Don't make a scene

Everyone was gaping at Helian Linx. She looked like the snow queen, just kinder and more beautiful. She smiled softly and spoke in the suddenly quiet room, "Welcome, my dear friends and, of course, my family. I am very pleased that all of you accepted our invitations with happiness. I hope that you are all well and I wish you a Merry Christmas!" The whole room burst into applause when Linx stopped speaking. Normally everyone would celebrate, eat and drink and then hand out gifts to their closest friends before the welcoming speech. They were happy but they also felt an impending sense of doom as Helian Linx only wished them well when the event was about to go public.

Everyone quickly hugged or kissed each other on the cheek before going to their respective social groups and putting on a mask.{1}

Everyone had just gotten into their 'positions' when the door burst open and famous, prominent people flowed into the hall. They were closely followed by reporters and paparazzi that took the opportunity to take lots and lots of pictures. The reporters picked out the most famous guests and tried to interview them before they were dragged away by bodyguards.

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Across the room, Li Huang was being accompanied by a gorgeous woman in her early twenties. This woman was none other than Lu Feng's sister, Lu Bao. Lu Bao had been trying to get Li Huang's attention for months and was so desperate that she tried to blackmail her brother for the Lu Corporates.

The only reason why Li Huang had agreed to go to the Helians Christmas party with Lu Bao, was because she had promised him 75% in shares of the many business under the Lu family name if he became her fiance. Now, he thought it wasn't such a bad idea as his self-proclaimed future wife was here somewhere, after all, she was the only heir of the Helians.

He glanced at the woman hanging on his arm. Li Huang curled his lips in disgust. The brainless woman was trying to pressure her brother into giving her more 'responsibility' of the companies so that she could 'help make decisions' regarding the assets and shares of the company.

Meanwhile Meilin was being pampered from all directions. As she giggled childishly, she internally sighed. If her real friends would see her like this, they would definitely laugh at her. As Meilin gritted her teeth she saw a familiar but unwelcome figure from the corner of her eye.

Li Huang was bored to death. Lu Bao was only talking about herself and her famous friends. He looked around the room in search of an escape route but only saw someone being surrounded by important and significant people from the fashion industry. He narrowed his eyes and realized with a start that the person being surrounded by vip's was none other than Helian Meilin the woman who he had been chasing for the past month.

Lu Bao noticed Li Huangs besotted gaze and frowned. No one here was supposed to be prettier than her. After all, she was considered as one of the most beautiful women in Shanghai. She looked in the same direction as Li Huang. There was no-one except for that Helian girl, who had even more suitors than her. Lu Bao silently ground her teeth. She wasn't going to lose Li Huang to a underage, second class{2} girl.

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{1} A different emotion that they are not actually experiencing

{2} Lower social class/worth. aka. the wealthy