The associate editor didn't continue the conversation and led He Jinxia to the ground floor of the castle.
Deng Zhaoyan was still standing there, but the editor-in-chief had already left.
He Jinxia found it curious that Deng Zhaoyan still had the face to stay after everything that had happened; she must be quite something.
The reason Deng Zhaoyan did not leave was that she was stubbornly holding her breath!
She was certain that she wouldn't be able to attend next year's Harper's Bazaar charity dinner, and if she left now before all the photographs were taken, and those big pictures were released later, what would netizens and journalists think when they saw she wasn't in any of them?
If she had left earlier, before running into the editor-in-chief, there might have been a chance for her next year, but now that opportunity was lost, and Deng Zhaoyan did not want to give up the only one left.