Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 240 - 242: Xia Ling’s Surprise

Su Xingyu looked at the Weibo caption with a headache.

She deeply felt that her classmate Xia Xiaoling was truly a troublemaker, practically equipped with a troublemaking halo.

The caption read: [Photoshoot for my good friend Xingyu, beautiful, right? Xingyu is the best, I think she should be the chief photographer of Blade Group!]

Xia Ling’s fans were beyond thousands, numbering in the billions, and the official Weibo’s natural traffic was astonishing. As soon as the post went up, countless fans followed the trend, flooding the screen—

[Our Xiaoling is the most beautiful!]

[A friend of Xiaoling is surely the chief!]

[The chief of Blade Group is amazing, it must be Su Xingyu!]

[Only the chief photographer can take photos of Xiaoling!]

[This photo set is amazing, it’s unbeatable!]

Page after page, Su Xingyu scrolled down with the mouse, unable to see the end of the water army.

She finally understood why everyone gave her weird looks when she arrived at the company: currently, the chief photographer of Blade Group wasn’t her, but Zhuang Heng!

They were already at odds, and now with this incident breaking out, who knew how many onlookers were gathered to enjoy the spectacle.

"Xingyu," Fang Luohua patted her shoulder painfully, "I thought you had already offended Miss Zhuang to the max, but it turns out you can offend her even more!"

"Do you believe I can offend her even more?" Su Xingyu brushed off Fang Luohua’s hand with a bitter smile. Although she wasn’t afraid of Zhuang Heng, causing repeated grudges wasn’t her intention.

"Is that Xia Ling really your friend?" A colleague couldn’t hold back and asked, "Isn’t she obviously putting you at odds with people?"

"Do you think someone of Xiaoling’s level would care about offending an ordinary person?" Su Xingyu sighed, that girl probably thought she was doing her a great favor. Such powerful promotion.

Off to the side, Xia Ranran spoke up: "Miss Zhuang is no ordinary person."

"In Xia Ling’s eyes, she is." Su Xingyu busied herself with moving the mouse, shutting down the computer without raising her head.

She decided to go into hiding; otherwise, if she ran into Zhuang Heng in the company later, it might be like Mars colliding with Earth again?

But before the shutdown screen finished, she noticed a sudden silence around her. She looked up and saw Zhuang Heng in a graceful handcrafted suit, appearing at her desk sometime, her face severe and frosty.

"Does Miss Zhuang need something?" Su Xingyu sighed internally. Since she couldn’t escape, she could only face it.

Zhuang Heng’s voice remained as gentle and graceful as ever, yet somehow exuded a chilling coldness: "Su Xingyu, if you want to be the chief, you can openly challenge me; there’s no need to use Xia Ling to bully people with her power. Otherwise, even if you win, it would be an unworthy victory, and if you lose, it would be a joke."

"Miss Zhuang," Su Xingyu turned around, "You might be misunderstanding, you’re not as important as you think. Whether you believe it or not, I’ve never instructed Xiaoling on anything. If she were so easily used by me as a pawn—" She sneered, "Wouldn’t you think her endorsement too cheap?"

"Pfft—"

"Hahaha..."

The onlookers couldn’t help but laugh; Su Xingyu had put it so well. It was well-known that for a superstar like Xia Ling, many luxury brands cried and begged with heaps of endorsement fees just for a word from her, but for Su Xingyu? A whole set of photo and text special promotion! If that were converted into ad fees, wouldn’t it be astronomical?

"Xingyu, you’re going places." Straight-shooter Fang Luohua thought of something amusing and casually suggested to Su Xingyu, "Later, just ask for some service fees from those top-tier fashion luxury brands, then coax Xia Ling into recommending them. With just the service fees, you’d never have to worry about food and clothing again, why go to work?"

After speaking, he suddenly noticed Zhuang Heng’s face growing darker, and quickly stopped talking.

Su Xingyu gave a charming smile, looking at Zhuang Heng: "So, Miss Zhuang, Xiaoling just purely thinks I take good photos, and whether Blade’s chief is you has nothing to do with me. If you don’t believe it, I can call her now and ask if she remembers the name of the woman she scratched last time? She definitely wouldn’t remember, we can try."

Zhuang Heng didn’t dare wager on that.

Xia Ling’s disregard for others was famous in the entertainment circle; not remembering the names of those she’s met only a couple of times was really not uncommon.

Zhuang Heng felt her face lose prestige, but unwilling to retreat in defeat, she still harshly warned Su Xingyu: "There’s no need to quibble with me about these things; to be the chief of Blade Group? You’re not qualified!"

That said, she turned abruptly and left the office without looking back.

The entire office again fell into dead silence—

Su Xingyu packed up her things, preparing to leave. Suddenly, Xia Ranran called out to her: "Su Xingyu, don’t get complacent. Miss Zhuang said you’re not qualified for a reason. Do you think taking a few commercial portraits is impressive? Getting the Gold Star Medal was just lucky! Miss Zhuang’s specialty isn’t in these vulgar commercial photos; her artistic photography is far superior to commercial photography, you know?"

"Heh, I’m so scared." Su Xingyu chuckled dismissively, turned, and left.

Having countered Zhuang Heng, why bother with other minions?

Like Xiaoling said during their island holiday— "There are so many people who insult and dislike me; if I argued with each of them, would I have time for anything else?"

Su Xingyu felt it made a lot of sense. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The Weibo incident with Xia Ling wasn’t over yet.

She named the photo series "Light," and it spread widely among fans. A few days later, the troublemaking girl eagerly ran to the villa to find Su Xingyu: "Xingyu, Xingyu, thank you for taking pictures of me on the island this time, I also have a surprise gift for you! Can you guess what it is?"

"A surprise gift? I think it’s more like a shock gift." Su Xingyu had little hope and started silently thinking about how to deal with it again...

Yet Xia Ling remained excited, dragging her to the soft sofa, sitting her down, and taking out her phone to pull up the Weibo app: "Look, look! Didn’t expect that, did you?"

At first, Su Xingyu casually leaned forward to glance, but one glance was enough to leave her speechless. On Weibo, there was yet another set of photos, and like Xia Ling in the "Light" series, the girl in the photos was at the forest lake of the Nanshan Race Club. The difference was this girl held a camera, intently photographing Xia Ling in the distance.