The Self-Redemption of the Wronged Fool [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 10

He did not say much to the system; instead, he spent all his energy on design during the following period. Ji Qiuchi planned to establish his own studio.

He asked the system to organize most of the major design competitions and signed up for every single one without exception.

Of course, he took advantage of the Lin family’s influence. In the early stages, he handled all the seasonal jewelry designs for the Lin family, and because the designs were truly beautiful, many people scrambled to purchase them.

This continued until the Tiangong Competition opened. This time, it was no longer an online vote but a live on-site vote. Ji Qiuchi poured his full skill into this Tiangong Jewelry Design Competition.

The theme for this Tiangong design was singular: National Style and Nature.

Ji Qiuchi chose Ice-type Jadeite and Dragon-stone Jadeite for the jewelry carving. Green was originally the color closest to nature, and Ice-type jade is a transparent jade that does not look bad regardless of what color it is paired with.

Moreover, it was crystal clear, like raindrops. In fact, more than one person chose jadeite this time. Naturally, other colors of jade could be used as well, but when the color selections of everyone’s jewelry were not significantly different, the competition actually became a test of the jewelry’s exquisiteness.

Anything even slightly inferior had no way of winning the competition. In the previous life, Zhao Lingyun had used extremely high-quality water-head jadeite obtained from the Lin family’s raw stone fields in the Tiangong competition to design a perfect ivy-style necklace, taking the championship.

But this time, he had no chance at all to obtain raw stones from the Lin family, and the Lin family also placed extreme importance on this competition, keeping all the best items for their own people.

The studio Ji Qiuchi decided to establish was actually backed by the Lin family. Originally, the Lin family was a jewelry dynasty with eight hundred years of heritage, possessing abundant resources and equal fame.

It went without saying that Lin Ming would inherit the Lin Corporation. Ji Qiuchi intended to strive on his own to become a world-renowned designer.

The original owner was essentially a genius themselves and possessed a large following of fans who frequently followed his designs. During this year, Ji Qiuchi’s designs showed progress visible to the naked eye. People who followed him regularly could discover that his craftsmanship was becoming more and more outstanding.

What made them unable to stop watching was the competition between Ji Qiuchi’s design and Lin Ming’s design today. Lin Ming had only entered this industry for a short time and had already taken the rookie championship. Now, participating in the Tiangong competition alone, he was viewed as an opponent by many.

When his work was placed on the display stand, everyone revealed surprised gazes because he had chosen dazzling colored gemstones.

Amidst a sea of green gemstones, it was simply the most difficult splash of color to ignore. His jewelry design was absolutely complex because it was a combination of several types of gemstones.

The color coordination and the gemstone settings seemed to turn these jewels into genuine three-dimensional flowers.

As for Ji Qiuchi’s jewelry, it was a silver butterfly-shaped brooch pendant. It looked like a butterfly, yet also like a green leaf after the rain. The shape of the wings was entirely the shape of a leaf, and the two white Ice-type raindrop pendants on the tail wings were the finishing touch, appearing exceptionally clever and vivid.

It was clearly the simplest combination of two colors and did not require too many layers, yet that refreshing feeling and the fragrance of vegetation seemed to blow toward one’s face. The vigorous vitality directly triumphed over the surrounding gorgeous green jewelry.

The two of them started from two different creative paths, but both received incredibly high votes. Zhao Lingyun’s work, however, restricted the wearer; the ivy necklace was relatively heavy and complex, and could even only be paired with formal gowns.

The quality of the gemstones also showed a visible difference. There was a certain gap between Ji Qiuchi and Lin Ming’s works.

This time, few people created something relatively simple yet without losing beauty like Ji Qiuchi. It was far too full of spiritual aura; this unique style was the most dazzling existence among all the design works.

The crowd magnified his work one by one and even noticed that the outer rim of the butterfly was not made of diamonds or silver products at all, but extremely tiny Ice-type jadeite, which emitted a shining luster under the light.

They fell into difficulty choosing between Ji Qiuchi’s or Lin Ming’s work until the vote counting began, and the two were neck and neck.

Zhao Lingyun had long known Ji Qiuchi’s strength, so naturally, he would not have too many thoughts. Only Lin Ming who was already somewhat disliked by him recently because of Ji Wang’s affairs—now had work that was actually above his.

This made him completely unable to endure it; it made his heart sour with jealousy. Ji Wang must have helped Lin Ming design the jewelry.

“It’s actually a tie?! How is that possible?”

“Someone abstained!”

The competition had never seen a tie before. They ultimately asked for the organizer’s opinion. The organizer also found it difficult to decide a winner because the craftsmanship between the two was actually quite similar, and the quality of the gemstones was even more so.

Ultimately, the Tiangong competition concluded with two tied champions.

The works of both individuals were posted on the Lin family’s official website immediately. However, the crowd meticulously discovered that in the introduction information for Ji Qiuchi’s jewelry, there was a brand new logo: Wangchuan.

The Lin family also stated that this was an independent personal brand belonging to Ji Wang, and their Lin family would merely help with sales and exhibitions.

Ji Qiuchi had stated from the beginning that he would not design a second piece of the same jewelry. These two pieces of jewelry were auctioned for astronomical prices, especially Ji Qiuchi’s butterfly brooch.

Since he had already established a personal brand, it was natural to begin organizing exhibitions, and Ji Qiuchi also set to work preparing for it.

After the Tiangong competition, their status and fame could be said to have reached a peak. This was the design competition with the highest gold content in the country, even more eye-catching than the previous GI.

What Ji Qiuchi did not expect was that the person who bought this brooch was none other than the master whose jadeite exhibition he had wanted to see, Nan Feng.

