Xu Qiao carefully recalled the past, but did not remember when and where Cheng Lang had the opportunity to measure her with his own hands.
She was unconscious in front of him, only two times when she fainted from hypoglycemia in the Beicheng International Exhibition Center, and fell asleep with a fever at Milan Yujin's house. alive
After much deliberation, the only possibility is that he visually checked her measurements and cups in the bathroom a few days ago.
Xu Qiao hugged herself tightly.
Did he really see her so well? Foam and rose petals can't hide his titanium dog eyes
And this level of visual inspection, for a man who is not a tailor and has never had a woman, it is too talented.
This is just an elementary school chick. When he graduates successfully, can he fly a plane in the sky
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After Christmas Eve, the selection of jewelry design competition officially kicked off.
The selection is divided into two stages. In the first stage, the judges will select 15 shortlisted works from the professional group and the newcomer group. In the second stage, 30 shortlisted works will be publicly voted on the Internet.
The scale of this private competition was initially expected to be small, and the competition system was designed relatively rough. According to the regulations of the competition, the two stages will be resolved quickly and efficiently within five days.
However, the sponsorship that Townsend kicked in at the door became a blockbuster gimmick, which caused quite a stir in the jewelry circle, causing the number of entries in the newcomer group to be several times higher than expected. Under pressure, the organizer had to work overtime during the Christmas holiday to catch up with the process.
Even so, the online public voting session was postponed until 12 noon on the 29th Brussels time.
When the voting channel was officially launched, it was 7:00 pm Beijing time.
In order to create a sense of ritual of "revealing the imperial examinations", everyone in the studio worked overtime collectively and gathered in front of Pi Dan's work station to wait for the shortlisted results. As soon as the time came, they urged him: "Come out, press F5!"
The web page was refreshed, and the 15 works of the rookie group were presented on the screen in the form of thumbnails. Pi Dan confirmed at a glance that the necklace he designed was not selected, and lamented: "Sure enough, there is no me."
"The competition for the rookie group is so fierce. Thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge. It's normal to lose the election." Everyone patted him on the shoulder to express their relief, and asked, "Where is Yuli?"
Xu Qiao did not disclose the design drawings in advance to anyone other than Yu Jin. Everyone didn't even know whether her design direction was a necklace bracelet or an earring brooch. Start from scratch.
The progress bar was pulled down more than half, and almost all of them were European players. Pi Dan couldn't bear to continue: "There is no Chinese here. The judges must be biased towards local players."
"Don't be discouraged, there are still five more!" Su Shan pushed him.
Pi Dan slowed down and continued to pull down until he reached the fourteenth picture. Finally, he saw the signature in Chinese characters. He was overjoyed when he saw that it was three characters. His hope was lost again.
"It's the last one, be mentally prepared." The comforting words had already started running in Pi Tan's mind, but as the mouse rolled, his thoughts suddenly froze.
Like him, everyone's eyes were fixed on the center of the screen before moving to the signature in the lower right corner.
This is a drawing of a ring called "Feather".
A pure-colored royal sapphire is supported on the minimalist platinum ring. The gemstone is carved into a soft feather shape, and the three-dimensional carvings on it are in a scroll shape, just like when the deep blue lake of Lake Baikal is wrinkled by the wind. There is a circle of light and rippling ripples, but in such softness and lightness, the posture of flying feathers is hard and tenacious, with a stubborn upward force.
If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's hard to imagine that two such contradictory "complexes" can be completely interpreted by a gem at the same time.
And just like the height symbolized by the color of royal blue, when such a gem appears in front of you, you will unconsciously think: It seems that only by looking up can you be worthy of its amazingness floating outside the world.
A gasp of wonder sounded in the silent space.
The shape of this gem made everyone already have the answer in their minds before confirming the designer's name.
Pi Dan stared at the word "Hatachi" in the lower right corner of the scanned image over and over again, sniffling enviously.
Su Shan wiped the corners of her eyes slowly, saw the crystals on her fingertips, and said excitedly: "My God, am I crying for beauty? It turns out that such things as crying for beauty are real!"
"Master," Rosa took a deep breath and said to another jewelry craftsman beside her, "I really want to make this ring. If I can make this ring with my own hands, I will have no regrets in my career..."
Fei Zheng is nearly forty years old, and he doesn't have much communication with these juniors. He doesn't know much about the details of the competition, so he shook his head and said, "The picture is a good picture, but on a one-to-one basis, the rough stones needed should be at least 80 to 90 carats." , Sapphires of this clarity are too rare to come across once in ten years."
