Yes, Lady Funina!

She felt like she was being tricked, but she had no evidence.

Soon, Clorinde told Richard excerpts of the suggestions she had made to Finnina, and emphasized that with her help, the relationship between Finnina and Ningguang made rapid progress. It was she who greatly deepened the friendship between the two and made an indelible contribution to Richard's future harem career.

It is obviously unreasonable not to give him some reward for his hard work!

However, what Clorinde did not expect was that Richard did not show any surprise at all, as if he had known about it for a long time.

Seeing this, Clorinde immediately reacted, "Linnet told you?"

Richard nodded, "I talked a little bit."

"How much is one point?"

"That's the point you didn't mention."

Clorinde was shocked when she heard this. Isn't this all said?

However, just when Clorinde thought her hopes were dashed, Richard suddenly changed the subject and said, "Although I know you have bad intentions, you did contribute to this matter, so it's not impossible to give you some rewards."

The reason why Richard rejected Clorinde before was not because he could not accept the request made by Clorinde, but because he did not accept threats.

After all, they’re just a few photos, and it won’t hurt to take them.

But there is a saying that goes, what I give you is yours, if I don’t give it to you, you can’t take it away from me.

At the same time, he was also raising his own value, and through rejection he made Clorinde realize that he was not an easy man.

Huh? Something feels weird?

Clorinde, who had no idea that she was being controlled by the CPU, was now completely attracted by the reward that Richard mentioned. According to what Richard meant, did she agree?

Volume 124: Chapter : Clorinde's End

Clorinde got the photos of Richard as she wished. The only thing that made Clorinde regretful was that Richard refused to take off his upper body completely. Clorinde had to settle for the second best and let Richard pose for several times, which could be considered a satisfying photo shoot.

It has to be said that Clorinde is really good at taking photos. She has a perfect grasp of the composition, light and color. Even her shooting ideas are very clever. It is obvious that the author spent a long time conceiving the work.

Even if I take it to a competition, I should be able to get a good ranking.

Richard couldn't help but shook his head as he looked at Clorinde holding the photo with a nympho smile that was inconsistent with her character.

This guy is hopeless.

Whether in terms of temperament or appearance, Clorinde looks extremely cool. She is the kind of ruthless and taciturn beauty.

But who could have thought that such an icy beauty would be looking at his photo and laughing foolishly at this moment, without any trace of coolness at all, and looked so naive.

--contrast.

By the way, this set of photos was taken in Richard's office. Clorinde originally wanted to ask Richard to take the photos at her house, but was ruthlessly rejected by Richard.

He was asked to take off his clothes when taking photos in the office. God knows what will happen when he goes to this guy's house. Boys must protect themselves when they are outside.

As Richard thought about this, he used the power of fire to dry his wet shirt.

Yes, you read that right. During the filming just now, Clorinde poured water on Richard, playing the male version of wet body temptation, which was simply too outrageous.

They said this was a lower-level substitute for stripping, and told Richard to either take off his clothes or get wet, it’s your choice, don’t force me to kneel down and beg you!

Of course, the last sentence was added later, but the meaning is almost the same, both use the most cowardly tone and the most cruel words.

After putting on his coat and suit and tying his tie, Richard said to Clorinde who was still looking at the photos, "It's time to get off work, you should go home early too... By the way, you won't do anything weird with my photos, will you?"

Clorinde is already an adult. Although she has no experience in this area, she more or less knows some of the ways that single adults relieve loneliness, such as doing handicrafts based on photos.

Clorinde would definitely not do such a thing. The reason why she wanted to take a photo of Richard was purely for the pursuit of beauty. It was art, you know? Art!

"How is that possible! I'm just collecting it and I won't do anything weird with it." Clorinde assured.

"Really? That's good. I'll be leaving first. You..."

"Lady Funina asked me to go to her office after get off work. You go first."

"Okay." Richard nodded and walked straight out the door, but he suddenly stopped halfway, turned his head back and reminded Clorinde: "You can take a look at the photos yourself, don't spread them around."

"Can Lady Furninna see?"

"Do you still want to work?"

Clorinde: ...

If you don't want to show it to others, then don't show it to others. Why bring up work as an issue?

After Richard left, Clorinde admired her own photos again, put the photos in a white standard envelope and put it in her bag. She planned to buy an album after get off work to keep them well, and take them out to look at them from time to time to motivate herself.

She still needs to work on her abdominal muscles as she hasn’t touched them yet.

Maybe next time I can go to the martial arts gym with Richard to practice with him. When practicing, bumps and bruises are inevitable. It's normal to accidentally touch his abdominal muscles, isn't it?

