Finally, the professionals issued a notice for Qin Guan. He took a deep breath. This sure will be hard work.

With excellent quality and a reasonable price, the 56-page alb.u.m would cost 35 yuan.

This meant that Qin Guan would have to finish the photoshoot before the release date of all the magazines.

All the photos would be checked by a professional group with a magnifying gla.s.s.

Fortunately, the Citizen watch Qin Guan would represent was a cla.s.sical watch among mechanical ones. The branding business thought that his personality matched the watch perfectly. The watch symbolized independence, self-confidence and a low profile.

The alb.u.m told the story of a man in an ice-cold metallic city, who had just started his own business. In the deep night, he worked at his desk alone, neon lights s.h.i.+ning outside the window.

When he made some achievements at work, he was suddenly surrounded by applause. Tired but satisfied, he was waiting for the last subway home. The dim back view of the lonely man expressed the loneliness of a stranger in a metropolis.

His heart palpitated with excitement when he came across a girl. The girl was Qin Guan’s partner. As the female amba.s.sador of Citizen, she had arrived in the capital that day.

The j.a.panese director nearly pulled his hair out for choosing a film actress to cooperate with Qin Guan.

After careful consideration, they finally chose f.u.kada Kyōko to be the amba.s.sador of the new ladies’ watch.

They met outside the Citizen headquarters for the first time and were quickly followed by countless journalists. Lights were flas.h.i.+ng everywhere. Everyone was filled with curiosity about the controversial star.

The staff stopped the journalists and led the two actors into the shooting studio.

Qin Guan and f.u.kada Kyōko were looking at each other from head to toe. With her pure beautiful face and excellent figure, the girl had quickly become popular in j.a.pan. She had impressed Qin Guan a lot.

As a tough man, Qin Guan never watched j.a.panese TV series, but she was renowned, not just for her face or figure, but for her romantic interests too. She was known as the Stamp-Collecting Queen [1].

Qin Guan looked at the girl, who was only a little younger than him. Who could imagine that she’d had a three-way romance?

Her ex-boyfriends included Takizawa Hideaki, Noriyuki Higas.h.i.+yama (their relations.h.i.+p had lasted for only one year), and the hot scriptwriter s.h.i.+nji Nojima (who had been the third party).

The hot actress, who had made her debut two years earlier, had already begun collecting handsome boys.

The staff made a short introduction. Kyoko f.u.kada bowed before Qin Guan politely and then followed her a.s.sistant to the dressing room.

Looking at her back, Qin Guan touched his jaw. He would need a translator while he worked with the j.a.panese girl. He believed it was necessary to handle several foreign languages considering that he would have to work with a foreign brand.

Several days earlier, he had begun to study j.a.panese. He had even audited some j.a.panese cla.s.ses at the training school and had mastered the basics of j.a.panese dialogue.

There would be some unique words during the shooting though. To avoid a misunderstanding, Qin Guan had relied on a translator during the negotiation.

Kyoko entered her dressing room and gave up her cute girl act. She sat in a chair, folding her legs up.

The dresser got to work while she shared her opinion on Qin Guan with her a.s.sistant.

"My Chinese partner is so handsome, Yumiko! My vision was too narrow! I’ll ask my agent to find foreign stars for me."

Yumiko smiled, her eyes narrowing to slits. "You’re right, Ms. Kyoko. You have to work harder now. If you became a superstar in Asia, you would get more chances to work abroad."

Facing the mirror, Kyoko f.u.kada gently smoothed pink lip gloss over her lips and kissed the air. "Mr. Qin is really handsome. All the girls will fall in love with him. Am I right, Yumiko?"

Yumiko was nervous. You are my elder sister, f.u.kada. This is just a photo alb.u.m. Did you find your true love again?

Kyoko seemed to know what she was thinking about. She turned around and cast a soft glance at her a.s.sistant.

"Don’t worry, I prefer a man who can stay with me. I’m a textbook feminist. A lover from a foreign country is not my cup of tea."

She looked at herself in the large mirror. The girl reflected in it was dressed in a backless one-piece. "I’m jealous of those s.e.xy girls," she murmured to herself disappointedly.

She looked even younger when she grumbled.

By the time Kyoko f.u.kada finished getting dressed and went to the studio, the crew had also arranged everything.

Qin Guan was standing on set in a dark grey suit, wearing a dark gold Citizen watch. The fine diamonds on it were s.h.i.+ning in the light.

He had broad shoulders and a straight back. The close-fitting suit complimented his slender waist and long legs.

According to the script, Qin Guan, a successful businessman, had just found his other half. Wearing a long dress, Kyoko f.u.kada had to bend over his back with emotion and express her happiness for their meeting.