On the sofa, Zhang Caiyu sat silently, staring at Li Ai.
The farce ended, and the internet was once again stirred up. Qin He had no interest in reading it anymore.
It was Fang Ruonan who, the angrier she became, scrutinized the comments more closely.
Netizens’ eyes were sharp; no one believed that Fang Ruonan had covered the camera just to change clothes.
All sorts of mocking remarks could be heard.
"Changing clothes can't be heard? Is she being funny?"
"Don't say that. After all, Miss Fang is a rich lady. If we were to hear her changing clothes, wouldn't we be taking a huge advantage?"
Fang Ruonan was so angry she almost fainted. Messages kept popping up in her WeChat group. Fang Ruonan opened the group and saw it was a prestigious socialite group from the capital. In the group was her arch-nemesis, the daughter of another conglomerate.
That person was constantly tagging her.
"Fang Ruonan, don't play dead, come out and talk about how you framed Miss Qin!"
Others in the group chimed in with gossip. Her arch-nemesis maliciously posted screenshots of netizens insulting her!
Fang Ruonan gritted her teeth in hatred, but with cameras all over the room, she dared not even smash her phone!
Fang Ruonan switched to the live-streaming platform and took a look. At this time, only Qin He's room had the most viewers. Her room was already ranked second, with over a hundred thousand people.
"It looks like Miss Fang is watching the live stream!"
"Miss Fang, we support you! Quickly cover the camera!"
"Look at her expression, she wants to cover it but dares not. She must be guilty, right?"
"Is Miss Fang changing clothes today? I want to hear the sound."
Fang Ruonan's face turned deathly pale as she stared at the camera in the room, unsure whether to cover it or not.
Her reputation was completely ruined!
Qin He!
It was all this bitch's deliberate doing!
On the edge of the pink beach, in a white villa, Gu Qichen sat on the white sand and finished watching Qin He's live stream.
It was bedtime, so Qin He found a towel and covered the camera.
Only then did Gu Qichen put down the tablet in his hand.
He looked up at Yu Jing, who was beside him, "How is the matter I entrusted to you?"
Yu Jing replied respectfully, "I have already contacted the chairman of Fang Group. The several plots of land that our Gu Corporation intended to sell to Fang Group have all been bought back. President Gu, rest assured, I will keep an eye on Fang Group's movements. From today onwards, not a single Ruofeng Garden will be successfully completed."
Gu Qichen nodded.
"However, President Gu, everyone in the company thinks you are heartbroken and dejected. Those few rats have come out and are biting hard. If you take back the lands intended for sale at this time, won't it make them a little wary?"
"No, you don't need to worry about company matters. Let them continue to cause trouble."
Gu Qichen's voice was cold and eerie, "Their time to perform is running out!"
When he accompanied Qin He until the end of the competition, it would be time to cleanse Gu Corporation.
The next day, at eight in the morning.
All the contestants were gathered in front of the pink beach. Not a single person was late this time.
As soon as they stepped onto the beach, the perfumers keenly detected a faint sweet scent in the air.
"What perfume is this? It smells so good."
"To have such an effect outdoors, without being dispersed by the wind, yet not too strong? What technology was used to achieve this?"
"It must be the work of the master judges of this competition—"
Amidst the discussions, the staff member was the man surnamed Wang who had handled the matters of Qin He and Fang Ruonan yesterday.
He was also a renowned perfumer in the industry, named Wang Qide, and was respectfully called Teacher Wang by everyone.
Once everyone had assembled, Wang Qide's voice rang out.
"Everyone should have smelled the fragrance on the beach today, right? To achieve a level that doesn't disperse in the wind outdoors usually requires an extremely strong formulation, meaning it's overwhelmingly rich. But this fragrance is very subtle, with a refreshing scent. It hasn't weakened at all from the moment the first person arrived until now. What do you think?"
Fang Ruonan, standing at the front of the crowd, assumed it was the work of the judges and immediately began to praise.
"It's a wonderful scent. I can't even imagine what technique was used to achieve this level!"
Wang Qide glanced at Fang Ruonan and smiled mockingly.
"I know that everyone thinks Miss Qin is an amateur who came to participate in this competition. She got first place in the top fifty. Some people might have thought there was something fishy about it, right?"
"A perfume competition is not like other events. If it were jewelry or fashion design, the audience could see the effect directly. But the audience cannot smell the fragrance. After discussion by the organizing committee, to reassure everyone, the fragrance wafting on the beach today is Qin He's award-winning work, 'First Love'."
"Qin He?!"
"While I didn't suspect anything fishy, I didn't expect her perfume to be so stunning."
"Long-lasting, elegant scent, how was this achieved?"
Wang Qide looked at Qin He and smiled meaningfully.
Qin He suddenly sensed something was amiss.
"Miss Qin uses traditional perfumery techniques: grinding, pressing, and layering. This fragrance should be primarily made from Agarwood, supplemented with distilled floral water, and several traditional Chinese medicines. We have already researched it. Not only is the scent unique, but it also has a strong calming effect."
"Perfume has a calming effect?" someone whispered.
In the crowd, Fang Ruonan felt her face burning! She wished she could slap herself for praising Qin He earlier!
It was Qin He's creation! How did she do it?!
It must be cheating; Qin He knows nothing about perfumery!
"What's so strange about that? Six God also has mosquito repellent effects."
Wang Qide smiled mysteriously and continued, "Among the organizing committee, a highly respected teacher said that this technique is very familiar and unique, a proprietary secret skill."
"What does this mean?" someone whispered, confused.
The person next to him immediately pulled him, "This means Qin He has a lineage. She's not an amateur as we thought, but a hidden master, like a sweeping monk!"
Most people quickly understood Wang Qide's meaning.
They looked at Qin He with astonishment.
Before the competition, everyone had already learned through Weibo that Qin He would be participating.
When they first found out, their moods were not good.
While she brought traffic, she also lowered the quality of the competition. Qin He, after all, was a mortician, and also worked part-time in makeup. Could she possibly understand perfumery?
Wang Qide continued, "That teacher said that Qin He's technique and preference for incense burners are very similar to Ding Xiang."
Ding Xiang was a renowned figure in ancient perfumery recently.
Despite not participating in competitions, due to her self-developed spice formulas, she had already become the most mysterious existence in the industry!
Some believed Ding Xiang was the pseudonym of a master, while many subtly hinted that they were Ding Xiang.
The industry had long suspected that three or four famous perfumers were Ding Xiang.
But Qin He was not among them.
This was completely unrelated!
Qin He's face completely fell. She now understood why Wang Qide had smiled so meaningfully earlier.
So, he was unmasking her in public!