Chapter 18: Shopping For A Dress
Lu Shen noticed Tang Lin's troubled expression, so he asked, "What's wrong?"
She was snapped out of her daydreaming zone and she replied, "Did you know that my brother and your sister know each other?"
"Well, of course they know each other. They were childhood friends, just like us." Shen didn't notice anything weird about them knowing each other because they were very close to each other when they were younger.
"Not knowing each other as friends, but maybe as... ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend?" Tang Lin was afraid that it might be true, once she said it.
"Why do you think that?"
Lin explained what she saw on Qingyu's phone and Shen had the same shocked expression as Tang Lin when she first saw the messages.
"Wait, there's going to be a company gala in two days for Lu Group. What if we get them together on that day? My sister and I used to always be each other's partner because we both used to be single with no one to go with, but this time, I should go with you and we could convince her to go with your brother." Shen suggested.
Every year, Lu Group would have a big gala and the CEOs of other companies would attend it with their partners. Back then, Tang Lin didn't think that Lu Shen was her childhood husband, so she didn't dare to approach him. The intimidating and cold aura around him made her think that he would never want to get to know her. The cold and domineering impression of Shen all disappeared when he started to flirt and mess around with her after that one family meeting.
In the previous years, the Tang and the Lu siblings would go as pairs to the gala. But now, Lu Shen would be going with Tang Lin, while Tang Qingyu would probably be going with Lu Ying.
"I'll try to convince Qingyu to go with your sister on that day when we get there." Lin was determined to find out what their past relationship was.
They arrived at the Tang Residence and went inside. Tang Lin left her fiancée to talk in the living room with her mother and went to Tang Wei's study room.
She saw her brother and her father each sitting on one side of the desk, working on company matters.
"Oh! Hey, Lin. Did you bring your brother's phone?" Tang Wei asked.
"Yeah." She passed the phone to her brother and sat on the couch.
"Hey. Qingyu, will you go to the Lu Group gala?"
"As your partner? I thought you already have Lu Shen."
"I know. Who are you bringing, since I'm going with Shen?"
"I don't know yet. I might ask our cousi—"
Tang Lin interrupted him and said, "Shen's sister, Lu Ying, doesn't have a partner to go with her. Do you want to go with her? She has to go because she is the sister of the Lu Group's CEO, but she has nobody to go with, since Shen is my partner."
Lin noticed her brother's expression. It seemed as if he didn't want to go with her.
"Why would I want to be the partner of someone I haven't talked to in years? It'll be awkward."
"What do you mean? You guys were so close when you guys were young! Did something happen?" She questioned.
Tang Qingyu looked so suspicious as he said, "No! What do you mean? Nothing happened!"
"If nothing happened, then go with her. I'll go tell Shen to ask his sister if she wants to go with you."
"Fine."
Tang Lin walked out of the room after hearing his response and went downstairs to go see Lu Shen. She saw that he had just made a call.
"Who was that?" She asked.
"My sister. She agreed to go to the gala with your brother."
"Really?! My brother just agreed, too!"
The couple had dinner with Lin's family and they went home right after. They had stayed at the Tang Residence all day, so when they got to Tang Lin's mansion, it was already dark.
The two kissed each other goodbye as Shen went into his own car and drove home.
The next day, Tang Lin was about to go shopping for a dress to wear at the gala and she thought of Lu Ying. She took out her phone and called her. She asked her if she wanted to go shopping with her and Lu Ying reluctantly accepted her invitation. Lu Ying didn't want to leave her daughter alone, but when Lin offered Shen's care, she immediately dropped her daughter off and met Lin at the mall.
They got in and went into an elevator. There were a group of girls talking to each other and one of the girls looked very familiar to Lin. That girl kept on glaring at Lin to the point where she thought her eyeballs were going to fall out.
Tang Lin ignored her and brought Lu Ying to a store where people would get dresses custom-made for important events. The store was very popular because they were able to make your dress within five hours and their dresses would turn out flawless, however, it was very pricey, so most of the time, wealthy people would go there.
After they finished explaining how they wanted their dresses to look like the employee, they saw the same group of girls on the elevator enter the store.
When Tang Lin and Lu Ying were talking to the employee about their measurements, Lin felt a hand pull her shoulder back. She now was facing the woman who was glaring at her in the elevator.
"It's you, isn't it? The woman who seduced Lu Shen?" The woman said loudly, so everyone could hear.
Seduce? Wasn't it Shen who tried to seduce her? Why was she being blamed for it?
Tang Lin suddenly remembered her. She was the heavy make-up woman who tried to flirt with her fiancée on the plane, but she failed. Lin was about to punch her in the face when she remembered who she was.
"Who are you and why do you act like you know my fiancée? If there's any one of us who is seducing my Shen and is trying to break a relationship, it's you. Why are you so shameless?" Lin attacked.
"You wench! How dare you talk to me like that? You know, Lu Shen is just marrying you for your family's support! Not because he loves you! He'll use you and leave you once he doesn't need you anymore!"
Lin was about to talk back, but Lu Ying stepped up and said, "What do you know? You're just a woman who leeches off of people's power and reputation to bring yourself up. How dare you assume that my future sister-in-law seduced my brother? She's not like a person like you!"
"Shut up! Who do you think you are? Why are you butting into our conversati—"
At that moment, Lin was unable to tolerate this fake woman's blabbering mouth, so she slapped her across the face. Then, Tang Lin called the security and they appeared in a minute. They dragged the woman away and her friends left because they were embarrassed.
"Thank you for defending me Lu Ying. I promise that I did not force Shen into this engagement."
The woman chuckled and said, "I know you didn't. I'm going to be your in-law in the future, so I have to protect you for my brother."
"Thank you so much." Lin was glad that she was now close to Lu Ying and she didn't need to worry about her objecting to their relationship. They went around the mall, shopping for other things. They went to go pick up their custom-made dresses and left the mall.
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