Vivian had been looking forward to picking out her wedding dress with John and discussing their future life.
Her dream was shattered.
She hadn't seen John for half a year.
Why was he unavailable now?
Vivian's hand had been trembling in her nervousness. Upon hearing Lisa's words, she knocked over the cup in her hand.
The cup fell to the floor with a crash. The brown coffee stained the hem of her dress and her shoes.
"Ah!" Vivian screamed and stood up in panic.
Lisa picked up a box of tissues and bent down to wipe the hem of her dress. "Miss Ye, are you hurt?"
Vivian's white wool dress was stained with brown coffee, which wouldn't come off by wiping. The large stain was annoyingly eye-catching.
First, John stood her up; now, her dress was ruined. Vivian felt an uncontrollable rage bubble up from inside her.
Why was nothing going her way today?
Vivian clenched her fists and gritted her teeth in an attempt to control her temper. Lisa dabbed at the stain with tissues. The more she wiped, the more the stain spread on the fabric. Finally, Vivian couldn't stand it anymore.
"I'm fine. Don't bother." Vivian stooped down to push the other woman away, but she was so weak that Lisa barely moved.
Lisa stood up and asked with a smile, "Miss Ye, would you like to change your dress or try on the wedding dresses first?"
Looking into Lisa's eyes, Vivian realized that she was being rude and immediately said, "I'm sorry."
"Miss Ye, that's alright." Lisa thought nothing of it.
When John personally asked her to serve Vivian and instructed her on how to deal with her, she knew what she was going to face.
"I'll try on the wedding dresses first," Vivian declared as she sat back and covered her knees with a coat. She didn't want to see the unsightly stain on her dress.
"Understood. Please wait a moment, Miss Ye." Lisa made her way to the second floor.
The layout of the FG store was simple. All of the goods were placed near the walls and the glass windows and arranged according to color. The shop's interior was neat, spacious, and bright.
There were sofas and tables in the middle of the floor for customers to rest, and many green plants and flowers occupied the remaining floor area.
From where she sat, Vivian could see the entrance of the shop. There were glass windows on either side of the doorway, and passersby could clearly see into the store from the outside.
Vivian craned her neck to search for something outside. Her eyes finally landed on a thin woman, who raised a hand to touch the edge of her sunglasses to take a photo of Vivian looking outside.
The woman was a journalist specifically invited by Vivian to take pictures of her secretly.
With a worried look on her face, Vivian thought that her plan of hyping up the topic of her upcoming marriage with John would fail because he was absent.
If photos of her picking out her wedding dress alone were posted, who knew what harsh words the public would say?
Vivian was deliberating whether to cancel the plan or not when Lisa's words called her attention.
"Be careful! This is the wedding dress Mr. Shi designed for his wife. It took him more than half a year to finish it. If it gets dirty or damaged, we can't afford to pay for it."
Lisa walked forward to lift the hemline, and they went down the stairs with the wedding dress.
The wedding dress was covered with a layer of opaque cloth. Except for some wayward tulle that peeked from a corner, none of the dress showed from underneath.
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