Rebirth of a Fashionista: This Life Is Soo Last Season

Chapter 54 - Scheming Behind the Scenes

Bang! A phone flew across the room and smashed into the TV mounted on the wall, causing the large screen to instantly crack.

"Why would you lose your temper out of nowhere?" A middle-aged man, who was sitting on the sofa watching the financial news, frowned upon seeing the cracked screen.

Qi Hua stood up and glared furiously at the man. "I asked you to remove Xu Jiaojiao from the National Supermodel show long ago, and you even promised that you would do it. But, did you do it in the end? Just look how well she's doing now! She was even idle enough to hook up with Gu Zhou. Qi Yonggao, don't tell me that you're keeping a woman and illegitimate children outside? To think that you can't even handle such a small issue for me properly! You didn't take my words seriously, did you?"

"Stop spouting nonsense! What do you mean another woman and illegitimate children? For me, there's only you and your mother." Qi Yonggao glanced at the kitchen and added, "If there's anything else, just say it properly. Don't spout nonsense lest your mother hears you and starts overthinking."

"It's been so long already, yet you couldn't even handle a little girl with no money and no power. How can I not be suspicious when things are like this?" Qi Hua pouted with an aggrieved look.

Qi Yonggao patted the spot beside him and gently consoled, "Come over here and sit down first. Dad will explain the situation to you."

Qi Hua glanced at him and humphed before walking over.

"Qi Hua, you're no longer a child. You have to take the bigger picture into account when doing things and think about the long run..."

"Stop talking about these useless things!" Qi Hua interrupted Qi Yonggao.

"Then, you tell me. When one person falls from the first floor and another person from the third floor, whose injury would be more serious?"

"What nonsense, of course the one who fell from the third floor-"

Qi Hua's eyes instantly widened as realisation dawned on her. "Are you trying to destroy her after letting her experience excessive praise?"

Qi Yonggao smiled and enlightened his daughter. "If I kick her out of the show this early, she could merely think of it as losing a chance to stardom. However, she can still go back to school and continue her studies. Would you be satisfied with her suffering that kind of punishment?"

As expected of my cunning old man! Qi Hua's lips curled upwards and a trace of intrigue flashed across her eyes.

"So, you want to make her famous first, and then bring her down?"

Qi Yonggao smiled and nodded. He raised his hand and patted Qi Hua's head, but his hand was quickly blocked.

"Don't pat my head. I'm not a child anymore!" Qi Hua pouted.

"Alright, alright, you're not a child anymore. Go check on your mother in the kitchen and see how the birthday cake is coming along."

"What's the hurry? It's not like you haven't eaten a cake before." Even though she said that, Qi Hua still got up and walked to the kitchen.

As Qi Hua entered the kitchen, Qi Yonggao picked up his phone from the coffee table and called his assistant, asking him to buy a new TV.

Meanwhile, in another villa.

A woman, in the middle of trimming orchids by the window, suddenly cut an orchid off the branch and coldly stared at the mobile on speaker beside her.

"You're saying that President Pan is investigating Xu Qing?!" she unconsciously raised her voice as she asked.

"Yes, Madam Pan," a young man's voice transmitted over the phone.