After listening to Lucas’s account, Fabio couldn’t bother with leading the models on stage for a thanks. After giving some urgent instructions to his assistant, he followed Lucas to the jewelry exhibition area.
It was already packed to the brim here, especially the inner circle. Tabloid reporters, high-society ladies, and some non-invitee women seeking opportunities were all desperately squeezing in.
As Fabio followed Lucas over, he heard all kinds of exclamations and discussions along the way.
"Huaxia is really a magical place. I used to hear friends say there are many rich people there, and I always refused to believe it... My God, Jack, you must go take a look. That’s tens of millions of Euros, and that Huaxia youth spent it without even blinking!"
"I’ve only seen such a spectacle in the flagship store of Hermes, also Huaxia people shopping, almost buying out all the clothes, but these are priceless jewels!"
"Someone posted on Instagram; it’s said that young Huaxia guy is a billionaire who started his own company..."
"Oh, a genius like the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and so handsome. God, my butt is so itchy!"
"That might not be the case, Jenna, maybe just a lucky heir of family wealth, you know, there are many such people in Huaxia..."
"Come on, Chris, I know you’re just jealous of him. Don’t worry, I won’t actually sleep with him... unless he raises a toast to me, hehe!"
Unable to get in, Fabio and Lucas had no choice but to head to the balcony on the second floor, where there were significantly fewer people. After all, those who could enter the second-floor area were either guests with certain status or insiders.
From a high vantage point, Lucas also saw Zhou Wang leaning casually against a jewelry display, hands in pockets.
Beside him, the mixed-race saleswoman with sparkling eyes was holding one jewelry gift box after another, constantly confirming with Zhou Wang. Every time Zhou Wang nodded, the brand managers nearby with flattering smiles would gesture for the finance staff to step forward and present a POS machine for Zhou Wang to swipe his card.
Every time Zhou Wang made a payment, the brand managers would clap and shower compliments, and the sales clerks packing for Zhou Wang had formed a conveyer-belt line...
At a glance, it seemed as if half of the jewelry exhibition area revolved around Zhou Wang alone, with even the dazzling couture jewelry carefully selected by five top luxury jewelry brands attracting little attention.
... After all, most guests had seen people spend lavishly on couture jewelry, but few had witnessed someone sweeping through all the luxury brand showcases as if supermarket shopping.
"It’s truly that Zhou!"
Upon recognizing Zhou Wang’s face, Fabio’s expression darkened.
Last time, due to Zhou Wang, the cooperation between Brioni and Wuyou Media fell through, causing Brioni, which was already lukewarm, to face further obstacles in the Huaxia market. After Wu Nala reported the issue upward, the headquarters quickly initiated an accountability procedure.
The final outcome was that the blame fell on Wu Yanqiu, who filed the report. She had to leave Brioni...
However, Fabio was not entirely unscathed.
Despite being a seasoned tailor and designer, the headquarters didn’t really do anything to him, but he was criticized at internal meetings by a higher-up who never saw eye to eye with him.
If not for Lucas continually shielding him, he might have even been docked a quarter’s bonus.
Feeling his reputation severely damaged, Fabio was immensely angry and thus bore a grudge against Wu Yanqiu and Zhou Wang. Of course, he could do nothing against Zhou Wang, but it was through his machinations that Wu Yanqiu’s resignation certificate had been stalled.
If not for Zhou Wang, even if Wu Yanqiu successfully passed the interview with Wuyou Media, procedurally, she wouldn’t have been able to join smoothly.
Standing beside him, Lucas also squinted slightly.
Due to that incident, his promotion to marketing director was almost thwarted. Although he was ultimately promoted as he wished, the cost behind the scenes was substantial.
So, in some sense, Lucas’s hatred for Zhou Wang and Wu Nala was even greater than Fabio’s.
However, Lucas wouldn’t be like Fabio, displaying his loves and hates on his face... Such a fool, in this life, could only be a slightly higher-class tailor.
At least on the surface, Lucas had still deceived Wu Yanqiu, who absurdly believed he truly regarded her as a friend. So upon hearing that she came to Paris, Lucas sent Wu Yanqiu a fake invitation, intending to humiliate her as a minor lesson.
What surprised Lucas, however, was that Wu Yanqiu still entered the party, and moreover, Zhou Wang also appeared here.
"This Zhou is actually so rich, those are jewels worth tens of millions of Euros..."
Fabio glared resentfully at the young man in a laid-back posture against the display case, muttering a low curse.
"He’s one of the youngest billionaires in Huaxia after all; young people like to splurge, nothing unusual."
Lucas replied calmly.
"Why were he and Wu invited to this party, which brand issued the invitation?"
"Oh, Fabio, that’s the interesting part."
Lucas said playfully, "I just checked; Zhou is not on the invite list, he must have borrowed someone else’s invitation, and as for Wu and those girls beside her, they also didn’t have invitations... unless you count the invitation I made with Photoshop."