At the end of November, Dijing Cultural Exchange Market.
As soon as Shi Yunan entered the venue, he saw Yuan Rui who was looking forward to it at the door. The other party rarely wore a three-piece suit. After a little hair care, he lost his childishness and looked a little elite.
"Yuan Rui."
"Ancestor, you've come!" Yuan Rui ran up, unable to hide his nervousness.
When Shi Yunnan heard the title, he immediately laughed, "Am I not late?"
"Sign in first, sign in first!"
Yuan Rui dragged him to the front desk, and carefully supervised Shi Yunnan's signature and receipt of the license, and then he was secretly relieved.
Shi Yunnan hung the work badge that he brought with him on his neck, and followed Yuan Rui into the venue together.
The Dijing Jewelry Auction Charity Gala has been held for nine consecutive sessions. Jewelry designs of emerging designers have achieved high prices of tens of millions in the Gala, thus becoming famous in one fell swoop!
Therefore, it attracts more and more designers to gather.
Where there is jewelry design, there are inevitably rich businessmen and ladies who come here. The total price of jewelry sold at auction is higher than one session, and it has even become the vane of the jewelry design session in China.
The auction banquet hall has a large area and is divided into an auction area and a communication area.
There was still half an hour before the official auction. Shi Yunnan went to sit in no hurry, grabbed a thin auction brochure, and took Yuan Rui to the communication area on the right.
A total of 22 design works were auctioned in the ninth charity gala, but the most interesting of them were the last two 'X Designs'.
In other words, there is no real design on the auction book.
"The designer (group) who participated in the auction for the first time, the only two best designs?" Shi Yunnan read out the rough rules about 'X design' and raised his eyebrows, "I remember you told me that our works are Was selected for the 'X' design."
Yuan Rui was busy with their studio participating in the auction. He knew all of this very clearly. After hearing this, he replied, "The organizer has played a trick. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."
Shi Yunan asked, "How do you say it?"
Yuan Rui explained, "This is a recognition of our design by the organizer's selection team, right? But it was arranged at the end of the auction."
On the one hand, it is to hoist the auction appetite of the guests and prevent them from leaving the venue after reading all the auction exhibits in advance.
But on the other hand, the curiosity of the guests was fished to the highest point, and if the actual jewelry on display did not meet their expectations, it is likely that the auction price would not go up.
After all, when the auction progresses to the end, many guests who really like to collect design works will easily run out of 'budget' early, and they will sit for another two hours. How can they have the patience to shoot works that are 'not as expected'
"Don't you hope that your design and our studio can gain popularity and fame in this auction?"
Yuan Rui quietly placed hope, "I even listened to my mother this morning and went to the temple in Kering next door to worship."
Shi Yunnan couldn't help but chuckled when he heard the second half of the sentence. He glanced at the people around him and teased, "Do you still believe this?"
"Well, it's always good to beg." Yuan Rui was a little embarrassed and changed the subject, "Anyway, I hope your design will become famous! Isn't that beneficial to our studio?"
Shi Yunan asked again, "Whose is the other X-designed work?"
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"The enemy's road is narrow!" Yuan Rui subconsciously grinded his posterior molars and reported a familiar name, "Lingyu Jade Design."
Although Lingyu Design is an established company in the jade design industry, they have never participated in charity auctions before.
This time, for some unknown reason, I also took my design works to participate in the offline screening, and at the same time, I was selected into 'X Design'.
Compared with other design exhibits that have been printed on the auction book, the two exhibits selected for 'X Design' formed a silent competition—
Who is more liked by the rich guests at the scene? Whose works can be auctioned for higher prices
If there is a comparison, there will be winners and losers. There are winners and losers, and it is inevitable to step on.
What's more, Lingyu and Yuan's own competition and festivals existed before this.
Shi Yunan asked, "I don't know the design of their house yet?"
"Well, it's all confidential." Yuan Rui replied, "But I handed in our works this afternoon, and I specially hired a special person to guard them, so nothing could go wrong."
Once bitten, twice shy.
