Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 389: The Engagement[2]

Chapter 389: The Engagement[2]

On this snowy afternoon, at the Grand Palace hotel in the capital city, many luxurious cars slowly arrived past a crowd of eager photographers, paparazzi and eager journalists who were falling over themselves to capture pictures of the guests as they evacuated their cars.

It was national news that on this day, one of the empire’s most wanted bachelors was holding his engagement banquet. His fiancé Chi Lian was an up and coming business woman who had successfully sneaked onto the list of business people in the empire to look out for this year.

The biggest reason why some of the paparazzi were here was to capture a picture of Chi Lian whose name was on the lips of many people today thanks to the events of last night. Most of the rubbish posts had been deleted but some posts remained, especially those that corrected the narrative.

Hotel security was doing their best to keep the press at bay.

"It’s Du Moxi," someone shouted.

"Over here Moxi,"

"Look this way Moxi."

The flashes of cameras rapidly went off almost blinding some of the security guards.

Moxi was here as Chi Lian’s guest and a performer at the ceremony.

Five minutes after Moxi made her entrance, another celebrity arrived.

"Jian Yu, wow it’s Jian Yu."

More flashes followed as the press eagerly snapped pictures of Jian Yu. She even turned around and waved at them with a smile.

"This place is going to be swamped with fans very soon." one of the photographers said.

"Has anyone seen Chi Lian?" someone asked.

"No and we don’t know when she is arriving. Getting a picture of her before everyone else is the money shot."

To pass time, they kept talking about the guests, expectations and hopes about who they wanted to see.

"We got some pictures of Jun Muyang earlier. He was not dressed formally, do you think the engagement is really on the rocks?"

"Those are lies, the Jun corporation and Jun investments are simultaneously suing Miflame. In my opinion, Miflame is done for."

"I wonder what they were thinking to go after Jun Muyang’s fiancé?"

"You think that’s the crazy part? They went after a woman that owns a media house. Phoenix media may be new to the game but they have had a good run this year. I am quite sure that someone influential is backing them. If Miss Chi Lian is vengeful then tomorrow all of Miflame’s black material will be on their news."

"If they have a backer it must be Jun Muyang."

Someone suddenly shouted, "Princess Rize is here."

"She is not alone, the third prince has come with her."

There was always excitement when members of the royal family were seen out in public. The press felt that they made a good decision coming here today.

After Rize’s arrival, Chi Lian’s brothers and parents arrived. When they entered, Chi Lian finally arrived and the ruckus grew to another level.

Sadly for them, Chi Lian was covered in a big black long jacket and she was surrounded by bodyguards who also shielded her with an umbrella. No photographer was able to get a picture of her.

"Why are they hiding her as if she is adorned in gold?" one photographer complained angrily.

"They can hide her all they want but I am sure the peep star will manage to get a picture of her." one of them commented.

The others groaned, all of them wishing they somehow had the peep star’s skills.

Inside the hotel, Chi Lian joined her family which was sitting together with the Jun family in the large banquet hall which was beautifully decorated.

Chi Lian and Muyang sat closely together and they held hands.

"You look exquisite." Muyang whispered to her.

"You don’t look so bad yourself." she whispered back to him.

"You were two minutes late." he said and both of them chuckled.

"Did I scare you?"

He placed his free hand over his heart, closed his eyes and nodded his head. "I aged ten more years while I was waiting for you."

She laughed at his playful reaction.

On stage, an old male musician was singing an old classic song. A few people from the older generation were clapping and singing along. Others were going around introducing their children to business men and women or prominent guests in their midst.

Occasionally, guests came along with glasses of champagne in their hands to introduce themselves and congratulate the two families and the happy couple.

When the performance was over brief speeches from old master Jun and old master Wang followed. They thanked everyone for coming to celebrate Muyang and Chi Lian’s engagement with both families.

A sumptuous meal followed their speeches which was enjoyed by everyone.

At the hotel, somewhere in the bathroom, two women were engaged in a conversation which was making both of them laugh.

"I can’t believe Yan Daya had the guts to show up."

The other woman laughed and replied, "She thinks she can fool everyone with her smile and fake image but we all know better. It’s killing her to watch Jun Muyang up there with Chi Lian."

The other woman was reapplying her lip stick before she replied, "Yan Daya’s problem is that she thinks she is the most beautiful woman in the capital."

Her friend bitterly said, "I hate that Chi Lian too, she came out of nowhere and snatched Muyang from us. I blame all these movies for convincing men of our class that falling in love with poor women is romantic. We are portrayed as the villains in every movie while the poor women are sweet and innocent."

Her friend chuckled and lightly pushed her. "That Chi Lian is not exactly broke."

The woman sneered and replied, "She is new money. What’s impressive about new money? My family goes back to four generations of wealth. Theirs is an upstart family, no matter how much money they have now they don’t have the Kind of class we do."

Her friend was about to reply when one of the bathroom doors opened and an angry faced Rize came out. The two women were quick to shut up and hide their faces.

Rize washed her hands slowly at one of the bathroom sinks and when she was finished, she gave both women a look of disgust before turning around to walk away.

One of the women, the one who had said that Chi Lian was not broke pinched her friends arm and said, "Aish, your big mouth is going to land us in trouble one day."

What they didn’t know was that when Rize left the bathroom, she locked the doors and asked an employee to place an out of order sign at the entrance to the bathroom.

As a good friend, she chose not to tell Chi Lian about the jealous women. She joined her and Muyang in a circle with their friends where everyone was laughing and having a good time.

"What took you so long?" Chi Rui asked her.

"I met some trash on the way and I had to clean it up." Rize replied. "Did I miss anything?"

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