"And I wasn't watching short videos. I was looking at wedding dress designs. The video just now was an ad..."
Liu Meiling thought Amanda was usually out of the country and didn't understand the situation in China, so she deliberately lied to her.
Amanda was already in a hurry and extremely impatient. Liu Meiling's constant chatter in her ear made her even more irritated.
"I only believe what I see. Even if it was an ad, you were still on your phone."
"Moreover, your slacking off at work has nothing to do with Song Qiqi taking over your job. I'm talking about your attitude!"
Amanda stopped in her tracks and stared coldly at Liu Meiling.
"I'm going to take measurements for a customer now. If you keep following me and distracting me, you can leave right now!"
After saying that, Amanda pulled her suitcase and entered the office.
She needed to get herself together immediately. She couldn't meet the customer looking disheveled.
Liu Meiling followed Amanda to the office door. Amanda suddenly slammed the door shut, and Liu Meiling narrowly avoided getting her nose hit.
Liu Meiling stared at the closed office door, feeling extremely panicked. She clenched her fists tightly.
Working in a well - known wedding dress shop had great benefits. Besides serving high - class customers, there was also a lot of free time to slack off.
She definitely couldn't lose this good job!
Thinking of this, Liu Meiling decided to cause some trouble for Song Qiqi to lower others' opinions of her.
As long as Song Qiqi made a mistake, Amanda would surely shift her attention away from her and direct her anger towards Song Qiqi.
Liu Meiling concealed the hostility in her eyes and walked upstairs with a cold face.
Song Qiqi was showing Xu Qingqing a mermaid - style dress. Lu Chuanbai kept checking his watch, and there was a hint of impatience between his eyebrows.
He had an appointment with the designer Amanda at 9 o'clock, but it was already past 9:10.
Amanda still hadn't arrived.
"When will your store manager come?" Lu Chuanbai asked Song Qiqi unhappily.
Facing Lu Chuanbai, who exuded an icy aura, Song Qiqi was a bit at a loss. She pointed to the door hesitantly and asked,
"Let me call the designer and ask."
Xu Qingqing grabbed Song Qiqi who was about to leave. She pointed at the champagne - colored mermaid dress she had taken a fancy to and asked Song Qiqi to help her take it down for a try.
"Maybe there's a traffic jam. Let's wait a bit. First, take this champagne - colored mermaid dress down for me to try."
"Okay." Song Qiqi nodded repeatedly and went to get the dress.
Xu Qingqing tugged at Lu Chuanbai's sleeve and comforted him, "Let's wait a bit more."
For Xu Qingqing's sake, Lu Chuanbai softened his expression.
While Xu Qingqing went to change clothes, Lu Chuanbai took Xu An'an to the children's clothing area.
As soon as Xu An'an saw the colorful princess dresses, she couldn't take her eyes off them. She excitedly ran over, picked up one dress after another, and held them against her body.
"Dad, look. Doesn't this dress look beautiful on me?"
"This dress is just like Elsa's princess dress. I like it so much!"
Lu Chuanbai patiently followed behind Xu An'an, helping her straighten the hems of the dresses.
Every time Xu An'an tried on a dress, Lu Chuanbai would give her a lot of praise.
After Liu Meiling went upstairs, she saw Xu An'an standing in front of the mirror in a pink princess dress.
Lu Chuanbai was patiently squatting behind Xu An'an, helping her arrange her dress.
Liu Meiling seized the opportunity and immediately walked up to Xu An'an. With an obsequious smile on her face, she squatted down and wanted to help Xu An'an straighten her dress.
"Mr. Lu, your daughter has really inherited your and your wife's good looks. She's so beautiful."
"Um." Lu Chuanbai gave a non - committal grunt. His lukewarm response made the smile on Liu Meiling's face freeze.
To avoid an awkward silence, Liu Meiling smiled and tried to get closer to Xu An'an. "Little girl, what's your name? How old are you?"
Xu An'an snorted. Her smooth cheeks scrunched up in disgust as she snatched the hem of the dress out of Liu Meiling's hand.
"You locked me and Mom outside just now. I don't want to talk to you."
After saying that, Xu An'an picked up the hem of the dress and skipped away to try on other new dresses.
Without even looking at Liu Meiling, Lu Chuanbai followed Xu An'an. He didn't care about Liu Meiling at all.
Liu Meiling crouched there dejectedly, extremely embarrassed. She cursed Xu An'an in her heart.
This rude brat really thinks she's a princess!
It was just a bit of cold wind. It didn't freeze her to death!
Meanwhile, Xu Qingqing had already changed into the beautiful mermaid dress. Since her upper body was quite full, the mermaid dress was a bit tight.
Xu Qingqing covered her chest with one hand. Song Qiqi helped hold the hem of the dress and stood in front of the mirror with Xu Qingqing, arranging the clothes.
"Ms. Xu, you look really beautiful in the mermaid dress."
Song Qiqi sincerely praised her. Seeing that the hem of the mermaid dress was wrinkled in some places, she went to get a steam iron.
"Ms. Xu, the hem of the dress is a bit wrinkled. I'll iron it now."
After saying that, Song Qiqi skillfully added water to the iron, plugged it in, and started operating the machine.
Seeing this, Liu Meiling thought her chance had come. She walked up to Xu Qingqing with a smile and pretended to help her straighten the hem of the dress, but in her tone, she was criticizing Song Qiqi.
"Song Qiqi, you knew the customer was coming to try on the wedding dress. Why didn't you iron the hem of the mermaid dress earlier?"
Without waiting for the two to respond, Liu Meiling put on the act of a good senior. She looked up at Xu Qingqing and falsely pleaded for Song Qiqi.
"Ms. Xu, don't blame her. She's just used to slacking off. I'll discipline her in the future."
As she said this, Liu Meiling busily helped Xu Qingqing arrange the upper part of her dress.
Hearing Liu Meiling's slander, the smile on Song Qiqi's face disappeared instantly. She looked a bit aggrieved and embarrassed.
As a recent graduate intern, she had to clean the entire wedding dress design studio every day. She not only had to receive customers, help them arrange their clothes, but also coordinate with the makeup artists.
She was busy all day long, while Liu Meiling only slacked off and tried to curry favor with the rich.
This champagne - colored mermaid dress hadn't been worn for a long time. Since the hem was folded when it was stored, it looked a bit wrinkled now.
It wasn't that she hadn't done a good job of ironing.
Xu Qingqing naturally wouldn't just listen to Liu Meiling's one - sided story. She slapped Liu Meiling's hand away when it tried to touch her shoulder.
"I don't need your help."
After saying that, Xu Qingqing turned to Song Qiqi. "Why aren't you ironing yet?"
Song Qiqi nodded in response, squatted down, lifted the hem of the dress, and used the hot steam from the iron to iron out the wrinkles.
Liu Meiling's face turned completely ugly.
Since no one wanted her around, she walked away dejectedly, pretending to arrange the dresses. In fact, she was observing the distance between the hot - steam iron in Song Qiqi's hand and Xu Qingqing's calf.
The steam from the steam iron could reach up to 100 degrees Celsius, which could quickly iron out wrinkled clothes.