Yuan Rui was afraid of another situation like Xie Keyue's situation in Lingyu Jade, so he took extra care to protect his own design.
Shi Yunnan smiled and said nothing.
In less than a month, Yuan Rui has become 'mature and stable' in all aspects, although the milk fat on his face has not completely cleared up.
The two took a few steps forward, and Yuan Rui paused in dismay. Shi Yunan followed his gaze and saw three figures—
Two men and one woman.
One of the young men is the designer Yang Sen who was dug out of their studio and jumped to Lingyu.
Standing in the middle of the three was a man of about twenty-seven or eight-year-old, wearing a dark golden three-piece suit, a pair of narrow phoenix eyes, and thin lips staring at the surrounding movements with a smile but not a smile. An indescribable taste of calculation.
The other woman was wearing a black breast wrap dress, long curly hair, delicate makeup, and big red lips. At this moment, she was very close to the man in the dark golden suit, and it could be seen that the relationship between the two was unusual.
In contrast, Yang Sen is more like a migrant worker following the leader.
After a brief look, the other party also noticed the existence of Yuan Rui and Shi Yunnan.
The man in the dark-gold suit came over first, his slightly playful gaze slid around the two of them, and said with a smile, "Young Master Yuan, treat Shibie with admiration for three days."
"This is the designer of your studio?" He gestured to Shi Yunnan slightly, "Shi Yunnan designer? I have long admired the name."
Yuan Rui didn't show too obvious disgust, and whispered to Shi Yunnan, "Gu Jue, Lingyu Design, which was only taken over last year."
His identity in the Gu family is similar to that of Yuan Rui in the Yuan family jade, but he took over the Lingyu Design Department two years earlier.
When Shi Yunnan heard the name, he finally had a reaction—
In the original book, after Xie Keyue and Yuan Rui enlarged Yuan's jade design, they once acquired Lingyu design whose performance was declining, and Gu Jue was also one of his many 'admirers'.
Unexpectedly, the current situation is reversed.
Xie Keyue and Gu Jue reached an investment cooperation, but they became rivals with their Yuan clan.
Shi Yunnan quickly restrained his emotions and showed a little politeness, "Mr. Gu, you are polite."
Gu Jue didn't speak, just stared at Shi Yunnan with interest.
Perhaps it was Gu Jue's gaze that stayed on Shi Yunnan's face for too long, Yuan Rui and the woman in black dress beside Gu Jue reacted at the same time—
"Mr. Gu, won't you introduce me?"
"Gu Jue, what are you looking at!"
The woman in the black dress is jealous and wants to find her own sense of existence;
Yuan Rui Chun belongs to the 'rabbit protecting radish', and is always on guard for Gu Jue who wants to 'poach Shi Yunnan'.
Gu Jue retracted his thoughts and introduced him in a calm manner, "This is the design director of our Lingyu Design Department, Song Miaoke."
"I heard that Mr. Shi's design is also one of the final 'X designs'?"
Song Miaoke raised her chin slightly, and said words that sounded friendly, but there was actually a trace of disdain in her eyes, "I look forward to seeing your work at the auction dinner later."
Shi Yunan glanced at the corner of his lips subtly, but didn't answer.
Song Miaoke probably felt that she had lost face, and a breath was stuck in her throat. She hurriedly looked sideways at Gu Jue, as if she hoped that the other party could help him speak.
Yang Sen, who was standing behind the side, saw the woman's small movements, and his speechless expression flashed past.
Song Miaoke could be said to be the director of the design department, rather than the little lover that Gu Jue took by his side.
I heard gossip from employees inside the company that the other party got on with Gu Jue as soon as he graduated from an unknown design school. He obviously didn't have much design ability, but he jumped to the high position of design director like a rocket.
What I like to do most is to take the manuscript designed by the intern and make it into my own work after a little 'modification'. contend.
Gu Jue naturally sensed the little lover's intentions, but he didn't really care.
To be honest, he was tired of Song Miaoke, and he was just waiting to dump people after this charity auction.
