The four women were scared half to death.
They didn't want to repeat what they had done during the day, but if they didn't, once Mr. Huo Linsheng found out, their fates would be even worse.
So, they had no choice but to re - enact the scene in front of Mr. Huo Linsheng just like they did during the day.
How could they remember every single detail of what happened during the day? At this moment, they could only rely on their memories and fumble through it, but the general process was not wrong.
The woman Mr. Huo Linsheng pointed at was fatter than Ling Nuan. The dress that Ling Nuan could still zip up simply couldn't be zipped up on this woman. They struggled for a long time but still couldn't manage it. The one helping with the dressing was sweating profusely, and the one being dressed was having a really hard time.
It was Mr. Huo Linsheng who finally couldn't stand it anymore. Thinking it was a waste of time, he waved his hand, and then they moved on to the next step.
The assistant and the stylist wheeled over the dresses that Ling Nuan had tried on during the day.
As soon as the unlucky woman chosen to change into the evening dress put it on, she couldn't help but mutter, "It's so scratchy."
As soon as she said this, her own face changed slightly, and she didn't dare to say another word. Meanwhile, Mr. Huo Linsheng had already stood up and walked over to the row of clothes.
Mr. Huo Linsheng wasn't very knowledgeable about this aspect. The evening dresses were all hanging together, and at first glance, he really didn't notice anything wrong. But when he got closer, he could see that the material of the clothes wasn't very good. And when he touched the material of the dress, Mr. Huo Linsheng's face turned completely cold.
"Is this the evening dress you prepared for my wife?" Mr. Huo Linsheng looked at the people in front of him, his voice dropping several degrees.
Everyone kept silent.
The boss of the studio was also sweating profusely. She quickly said, "Mr. Huo, I wasn't aware of this. Even if Mrs. Huo weren't your wife, we should treat every customer who comes to our studio with great care. We would never do such a thing to drive customers away. This... this was all their personal act."
The boss wasn't exactly lying.
She really hadn't known about this in advance.
But after the fact, she had naturally heard a few words about how the second wife of the Huo family had brought a young girl here and the girl had suffered a great deal. At that time, the boss hadn't thought that this was the real Mrs. Huo of the Huo family, the future mistress!
Now, just thinking about it made her almost regret to death.
While she was just regretful, the four women who had participated in bullying Ling Nuan were trembling all over and could hardly speak clearly.
One of them was so scared that she knelt down directly. Her kneeling seemed to remind the other three, and they all knelt down one after another.
"Mr. Huo, we were wrong."
"Mr. Huo, we were wrong."
Their crying pleas for mercy echoed one after another, but Mr. Huo Linsheng remained unmoved.
Realizing that pleading for mercy was useless, one of them had an idea and said, "Mr. Huo, it was all Ms. Wang who told us to do this! If Ms. Wang hadn't given the order, we wouldn't have had the guts or the reason to make things difficult for Mrs. Huo."
"Yes, yes, it was all Ms. Wang's order."
"Mr. Huo, we didn't dare to offend Ms. Wang. We know we were wrong."
Ms. Wang was Mr. Huo's mother.
He would settle the score with his mother, but he wouldn't let these people off either.
"People without professional ethics don't deserve to stay in this industry." Mr. Huo Linsheng said.
He casually dropped this sentence and left, as if he hadn't done anything to them. But no one dared to relax.
It was precisely this casual way of dealing with the matter that made people even more frightened.
In fact, the punishment came quickly.
Without Mr. Huo Linsheng having to do anything, the boss fired the four women. Not only didn't they get any severance pay, but they were lucky not to be asked to compensate. Firing them wasn't enough. The boss also publicized the four women's act of bullying customers in their circle, of course, leaving out Ling Nuan.
These four women could no longer make a living in this industry.
The boss didn't get off lightly either.
The studio was ordered to suspend business for rectification due to some procedural issues.
When it could be rectified and how the business would be after it reopened were all unknown.
Mr. Huo Linsheng had been busy with Ling Nuan's matter all night. When it was all over, dawn was breaking. He didn't go back to the old mansion but went straight to the company.
Ling Nuan woke up very early.
When she woke up, she found that Mr. Huo Linsheng was no longer beside her. Even though she was angry and ignoring Mr. Huo Linsheng, they weren't at the point of completely breaking up yet.
Ling Nuan reached out and touched the side of the bed where Mr. Huo Linsheng usually slept.
The bedsheet was cold.
It was still early, so...
Ling Nuan pursed her lips. Mr. Huo Linsheng hadn't gotten up early to go to work. Instead, he had left again last night. She snorted softly. Had it come to the point where he couldn't even bear to sleep in the same bed with her? Then why did he come back to the old mansion?
Ling Nuan felt so wronged that she wanted to cry, but she held back her tears.
It was still early, and she would have to endure more difficulties from Mr. Huo's mother during the day. Ling Nuan forced herself to lie down and take a little nap.
She had to get enough rest.
...
Perhaps because he hadn't slept all night, Mr. Huo Linsheng was a bit irritable.
The plan submitted by the manager below was severely scolded by him. In the early morning, the atmosphere on the entire top floor was a bit stagnant.
"Did I pay you to solve Qing Nuan's problems?" Mr. Huo Linsheng was dissatisfied.
The manager trembled with fear: "The chairman has intervened. Qing Nuan's tax problems have been solved, and the funds have all been in place. It might be a bit difficult for us to make an issue out of this now."
"Can't you use your brain?" Mr. Huo Linsheng said angrily, pinching the bridge of his nose.
It was at this moment that Meng Shuluo appeared on the top floor of Huo's Group.
Fang Chao brought Meng Shuluo to the door of Mr. Huo Linsheng's office. He knocked on the door gently and reminded at the door, "Mr. Huo, Miss Meng is here."
Mr. Huo Linsheng's scolding voice paused.
Meng Shuluo was in poor health. Wherever she was, everyone would lower their voices.
At least they wouldn't scold loudly.
Mr. Huo Linsheng waved his hand at the manager. The manager seemed to have snatched back his life and quickly left.
Only after the manager left did Meng Shuluo enter the office. Fang Chao closed the door for them.
"You're in such a bad mood? I could hear you scolding from outside the door." Meng Shuluo joked.
Mr. Huo Linsheng pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "I've spent so much money, but I've raised a bunch of useless people. The plan they submitted still has such basic mistakes."
"A plan." Meng Shuluo blinked at Mr. Huo Linsheng and said, "You've just scolded someone, so you can't scold me, okay?"
Mr. Huo Linsheng raised his eyebrows.
Meng Shuluo took out a document from her bag and handed it to Mr. Huo Linsheng.
"This is a cooperation plan that our branch company wants to discuss with yours. It's a small deal, but I had something to come and see you about, so I brought the plan along by the way."
Mr. Huo Linsheng took it and flipped through it briefly: "I heard Fang Chao mention this a few days ago. I'll let Fang Chao handle it later."
"You'll agree without looking carefully? What if I'm trying to trick you?" Meng Shuluo asked with a smile.
Mr. Huo Linsheng smiled: "If you really trick me, it can be considered a welcome gift for you."
"Boss is so generous." Meng Shuluo joked, and then got down to business: "In a few days, there's a banquet at the Wen family, and they've invited me."