"It's impossible, it's just an accident," Wen Qinglian kept telling herself.
"Please remain calm. There may be a problem with the power system. I have already sent staff to investigate, and I believe the power will be restored soon. Please stay in your seats and do not move around to avoid any accidents."
Hu Lou stepped forward, took the microphone, and tried to control the somewhat chaotic scene before him.
"Calm down!" Hu Lou took the microphone away and pressed Wen Qinglian's hand down.
"It was Meng Wan and her group who did it! It must have been them!" Wen Qinglian's face turned pale. Things shouldn't be like this. They should be the ones who are panicked, and they should be the ones who are angry!
"You don't care whether they did it or not. If you panic now, the press conference will be truly ruined!" Hu Lou scolded in her ear.
To outsiders, it looked like a fiancé comforting his fiancée, a sweet and tender scene.
"I'll go check what's going on. You stay here and calm the others down. You don't even have a backup plan. What a bunch of idiots." Hu Lou said this with a dark face and left.
Wen Qinglian took the microphone, adjusted her breathing, and then turned it on.
She wore a polite smile, but the dim light from the computer screen made her appear somewhat sinister.
"Please be patient, everyone. Our staff has gone to check and we believe the power will be restored soon. With this little incident, we believe everyone will have an even deeper impression of this exhibition."
Cui Qingling rested her hands on her knees. Given Wen Qinglian's easily angered personality, the fact that she could calm down so quickly showed that she had grown a lot.
In a previous competition, when she was directly accused of plagiarism by the person involved, she immediately confessed.
I thought Wen Qinglian would lose her temper and criticize them...
Thinking of this, Cui Qingling looked at Meng Wan.
"This Hu Lou seems to have some skills."
"To be able to successfully rise to power and win over Old Master Hu, one must indeed have some skill." Moreover, their public relations tactics were timely and their response was swift.
Meng Wan did not say the second half of the sentence.
Meanwhile, Hu Lou was arguing with staff at the entrance of the management office.
"Sir, unauthorized personnel are not allowed to enter."
"Why is there no power outage anywhere else, only in Exhibition Hall 2?"
"We are already investigating the cause, please be patient," the staff member replied calmly.
How long will it take?
"We don't know either, we're doing our best to repair it." The staff's official response gradually wore down Hu Lou's patience.
"Then please change our exhibition hall."
"I'm sorry, sir, all the other showrooms are already booked and we can't change them for you. We apologize for the inconvenience. We will refund your showroom fee in full today. We are very sorry."
The staff member bowed to him, but remained standing in front of the door, motionless.
Hu Lou gritted his teeth, the two security guards around him keeping a close eye on him. He had every reason to believe that if he dared to take a step forward, the two guards would immediately tackle him to the ground!
Helpless, Hu Lou had no choice but to return. Inside the venue, many people were already getting restless.
"How is it?" Wen Qinglian looked at Hu Lou as if she had grasped a lifeline.
Hu Lou shook his head, his expression not very good.
"Useless thing!" Wen Qinglian's expression changed immediately upon seeing Hu Lou's reaction.
Hu Lou gritted his teeth, "What do you think you are? Useless trash, you can't even prepare two more plans for an exhibition, and you make such a low-level mistake."
Just as the two were bickering, the screen suddenly lit up.
The two looked over at the same time, and the others were also drawn to the screen. But for some reason, Wen Qinglian felt inexplicably uneasy.
She looked at Cui Qingling, only to meet Cui Qingling's gaze. The latter smiled slightly at her. Wen Qinglian felt a cold sweat break out on her back and quickly looked away.
That assistant was sent abroad overnight. Impossible, impossible!
The entire venue was dark except for the screens.
The appearance of the Jinghong logo is the symbol of Cui Qingling's studio.
As the music began, the promotional video for the Tree of Life jewelry collection started playing.
Upon seeing names that shared similar colors and ideas, people began to speculate and whisper among themselves. Many reporters, sensing the gossip, turned their cameras directly to Cui Qingling, who was sitting at the back.
"Whose showroom is this?" Hu Lou had a bad feeling, but Wen Qinglian couldn't care less about that at the moment.
"Turn it off, turn it off quickly!" Wen Qinglian panicked and unplugged the computer to shut it down, but the screen remained unchanged, still playing the promotional video.
"What are you all doing! Turn it off!" Wen Qinglian shouted. Her employees seemed to just realize what was happening and hurriedly fumbled for the power switch on the screen.
Unfortunately, the group was like headless flies, completely unable to grasp the screen. Meanwhile, Lan Xing was in the management office, casually munching on an apple with his legs crossed, calmly watching the situation in the venue through the monitor.
"They're all a bunch of useless trash." Wen Qinglian's voice echoed in the stadium, causing many people to frown.
"Calm down, what's wrong with you? Don't you think things are chaotic enough already!" Hu Lou grabbed her hand and scolded her in a low voice, but Wen Qinglian shook him off.
She was a spoiled young lady who was used to being arrogant and would not allow anyone to disobey her. Now that she had lost face so badly in her own place, how could she possibly stay calm?
Fortunately, the promotional video finally ended, but before the two could even breathe a sigh of relief, a video that had been blurred out was released.
On the screen, a woman sat somewhat awkwardly, constantly picking at her hands. Her face was blurred, but her voice was still there.
Wen Qinglian's pupils constricted sharply. "Impossible! Wasn't she already sent abroad by me? How did Cui Qingling find her? Impossible, impossible!"
She rushed forward, trying to turn off the screen. Her movements were so fast that Hu Loula couldn't hold her back.
The exhibition hall was completely dark, but Wen Qinglian stood in the light, and every move she made was clearly seen by the audience below the stage.
"What an idiot!" Hu Lou's face was extremely gloomy, but he couldn't just ignore it.
Wen Qinglian panicked, but the subtitles on the screen piqued the curiosity of many impatient guests, who then decided not to leave and instead sat down to watch the show.
"Who are you?" A line of text appeared on the screen.
"I am one of the designers at Jinghong Studio."
"What did you do?" Before the woman could finish answering one question, the next question would appear on the screen.
"I...I..." The woman stammered as she answered the question, fidgeting with her fingers and appearing very uneasy.
"Why did you leak the design drafts and give them to your competitor?"
"It wasn't a leak. I... I was also involved in the design. I only provided the parts I participated in the design. No... it wasn't a leak." The woman denied it, but her words betrayed her underlying guilt.
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