However, Yuan Shi, as their long-time 'dead enemy', finally caught the opportunity, how could he easily let this opportunity to 'humiliate' his opponent
Gu Jue once again aimed his gaze at Yuan Rui, and said lightly, "I heard that Lu Zhaoan has resigned from Yuan's job?"
"..."
In one sentence, Yuan Rui's life gate was tightly strangled, "What's your business?"
"Pity."
Gu Jue shook his head regretfully, "In Lu Zhao'an's hands, the Yuan clan may still have a way to survive, but if someone else takes over, our Gu clan is likely to lack a competitor."
These words are explicit and implicit, all referring to the fact that the Yuan clan will go bankrupt in the hands of Yuan Rui.
Yuan Rui's face froze, and he tried his best to suppress his anger in public, "Gu Jue, what do you mean?"
"What do you mean? Don't you understand what Mr. Gu means?"
Song Miaoke spoke softly, and there was a needle hidden in the cotton, "Yuan's not doing the jade carvings that he put in a good end, but halfway through doing jade design to participate in such a charity auction, the young master Yuan and Mr. Shi Could it be that the design can’t go any further, and that’s why you’re thinking about gaining fame with this dinner party?”
She can stay with Gu Jue, who has always been fond of the new and dislike the old, for so long, naturally she has a set of skills that she touts and caters to.
Sure enough, Gu Jue raised his lips when he heard this, and he felt even more interesting when he saw Yuan Rui's gradually flushed angry face—
In the past, when the two sides met on jade occasions, Lu Zhaoan came forward to deal with them.
Lu Zhaoan has a temperament that doesn't eat hard or soft. Every time Gu Jue tries, it's like hitting his fist in cotton, and he can't provoke the other party's reaction at all, which is very boring.
But Yuan Rui was much more fun.
They are all from a jade family, how can Gu Jue know how much each other has? It is the arrogant young master who was so well protected by his parents and brother! How much real ability can there be
Without Lu Zhaoan, Yuan's family is doomed to failure in Yuan Rui's hands! Now diverting to the jade design, it is just a dying struggle.
I heard that after Yang Sen and others were dug into Lingyu by Xie Keyue, this 'X design' was completed by Shi Yunnan alone
No matter how powerful Shi Yunan is, can he compare to the success of the entire design department of Lingyuyi
Looking at Yuan Rui's suffocation and unable to vent, he felt the pleasure of playing his opponent between his palms.
Yuan Ruiluo clenched his hands into fists on both sides, and the chest hidden under the suit was rising and falling rapidly.
If he could, he would have punched Gu Jue in the face a long time ago, but not now, the charity auction strictly prohibits fights between designers and design studios, and the serious ones will directly disqualify the exhibits for auction. .
There are surveillance cameras around this hall, and if he makes a move, he will definitely be caught!
Yuan Rui's fist clenched, but he told himself over and over in his heart to calm down—
It's okay for him to be insulted by Gu Jue, but he can't implicate Shi Yunnan!
The jade works designed and created by good friends with great effort must not be disqualified for auction display because of their irrationality.
During this period of time, when Yuan Rui invited designers, he had been closed doors and heard too many taunts. Why should he care about this time
Yuan Rui barely stabilized his mind, looked sideways at his friend with a smile, "Yunnan, let's go, it's almost time, let's take a seat and wait for the start."
Shi Yunnan looked at Yuan Rui's eyes, which he desperately suppressed, grabbed his wrist and stopped him from leaving, "Yuan Rui, wait, I have something to say to President Gu and the others."
"what?"
Gu Jue's long and narrow phoenix eyes flashed with the joy of the winner, as if he had already won all aspects of the next auction that had not yet started.
Look at Yuan Rui, who doesn't even dare to refute his words.
Their works can be shortlisted for 'X Design', maybe Yuan's money bought them for the sake of face.
"Mr. Gu, our jade studio has just started. We need to find ways to accumulate contacts, gain fame, and expand the market."
Shi Yunnan did not hide the purpose of their visit, because every new career requires a beginning process.
