Love's Change of Heart

Without waiting for Harvey to continue with the introduction, Queenie stood up. Smiling,

she reached out her hand to Leanna. "Pleased to meet you, McK. I've heard so much about

you."

Leanna knew who this woman in front of her was, considering Queenie was the runner-up

in The Emerging Designer Competition three years ago and also the person who later took

her place to study in Aeras.

Politely reaching out her hand, Leanna said, "Pleased to meet you too."

After they greeted each other, Harvey said, "McK, you'll continue to be in charge of the

'First Love' jewelry series, as well as the privately customized jewelry. Queenie, you will be

in charge of the new series—"

"Mr. Mancini." Halfway through speaking, Queenie interrupted Harvey. "I have a proposal."

Feeling surprised, Harvey paused for a moment before he continued, "Tell me."

"I, too, wish to get involved with business regarding privately customized jewelry."As

Queenie spoke, she smiled at Leanna. "Don't get me wrong, McK. I'm not intending to rob

you of your business. It's just that the personal jewelry customization requests that I had

accepted while I was abroad were all private high-end orders. I should know the styles that

rich women and ladies like better."

"Uh—"

Then, Queenie added again, "By then, we can each produce a design drawing, and whose

design that gets selected will take the order."

Being a good sport, Leanna simply put on a faint smile on her face. "Sure."

Seeing that Leanna had already agreed, Harvey didn't say anything more. "In that case,

we'll do things that way. I'll contact you two if there's anything related to work."

Little did Queenie know, Harvey didn't tell her that all the clients who signed up for the

privately customized jewelry orders with Lux Magazine now were because of Leanna.

After leaving the office, Queenie called out Leanna's name and stopped her when she was

about to leave. "We'll be colleagues as well as competitors in the future. I won't be

merciful toward you."

Halting her tracks, Leanna turned around and looked at the other woman. "I won't either."

"In that case, we'll compete based on our own abilities then."

After leaving Lux Magazine, Leanna went to the studio where Zoe was shooting and waited

for her.

During the photo shooting interval, Zoe came over to gossip with Leanna. "Hey, I just

heard that Lux Magazine seems to have signed a new designer. It's said that she came

back from Aeras and had participated in several fashion shows. She's quite well-known in

the industry, but she's very arrogant. It's best not to provoke someone like her and avoid

confrontation with her when you see her in the future, because someone like her will only

annoy the sh*t out of you."

Therefore, Leanna nodded lightly after a while. "Sure! I'll go with you."

To Zoe's surprise, Leanna replied to her by saying, "We already met."

To Zoe's surprise, Leanna replied to her by saying, "We already met."

"Huh?! When?"

"We met in Mr. Mancini's office."

Upon hearing that, Zoe had a complicated expression on her face. Just as she was about

to ask what happened in Harvey's office, the staff in the studio asked her to go over and

continue with the photoshoot, as the celebrity had finished changing their outfit and came

out.

And thus, Zoe whispered to Leanna, "The photoshoot will end in a while. Wait for me."

Leanna nodded in response. "Sure, go and do your work first."

Not long after, Leanna received a message on her phone.

It was a message from Jonathan. 'Miss McKinney, President Pearson asked if you have

finished with work?'

Reading the message, Leanna became speechless as she grumbled to herself, Did this

b*stard install surveillance on me?! He can't seem to enjoy seeing me resting. All he

knows is hounding me every day!

Burning with rage from her thoughts, Leanna typed out all the words hard and replied.

'No! Tell him I'm busy and not free for his bullsh*t at the moment!'

Shortly after, Jonathan texted back, 'President Pearson asked how busy you are.'

Gritting her teeth, Leanna replied, 'I'm so busy that I didn't eat for two days. In fact, I'm so

busy that I didn't even wash my hair for a week!'

A while later, she received another reply from Jonathan. 'President Pearson said you work

rather hard, so… good luck!'

When Leanna saw the reply sent by Jonathan, she put down her phone hard. Then, she

took a deep breath to calm herself down.

Will I be in a 10 million debt if it wasn't him who framed me?! Yet he still dares to wish me

luck?! To hell with his good luck!

…

After Zoe finished her work in the studio, both she and Leanna headed their way toward

the venue of Anthony's get-together party. That night, Anthony had reserved a private

room inside a high-end restaurant, where only the rich would come and enjoy their meal.

By the time Zoe and Leanna arrived at the restaurant, most of the people were already

present.

Meanwhile, Anthony was wandering inside the private room. When he saw their figures, he

immediately came over to greet them. "Zoe, you ladies are finally here."

As he spoke, he looked at Leanna. Then, he apologized to her by saying, "I'm sorry about

the incident that took place last time. I've always wanted to treat you to a dinner, but I

was too preoccupied with work—"

Halfway through the conversation, a woman came over and said to Leanna, "So this is

your girlfriend, Anthony? She looks so pretty."

Anthony's expression became a little embarrassed. "No. This is my girlfriend," said

Anthony while pointing at Zoe, who was next to him.

"Well, I've always heard you say that your girlfriend is very pretty, so I thought this one's

your girlfriend." As the woman spoke, she stuck her tongue out, acting cute. Then, she

said to Leanna again, "I'm so sorry."

In the meantime, the expression on Leanna's face remained unchanged. Upon hearing the

woman's apology, she said calmly, "It's okay, Miss Boulogne."

With that, Jeanette smiled and said, "Let's not be strangers. I'm Anthony's colleague, so

you can just call me by my name—"