Chapter Sixty-Seven: Winner I (1/2)

Yan Jin rubbed his chin from under the stage, thinking about how this was an unexpected surprise.

Nan Chan stuck out her tongue on stage, as if to imply that she had gotten caught in the act.

“What kind of situation is this? How can there be such a score!”

“Contact that designer immediately! Hurry, now!”

“Who is that person? Mr. Mystery? Never heard of them!”

“Aren’t the organizers going to explain anything? What do they mean by this?”

Messy, chaotic pandemonium erupted.

A designer that no one had heard of before, and an individual work that triumphed above all other corporate works. In addition, they won the number one title in the ranking.

The only people in the audience who had some semblance of an idea as to what was going on probably consisted of the minority of YL and SI’s employees.

Those few people did not include SI’s chairman, Zhou Jinrong.

“Where are the organizers? What do they mean by this?” Zhou Jinrong’s reaction was probably the most exaggerated. After all, such a ranking would conveniently squeeze SI’s exhibition booth right to eleventh place.

Even though there was only a difference of one rank, the difference for the exhibition booth was very drastic!

No one paid attention to the last two scores for the individual works. Even when the evaluation segment had ended, the audience was still in chaos.

The organizers quickly announced that there were some issues with the scores and they would do the adjustments accordingly after an internal discussion with the judges. They would proceed to the banquet segment now, and the final results would be out afterwards.

Yan Jin, who was simply watching like a bystander amidst this huge chaotic mess, only did one thing. It was neither contacting Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both, nor giving instructions to his secretary and directors about the exhibition booth matters. It was –

To remove his sim card from his mobile.

His mobile had a dual-sim function. Back when Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both submitted his entry for the competition, he mentioned that it was inconvenient for him to give his own number, so Yan Jin had given him a number that he seldom used for submission purposes.

Thankfully, because of his superior memory, he had not forgotten about that. If he were to pull his sim card out a minute later, his phone would probably have gotten harassed relentlessly.

Yan Jin was well-prepared. He watched as the crowd erupted into chaos while he sat at the sidelines watching them.

And so, Xiao Yu became the unlucky person. He did not expect that the people who could not contact the designer would immediately turn to QQ to harass him.

Xiao Yu, who had not grasped the development of the situation at all, started mass receiving hundreds of friend requests. The QQ app froze instantly.

With no other choice, Xiao Yu could only close the QQ app and reopen it. Thankfully, although the friend requests were still there, his QQ was working.

Xiao Yu switched on the ‘reject friend requests’ option and clicked on the conversation with Grey-white SS.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: What’s going on?

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That image was taken from the dim audience seats, and it showed the stage. It was not very clear, but the main point was obvious –

The digital screen in the middle of the stage displayed all of the works’ scores, and right in first place was the designer known as Mr. Mystery.

Eh?

Xiao Yu was puzzled.

Even though the high scores made him happy, wasn’t this too exaggerated?

Do they know what it meant for an individual work to rise above every other corporate work? Xiao Yu acknowledged that he was a top-class designer. However, he did not have a team supporting him after all. The works he was commissioned was limited – it was as if he was fighting alone and unable to show his true capabilities.

In addition to that, the name Mr. Mystery was still a nobody in the design business. He should not have gotten support from those senior leaders.

Xiao Yu clearly remembered that in his previous life, this mystery designer’s work did not attain first place.

Just when Xiao Yu was dumbfounded, Yan Jin sent another message.

[Grey-white SS]: One of the invited guest created a mess, which led to this result.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: ??

[Grey-white SS]: It’s impossible to attain first place. The two big players from City H will not allow such a rank to be finalized. Even if they did, it would be like a ticking time bomb. They are already having internal discussions.

With that explanation, Xiao Yu got the gist of it.

His rank would probably be demoted.

Xiao Yu had personally attended the conference in his previous life. There weren’t so many complicated twists, and the mystery designer’s work only came in third place.

Of course, that was a relative comparison. For an individual work to get into the top three at the conference itself was an incredible feat.

It was the astonishing performance at the Ragnarok competition that allowed the mystery designer to have an extremely high-profile debut in front of the public.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: Don’t worry, the ranking definitely won’t be lowered. Don’t try to push away the offer for my exhibition booth.

[Grey-white SS]: ……

Yan Jin did not know how to reply to that.

It was a seller’s market, but it turned out that this seller approached him to lose money instead of earn.

Could it be that Philocalist theory wasn’t made up? Or was this a new type of wooing method?

Yan Jin didn’t really get it.

The banquet for the Autumn Release Conference was very sumptuous. It was catered personally by five-star chefs. The buffet smelled, looked and tasted great. There were no shortages of expensive ingredients being served. They even had a symphony orchestra performing live to improve the diners’ appetite.

However, tonight’s banquet was destined to be desolate.

Almost half of the guests had disappeared without a trace after the evaluation segment had ended. The other half of the guests who stayed inside the dining area were feeling more anxiety than before.

The gourmet food and the music did not attract their interest. Everyone’s focus was on that overnight celebrity, Mr. Mystery.