Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 904: Chapter 900: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Can’t Be Hurt

Early the next morning, Li Quan got out of bed with dark circles under his eyes. Despite not having slept all night, he seemed quite spirited. His eyes were bright, and he wore a smile that showed he was in a good mood.

Before eight o’clock, all the other staff members had arrived at the store. Usually, according to the rules, employees start work at nine o’clock. But since today was the opening of the new store, there were many things to do, so everyone took the initiative to get up early and come to the store to see if they could help with anything.

There was indeed a lot to be done, but instead of getting busy, everyone gathered around the two-meter-high display cabinet, eyes wide with surprise and curiosity.

When they left work yesterday, it was after eight o’clock at night. The glass display case back then was completely empty. But after a night’s sleep, a big item had suddenly appeared inside the cabinet.

”Brother Quan, when did this thing get brought in? How come I didn’t know a thing?” asked Jiang Xiaoqin directly.

Li Quan laughed, ”Miss Huo brought it over last night and deliberately kept it a secret, hiding this thing very carefully. Even I don’t know what’s inside. You’re better off not knowing. I saw it, but honestly, it’s almost like not seeing anything at all. It made my night’s sleep terrible.”

”Haha, poor Virgo!”

Upon hearing Li Quan’s complaint, Jiang Xiaoqin couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Li Quan is a Virgo with a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, stubborn to a frightening degree. Huo Sining deliberately kept the secret, causing him a lot of pain. Watching Li Quan’s bitter smile, everyone also couldn’t help but chuckle.

Since the item in the display cabinet was completely covered with a red silk cloth, no one could see what it was like inside. Everyone gathered around the cabinet and started to chat and speculate.

”It’s a basin underneath; I think it’s something like a money tree,” said one sharp-eyed young attendant, noticing the bottom of a ceramic flower pot and confidently replied.

”Oh come on, just putting a money tree at the entrance is enough. Why go to all this trouble to cover it with a huge glass showcase? The glass cabinet is even more expensive than a money tree, and the boss isn’t just messing around.”

Another attendant immediately retorted, clearly dismissing this guess.

Jiang Xiaoqin and Qiao Zhenhuan exchanged a look and tentatively guessed, ”Could it be a bonsai, like a miniature landscape? Sister Ningning always likes novelty. She might have sculpted a Jadeite Raw Stone into some kind of miniature landscape bonsai.”

Huo Sining is an expert in stone betting, so Jiang Xiaoqin’s guess is not impossible. At least Qiao Zhenhuan quite agreed with Jiang Xiaoqin.

However, Li Quan shook his head, ”I carried this thing in last night. If it were something like a large rock for a miniature landscape, it should be quite heavy, but when we moved it yesterday, just the two of us, Huo Sining and I, easily brought it in. This shows that it’s definitely not stone.”

After guessing back and forth, they couldn’t figure out a result and eventually had to let it go.

Huo Sining teased not only the store staff but also the influential guests attending the new store opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony. She was calm, not revealing the mystery until the ribbon-cutting, no matter how much those people inquired about it. She insisted on leaving it until the grand reveal at the climax.

Her antics made everyone even more curious, each staring intently at the red silk cloth in the glass cabinet, as if staring hard enough would bore a hole through the cloth.

In the Liulichang area, most of the shops are old-established ones. Suddenly, there’s a new shop opening, and its size exceeds other stores. Especially when they found out the owner was a young man in his twenties, everyone held a wait-and-see attitude, believing the Jubao Pavilion wouldn’t last long.

Some people with other intentions started getting restless too, seeing only a few young people bustling at Jubao Pavilion. Their thoughts started wandering.

But with the opening of the new store, influential guests came one after another, each more reputable, shocking the surrounding shop owners.

Although the antique enthusiasts didn’t know Huang Chengyi or Madam Gu, they certainly knew Forbidden City’s expert professor Ji Kun, Jade Association’s president Qin Lianshan. Even the famed Zhou Shitao and the former curator of the Forbidden City, Huang Zhenlong, sent congratulatory flower baskets. The grand show of force was impressive, letting the entire street know.

Initially, those shop owners thought this was a newbie easy to bully. Only to find out that there was quite a huge force supporting them from behind, leaving anyone with malicious intent hesitating as they might be kicking on iron boards and shivering with fear, not daring to entertain those petty thoughts anymore.

Song Chunxue and Lu Ruiqi also came for the ribbon-cutting, but they just showed up briefly and had a few words with Huo Sining.

Chief Lu was not in the country at the moment, and Lu Ruiqi’s leg had healed. He walked as smoothly as a normal person. Being stifled at home for years without seeing the outside world, Song Chunxue wasn’t eager to send Lu Ruiqi to school immediately but planned to spend a few months showing him around to see the grand landscape.

Since Song Chunxue and her son were soon going to Hulun Buir and knowing Huo Sining was heading to Dongyang later, Song Chunxue came early to say goodbye. Before leaving, she specially gave Huo Sining a business card, telling her that it was a contact of one of her friends in Dongyang. If Huo Sining encountered any unsolvable problems there, she could call and ask for help from that friend.

Even though Huo Sining has been recognized by Chief Lu as an adopted granddaughter, she isn’t genuinely related by blood to the Lu Family. So Huo Sining hadn’t truly gotten close to the Lu Family.

Firstly, due to the issue of blood relation, and secondly, because of the special status of the Lu Family. If she were to ingratiate herself, it might seem like she’s deliberately trying to climb social ladders and would only create nuisance to the Lu Family. Huo Sining, though not arrogantly proud, possessed enough self-awareness, so she hadn’t tried to get closer to anyone in the Lu Family.

Therefore, Huo Sining didn’t expect Song Chunxue to show such concern. She could feel Song Chunxue’s sincerity and care in her eyes, making Huo Sining realize her previous thoughts were way off.

Distance tests a horse’s stamina, and time reveals people’s hearts. Hearts are made of flesh, and whether someone’s sincere or not, you will always sense it with time. Her actions of deliberate distancing due to fear of being misunderstood were indeed immature and laughable behavior.