Chapter 724 Ninety Million!
"What do you mean?" Hao Tianyi stomped her foot, lowered her voice, and glared at Lu Wenli. "You suspect that I leaked Su Youling's design drafts?"
Lu Wenli sneered, "I've heard about the bet between the young lady and the madam. You're the one with the most motive right now, aren't you?"
"You're talking nonsense!" Hao Tianyi instinctively argued with Li Tingxi, "Brother Tingxi, what I want is a fair and square competition, not these underhanded tricks. Su Youling didn't take good care of her design work, so why should I be blamed? You can't believe this nonsense!"
However, Li Tingxi was only thinking about helping Su Youling solve her immediate troubles and didn't care about her at all. "Now is not the time to get to the bottom of things... Su Su, it's okay to lose this time, don't be angry! We'll have plenty of opportunities in the future. Also, let's just blacklist Qi Xiang'an! I've disliked this traitor for a long time."
Today is his special day to show off his love, how can he let a clown like Qi Xiang'an ruin Su Su's good mood?
"Who said I lost?" Su Youling smiled slightly when she heard that Qi Xiang'an's work had been auctioned off for 50 million by a European tycoon. "This is a high recognition of my work. I'm happy, why would I be angry?"
Li Tingxi looked at her sly eyes and raised an eyebrow slightly: "Su Su..."
"Madam, aren't you missing the point?" Lu Wenli was more anxious than anyone else. "Your appearance is only three places after Qi Xiang'an's. Even if you can have a burst of inspiration now and redraw the design, there won't be enough time to produce a finished product for auction. What are we going to put up for display? Is this a joke?"
“Who said I only prepared one piece?” Su Youling saw the staff gesturing and patted Lu Wenli on the shoulder. “President Lu, calm down! If Qi Xiang’an loses later, it will be your turn to show off your skills.”
Lu Wenli paused for a moment, looking at Su Youling's confident back, then subconsciously glanced at Li Tingxi and asked in a low voice, "President, did Madam already know that her work had been plagiarized?"
“How could that be!” Li Tingxi retorted.
Lu Wenli: "..."
What makes her so confident?
Su Youling doesn't fight battles she's not confident of winning, especially since she genuinely wants to compete with Hao Tianyi. Putting aside her innocent and lively personality, this girl's talent in design is truly admirable.
A clash of titans; competition breeds progress. No one in this field can remain an artist forever, so she naturally looked forward to today's competition.
Indeed, opportunity always favors the prepared.
Ding Muyan's 'gift' undoubtedly gave her even greater motivation—she had to win tonight's match.
"Hello everyone, I am Su Youling, the founder of Wending Studio." Su Youling stood on the stage in a shirt and trousers, looking clean and neat. Her hair was loosely draped over her shoulders without any special hairstyle or makeup. She looked lazy and free, which made people feel relaxed and at ease.
"Our country has a civilization history of five thousand years. The seeds of art and culture have repeatedly appeared, grown, disappeared, and been reborn in the long river of history... in an endless cycle. No matter how exquisite or perfect our designs are, they are only the tip of the iceberg."
"Strictly speaking, this is the first time I have stood on a domestic stage as an art designer to introduce my own work to everyone. In the past, due to commercial reasons, my works, while retaining the core of art to the greatest extent, still had a commercial shadow to some extent."
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Many people say that art should be highbrow and inaccessible, something that people can't understand but still find impressive. I used to think so too; otherwise, once art comes down from its pedestal, what's the difference between it and the masses?
"However, after experiencing so much, I gradually realized that the most ordinary and popular designs are actually the best designs. Whether it is culture or art, they are essentially meant to serve people and make them happy, so this is the original intention of art and design."
This time, she abandoned her previous unique design style that focused on a particular commercial or artistic style. Unlike Hao Tianyi, who integrated Chinese and Western porcelain culture in her designs, she did not focus on traditional Chinese style designs on the domestic stage to please the audience and judges, like Qi Xiang'an.
Su Youling unexpectedly designed a whole set of wedding jewelry. At first glance, it seemed very festive and tacky, with a very ordinary style. However, the perfect design was hidden in the details, which is worth appreciating.
The first two are like stunning beauties in a crowd, unforgettable at first glance, while Su Youling's works, though not so amazing at first glance, become more and more pleasing to the eye the more you look at them, like a book that you can never finish turning the pages of—you'll never know where the surprises are hidden until you turn to the next page.
"The prototype of this work actually came about five or six years ago. At that time, I was not as happy as I am now, but like every innocent girl, I longed for the day when I could find happiness. The pace of society is getting faster and faster, people's hearts are becoming more and more restless, and everyone seems to be becoming more and more independent. With the development of the Internet, people are exposed to more and more of the world, and information is becoming more and more widespread, and they are gradually becoming less and less credulous about true feelings."
"How many people scoff at relationships while secretly hoping for a miracle in the dead of night or at some unexpected moment, secretly hoping they will be the next lucky one? Life is only a few decades long. Whether you live with resentment and despair or with joy and freedom, it's still life. Why make things difficult for yourself? There's a saying that's cliché but very relevant now—you should always have dreams, what if they come true?"
She looked at Li Tingxi, who was visibly shaken, and smiled without any reservations: "This time, I brought out the work I hadn't finished back then just to tell everyone that even someone like me, who once struggled in thorns and mud, persevered and waited for my own happiness, and so can you."
Her design was a silent thunderclap, a wake-up call, while her speech was a rainbow after the rain, filling people's hearts with hope.
Good design is not just about the work itself, but more importantly, the spiritual connotation that the designer gives it, which is what touches people's hearts the most.
A moment later, thunderous applause erupted from below.
Ding Muyan personally took the stage to host the event, and said with a smile: "Although I am still single, just as President Su said, one must always have something to look forward to in life."
"Humans are social animals. No one can survive on a deserted island for so long like Robinson Crusoe. Even Robinson Crusoe needed the company of a 'Friday' to keep himself from going crazy in the endless loneliness and silence, didn't he?"
"This piece has a starting bid of 30 million!" He was the first to raise his paddle. "If anyone likes it as much as I do, feel free to compete with me."
Thirty-five million!
Forty million!
"Forty-eight million!"
"Fifty million!"
The bidding continued to rise. Li Tingxi waited expressionlessly for a while, and finally, when a foreign art collector bid a high price of 80 million, he suddenly raised his paddle, "90 million!"
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