Because of an accident, they had not managed to go to the other’s exhibition, but the fact that the other party purchased the brooch for a heavenly price was an expression of affirmation for Ji Qiuchi on Weibo.

This matter also generated heated discussion in the industry. If one were to say who understood jadeite the best, it was naturally Nan Feng.

Therefore, everyone was also paying attention to Ji Qiuchi’s subsequent design works.

Ji Qiuchi also placed the other nature-themed jadeite jewelry he had designed for this competition on the Lin family’s display stands. Some were pieces where even offcuts could be utilized, while others were works created before this butterfly brooch was finished.

Without exception, almost every single one was extremely beautiful.

Of course, the prices were also far out of reach.

On this day, Zhao Lingyun came to find him in person.

“Speaking of which, I previously introduced you to Teacher Nan Feng. It’s a pity an accident occurred; otherwise, during the exhibition, he could have given you better inspiration. I believe your jewelry is the sole champion.”

He spoke as if the reason Nan Feng noticed his design was that he had mentioned him to Nan Feng. Now, seeing that his teacher liked his jewelry so much, he was also quite happy.

Ji Qiuchi really wanted to smash the things in his hand against the other’s head, wanting to know why the other party could be so shameless.

This was exactly how Zhao Lingyun was eyes above his head, thinking himself number one in the world, a person with only profit in his heart.

Only for authoritative competitions would he take over and descend into the arena; how could he possibly let someone else steal his spotlight?

He might have wanted to use Nan Feng to create momentum, but unfortunately, this master also had pride, and teaching Zhao Lingyun was merely because of old ties with the Zhao family.

Zhao Lingyun thought he knew nothing.

But Ji Qiuchi had indeed guessed correctly; this time the other party came to find him truly not because of Lin Ming, but indeed to network and build rapport with him.

Furthermore, knowing that he was establishing a studio, he intended to make an investment.

He even had a few hints of hostility toward Lin Ming?

It was a bit strange, but Ji Qiuchi had no time to manage Zhao Lingyun; he organized his personal exhibition step by step.

With Ji Wang backed by the Lin family, no one doubted his status after the two competitions.

Zhao Lingyun had been coming to find Ji Qiuchi frequently recently. After Ji Qiuchi had that showdown with Lin Ming, the relationship between the two was still a bit awkward; however, Lin Ming practiced what he said and indeed kept pestering him.

The strange thing was that when Zhao Lingyun came to find him, Ji Qiuchi was unhappy. But when Lin Ming came to find him, he was instead very happy, yet he could not show it. He had to do the opposite and be more diligent toward Zhao Lingyun.

Every time he saw the lonely look in Lin Ming’s eyes, Ji Qiuchi could not say anything, and ultimately chose to fly abroad at the end of the month.

He did not inform anyone of this matter, but Lin Ming was the first to discover it. Lin Ming originally wanted to go along, but was kept at the company by Father Lin to begin taking over work.

Before boarding the plane, Ji Qiuchi received a message from Lin Ming: “Brother, I love you. Please don’t run away again; I will be very sad.”

He naturally saw it. Looking at the screen did not feel good, yet he merely hardened his heart and turned off the phone.

“We have no future at all, Lin Ming. We are simply not people from the same world.”

He had also talked with Father Lin before, saying he would manage his own studio and brand in the future, and perhaps would entrust jewelry sales to more than just the Lin Corporation.

Father Lin was very accommodating, merely stating that the Lin family would always be his backbone, no matter what he wanted to do.

His only headache was that he did not know what was wrong with these two children; their relationship seemed a bit incorrect. Upon investigating and seeing that Zhao Lingyun and Ji Qiuchi had been close lately, he immediately felt a bit unwell.

On the contrary, after Lin Ming took over the work, he was always causing trouble for Zhao Lingyun, whether intentionally or not.

Zhao Lingyun was no fool either and finally found Lin Ming to speak at a banquet.

“That’s enough trouble-making, isn’t it? If Xiao Wang were here, would you still dare to do this? I heard him reject you; the only one he likes is me.” A smile curled at the corner of Zhao Lingyun’s mouth.

Lin Ming, however, let out a sneer and no longer maintained any pretense in front of Zhao Lingyun.

“Like you? Are you dreaming? What does he like about you? Is there even one point about you that is worth him liking?

Furthermore, without the Lin family and your engagement, whether it will even be your turn to inherit the Zhao family is another matter.”

“Lin Ming!”

Zhao Lingyun gritted his teeth. He was furious because the other party had struck his wound.

In the third month, the Zhao family was shaken. Zhao Corporation director Zhao Jing was seriously injured in a car accident and entered the hospital, becoming a person in a vegetative state, and Zhao Lingyun took office.

He bribed many media outlets and began to expose matters regarding himself and Ji Wang; he even happened to have evidence.

In an instant, many people paid attention to him because of Ji Wang, all thinking that the two of them were a couple.

However, the Lin family was not a soft persimmon and immediately stated that no such thing existed.

Lin Ming and Zhao Lingyun fought tooth and nail, and Lin Ming had already swallowed 20% of the Zhao family’s shares. In terms of a trade war, Zhao Lingyun could not compete with Lin Ming at all.

Lin Ming was himself an extremely famous rookie designer, but Zhao Lingyun was very good at faking social graces, so many people helped him.

Right at this critical juncture, the matter of Ji Qiuchi designing the “Eternal Light” ruby necklace for the Queen abroad reached the country, and the various design competitions he had been participating in one after another were also revealed before everyone.

Without exception, every single one turned out to be a championship.

Most of these competitions had different themes, but his designs perfectly matched everyone’s aesthetics. He was best at using the most exquisite and meticulous designs to create the simplest and most elegant jewelry. Everyone could recognize it almost at a glance that was his style.

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