Springtime for the Client

[Humble, rebellious CEO vs. minimalist, tough little wild rose]

Life’s three great tragedies:

Your family goes bankrupt right after graduation, you run into the boss during an interview, and your software crashes before you save the final draft.

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Lin Xiaoye was a brilliant young student who won multiple awards, including the Red Dot Design Award, the iF Design Award, and the American IDEA Award.

Her astonishing talent wasn’t the only thing that made her famous in the industry. Her stunning looks were equally extraordinary. A candid profile shot of her on the awards stage had the fashion and design worlds clamoring to sign her, but she quickly returned to China, ready to begin her own dazzling era.

But perhaps she’d used up all her luck at school. Her working life was a battlefield, and Chinese taste was just as awful.

Xu Guimu, president of Dichen Advertising, was a rival no one in the industry dared offend and a design genius admired by everyone outside it. Cold-hearted and twisted in his ways, he made countless young women and married women alike keep their distance.

Someone at the company once bet, “Mr. Xu will never find himself a wife.”

Then one late night, in a quiet office, the boss rolled up the sleeves of his white shirt and taught the new girl how to revise a design draft

Leaning against the desk, Xu Guimu asked in a cool, low voice, “Who’s trash?”

Intimidated by his authority, Lin Xiaoye murmured, “You... I am.”

Hearing her speak in that little wildcat voice, Xu Guimu smiled.

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[In a nutshell]

A story about a woman with great ambitions who gets a harsh reality check from capital and the market, then finds a balance between art and design through her own hard work and ultimately becomes an outstanding design master.