CHAPTER 205: SHINING IS GOING TO MAKE A SUCCESS

"Miss Taylor, there’s one thing I need to report to you."

"Continue."

Yvonne hadn’t recovered from the tricky problem of finding direct evidence.

She rubbed her temples and looked a little tired.

The manager said, "It’s a piece of good news.

"The musician who made the theme song for Belle lipstick has just come by.

"At first, she came here for canceling the contract with us. According to the contract, we must pay her triple the liquidated damages.

"But just now, she didn’t cancel the contract. She even said she’d write another song for us for free when we launch the new product!"

Yvonne raised an eyebrow and asked, "Who?"

"Eva Loraine!"

*

In the south of the city.

It was a typical "old and dilapidated" residential area in Hiltonan.

Unlike Frank’s splendid Taylor Mansion, Yesmina’s poetic Graceland and Zachary’s imposing and high-class Lord Villa, this place seemed to be another side of Hiltonan.

The sky was blackened with power lines and the roads were full of standing water and mud.

The air smelled like garbage.

Eva was wearing high heels and a black tweed coat.

She got out of the car and walked into an alley full of trash.

Her lips were red and her coat was long in black.

It looked like she didn’t fit in here at all.

As she dodged one pile of garbage after another, just then, her breath caught in her throat.

It was in such a damp and dirty residential area that she saw a familiar silver wing auto logo.

The logo was of low-key, commercial and reserved style.

Like her, the car also didn’t fit in this place. It was a Bintley valued 1.5 million dollars.

Eva didn’t know how this man found her here.

Her heartbeat accelerated and her face hardened. After taking a deep breath, she walked up to him.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

The only way to get home was blocked by this car, so she had no choice but to face him.

The black window was slowly rolled down.

Inside the car, the man wore a pair black sunglasses and a suit of the utmost sophistication. It seemed that every single cell of him was exuding an air of restraint and oppression.

"Eva, come home with me."

Eva went pale.

"Let me through. This is my home!"

To avoid Nicholas Brown, she couldn’t even remember how many times she had moved around in Hiltonan.

At first, she lived in some fairly normal apartments, but later she chose to hide herself in such snake-infested, rat-crawling and low-rent house.

She did so just for keeping Nicholas from finding her.

Yet just a few days after she moved here, she was found by Nicholas one more time.

Nicholas took off his sunglasses.

He rubbed the bridge of his nose in a slow and deliberate way.

"I sent you to the best schools and funded you to learn the most expensive musical instruments. I even spent millions of dollars on a single instrument for you to become the most successful musician, not for you to live in a place like this."

"Be good. A place like this isn’t even for you. Come back with me."

It looked like Nicholas was persuading Eva gracefully.

Yet Eve clearly knew it was impossible to negotiate with Nicholas.

She took a deep breath and said, "I’ve worked very hard to pay back all the money you’ve spent on me over the years.

"I’ll soon pay it off. I never think I was born to belong somewhere or suitable for some kind of life. This place is dirty and shabby but I chose it by myself! I prefer it to your tawdry villa!"

With these words, Eva could feel the air pressure in the car had dropped to a minimum.

Nicholas was furious, extremely furious.

When he got furious, something horrific would usually happen.

Just as she thought she would be killed by him, suddenly, he laughed.

However, the laugh was quite unsettling.

"I heard you’ve been working with Shining lately?"

Eva’s eyes widened.

"At first, you wanted to cancel the contract. But today, you didn’t do it and even offered to help them.

"That’s not like something you would do," Nicholas said meaningfully. Eva blurted out, "What kind of thing do you think I would do?"

Nicholas got to the point: "You want to help your friend to prove that Fragrance is the plagiarist, don’t you?"

"What a coincidence. The man who stole the information from Shining used to work for me. As long as you ask me... You know I’m always willing to give you everything you ask for."

Eva clenched her teeth.

She did want to help Yvonne, but she was just a nobody and had no power.

She wondered why Nicholas was clear of everything.

She thought, "Bah. Come on. When did he ever stop spying on me?"

"Nicholas Brown, I’m not your pet!"

After saying that, Eva turned around and left decisively, not trying to go back home anymore.

"Whenever you change your mind, call me."

Behind her, Nicholas said so.

Eva’s heart beats even faster.

She wanted to help Yvonne, but she would do it in her own way.

*

At the same time.

Night fell.

Yvonne watched all the videos recorded by the company’s surveillance cameras.

Her eyes were red and her limbs were numb.

Yet in the end, she failed to get the direct evidence she wanted.

