It was only after going in Tao Zhiyao’s living room did everyone realize what she meant by “the living room being too big”… From the north side to the west side, you couldn’t see the end. Even though there was a huge white sofa placed in it, it still seems empty.
Tao Zhiyao’s home decor was a light luxurious style, the color palette focusing on light yellow and white. It was gorgeous but subtle, unlike the nouveau riche, the house was not filled with bright gold decorations but instead had tasteful furnitures. There are a bunch of flowers on the coffee table and cabinet, white roses mixed with white lilies, and the air had a natural floral fragrance.
The weather was quite hot, so Tao Zhiyao welcomed everyone inside for fruits and some drinks.
Li Xiaoru didn’t care for the snacks and her attention was sole focused on the piano. The piano was pure white and also had a bouquet of white flowers on top as decoration.
She walked up to it excitedly, but hesitantly asked Tao Zhiyao, “Can I touch this piano?”
“Of course! This is the piano you’ll be using later.”
Li Xiaoru was ecstatic and walked quickly to the piano. She first walked around the piano and looked at the piano as if it was a treasure. The surface of the piano was inlaid with countless pieces of gorgeous white jade, and these high-polished white jades were arranged in different geometric patterns. It showed exquisite craftsmanship and was gorgeous and unusual.
Li Xiaoru had once saw about this piano on the internate before. It was Steinway’s customized grand piano to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The number of white jade inlays was exactly 150. It was called “Round Sound” and was limited to 150 pianos worldwide. They even imprinted the Steinway logo in real gold at the bottom of the piano keys. Obviously, the price was also extremely high.
Li Xiaoru bent down and checked and saw that it really had the logo! At the time, she was longing for the piano while staring at the s. This was her dream piano! She never thought that she’d have the chance to see it in real life, not to mention actually playing it!
She was so excited!
Li Xiaoru reached out her hands and softly caressed the keys, as if she was caressing her lover. Seeing this, Jiang Chengfeng was a little bit jealous of the keyboard.
She quitely asked Tao Zhiyao, “How much did this piano cost?”
Tao Zhiyao knew Jiang Chengfeng and Li Xiaoru were dating and knew why he asked for the price. She hesitated, not wanting to crush Jiang Chengfeng’s dreams, but finally said, “1.5 million….”
Jiang Chengfeng sighed, he knew he couldn’t afford it.
Then Tao Zhiyao added softly, “Dollars…”
Jiang Chengfeng was one step away from crying a river.
Seeing Li Xiaoru intoxicated with the piano, Tao Zhiyao invited the three other girls to visit her dressing room, and Jiang Chengfeng stayed behind with Li Xiaoru.
Tao Zhiyao’s bedroom was on the second floor. Her bedroom was not the same as a regular old bedroom in the ordinary sense. The entrance of the bedroom was a small resting room, passing through the small resting room, it was a living room, and passing through the living room was finally Tao Zhiyao’s dressing room.
The dressing room had an area of at least 40 square meters. The half of the walls were filled white cabinets from top to bottom. The transparent glass cabinet in the middle was furnished with exquisite jewelry and accessories comparable to exhibits in the museum.
Without seeing a piece of clothing, Liu Man and the others were already stunned by the room.
Especially Miao Xiaomei, her eyes opened wide. Tao Zhiyao’s dressing room was bigger than her company’s dressing room, it’s easy to imagine all the fancy and expensive clothing that were filling these cabinets.
Tao Zhiyao casually opened the closet specially for storing Hanfus. The gorgeous and classical atmosphere rushed towards them, and Sun Weiwei, who never valued appearances, also had an eye-opening feeling.
“It’s beautiful!”
The visual effect of all the Hanfu worth over ten thousand piled together was beyond words.
Liu man gasped, “I think you have even more beautiful clothing than the favorited concubines in the Han Palace!”
“Of course, our beauty standards had an evolution fo two thousand years. Our clothes designs now look better and better. Not to mention that we have more fabric choices right now compared to back then.
Tao Zhiyao searched up Hanfus in their original states before, to be honest, some of the styles were too out of date. No one would actually wear it in the present.
Liu Man nodded in approval, she had the most experience in these kinds of topics. She picked up a random peach red Hanfu and felt the fabric, “It’s true, the Han Dynasty didn’t have these types of fabric.”
Miao Xiaomei asked with confusion, “Who do you know?”
Liu Man said these kinds of weird things a lot, so Tao Zhiyao was already used to it. But Miao Xiaomei didn’t know Liu Man long enough to know that she’s crazy with ancient Chinese knowledge.
“Don’t mind her, she just likes things about ancient Chiense. It’s probably easier to learn calligraphy and Gu Qin if you are in the perspective of an ancient Chinese.”
Sun Weiwei was startled when she heard the words and fell into deep thought.
That’s right, Liu Man talkes and acts like an ancient Chinese! And she even chose Classical Literature out of all the Majors she could of chose from!”
Could it be……
Btu Tao Zhiyao did know that her words had inspired Sun Weiwei’s train of thought.
Tao Zhiyao just let Liu Man pick whatever she liked.
Liu Man pointed to the peach red Hanfu she picked up earlier and said, “Let’s just use that one.”
“What a coincidence,” Tao Zhiyao was surprised, “That one is the last piece of the ‘Feng Hua’ clothing line called ‘Coral’.”
“Not quite a coincidence, I chose this one specifically because I had worn it before.” Liu Man smiled.
The main color of “Coral” was a young and lively bright pink. It’s the most outstanding color among the five sets of Hanfu, and it’s also the most difficult color to control. This color looks very mundane on most people and it was precisely why Tao Zhiyao didn’t take this set out before. Because she didn’t look good in it.
“Umm, just try it on, we’ll change it if it doesn’t look good,” Tao Zhiyao thought that the Peach red color didn’t suit Liu Man. When Liu Man wears white, she looks like a goddess from heaven, when she wears light green or yellow, she looks naive and innocent, red looks royal and elegant.
Peach red didn’t fit with her temperament.
Tao Zhiyao, Sun Weiwei and Miao Xiaomei went to the living room and sat on the sofa waiting for Liu Man to change clothes.
After 5 minutes, Liu Man elegantly walked in.
The three girls all turned to look at Liu Man, Sun Wei Wei murmured to herself, “Now I finally now what people meant when describing others as “Rosy cheeks compliments the beauty.”
“She’s like a beautiful flower that’s standing right in front of us,” Tao Zhiyao admired. The pink skirt made Liu Man look much more vibrant. The red color was splendid, but not gaudy. It turns out that even such a dignified person as Liu Man can be flamboyant.
And Miao Xiaomei had already begun thinking what style she should give Liu Man. This was the moment to test her makeup skills.
Everyone could faintly hear the piano sounds from downstairs. It must be Li Xiaoru playing the piano. She was playing the track that would be filmed today: “Jasmine”.
Translated by: Puppxteer/Yutong
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