Chapter 266 Dinner Together
Karina was already intimidated by Ding Muyan's glare and knew he was giving her a warning, so she didn't dare to raise any objections.
She was confident in her plan, so she smiled and looked at Su Youling, preemptively saying, "Miss Rebecca, shall I go first?"
Su Youling looked at her with a half-smile and gestured for her to proceed.
Karina stood up and noticed a large, damp wine stain on her white suit trousers, causing her to unconsciously frown.
However, she quickly composed herself and carefully explained her design proposal again.
After she finished speaking, she observed Ding Muyan's expression and saw that he was looking down and seemed to be thinking about something. Suddenly, she felt a little uneasy.
Her mindset was somewhat affected, and she made a few mistakes, but it shouldn't be a big deal, since her proposal was of high quality and had just received Ding Muyan's affirmation.
Karina comforted herself after sitting down, but when she looked at Su Youling, she unconsciously straightened her back, showing a kind of reserved and serious demeanor.
After Su Youling stood up, she first applauded her, not holding back her praise.
Her calm demeanor only made Karina more and more uneasy.
Karina had not done any background research on this company called Strange Kingdom before, and only now did she realize that she had such a competitor, especially since they were going head-to-head. She knew nothing about Rebecca, so it would be a lie to say she wasn't worried.
Su Youling glanced at her assistant, who immediately handed the prepared documents to Ding Muyan.
At the same time, she opened her assistant's laptop, inserted a USB drive, and pulled up a design draft and a video.
Karina was completely taken aback by how well-prepared she was, and her heart tightened immediately.
“Ding Muyan, the design proposal I gave you includes our design drawings, but to give you a more intuitive understanding of my concepts and inspirations when creating this work, I also worked overnight to produce the model shown in the video…”
Su Youling quickly got into the zone, vividly and engagingly explaining her sources of inspiration and design concepts through the video.
Ding Muyan listened attentively, and she could sense from her eyes that she had an extraordinary love for art.
When Karina was explaining her design, he thought it was good, but he didn't have a strong desire to produce her work.
Now, comparing the two, he understood that Karina's understanding was too superficial, while he could truly feel a kind of inspiration and vitality in Rebecca's works.
Only works like these can be called works of art, rather than things that fall into clichés simply to serve the market.
Ding Muyan had already made up his mind, but he didn't show it on his face at all. "Both of your designs are very amazing, and it's really hard to choose one over the other. Why don't we call it a day? There's still some time before the bidding meeting, and I look forward to seeing even more amazing things from you two then."
Karina knew perfectly well that he had tricked her, and her smile became somewhat forced. "Mr. Ding, I'll be staying in City C for the next few days. Whenever you have time, I can take you to visit our Yitao Ceramics store."
Su Youling lowered her eyelids slightly, concealing the cold light in her eyes.
Karina's protagonist-like tone was really annoying to her; Yitao was clearly hers!
Ding Muyan's expression was indifferent.
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He didn't seem interested, and his tone was somewhat perfunctory: "We'll see."
Before Karina could speak, he had already walked up to Su Youling, a smile appearing on his face. "Miss Rebecca, would you do me the honor of inviting you to dinner?"
Karina almost lost control of her facial expression.
Ding Muyan wasn't interested in her suggestion to visit Yitao, but instead invited Rebecca to dinner. Wasn't that a blatant slap in her face?
In other words, her proposal was not as good as Rebecca's design in Ding Muyan's mind?
Karina was extremely unwilling, but unfortunately Ding Muyan clearly had no intention of inviting her to join them.
She wouldn't be so tactless as to deliberately upset Ding Muyan.
To save face, Karina made an excuse and left the club ahead of everyone else.
Not long after she got into the car to go back to the company, her assistant called to tell her that the investigation results were in: "The person you asked me to investigate is Rebecca, the sixth young lady of the Ferro family in the country. I have sent her detailed information to your email. Please check it."
Karina quickly read the email and learned that Rebecca was the president and brand designer of Strange Kingdom, and had a considerable international reputation.
Although Rebecca's identity was confirmed, the fact that she looked like Su Youling still bothered her.
No matter what, she couldn't let Li Tingxi see Rebecca, otherwise Li Tingxi would definitely go crazy.
For the past four years, she has tried her best to make her presence felt by Li Tingxi's side, and she knows best his almost insane feelings for his ex-wife Su Youling.
For years, Li Tingxi had been having people search the sea area where Su Youling had her accident. It was precisely because Su Youling's body had not been found that he became even more convinced that Su Youling was not dead.
Whenever he saw a figure resembling Su Youling, he would chase after it like a madman. The most outrageous time was when he even found out someone's flight and followed them to a neighboring city. He almost got arrested by the local police station as a pervert after following someone.
Karina personally went to the neighboring city to bring the person back in order to suppress the press release. When she saw Li Tingxi, she could hardly believe that the distraught person she had seen before was him.
He actually turned into that inhuman, ghostly figure for a woman.
She spent four years by Li Tingxi's side, but she was not allowed to replace him, or even approach any place where Su Youling's presence was traced.
She could easily imagine that, given Li Tingxi's level of obsession, even if he knew that this woman was not Su Youling, he might still fall into a trance and transfer his feelings to Rebecca after seeing her.
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On the other hand, although Su Youling accepted Ding Muyan's invitation to dinner after Karina left, she did not fawn over him in order to win the bidding spot.
Instead, after getting into Ding Muyan's car, she looked out the window without saying a word, showing no intention of starting a conversation.
Ding Muyan looked at her face carefully several times through the rearview mirror, but no matter what, he still couldn't believe that there really was someone in the world who looked so similar.
Rebecca's aloof attitude only piqued his interest more. "Miss Rebecca is very different from what I imagined. I thought you would be a very proactive and talkative person."
Su Youling turned her head to look at him, a half-smile on her face, and said, "It seems that President Ding's old friend who looks a lot like me has this kind of personality?"
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