What puzzled them was that, at the foot of the stairs, they once again saw Paulina, the General Manager of Brioni’s French company.
But she was no longer alone. This woman, whom they always thought of as extremely proud, was now humbly bent over, showing attentiveness to a Caucasian man sitting at a dining table below the stairs.
There were quite a few people sitting at the surrounding tables, yet there was no food on their tables, as if they were all waiting for something.
"That’s Carmen Savini!"
Yu Dandan couldn’t help but whisper in surprise when she saw the man Paulina was flattering.
"Carmen Savini?"
"He is the eldest son of the Brioni family, the next brand heir. I saw him at an event before... What’s he doing here?"
While quietly explaining to Lu Wenqi, Yu Dandan also felt puzzled. But when she looked at the others, her shock grew.
"Oh my god, that’s one of the heirs of Hermes, Ms. Kristen!"
"The daughter of the President of the LV Group, also the President of Dior, Ms. Delphine Arnault... I heard her father is not well, so she is now effectively the head of the LV Group..."
"Then there’s Mr. Klati, the Executive President of Chanel, and Mr. Johnfu Chaumet, the Chairman of Chaumet Paris..."
The more Yu Dandan looked, the more astonished she became, and Lu Wenqi’s face gradually grew serious.
Many in this group, even if Yu Dandan didn’t introduce them, he would recognize, as they are essentially the true decision-makers with authority over various brands.
For the Halloween annual event, they had interacted with many brand representatives, but a figure like Paulina, in front of these true big shots, was just a somewhat senior worker.
What puzzled and confused the two was why these people had gathered here?
What were they waiting for?
When the two followed the waiter over, Paulina naturally saw them too. At first, she thought they had followed her into the restaurant, until she saw the waiter leading them straight through this area and up to the second floor, which was blocked by bodyguards, that her expression turned to shock.
At this point, other big shots, who were initially whispering among themselves, also looked up in surprise at the two.
With doubts and confusion in their hearts, the last scene Lu Wenqi and Yu Dandan saw before they reached the spiral staircase was this.
When they reached the second floor in a daze, they heard laughter.
On the equally empty second floor, past the bodyguards quietly standing along the hallway, there were only two people sitting at a table by the window.
On the left sat a Huaxia young man, looking to be in his early twenties, dressed in a casual suit, handsome in appearance, and lazily leaning against a long sofa, holding a drink that seemed like iced cola.
Opposite him sat a somewhat obese Caucasian man, about fifty years old, holding a cigar, smiling while chatting with the young man opposite, occasionally causing him to laugh out loud.
Yu Dandan and Lu Wenqi first noticed the Caucasian man.
Although the man’s smile had a somewhat naive and amusing feel, giving off a harmless comedic air, these two, having spent quite some time in Europe, could not possibly not know who he was.
Fel Renault, the current Chairman of the Paris Chamber of Commerce, is a top figure in the entire European business world!
Upon seeing him, Yu Dandan and Lu Wenqi seemed to understand why there were so many brand decision-makers waiting under the stairs. If they were waiting for Fel Renault, he certainly had this qualification.
As for the Huaxia youth opposite him, his identity was self-explanatory.
That is the reason they could be here...
But what was the relationship between Mr. Zhou Wang and Fel Renault, and why were they sitting here chatting and laughing as if they were longtime friends?
"Fel, you’re getting more humorous by the day. I didn’t realize before that you could tell so many jokes..."
Zhou Wang put down the cola in his hand, smiled, and pointed at the other, speaking in fluent French.
"Zhou, you seem more cheerful than before. It seems this year’s recuperation has changed your mindset too."
Fel Renault said with emotion, apparently delighted by Zhou Wang’s change.
Zhou Wang smiled slightly.
Before meeting Fel Renault, Zhou Wang had thought about whether to maintain the "memory" persona, which was aloof and domineering.
But later, Zhou Wang seriously considered that this was never his true self. In the future, he would inevitably interact with more "memory" figures, and he couldn’t always be acting, could he?
That would be too tiring for Jill.
Anyway, in these people’s eyes, he returned home for recuperation after a serious injury from an incident, as Zhou Wang had guessed somewhat from Wang Ruixi’s hints. So, would a personality change be quite normal?
As long as they accepted his current personality upon reacquaintance, there would be no need for pretense afterwards.
Sure enough, Fel Renault had no doubts, for who could imagine there ever existed another "Zhou Wang" in this world...
At this moment, Zhou Wang caught sight of Lu Wenqi and Yu Dandan approaching with the waiter and temporarily paused his conversation with Fel Renault.
When the two, subconsciously becoming more cautious, reached close, Zhou Wang laughed and stood up, "President Lu, hello."