As the New Year was coming, the weather was also getting colder and colder. But their studio became
more and more prosperous.
Except for customized products, Stella and Sherry’s studio also provided some original accessories,
which greatly expanded its client base and received many positive comments.
Stella even received many invitations from investors. Some of them wanted to use the title ‘Miss
Radomil’ to market their brands, and some of them wanted to increase the popularity of Stella’s studio
and increase the production.
But Stella refused all of them.
The studio was now in the start-up stage and its major concern was the quality of the brand. As for
others, she would like them to develop in natural progress.
Stella had been concentrated on drawing ever since she came to the studio today. In the afternoon,
she stood up, stretched her arms lazily and then pushed open the window to enjoy the fresh air.
When the window was open, Stella saw the starry sky.
She had to admit that the air condition in the vicinity had been greatly improved.
Looking at the stars in the sky, Stella was a bit absent-minded.
It had been half a month after that thing and Clarence would come to find her from time to time. But he
didn’t harass her with unreasonable again and would leave after a short while.
Sometimes he would ask his subordinate to send her some things, like dishes and drinks.
Stella never ate them and gave them to her employees.
Clarence came to find her several days ago and told her that he had to go to Italy for a business trip
and would only come back at least a week later.
Stella thought that this was good because she could finally enjoy the peace during this period.
When Stella was about to continue with her drawing, there came a commotion from outside.
She closed the window and walked out of the office.
A middle-aged woman, who pulled the cloth of a girl in school uniform, was cursing at the door, “You’re
so immoral that you earn money from kids. She’s still a high school student. Does she have much
money? She took my heart-earned money! Businessmen are all evil, from inside to outside!”
The girl dealing with her complaint just graduated from university. It was the first time for her to be
cursed like this and she was completely at a loss.
Seeing this, the middle-aged woman raised her voice, “Don’t pretend to be pitiful. It doesn’t work on
me. Return my money!”
The girl stammered, “Your daughter has worn the necklace and earrings for a long time, which brings
some damages to it. I’m sorry I can’t return it.”
Hearing the words, the middle-aged woman pushed her with great force.
Being caught out of the guard, the girl lost her balance and her head hit on the cabinet aside.
Stella hurriedly walked over and supported the girl up from the group. She asked with her brows
furrowed, “Are you all right?”
The girl shook her head. But tears streamed down her face.
Stella took a closer look of her and found that the skin on her forehead was broken and the wound was
bleeding.
She pressed her lips together. Stella turned around and looked at the middle-aged woman who didn’t
seem to be apologetic at all, “I’m the boss of this studio. You can tell me if you have any complaints.
Why did you hit her?”
“So what?” When speaking, the middle-aged woman pushed Stella on her shoulder for several times,
“You’re so heartless. You earn money by some wicked means. You deserved to be beat. It’s good.
You’re the boss here, right? Hurry up, return my money and compensate for my spiritual damage.
Otherwise, I won’t get even with you today!”
When speaking, she slammed the things in her hand to Stella’s feet.
Stella looked down and then took a glance at the girl who was hiding herself behind the middle-aged
woman. She then turned around and asked her employee, “Did she buy these from us?”
The middle-aged woman felt unhappy when hearing the words and shouted, “What do you mean? Do
you think that I’m blackmailing you?”
The girl replied in a low voice, “We have many customers every day and I can’t remember it. But I
promise that I haven’t sold our products to students.”
The original accessories in Stella’s studio were priced from dozens of yuan to several hundreds. They
were not that expensive, but for students who still needed to ask their parents for money, they had
exceeded their standards of consumption.
The key was that there was no school around Stella’s studio and no student would come here to buy
things.
The middle-aged woman spitted, “Yuck, what nonsense are you talking? If she didn’t bought it from
your store, where could she buy them? Come here to have a look, this heartless merchant doesn’t
want to admit her fault now. My daughter bought the accessories from her studio, but the boss doesn’t
want to admit it now.”
When the woman made a fuss here just now, she had attracted the attentions of the guests in the
studio. Now she even attracted the attention of those passengers who walked past the studio.
The girl added in a low voice, “I swear that I haven’t seen a girl in school uniform walking into our
studio. If there is one, I will definitely remember her.”
“Bullshit! Who would wear school uniform all day long? Apparently she bought these things on holiday.”
“What can I do then? It’s just worthy of two or three hundred yuan. Should I ask my guest to show their
ID cards when they buy things here?”
“No matter what, you should return the money to me today. If you refuse it, I will smash your store and
report it to the police. Let’s see which one is reasonable later. How dare you to cheat a student out of
her money? Your store will close down sooner or later!”
The onlookers discussed it in whispers and mostly of them thought that the middle-aged woman had
gone too far.
But a small part of them thought that Stella should return the money because it costed little to stop the
woman to make a fuss in her store.
Stella looked at the little girl who had been lowering her head and asked in a gentle voice, “Can I ask
you some questions?”
The middle-aged woman hurriedly hided the little girl behind herself, “You can directly talk to me. Don’t
try to scare my child.”
Stella said, “I just want to ask her several questions. I will bear the responsibility if it’s our fault.”
“How will you be responsible?”
“I told you that I’m the boss.”
The middle-aged woman rolled her eyes. It seemed like she was estimating Stella’s status in the store.
After a short while, she said, “I will only give you five minutes. Moreover, I must accompany my
daughter. Who knows what you will do to my daughter? Except for returning me the money in full, you
have to compensate me for my spiritual damage and loss of working time. Furthermore, …”
Stella replied with a smile, “Okay.”
Her employee pulled her cloth, “Ms. Radomil…”
Stella turned around and comforted her, “It doesn’t matter. I will handle this and you should go to the
hospital to check your wound first.”
“I can go later.”
She and Stella were the only two persons in the store now and she was afraid that Stella couldn’t
handle it if she left.
“Rest assured. I guess that Sherry will come back soon.”
“Well.”
Before leaving, the girl evacuated the onlookers in the store.
The middle-aged woman sat down on the sofa with arrogance written all over her face, “What do you
want to ask?”
Stella looked towards the little girl and asked in a soft voice, “When did you come to our studio to buy
these accessories?”
The girl replied timidly, “One… one month ago. No, it should be half a month ago…”
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