elevator, Lin Zhishui watched the elevator that never stopped on his floor and the crowd waiting to squeeze inside. He felt a headache coming on.
Even if it was the weekend, wasn't Guanshi Plaza a little too crowded?
Was some celebrity here for another event?
"Forget it. I'll take the escalator."
Somewhat exasperated, Lin Zhishui abandoned the idea of taking the elevator, turned into the mall, and headed toward the escalator on the first floor.
Autumn was almost here. He had come all the way from the pedestrian street to buy some autumn clothes, since he had a membership discount card for a menswear store on the fourth floor.
As soon as he entered the mall, he saw an event poster displayed on the largest LED advertising screen on the first floor.
"Earthquake relief charity fundraiser?"
Lin Zhishui looked up at the enormous LED screen and studied the two people on the poster. He finally understood why the mall was so crowded today.
The poster featured half-length photos of two women, each more beautiful than the other. As it happened, he knew them both.
One was Xia Guyu, the superstar who had risen to fame through period dramas and was hailed as an immortal descended to earth.
In other words, Xiao Sui.
The other woman looked about twenty-four or twenty-five. She had fair skin and lovely features, and her quietly closed eyes gave her an air of tranquility. The barely perceptible smile on her lips seemed to carry a trace of inexplicable compassion.
This woman was Guan Shiyin. Although she wasn't a celebrity, she was even more famous than Xia Guyu.
The chairman of the Guan Group, which owned the Guanshi Plaza beneath his feet, was her father. She could be