Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 167 - 168: Discovery in the Storeroom

Anna took Su Xingyu out of the office and walked toward the storeroom.

As they walked, she said to her: "I’ll first take you to get your equipment. Every new photographer can get a Blade Group camera for free according to their professional level. You can choose the color and model yourself."

Su Xingyu was pleasantly surprised. She hadn’t expected such a good thing?

In an instant, even the resentment of being forced to join by Lu Shifeng dissipated quite a bit.

She really lacked a camera. Every one she had was smashed by that tyrant Lu Shifeng, and in her financial hardship, she couldn’t afford to buy another. She was worried about how she would take photos in the future. Unexpectedly, it was as if she found a new path when all seemed lost, the new camera was handed to her just like that, solving her problem effortlessly.

A big company is truly a big company, so generous!

She really wanted to give Blade Group a big thumbs up.

Following Anna to the storeroom door, the deep black door was tightly closed and solemnly quiet. Anna found a young man, laughing, "Mr. Xu, I’ve brought a newcomer to get equipment, could you please open the door for us?"

The man called Mr. Xu looked Su Xingyu up and down: "A newcomer, huh? Did you get your work ID done?"

Anna hurriedly replied, "Yes, it’s done, here it is."

As she spoke, she fished out an ID card from the pile of onboarding materials Su Xingyu was holding and handed it to Mr. Xu. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Mr. Xu took it, glanced at it, and smirked: "One star." He casually tossed the ID back to Anna, jiggled the keys in his hand, picked one to unlock the storeroom door, "Follow me, and don’t touch anything randomly."

Anna replied with a sound and quickly pulled Su Xingyu along.

The vast storeroom was extremely quiet, Mr. Xu walked ahead of the two, his footsteps echoing dully. Su Xingyu watched his back, recalling the disdainful curl of his lip earlier, and couldn’t resist asking Anna quietly: "What does one star mean?"

"One star?" Anna replied quietly, "It’s your photography level when you join. Why, didn’t you know? Blade Group divides its photographers into several levels, typically from one star to five stars, with one star being the lowest and five stars the highest."

"Oh, so I’m at the lowest level." Su Xingyu said, no wonder Mr. Xu looked at her with disdain earlier.

Anna comforted her: "Don’t worry too much about it, Blade Group has high standards. Most new photographers start at one star, you can slowly move up as you work longer. And you can get another free camera when you level up."

So that’s how it is.

Su Xingyu, intrigued, asked: "What level is Zhuang Heng?"

"You mean Miss Zhuang?" Anna’s eyes immediately shone with admiration, "She’s a very impressive photographer, she came in as a five star! Moreover, in her first year’s evaluation, she surpassed the other two five-star photographers and became a Silver Star! A few years later, she became a Gold Star! She’s Blade Group’s first female Gold Star photographer."

Su Xingyu sharply picked up on a key detail: "There are levels beyond five stars?"

"Those aren’t standard levels," Anna said dismissively. "Indeed, there are Silver Star, Gold Star, and Purple Star levels above five stars, but they’re only awarded to photographers with special contributions to Blade Group. Without special opportunities, you can’t get them."

"So, Zhuang Heng has made special contributions to Blade Group?" Su Xingyu’s heart, for some reason, felt slightly uncomfortable.

"Absolutely," Anna’s face was full of admiration again. "Let me tell you, Miss Zhuang is so amazing. Once, during a test shoot for a new camera, she discovered a major safety hazard. Thankfully, she spotted it in time, saving Blade Group from countless losses! The entire photography center was abuzz, and Mr. Lu—I mean our Crown Prince," Anna pointed upward with her hand, "personally awarded her the Gold Star medal. Miss Zhuang is truly worthy of being the future Mrs. Boss, she’s incredible!"

"Mrs. Boss?" Su Xingyu’s heart seemed even more uncomfortable.

"Yes," Anna nodded, "she and the boss are such a well-matched pair, both talented and beautiful. They’ll definitely end up together."

Su Xingyu lightly pressed her lips together, not saying anything more. So, everyone thought they were a pair? Thinking of how Zhuang Heng carried herself as the hostess at last night’s birthday party, Su Xingyu suddenly felt an urge to disrupt it all.

She didn’t understand why she felt this way; didn’t she not like Lu Shifeng?

Her heart was in chaos.

Beside her, Anna was still introducing fervently: "Even for Gold Stars, only four photographers have received it since Blade Group was founded. Not to mention Purple Star, no one has ever earned a Purple Star, it’s the highest honor." As she spoke, Anna had a dreamy look, "But I firmly believe that one day Miss Zhuang will get a Purple Star! Don’t you think so, Xingyu? ...Xingyu?"

Called by Anna several times, Su Xingyu finally snapped back to reality, having not clearly heard what she was saying. She gave a polite smile.

Ahead, Mr. Xu, who managed the storeroom, had already stopped: "Here we are, this is where we store the cameras. Pick one yourself, then find me to register it. Remember not to pick the expensive one, your one-star status corresponds to cameras within 30,000 yuan."

As he spoke, he casually leaned against a shelf and started playing on his phone.

Su Xingyu looked up at the shelf, each camera encased in a packaging box, with its design, model name, and detailed specifications printed on the outside. Anna proudly introduced them to her: "Our Blade Group cameras are the best in the world. Have you used one before? Those under 30,000 yuan, like this model, are great for still life; this one has great depth; this one excels with natural light..." she spoke with familiar enthusiasm.

Actually, without her explanation, Su Xingyu could roughly understand each model’s pros and cons from the specifications.

She had already decided to choose a camera with balanced parameters in all aspects—a versatile model—not particularly outstanding in any one aspect, but suitable for most shooting environments. After all, she had no money and expected that for a long time in the future, she would only be able to use this one camera for everything.

She carefully reviewed each one, every camera as beautiful as a work of art, gradually becoming entranced.

Suddenly, her gaze locked—

She saw on a shelf at the far end of the storeroom, on a human-height grid, placed a camera box, with a very vintage-style camera printed on it. A black squarish body, with meticulously crafted angled corners, that was... that was... just like the Mu Family camera she remembered!

That camera was almost the same as the Mu Family cameras she often saw at home when she was a child!

Unconsciously, her breathing tightened, her feet moved swiftly towards it before her brain issued the command.