Chapter 783: Chapter 783: Waiting to See Her Make a Fool of Herself
On the day of the birthday.
Huo Zijin woke up and saw that Ye Ling had forwarded a lot of chat records from the classmates’ group to her.
Huo Zijin was added to the foreign language class classmates’ group, but she didn’t expect Chen Shanshan to create another group without the teacher and without adding Huo Zijin.
All night, classmates discussed in the group what kind of spectacle Huo Zijin would make.
A poor student from a small county actually invited the entire class to a birthday party. Many people were waiting to see her make a fool of herself.
Imagine, whether the birthday party succeeds or not, this topic will be set.
If it fails!
Huo Zijin is bragging and posturing, trying to keep up appearances.
If it succeeds!
Chen Shanshan has a reason to report her to the school—how a poor student, a university student living on financial aid, could host such a lavish birthday party. Then Huo Zijin shouldn’t expect to apply for scholarships anymore!
Huo Zijin knew Chen Shanshan targeted her but didn’t expect her to talk behind her back like that.
Ye Ling: [Liang Yin, everyone in the class is waiting to see you make a fool of yourself.]
Huo Zijin: [I know, Chen Shanshan always disliked me.]
Ye Ling: [I don’t quite understand, why does she target you like this? Did you offend her in any way?]
Huo Zijin: [I don’t like offending people at school.]
Ye Ling: [What are you going to do about the birthday banquet today? I hope you won’t be unhappy on your birthday.]
Touched by Ye Ling’s consideration, Huo Zijin felt a little warmth: [Ye Ling, thank you for thinking about me.]
Ye Ling: [It’s okay. By the way, send me your location, I’ll take a taxi over.]
Huo Zijin sent a location.
Ye Ling suddenly stopped responding.
After a long while, she replied with a “?”
Ye Ling: [Did you send the wrong location? Why is this location in the villa district?]
Huo Zijin smiled: [You’ll know when you get here!]
After a while, someone @ her in the class group.
Huo Zijin switched to the class group and saw Chen Shanshan @ her: [Liang Yin, send your location to the group!]
Huo Zijin sent another location.
The class group went quiet.
After a few minutes.
After passionately ranting in the small group, Chen Shanshan @ her: “Liang Yin, are you crazy? Did you really rent a villa just for your birthday?!”
Many young people like to rent villas for parties, often cheap villas are rented, renovated, and set up with karaoke rooms, multimedia rooms, billiard halls, and then rented out.
Young people rent a villa, invite their good friends over, barbecue, play murder mystery games, werewolf games, as a new way of socializing.
Huo Zijin sent the location of the villa district in the group, leading Chen Shanshan naturally to think that she was just renting a villa for face-saving reasons.
But soon someone noticed something was amiss.
Zhou Zhou: [Isn’t this Xiangxie Palace?]
[Yes! Xiangxie Palace is a famous wealthy area in Beijing; only top billionaires or celebrities live there.]
[Liang Yin, is your location accurate?]
Everyone was skeptical.
After all, villas come in two kinds.
Some villas are in remote areas, though with good scenery, they are ten thousand miles away from the city center, without commercial facilities or school districts, thus cheap; most rented party villas are these countryside villas.
However, some villas start at over a billion, especially Xiangxie Palace, because of its prime location, quiet amidst the hustle and bustle of the city, with expensive land and construction costs.
Such villas are bought for investment or residence by the wealthy; those born unable to afford it will never afford it, especially Xiangxie Palace, where old money resides.
Huo Zijin: [I’ve sent you the location, remember to arrive on time.]
Lin Qi suddenly knocked on the door: “Yinyin, are you awake?”
Huo Zijin put down her phone: “Mom, I’m awake.”
She turned over, got out of bed, walked to the door, and opened it: “Good morning, Mom…”
Halfway through her sentence, she was surprised to see a row of people behind Lin Qi.
They seemed to be stylists, holding suitcases, and behind them, someone pushed in a row of racks with various styles of delicate dresses hanging on them.
Huo Zijin: “This is…”
Lin Qi said: “Today is your first birthday at home; Mom invited stylists to dress you up nicely.”
She paused, turning to the elegantly made-up woman behind her: “Make sure my daughter looks beautiful for her birthday banquet!”
“Yes, Madam!”
The stylists walked into the room.
“Miss, please have a seat.”
Huo Zijin groggily was guided to the dressing table and sat down.
Hair stylists, designers, and makeup artists surrounded her and began to work skillfully.
Lin Qi closed the door, contently watching her daughter from the doorway.
Huo Zijin’s hair was untied while the hairstylist carefully groomed it.
At the same time, the stylist began to thoughtfully select dresses suitable for her based on her features, body type, and temperament.
Meanwhile, the makeup artist earnestly prepared the base for her complexion.
Having never known before, completing a style was such an elaborate undertaking.
Huo Zijin inherited Lin Qi’s natural cool-toned white skin, pleasing brow shape without much trimming needed, slightly outlined, they took shape.
Pairs of bright, alluring almond eyes, the corners moist with a shimmering glow.
A prominent nose bridge, cherry blossom-colored lips, pearl-like smile.
With already impressive features, a touch of makeup made her look like a fairy stepping out of a mural.
“Madam, your daughter’s skin is incredible! She must regularly get facial treatments, right? This good base doesn’t need any concealer.”
Lin Qi said: “It’s natural. Her skin is like mine in my youth, fair and smooth.”
“Madam, don’t joke, you look young now too!”
Lin Qi: “Because I regularly visit the beauty salon for maintenance! But my daughter is different; she’s 21 and has collagen-filled skin!”
Proudly looking at Huo Zijin, she seemed to see her former youthful self in her daughter.
The makeup artist smiled at Huo Zijin: “Miss, do you do skincare regularly?”
Huo Zijin: “Just exercise and sweat regularly.”
She had a fitness habit, thus good skin circulation, no acne, and few spots.
Beyond sunscreen and basic hydration, she hardly did extra treatments.
After the makeup and preliminary hairstyle, the stylist said: “Miss, let’s help you try on some dresses!”
Huo Zijin shyly said: “I’ll do it myself!”
The stylist smiled, gently explaining: “This dress is quite complex to wear as it involves a lace-up design, so we’ll help you wear it!”
“Yes, don’t be shy, we’re all girls!”