"Mr. Fei, you now have access to the Internet!" Pi Dan pressed the back button and pulled the page back to the home page. "Do you think this Burmese sapphire is okay?"
Fei Zheng squinted his eyes: "This piece is fine. According to this shape, there is no need to waste too many edges and corners. What is this design?"
"It was tailor-made for it!" Pi Dan confirmed his guess, "Yu Li, no, it should be called Teacher Yu, and Teacher Yu is going for the sapphire of the gold award this time."
Su Shan held her face together: "This is too sassy!"
The crowd gathered around chattering, and the two craftsmen had already started discussing the construction techniques, when they suddenly heard Lin Bai say, "Hey? Why is Miss Yu's rank rising so slowly?"
For the sake of fairness, the initial ranking of the shortlisted works is based on the order in which the designers submitted their manuscripts. Xu Qiao was forced to grind his guns because of his lack of solid foundation in painting. He scrapped several versions of his manuscripts in the early stage, and it was already the last few hours before the deadline for uploading his works. , so it comes last.
With the opening of the voting channel, the ranking of the 15 works will change in real time according to the number of votes.
"Yes..." Su Shan stared at a design drawing of a necklace, leaping from the thirteenth place to the seventh place like a rocket, and jumped to the third place, and then looked at Xu Qiao's design drawing of the ring. Mingdigui quickly climbed up, and after climbing a few times, he still didn't move, "What kind of vision do these people have! Miss Yuli's design is really outstanding, isn't it? Brother Pidan, please vote for Miss Yuli, and I will also vote for you! Go and turn on the computer now!"
Pi Dan checked Xu Qiao's work, cast a vote, and stopped her: "No need to open, one IP can only vote for one."
"Then how did the other people's votes rise so fast?" Su Shan stared blankly, took her mobile phone to search the information of the new jewelry designers in the front row, and shuddered after a round of searching, "Oh, I have goosebumps, these newcomers Why are there legends on the Internet?"
"What legend?"
"It's like the closed-door disciple of a famous teacher, or the highest scholarship winner of a design academy, but he's building momentum!" Su Shan pointed to the necklace design that seemed to be hanging just now, "The second place is here." A necklace, is it the debut work of a twelve-year-old genius girl? No wonder it’s like a monkey, dare to say that this selection is not about the design, but the story behind the designer?"
"Then what about our Teacher Yu? Isn't there a good story?"
Su Shan held the mobile phone and said awkwardly: "There is no such person in the whole network at home and abroad in ancient and modern times, this is the real grassroots..."
Rosa and Lin Bai looked at each other, and said in a low voice: "The boss didn't escort Xiaoyu? Not to mention anything else, just Xiaoyu's face, named as a beautiful designer, and publicized on the Internet, the effect It’s also amazing. Beauty culture is something that can be eaten all over the world.”
Lin Bai shook his head: "Miss Yu seems to be very low-key in this regard."
"How can there be food for being low-key these days!" Seeing that Xu Qiao's work stopped at the eighth place, Pi Tan was so angry that he almost smashed the mouse, "Where is Mr. Yu?"
"I'm preparing a new work in the studio." Lin Bai replied.
Su Shan began to whine again: "Our sister Yuli is too indifferent to the world, let's keep our feet on the ground!"
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Xu Qiao is indeed "down to earth".
In the studio on the second floor, an angry pufferfish was running around the room with his mobile phone in his hand, and said to the phone, "Is this the psychological preparation you asked me to do?"
Over there, Cheng Lang had just finished a six-hour meeting. He walked out of the meeting room with his mobile phone in his hand, pointed at Gao Rui to the senior executives who had caught up, and signaled that he had something to tell his special assistant. Unbuttoning his suit and sitting down, he said warmly: "Since you don't want to show your face, you have to accept and get used to this unfairness. The operations you see now are not shady, but regular marketing. Netizens believe and like their stories. Naturally willing to pay for them."
"I understand the truth, but I'm still not convinced..." Xu Qiao pursed her mouth, "They are so fanfare, how can I, an unknown grassroots, have a chance to win? The voting time is only forty-eight hours, and the momentum in the first few hours is basically set. The situation is over."
"It's a chance to prove your strength if you can come back against the wind in an unfair situation. You should be glad that your first game is not a boring downwind situation."
Xu Qiao paced back and forth in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows: "How can I get out of trouble with this broken bank?"
"Little girl," Cheng Lang smiled, "I've never lost, as long as you follow me, you won't lose."
Xu Qiao stopped in a daze.