He paused, his eyes suddenly sharpened, "And some companies' jade designs are already going downhill."
"..."
Hearing this, the Lingyu trio froze in unison.
"Mr. Shi, isn't what you said right?" Song Miaoke retorted, her eyes glaring at Gu Jue.
"Did I refer to you Lingyu? You don't need to substitute yourself, right?" Shi Yunnan asked with a smile, "Designer Song, dare to ask why you Lingyu came to this auction dinner?"
"A company as big as you have been in the jade design industry for so many years, why are you back at the same starting point with our studio now?"
Shi Yunnan looked at Song Miaoke and asked questions, but he was actually slapping Gu Jue in the face.
The charity auction has progressed to the ninth session. Before, Lingyu Design didn't bother to participate. How could it be in the hands of Gu Jue for two years, and it was regressed to the point where it was going to compete with a new jade studio like them
Isn't it more embarrassing to spread it out
Obviously without a single heavy word, Shi Yunnan analyzed Lingyu's current situation, and also tightly held the other party's fate.
The joy in Gu Jue's eyes dissipated immediately, and Yuan Rui, who was standing beside him, caught the corners of his stiff lips, and suddenly felt a bad breath.
"Also, Yuan Rui is very good, Yuan Shi won't fall in his hands!" Shi Yunan silently clenched Yuan Rui's wrist, secretly supporting and affirming.
"On the contrary, Mr. Gu, who has the mind to ridicule others, might as well reflect on himself."
"Although it was the first time I met the design director of Lingyu, Miss Song really caught my eye."
Shi Yunnan learned from the other party's 'taunting and sarcasm', and before leaving, he did not forget to add a 'compliment' to Gu Jue, "President Gu, you have a good eye."
"..."
Gu Jue's face was completely pulled down.
Song Miaoke also heard the sarcasm in his words, and his face turned red on the spot.
It's a pity that Shi Yunnan didn't want to give them any more glances at all, so he pulled Yuan Rui to the auction area on the left without looking back.
Song Miaoke stared at the backs of the two who were far away, and immediately complained and acted like a spoiled child at Gu Jue, "President Gu! Look at the two of them, I..."
"Shut up!"
Gu Jue roared at her rarely, and the depths of his pupils were filled with anger.
Xie Keyue was right.
Shi Yunnan really is a guy who hides a knife in his smile.
Gu Jue straightened the neckline of his suit, and asked in a low voice, "Yang Sen, how is the thing I told you to do?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Gu, I have already arranged everything."
Yang Sen, who had been silent, took a half step forward and asked in a low voice respectfully, "How about? I'll contact them again to ensure smooth progress in the future?"
"Ok."
Gu Jue nodded and explained cautiously, "This is related to the status of our Lingyu in this auction, let them all work carefully."
Yang Sen replied, "Okay."
Gu Jue reluctantly suppressed the bit of suffocation in his heart, and the corners of his mouth curved again - wait, what is verbal brilliance? The real battle has yet to begin!
Gu Jue then ignored Song Miaoke who had just been scolded and neglected, and took her to the auction area to take a seat.
Yang Sen, who was left on the spot, put away his smile, and could no longer hold back his aggrieved and unwilling look—
He and the other five designers thought that after jumping to Lingyu, they were directly assigned to the newly established 'Design Department Second Group', and he was also promoted to the second group leader.
I thought I would get better treatment and room for advancement than in Yuanshi, but what happened? He actually entered the cold palace and sat on the cold bench!
Their designs are not reused, they are always required templated, and occasionally a good point of inspiration is directly requisitioned by a group of designs.
Some designers in the second group expressed their dissatisfaction, but Lingyu executives ignored them.
Two days ago, there were people who proposed to resign, but Lingyu's HR director told them—
"It's okay to resign, but the work agreement they signed with Lingyu could not be completed, and they need to pay liquidated damages."
The old design company is like this, and there is no morality at all.
Until this happened, Yang Sen and the others realized later that Lingyu didn't really value their designs at all, it was just trying to force back the hidden competitor of the Yuan clan!
