Chapter Forty-Two: Fight Me (2/2)

Have I bought all the things on the buy-on-behalf list?

Finding inspiration from a trip? Nonexistent.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: I have some drawings for you to look at. If there are no problems, then use them as a foundation to work on.

Nannan received the files.

[Nannan]: Guru, I actually wanted to say this ever since the last incident. Is there no link between this drawing and the final product?

Using the wedding ring incident, Xiao Yu’s drawing was a ring, but the final drawing that Nan Wei was told to draw ended up as a garland. It was quite far-fetched to call it amendments. Wasn’t that simply asking him to draw a new drawing?

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: You have to understand the meaning behind it. Designing is a kind of art; to make your imaginary thoughts into actual products. The critical point is what you want to express. With these drawings, you won’t have to aimlessly look for inspiration. Won’t the word document make more sense with them?

[Nannan]: Could it be that these drawings were drawn by yours truly?

Xiao Yu went silent. From a certain perspective, Nannan got it right.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: Stop making wild guesses. If I can draw, why would I still need you?

Nan Wei looked at the compressed zip file containing SI’s wedding ring order that he had gotten from his cousin. He wondered if he should send over his copy of the drawing to expose the truth.

Forget it. If he angered that Guru, FISH, he could probably get away unscathed. But if he accidentally pissed off his cousin’s lover, the person who would become his future sister-in-law, then…

He chose to live longer.

Although that was what he had thought, Nan Wei decided to struggle a bit.

[Nannan]: That’s true… but…

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: Alright, go start on the drawing. Once you’re done, we still have the exhibition work for the Autumn Release Conference to settle.

The struggle failed, and the opponent just threw a bomb over.

[Nannan]: Wait?? I thought we were not doing the exhibition work?

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: Oh, I said that? I’ve changed my mind now. My fighting spirit is soaring high now. Thanks for your hard work.

[Nannan]: sobslikewaterfall.jpg

The Nan Wei behind the screen dropped tears of hardship.

I shall settle this debt from Yan Jin one day.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: What’s wrong, why are you crying?

[Nannan]: Nah, I’m crying tears of joy.

Closing the conversation screen with Nannan, Xiao Yu felt the burning rage within him calm down a little.

If he was able to; if he wasn’t just a hamster; he wished from the bottom of his heart that he could finish that incomplete drawing from his previous life and clear his shameful deeds. Too bad he couldn’t.

Thankfully, under such unfavorable conditions, Xiao Yu was still able to stop Lin Zhou’s conspiracy.

Xiao Yu was not greedy, not one bit.

He didn’t seek revenge for the smallest grievances, and he didn’t have an overbearing attitude.

But he was not someone that other people could push around, nor would he resign himself to adversity.

Those thoughts about not getting involved again, or not using the mystery designer’s name to participate in these screwed up matters – he took it all back and burned it.

So long as Lin Zhou dared to issue a challenge, Xiao Yu would not back off.

Xiao Yu’s thoughts finally became clearer. In his previous life, he was naïve and happily regarded Lin Zhou as the closest brother he had ever known for many years. If the mystery designer had not come in between them, perhaps Xiao Yu would eventually be left with nothing.

The one that he assumed was an enemy, was in fact his benefactor; the one he assumed was his benefactor, was in fact a devil that had been hiding in the dark.

His hatred for Lin Zhou equaled how grateful he was to this mystery designer who he was not fated to meet.

He owed a thank you to that designer.

Although that mystery designer had also borrowed his drawings to win so many victories, compared to the disgusting things that Lin Zhou had done, it was way more acceptable.

He himself gave the drawings to Lin Zhou. And that mystery designer refined his works and made them into dazzling jewelries, fulfilling Xiao Yu’s lost dreams.

It was all thanks to the mystery designer’s blessing that Xiao Yu was able to relive these moments and take back the things that belonged to him.

This gratitude was probably impossible to relay to the mystery designer. What he could do, was give Yan Jin the advantage.

Initially, Xiao Yu did not plan on interfering with the exhibits for the Autumn Release Conference. However, he decided to treat this as repaying a debt to the Xiao Yu from his previous life.

Leave YL’s Autumn Release Conference to him.

(Nan Wei: Meow?)

DIDI – another new message.

Xiao Yu saw it – Speaking of the devil, here comes Yan Jin. Just in time, as he also wanted to discuss the exhibition details with Yan Jin and see what Yan Jin’s opinions were.

[Grey-white SS]: I have some information for you from the company. Take note of the things that I’ve highlighted.

Grey-white SS sent a compressed zip file.

Xiao Yu accepted the compressed folder in bewilderment. When he extracted the file, he realized what Yan Jin was referring to.

The first folder had the important things to note for all participants. The second folder held the participation details and processes. The third folder contained details of all previous competitions that were related to Ragnarok.

Hold on? This wasn’t the first original design competition? It couldn’t possibly be? Yan Jin himself had said that this was the first time the Autumn Release Conference had such an arrangement.

Before Xiao Yu opened that folder, he had no idea. In fact, this original design competition open to the public, had a precedent. However, due to lack of funds, they were unable to hold it on a larger scale two years ago. This year however, after coming to an agreement with S City’s sponsors, the competition was then included into the Autumn Release Conference.

Interestingly enough, Xiao Yu had participated in all of Ragnarok’s previous competitions, such as the third run of A Hundred Schools of Thought, as well as the fourth run of Universal Nature!

When he was still studying in university, he had participated in A Hundred Schools of Thought and almost participated in Universal Nature.

Now that Xiao Yu recalled his memories, even though he couldn’t clearly remember what had happened within the past year, he could definitely recall participating in the A Hundred Schools of Thought competition in his university days.

The truth was, humans would always remember the moments where they had faced great failures or impressive growths. Instead, they could easily forget about the things they did on a daily basis.

Back then, he was not even considered a freelance designer as he entered the competition purely out of interest. Without any experience, solely depending on his sturdy foundation and extremely unique drawing style… he suffered a crushing defeat.

After that incident, Xiao Yu looked at his prim and proper drawing, which was no different from his school assignments. He compared them to those bold and imaginative, yet slightly poorly drawn awarded designs. For the first time, Xiao Yu understood the meaning of rotten from within, and pros outweighing the cons.

He had spent his university days at a loss. Nothing else gave Xiao Yu that kind of shock. He felt that he had owed the competition an answer sheet. So, he signed up for the second year of the Universal Nature competition.

It was also in that year his work that was designed for the Universal Nature competition was put on display by accident during class. Following that, he was noticed by the mighty figure that no-one dared to approach, SI’s gifted former chief designer.

From then on, Xiao Yu’s life had a big turnaround.