Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 288 - 301: Su Xingyu’s Plan

"That’s exactly why I don’t want anyone to know about my relationship with him!" Su Xingyu felt downhearted, retorting with disdain, "Whatever I want, I earn it with my own talent!"

"With your own talent? Pfft," Ling Weilong dismissed her, "These days there are plenty of talented people, many of whom are misunderstood or overlooked. Getting with Lu Shifeng is your talent, nothing to be embarrassed about. It’s not like being with him diminishes your photography skills, so what’s with the pretense?"

"You’re the one being pretentious!" Su Xingyu was unhappy.

"You’re the most pretentious!" Ling Weilong countered, refusing to back down.

They kept arguing until the secretary girl came out, still at odds with each other.

"Um..." The secretary girl looked at the scene a bit awkwardly, but the next second she turned to Su Xingyu with a warm smile, "Miss Su, the chief editor invites you in."

Only then did Su Xingyu, with a grunt, stop bickering with Ling Weilong, "When I’m done with this busy period, I’ll treat you to a meal! I need to educate you on this issue."

"You’re so rich, don’t scam me for free meals!" Ling Weilong said with mocked distress, "You might end up being the one educated, remember you’re treating me!"

Su Xingyu glared at him again in frustration, then turned around and entered Cang Er’s office.

The high-end glass door with streamlined materials closed behind her.

Cang Er was dressed in a uniquely tailored white shirt, with short silver hair and diamond earrings, buried in a heap of photography prints, busy as could be. As she swiftly picked up a print from the pile and glanced at it, she tossed it down like garbage, then picked up another, glanced, then tossed it again...

The floor was already littered with various discarded prints.

"Useless, they’re all useless!" She finished throwing the last one, then looked up to complain to Su Xingyu, "You came just in time, look at what this bunch of uselessness submitted, not a single one usable!"

Su Xingyu glanced lightly at the floor, seeing a captivating image of a swan elegantly arching its long neck against a storm in a desert oasis.

Honestly speaking, the photos here were already of much higher quality than most out there.

She gave a faint smile to soothe the irritable Cang Er, "With your pursuit of perfection, you’re sure to find a satisfying photo."

Cang Er let out a heavy sigh, cursed the uselessness a few more times before changing the topic, "Sometimes I truly wish you were a photographer for Cloud, Xingyu, it’s a pity you were snatched by that bastard Lu Shifeng before you had stayed long at Cloud. Fengren is not even in fashion, staying in a place like that is simply a waste of your talents."

Su Xingyu gave a wry smile and could only say, "Over at Fengren, they’re dedicated to crafting the best equipment, it’s quite meaningful to do promotions and work as a test photographer there too."

"Don’t make excuses for him," Cang Er snorted disdainfully, "You used to say your husband was an old feudal stubborn, a tyrant, a lunatic, could it be him?"

"Uh..." Su Xingyu was taken off guard by her question and was speechless for a moment.

"Stop pretending," Cang Er looked at her, revealing the first hint of a smile since their meeting, "You forgot, when you were on the photography forum, you used the ID ’starry’ to ask about marital troubles, and then you left Cloud so suddenly, it was Xie from Fengren who personally handled your paperwork... although everyone outside says you’re just dating Lu Shifeng, let me guess, you two are already married, right?"

"Ah..." Su Xingyu almost forgot what she had done on the photography forum back then.

Hearing Cang Er say that, she suddenly came to her senses and couldn’t help but exclaim softly, "Crap, have I been exposed all along? You all probably know I’m married to him, right?"

"You guys are indeed married." Cang Er looked at the slender, beautiful girl in front of her, her expression a bit complex. With such a humble family background, was marrying into a wealthy family really not a problem? From her previous complaints on the forum, life didn’t seem so happy. However, these weren’t concerns Cang Er could manage, she could only tell Su Xingyu, "Rest assured, not many people guessed it. These days, there are plenty calling boyfriends husbands before marriage, most people on the forum probably thought you were just calling your boyfriend ’husband’."

Su Xingyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, sincerely saying, "Thank you, Cang Er, for not spreading my affairs."

Cang Er smiled, "When I saw in the news that you were just Lu Shifeng’s girlfriend, I knew you had your reasons. Don’t worry, I understand the discretion needed in this."

Su Xingyu was very grateful and said to her, "Actually, I came today wanting to ask for your help with something."

Saying this, she took out her camera’s memory card, indicating for Cang Er to plug it into the computer.

Cang Er took it and inserted it, the screen popped up with the set of photos Su Xingyu previously tested for Fengren’s new model camera, a young girl seemed to dance like a ghost in the misty night, like a flower quietly blooming in the night, enchanting and mesmerizing, hard for anyone to look away.

"So beautiful..." Even Cang Er, used to seeing great photos, couldn’t help but praise.

Su Xingyu said, "I’ve hit a bit of a hitch at Fengren, I was wondering if I could publish this set in Cloud, is that okay?"

"Publish in Cloud?" Cang Er’s eyes lit up, "With the quality of your set, there’s certainly no issue, and it’s perfect timing since next month’s the end of year, we’re doing a special edition for the annual issue, which should’ve been printed six months ago, but we’ve had two columns completely blank until now!" With that, she kicked the photos she just discarded on the floor in frustration, "Look at what kind of trash these are!"

Su Xingyu confirmed, "Is it really okay? I mean posting on ’Cloud,’ not on a secondary magazine like ’Illusion Dream’ under your brand."

"Of course it’s top-tier ’Cloud,’" Cang Er laughed looking at her, understanding what she was worried about, "Although this set lacks a renowned model or high-end luxury brands, Stars Feather, you are quite famous now, having photographed Xia Ling, it barely qualifies for ’Cloud’."

It still sounded like just barely making it.

Probably, for this shot, Cang Er would more or less need to leverage some influence to drive this forward.

Su Xingyu said, "Actually, you don’t have to go through so much trouble. My plan is to shoot a series, not just this one set with student dancers."

"A series?"

"Yeah," she started piecing together her thoughts while telling Cang Er the plan she had just thought of on her way over, "Xiaoling... I mean Xia Ling, is a good friend of mine now, I’ll try to schedule a shoot with her, also with Fengren’s new camera, a night illusion theme. With her name, getting on ’Cloud’ is no problem at all."

"Her? Of course, no problem," Cang Er was very pleased, "In fact, we considered Xia Ling for this year’s special edition too, her agent was approached. But her agent laid out very demanding conditions, not even placing her on the cover could sway him, plus Xia Ling is notoriously hard to please... so it ended up not happening. If you can manage to secure her, I can offer you the most generous pay scale for the photoshoot."