Well, I just don't know if I can beat him...

Thinking this, Clorinde came to Funina's office next door. As soon as she entered the door, she saw Funina waving at her.

"Claurinde, come and see how my photos are." Furninda was obviously very satisfied with her work. She called out to Clorinde and prepared to let her see what a master-level photography work is.

Clorinde walked closer curiously and found that Funina was holding a few freshly taken photos. The cute creatures in the photos, if Clorinde remembered correctly, should be cats in the park next to the Momang Palace.

"Lady Furninna, why did you think of taking pictures of cats?" Clorinde asked curiously.

"Hehe, I plan to use these photos to participate in the photography competition of this cultural exchange festival. I have already thought of the name of the work, which is "The Cat Stealing Fish", which just corresponds to the action of the cat stealing the dried fish in the photo."

"Why did Lady Funina suddenly think of participating in a photography competition?" Clorinde knew that this photography competition was a popular project in cultural exchange activities, and a large number of people signed up.

If a work is shortlisted, it will not only be displayed at the venue, but Steambird Newspaper will also print it out, compile it into a separate collection, and sell it to various countries as a gift with the next issue of the magazine.

This opportunity to allow all Teyvat people to see their works has undoubtedly attracted many photography enthusiasts. Not only Fontaine Liyue, but also photographers from other countries came from afar to Fontaine to participate in the competition, which greatly boosted the performance of Fontaine's tourism industry.

But what puzzled Clorinde was why Funina suddenly thought of participating in this photography competition.

Funina explained: "As the host, I have to participate in one of the many activities. Compared with those poetry, song, singing and shadow competitions, which are quite laborious, taking photos is much easier."

"So that's it."

Clorinde understood that it was to support their own activities. Regardless of the authenticity of this reason, since Furninna said so, she believed it.

However, the truth was that when Funina and Ningguang were inspecting the venue, they were boasting about how good her photography skills were. The staff nearby heard it and then they flattered her and forced her to participate in this photography competition...

These obviously cannot be told to Clorinde. Does she, Furninna, have no respect for herself?

"Then why did Lady Funina ask me to come here..."

"I'm going to the Oprykle Opera House to watch the trial later, so it's not convenient for me. And today is the last day for registration, so I thought I'd ask you to help me submit my entry. Here, I've filled out the registration form and everything. You can just hand it in on your way back."

Furninna carefully gathered the photos she had taken, stuffed them into a white standard envelope, and handed it to Clorinde together with the registration form.

Clorinde naturally agreed to such a small request without thinking, took the registration form and envelope, and stuffed them into her bag.

On the way home from get off work, Clorinde first went to the store to buy a photo album, and then when she passed by the venue of the cultural exchange event, she handed the registration form and envelope in her bag to the staff.

Because all he could think about was going back quickly to put the photos he had developed today into the photo album, he didn't notice that there was no personal stamp from Funina on the envelope he handed in...

After returning home, Clorinde took a nice hot bath to wash away the day's fatigue. She came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel, made a cup of fragrant hot tea, and sat down at her desk.

After all the operations, the sense of ritual is fully achieved.

Finally it was time to sort out today's harvest. Clorinde took out the newly bought photo album from her bag. This was the most expensive one in the store. It was said to be able to protect the photos to the greatest extent and effectively alleviate many problems such as fading and aging caused by time.

Very magical!

Of course, the price is also quite touching.

But for Clorinde, who has a lot of money, it’s nothing. If she wants to use something, she has to use the best!

As Clorinde was thinking, she took out the white standard envelope from her bag. There was a light blue ink stamp in the middle of the envelope, and the pattern on it was a simple sketch of the water god. This was the personal stamp of the water goddess Funina, which was unique in Fontaine and very recognizable.

Therefore, the first time Clorinde took out the envelope, she saw the stamp. She was stunned at first, and then as if she realized something, her body trembled and she almost shook the bath towel wrapped around her off.

But Clorinde obviously couldn't care less about these things now, and hurriedly opened the envelope. She didn't take the photo out of the envelope directly, but slightly pushed force from both sides of the envelope towards the middle, squeezing out an opening in the envelope. Looking inside through the opening, she could see a corner of the photo.

Clorinde closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Even when facing vicious criminals, she had never been so nervous as she was now.

After some mental preparation, she slowly opened her eyes and looked inside the envelope along the opening...

A cute black and white cat, which was concentrating on tasting fish that it got from somewhere, came into Clorinde's sight.

"Hiss..." Clorinde felt her heart tremble, and for a moment she even felt that her heart was about to stop beating.