In contrast, they knew that the original 'cooperation agreement' given by the Yuan family really gave them respect, and that was the real value for their ability and design!
As of now, they have no turning back.
It is impossible for the Yuan clan to ask for such sloppy grass, and it is not so simple to leave Lingyu.
Do you regret it
Regret, regret that my bowels are green!
…
Shi Yunnan took Yuan Rui back to the auction area and found their corresponding seats to sit down.
Before the chair could sit firmly, Yuan Rui burst into tears on Shi Yunnan's body, and was moved, "Yunnan, thank you."
"..."
Shi Yunnan was stunned when he heard Yuan Rui's cry. Because he was suddenly hugged, he couldn't help but patted the other person's back, "What's wrong with you? I'm not afraid that others will see jokes."
Yuan Rui withdrew his body and quickly wiped the water in his eyes, "Yuan Shi will definitely rise up in my hands! Your investment will not lose money! So you must not believe that Gu Jue's nonsense!"
While wiping his eyes awkwardly, he was afraid that his 'radish' would be pryed away by others.
Shi Yunnan was speechless and funny, "Forget it, why didn't I see your lacrimal glands so developed before?"
"No, don't talk nonsense." Yuan Rui denied and began to look around to change the subject.
It was only ten minutes before the official start of the auction, and most of the seats were already filled with wealthy businessmen who came to participate in the charity auction.
Suddenly, he saw a familiar figure at the door, "Yunnan, isn't that your husband?"
"..."
Shi Yunnan was stunned, and immediately followed the direction of his finger.
Luo Lingsheng controlled the wheelchair to enter the hall, and besides Yuan Meng and Qin Jian, his work partners, stood a familiar figure—Yu Shuo.
Maybe there is really telepathy between couples.
Shi Yunnan and Luo Lingsheng were separated by a distance of dozens of meters, and they were able to point their eyes accurately.
Shi Yunnan curled his lips and stood up immediately, "Sit down first, I'll go look for him."
I met my husband and lost my friend.
Before Yuan Rui could answer, Shi Yunnan strode towards Luo Lingsheng.
"Didn't you say you can come later?"
"The meeting ended early." Luo Lingsheng replied.
He glanced at Yu Shuo beside him, as if afraid that Shi Yunnan would be as unhappy as last time, "I met him temporarily."
Yu Shuo heard a little bit of 'ear raking', and while shocked, he found it interesting, "Yeah."
"I'll see if there are any good items in today's jewelry auction, buy a birthday gift for my mother, and do charity by the way..."
He paused slightly and said in a lower tone, "I think she should be happy."
Hearing this, Luo Lingsheng cast a brief but complicated look at him, then Shi Yunan turned his attention back, "Which row and number are you sitting in?"
Qin Jian reported the seat number, "Sit in eight rows."
Yu Shuo answered casually, "I'm in the seventh row."
These positions were all close to the original positions of Shi Yunnan and Yuan Rui. The group quickly found their positions and took their seats after adjustment.
"What date is your design work?" Luo Lingsheng only cared about his lover's work.
"No. 21, not much." Shi Yunan replied.
He suddenly remembered something, and seriously asked, "Don't follow the auction blindly, I want to see the true level of my design works in the minds of these guests."
"..."
It is Luo Lingsheng, who intends to participate in the auction and is bound to win.
He was silent for a few seconds before answering, "Okay, then you will design a little thing for me in the future?"
Shi Yunnan smiled, tilted his head and bit his ear, "Can I design a ring for us?"
Luo Lingsheng was about to answer when there was movement three or four seats away.
Shi Yunnan glanced sideways, and raised his eyebrows involuntarily.
He said to his friend beside him, "Yuan Rui, you're really right, the enemy's road is narrow."
In order to sit next to Luo Lingsheng, Shi Yunnan deliberately asked Yuan Meng and Qin Jian to switch to where he and Yuan Rui were sitting.
Unexpectedly, before the chair was hot, they actually met Gu Jue and Song Miaoke in the same row.
The eyes of the two sides met, and an invisible contest began.