Filing a lawsuit was not something that could be done overnight. It would be a long process.

Yvonne must spend a lot of time and energy on this. In fact, she had already prepared herself for it.

Yet without direct evidence, things would be truly troublesome.

Darn it.

Why is that relative of Jordan Yale so cunning?

Is there no trace at all?

Do we really have to suffer losses this time?

Yvonne was very annoyed, but she didn’t want to bring such kind of annoyance back to the Lord Villa, to Zachary and to the two kids.

Thus, she sat alone in her office for a long time to adjust her mood.

Just then, someone from the Design Department knocked on the door.

"Miss Taylor, the scheme for the new product is done."

Yvonne immediately looked up and gathered all of her energy.

"Okay, show me."

*

In the next few days, Yvonne had to watch the camera videos and follow up on the design and development of the new product.

This time, she was personally involved in it. After several schemes were canceled, finally, with the help of collective wisdom, a brand new special product was created - the 108 Constellation Lucky Lips Gloss.

Lip gloss was also a kind of lipstick.

However, this time, the Constellation Lip Gloss was different from all the existing lipstick on the market.

First of all, it had hundreds of colors. Moreover, it was not a cosmetic product in the traditional sense.

Most cosmetic products in the traditional sense were very richly colored and were required to be removed after being applied. Yet the Constellation Lip Gloss didn’t have such requirement. It could not only make people’s lips look plump and rosy, but also made them delicate and creamy, and it also had all kinds of pleasant fruity smells.

Most importantly, the ingredient of the Lip Gloss was created according to some of the secret recipes from the ancient Angria palace.

The lip glosses looked insane good. Shining also prepared personalized lip glosses based on different people’s different constellations and birthdays.

In short, according to the consumer’s birthday, name and character, Shining could produce a personalized lip gloss for the consumer.

Shining promised that there were no two identical lip glosses in the world.

As long as one brought it, one could have the unique lip gloss of one’s own.

Therefore, it was not just a lip gloss. It was actually a lucky charm of one’s own.

The consumers could even select lip glosses according to their specific lucky features, like peach luck, exam luck, health luck, etc.

...

Lipsticks with different meanings each had different colors.

For example, pink lipsticks had the connotation of luck.

Thus, they were in delicate boxes with peach blossom patterns.

Some red lipsticks flattered women’s complexion.

...

This time, Constellation Lipstick could be recognized as one of the most excellent products in the cosmetics industry!

Yvonne had enhanced security in the entire design department to avoid a betrayal.

Everyone of the department was responsible for a small part of the project.

Thus, they didn’t actually know much about the Constellation Lipstick until the samples were sent to them by the factory.

When company’s executives met that day and saw the lipstick together, they were all shocked!

"Such a wonderful lipstick really exists in this world!"

"Oh, it’s so beautiful! I want to buy them all!"

"It’s going to be a big seller..."

The people of Shining were excited.

Yvonne took the Constellation Lipstick, looking firmly at everyone present in the room.

"This time, we’re going to turn the situation around! We’re also going to prove to the world that Fragrance plagiarized our design!

"We must bring the justice to our designers who work day and night. On top of that, we will warn all designers that creativity is the only way out! Plagiarism would only lead them to the dead end!"

Those remarks won warm applause!

*

At the Shining building.

For several days in a row, Yvonne was busy with product development and the lawsuit.

She was so tired that she shuffled her feet.

They finally finished the design of the Constellation Lipstick. The next step was the online pre-sale marketing, and she could take a break for a while.

However, she hadn’t made much progress so far about the evidence of Fragrance’s plagiarism.

Yvonne was upset about that.

She walked wearily downstairs.

A small child suddenly came out, carrying a large bucket of water and splashing it at Yvonne!

She was stunned.

It was late fall and cold.

Unexpectedly, the water wasn’t splashed on her at all!

Zachary suddenly protected her from it.

Yvonne froze, and so did the boy.

Originally thinking she was a woman, the little boy wasn’t much scared.

Now when he saw Zachary, who was so tall with a serious face, the little boy immediately ran away.

"Stand right there!"

Yvonne came back to her senses and grabbed the boy.

"Apologize!"

Yvonne stopped the boy and asked Zachary with concern, "Are you okay? Do you feel cold?"

Zachary’s suit was already wet.

Zachary shook his head, and then looked at the child.

"Who told you to do that?"

"Let go of me! You let go of me!

"Help! Help!"

The child’s screams quickly drew the attention of others. Pedestrians on the road looked over to them.