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    Zao Chun Qing Lang | Chap 116: Luan Nian Waits for Shang Zhitao in the Snow

    Lingmei's conference standards had always been first-class. The reason they insisted on trilingual hosting was that their clients were spread across the world, many of them industry heavyweights, and this particular conference required a live broadcast to every branch office worldwide. It put everyone to the test. Shang Zhitao had gone looking for someone on the market. Bilingual hosts, Chinese and English, were easy enough to find. Adding French made it difficult. She finally found a top graduate from a foreign languages college, someone beautiful as well as qualified, who quoted twenty thousand yuan, not including travel and tax. Shang Zhitao's company was small. She gritted her teeth and paid it. She brought her own black formal dress, had the makeup artist pull her hair back into a sleek style, put on rented diamond earrings, stepped into a pair of high heels, and walked onto the stage. The good posture she'd built since childhood served her well that day. She came ...
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    Zao Chun Qing Lang | Chap 115: Collision

    While Luan Nian was giving his interview, Shang Zhitao waited outside. Lingmei paid well, so she made sure to take good care of the account. This job finished, then the new year could begin, and she wanted to enjoy her holiday without complications. She couldn't afford a single slip, so she stayed on her toes. A reporter from the provincial station asked her, "How much longer before we can go in?" She glanced through the glass. Inside, Luan Nian leaned forward slightly as he talked, a sign, to anyone who knew him, that he was losing patience. "Less than five minutes and this round will wrap up," she told them. "You didn't even go check?" The reporter from the provincial station knew her well enough to notice she hadn't gone in to ask as she usually did, and raised an eyebrow. "I took a look. It's about done." She had arranged more interviews for Luan Nian than she could count, and she knew his moods better than anyone. Sure ...

    Zao Chun Qing Lang | Chap 114: No One Else

    Shang Zhitao thought heaven had truly favored Luan Nian. Even time could do nothing to him. He seemed to have not changed at all. Still the same cold, aloof man, with eyes so deep and dark they were almost frightening to meet. She walked to the table and took off her down jacket, revealing a black sweater underneath. It was as if she and Luan Nian had planned beforehand to wear matching outfits. Luan Nian remembered her saying that what existed between them was filthy, ugly, disgusting. He remembered her selling off every gift he had given her at a discount. He remembered how she had left without a word. His expression was not pleasant. Shang Zhitao sat down and rinsed her cup with hot water. Will spoke up at the right moment. "Zhitao used to work at Lingmei. She's close with our Lumi." "Mr. Luan probably doesn't remember me. I worked at Lingmei for six years," Shang Zhitao said, burying everything that had happened between them without a trace. ...

    Zao Chun Qing Lang | Chap 113: Shang Zhitao and Luan Nian Meet Again

    Shang Zhitao's new company landed its first contract with Sun Yu's firm. The client was holding a bidding event in Ice City to select a supplier, and Zhitao brought Fu Dong along with her. Before they went in, Fu Dong asked, "Boss, we don't have anything. Just a two hundred square meter office and a PowerPoint deck. Can we really pull this off?" "We can." "We'll still have to cover the upfront costs ourselves." "I have some savings." When she'd worked out the budget, she'd deliberately set aside money for exactly that. In the beginning they couldn't take on large contracts. A single big event could mean fronting over a million yuan, and she couldn't afford that kind of risk. If the cash flow ever broke, the company would be finished. What was left from selling her stocks was enough to cover four small events for Sun Yu's company. After those four, the money would start flowing back in. Zhitao had another...

    Zao Chun Qing Lang | Chap 112: Shang Zhitao Rebuilds Her Life From Scratch

    The year Shang Zhitao came back to Ice City for good was a hard one. There was the mortgage paperwork to chase down, and the renovation details to sort out. One evening before the New Year, Da Zhai was in a good mood and cooked a full table of dishes. Da Zhai's cooking really was something else. Shang Zhitao ate with real appetite, and between bites she said, "Mom, I think the reason I can't cook is that you never passed the cooking gene down to me." "Cooking needs a gene now?" Da Zhai took off her reading glasses. "It's because you never bothered to learn! I don't even know how you managed to eat those years in Beijing. It's a miracle you didn't starve." Shang Zhitao shoveled in a mouthful of rice and suddenly thought of Sun Yu's specialty Guizhou dishes, her hot and sour noodles, and the meals Luan Nian used to throw together that always turned out delicious no matter how little effort he seemed to put in. "My roommat...