To die, to die, to die...

Clorinde turned the envelope over, and the photos inside fell onto the clean and tidy desk like leaves drifting outside the window.

Well, they are all of that little cat, lying down, standing, running or sitting. You can see that the photography technique is quite sophisticated, and even static photos can capture a kind of dynamic beauty.

But Clorinde is obviously not in the mood to think about static beauty or dynamic beauty now, as she is almost out of work!

Clorinde acted decisively, stood up and prepared to rush to the venue. When she reached the door, she remembered that she had not changed her clothes yet, so she ran back to the room, and did not care that her bath towel fell on the way.

When she changed her clothes and rushed to the venue with the beautiful photos of her cats, Clorinde found that no one was there at the registration point for the photography competition.

Clorinde asked the staff nearby, and the staff lady told her.

"Registration for the photography competition has closed. All photos have been taken back to the Steambird Newspaper headquarters for copying. With the efficiency of the Steambird Newspaper, if nothing unexpected happens, the shortlisted works will be selected tonight."

Clorinde asked hurriedly, "The photo was given to me by mistake. Can it be changed midway?"

As far as she knew, the schedule of this photography competition was that the authoritative jury invited by Steambird Newspaper would first select one hundred shortlisted works, which would then be put into the venue of this cultural exchange event for the tourists participating in the event to vote, and ultimately the gold, silver, bronze and other awards would be decided.

The works that the judges are particularly optimistic about will be given more opportunities to be displayed, such as being made into posters and banners and placed inside the venue.

"I'm not sure about this, maybe... it's not possible. After all, in order to ensure the fairness of the selection, all photos are shuffled and photocopied for anonymous selection. I guess now that the selection has begun, it's impossible to change it." The staff member thought for a while and replied.

"Then can I give up and not participate in the photography competition?" Clorinde continued to ask without giving up the struggle.

"Of course you can, but you must be present in person. If you want to give up the game, please fill out this form and show your ID. Your name is..."

"...Do you believe me when I say I am Funina?"

"what?"

Under the puzzled looks of the staff, Clorinde left the venue in a daze, wearing a mask of pain.

The strong aura of depression emanating from him, which was visible to the naked eye, formed a sharp contrast with the cheerful and happy atmosphere around him.

Human sorrows and joys are not interlinked, I just think they are noisy.

Nothing could better describe Clorinde's inner thoughts at this moment.

She returned home in a daze. The hot tea on the desk had already gone cold. Without even looking at it, Clorinde fell straight onto her bed.

And this time he fell until the next morning.

"Claurinde asked for leave?" Richard was a little surprised. This seemed to be the first time Clorinde asked for leave.

"Are you sick?" Richard asked, wondering if this guy had gone home last night and done something weird with his photo, and then accidentally caught a cold?

Fu Nina shook her head. "I'm not sure, but when she came to ask for leave this morning, she did look a little unwell."

"It may be because there has been too much work and too much pressure recently." Richard speculated.

When people feel stressed, they will think of relieving stress through various means, and the most direct way is... ahem.

"It does seem like a bit too much." Finina thought of the thick stack of documents that Clorinde had brought back from Richard's office. Just looking at it made her scalp tingle.

"Linnet, when Clorinde comes back to work, assign her less work," Richard said.

"Okay." Linnet nodded in response.

But she was somewhat confused, because logically speaking, Clorinde should not have much work on hand recently.

She had assigned so many tasks at once, but they were actually Clorinde's work for the next few days, and Clorinde had already completed all of them the day before yesterday.

Theoretically, Clorinde should be very free...

It's not that I'm free. I'm free enough to take pictures and participate in photography competitions.

Volume 125: Chapter So... So Astringent

In the special selection meeting room of Steambird Newspaper, photos full of the creators' ingenuity and hard work appeared anonymously in front of the special judges' desks.

This is not an easy task. To select the best 100 shortlisted works from the vast number of submissions requires a very high level of vision and professionalism from the judges.

In order to avoid good works being missed, the jury adopts a multi-person review mechanism. Instead of giving a work to only one person for judging, multiple people will conduct multiple rounds of judging.

Not only will they be eliminated, even the shortlisted works will be repeatedly checked.

This photography competition is held under the banner of cultural exchange between Fontaine and Liyue, so there cannot be any mistakes, otherwise it will be a devastating blow to the reputation of Steambird Newspaper and the markets of both Liyue and Fontaine.

It can be said that this photography competition will be the most fair one in all of Teyvat. Both the judges and the competition system have tried their best to avoid the occurrence of shady dealings and favoritism.