Investigations and rewards

Surprise. The slight widening of the eyes and lips. Just show slightly parted teeth.

Song Xia starred in her bedroom mirror while going through Coach Han's homework for today.

The modeling classes were going well and she was surprisingly enjoying it.Coach Han was zealous about the modeling and used various techniques to teach the trainee models.

Wu Qingge and Song Xia got along and supported each other in classes. Unfortunately Wu Qingge was going to be a final year high school student and was attending a cram school so they didn't see each other out of modeling classes. Liu Ting was still annoying but kept her distance from Song Xia.

Recently Han Yong was criticizing Liu Ting harshly so she tried to avoid trouble with other models.Coach Han also seemed to approve of Song Xia which was a hard slap to Liu Ting.

Song Xia originally had an expressive face but the original's tragic situation made her gloomy while Song Xia had always had to be a composed military doctor.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Shi Qi knocked on Song Xia's door before entering.

"Xiao Xia, how is the classes going?"

Song Xia gestured for Shi Qi to sit on the bed before replying.

"Classes are going well and Coach Han is very helpful."

They spoke above the daily activities in class before Shi Qi told Song Xia about a recent development.

" I got a call from Mingzhu , they want you to participate in their new costume fairy collection. This will be your first job as a model!" Shi Qi spoke excitedly before remembering the underlying issues.

"Xiao Xia, do you want to take this job? Do you feel ready. It's been just over two weeks since you've left the hospital. Aunt does want to put too much pressure on you."

Shi Qi gazed at Song Xia with eyes full of concern.

Song Xia thought for a while. This wasn't school or university where she had to just study to prosper. It wasn't surgery where practice and hard work was the solution.

But... she had to start somewhere

A bridge wasn't built in one day similarly overtime she would become better.

"Aunt, I'm ready. I'll try my best " Song Xia said with conviction.

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_____Earlier That Week——

Shen Industry Offices Shen Wenling , chairman of Shen Industry and Shen Xue 's father browsed a pile of documents on his desk .

Across his desk sat the stoic Bodyguard Luo, Chairman Shen's confidant and friend.

"Humph."Shen Wenling sighed in pity.

"Old Luo,what do you think about this child Song Xia?"He asked while tapping his fingers on the desk.

"She seems like an upright and straightforward person."He thought back of their meeting at the park before continuing. " Miss Song does not seem greedy nor did she approach the Young Lady with any hidden intentions."

After Bodyguard left Chairmen Shen was still think on how to repay Song Xia. He even felt a bit in the wrong for investigating her . She seemed like a good child who was dealt a rough hand. Orphaned at a young age, she was a talented honor student and she was recently in an accident that left her in a coma for almost 3 months. Song Xia had saved his daughter so he had to reward her in some way or another.

Ring. Ring . Ring.

He picked up His personal cell phone.

"Honey,did you see my proposal for Mingzhu's new collection."It was his wife, Gao Yanyu. Mingzhu was a small company that his wife and her sister had started for their own amusement. It was a subsidiary of Shen Industry's but had also had its own standing. The costume and fun- formal clothing line was extremely populated amongst teenage girls and could be classified as a mid 2nd tier domestic brand.

The new collection was inspired by Shen Xue and her birthday dress would be an exclusive piece in honor of her 16 th birthday.

This gave him an idea he remembered glancing through the files and saw that Song Xia was a trainee model who hadn't debuted yet.

He could provide her with this platform and how she progressed from there would depend on her own ability.

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Shi Qi and Song Xia arrived to 99 Scenes Modeling Agency that was the outskirts of the central business area of G City . It was only a twenty minute drive from their home and they arrived sharply at 8:00 a.m.. Today Song Xia had come to sign a contract with Mingzhu to have a photoshoot in two days time.

It wouldn't take long as the assistant from Mingzhu would fax the paper work to Shi Qi who would get Song Xia to sign it before sending it back.

Song Xia just needed to sign the document and Shi Qi had promised to show her around the 99 Scenes building as she had never been there before.

When the original Song Xia had signed the contract they had done it at Shi Qi's home.Shi Qi then submitted the contract to the head manager and it was approved.

99 Scenes ,was a third tier modeling agency and the office building had 4 floors.

The top floor was the directors office, a guest lounge , a conference room . The second floor consisted out of the managers , agents and secterary offices . The third floor had a large change room, makeup room, 2 stylists offices and a small photographers studio .The ground floor was a large waiting room, a small cafe, a reception desk and a model wall.

The model wall had pictures of all 99 Scene Models - their magazine photoshoots, covers and advertisements.

They entered the company into an orange and mustard yellow hallway.As they waited for the elevator a female model walked up to the elevator and pressed the button on the wall with a neon green fingernail.

She wore a bright coral lipstick and a teal jumpsuit.A pair of Purple Orchid sunglasses on her forehead that revealed her slanted eyes giving her a bit of a sinister expression.

The way she loudly chewed and smacked gum in her mouth was grating on the nerves.Shortly a tall, muscular young man wearing a white wife beater cane up to her and grabbed her ass.

The female model totally unaware of her surroundings turned and gave him a passionate kiss in the hallway causing Song Xia and Shi Qi to avert their eyes.

When the elevator finally came the couple broke apart and followed them inside.

Sensing a a burning gaze on her back Song Xia turned around and found the young man's lustful look. It made her feel utterly disgusted!

She had just witnessed this couples passionate encounter and now in front of his girlfriend he looking at her like that.

When the elevator stopped Song Xia felt a tap on her back.

"Hello ,you must be a new trainee ! I'm Du Pengzhi, long time model at the agency if you need anything feel free to contact me."Du Pengzhi put on a friendly act while seething in jealousy to Ye Dong's reaction to Song Xia .

Song Xia could feel that Du Pengzhi was being insincere but you couldn't hit a smiling face .

"I'm Song Xia, nice to meet you.Thank you for your help."

"Hey, the name's Ye Dong but you can call me Big Brother Dong!"

His leer made Song Xia extremely uncomfortable so she just nodded controlling the overwhelming urge to slap this slime ball.

Luckily Shi Qi called and Song Xia could escape from this fake couple.

Ye Dong was excited at the idea of fresh meat. This new model was scrumptious- gorgeous long legs, banging body and oh that was a face of an angel ! She had this clean , pure air about her that he couldn't help but want to taint. Well, what about Du Pengzhi - what about her ?She would always forgive him since she was so in love with him.