"Must we be fair to the world and lose? You do know how much this award means to the studio, don't you?"

Lin Ye was speechless. Who in the world was talking about her being unfair to the other participants?

"Boss, I am talking about your unfairness to us. Each one of us worked hard to come up with those drafts. Don't you think it's unfair to give all the credit to one person?"

Although the other two shared the same thoughts as him, they were too frightened to speak up.

This was the first time the boss was doing something of this sort. What if they spoke up and offended her?

They all knew just how important this award was. In the past two years, their studio had been doing poorly and had not produced any outstanding outfit. If they won this award, all their glory would be earned back.

Every time they failed to win an award, the boss would be in a very bad mood and scold them. The last time she even deducted their monthly bonuses. Thus they knew just how much the boss treasured this award. They could not retaliate even when they were being treated unfairly.

However, Lin Ye was not one to keep quiet about everything. "Boss, we worked very hard this time and gave you our best drafts. Doing this is..."

Yun Xuan rubbed her temples with her elbows on the meeting table. "Are you done?"

Lin Ye instinctively stopped talking and waited for her to speak.

"All of you work hard, don't you think I know that? Since you asked why I chose to use this method, I'll explain it to you. All of you are experienced in this field, except Ran Ran. Ran Ran is still considered a newbie. The judges will obviously go easy on her."

"Then why don't you nominate her with her designs?" the woman sitting next to Lin Ye had gained confidence and decided to ask.

"Her designs will never win. We can only win by combining efforts."

"Then we should submit them as a group." said Lin Ye.

Yun Xuan rolled her eyes at him. "I see Mr. Lin is interested in teaching me how to run my own studio?"

"I wouldn't dare." he trembled.

"Good."

Although he was very dissatisfied, he complied in the end. On one hand, it was because this was his boss and he naturally had to obey her. On the other hand, he did not want to lose his job. If he was fired, how else would he be able to see the boss every day? Since she already had a man, he did not intend to pursue her- that would be too outrageous. Seeing her every day was enough to keep him going...

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Southside Villas

"Little Wan, it's so beautiful!" Lin Lihua exclaimed when she tried on the dress she would wear on the runway.

Wan Jia had already finished eight drafts and produced them. Since this was Elite Fashion World, it was very fast and efficient.

Apart from Lin Lihua, all the other models would only see their dresses in the dressing room. This was to avoid cases of plagiarism.

"That's because you are very beautiful and look pretty in anything you wear, Sis Lihua."

Lin Lihua blushed as she twirled around in front of the mirror. "You flatter me too much. It's because you have a pair of magic hands. I have a few dresses from DY and they don't look this good on me. Talking of which... isn't DY also from Elite Fashion World? Is she participating too?"

"Naturally. Her dream is to break Elder Qian's record of winning twenty consecutive awards. However, since she wants to win them in a short period of time, she participates in every show there is except those for the rookies."

"She has such big dreams." Lin Lihua smirked.

"You think she can't do it?" Wan Jia asked when she saw Lin Lihua's look. She looked like she was inwardly scolding Dai Youran for being too confident.

"It's not that I don't think she can do it, but my beautiful Wan is now in the industry. Do you think she will survive for long? Also, do you think Elder Qian's record of twenty consecutive awards can be broken by just anyone?

Does she know how many awards are hidden within that 'twenty consecutive awards' crap?

"What do you mean?" Wan Jia was puzzled.

"You're a designer yet you don't know? Elder Qian did not win twenty consecutive awards. Whoever put that information up had lost count of them.

Since he was twenty, he won the Annual Golden Awards every year. For twenty whole years, it was as if no one else existed in the fashion industry.

What about the fashion weeks? What about the special contributions awards he kept winning? What about those awards he did not even intend to participate in, but the organizers used his name to boost their viewer ratings? What about those he won even after his retirement? How could all those be twenty? They should be at least twice as much." Lin Lihua rolled her beautiful eyes.

She continued, "To think of breaking such a record by participating in anything that comes her way, isn't she thinking too much of herself?"

"Wow, Sis Lihua, I didn't know you were such a die hard fan of Elder Qian." Wan Jia was quite surprised.

"How could I not be?"

Well, although he retired years ago, he was still the unbeatable legend, it would be weird if anyone who likes fashion was not his fan.