Blue swiftly removed her sunglasses when she stepped out of Sanya Phoenix International Airport. She fished out her phone from her bag and she planned to take a picture of herself but she immediately stood straight when she saw the Design Department Director of 1997 Company.
The company where she is working for as a designer is the 1997 Company. The owner was too lazy to think of any names so he just named it 1997 because it was established in 1997. Fortunately, it was a good name for a brand, and it is easy to remember.
Blue did not go to Sanya for a vacation. She went to Sanya to accompany her department's director, Ms. Victoria Ferrer. They're going to attend a fashion show which is a project of the 1997 Sanya branch. They will be there as a part of the audience.
"Is the car already here?" Ms. Victoria asked Blue. Blue immediately shook her head. If you failed to answer Ms. Victoria's question within two seconds, you'll definitely face death.
Ms. Victoria will return to their city by herself the next day because Blue filed a week of leave. Her father lives in Sanya so she'll go and visit him. It's been so long since she last saw him.
Minutes later, a car stopped in front of them and a middle-aged man stepped out of the car. Blue immediately assumed that he's the driver.
"Henry." Ms. Victoria called the man.
Wu~ Director knows the driver?
"Wife." The man called Ms. Victoria back and Blue choked on her own saliva. Ms. Victoria glanced at her.
"What's wrong? Am I not allowed to have a husband?" Ms. Victoria asked Blue.
Blue grinned widely. "No, no, Director. Do you want to spend some time alone with your husband? I can go to the hotel by myself."
"Stop talking nonsense. It's your first time here. It'll be a pain in my ass if you suddenly become missing."
"Director, I lived here for more than five years. My dad lives here. I can even ask him to pick me up from this airport. Also, I know how to book a cab."
"Just come with us. We're heading to the same place anyway." Director Ferrer said and Blue can do nothing but agree with her.
Blue was seated on the backseat of the car, Ms. Victoria sat on the shotgun seat and Ms. Victoria's husband was of course in the driver's seat.
Blue turned on her phone and clicked on the chick icon in her phone. It's the Hello app. A social media app where you can post anything you like, without any limit, and you can also contact anyone you would like to contact.
Blue clicked on the group chat that is composed of three members. Blue, Pepper Mint, and Alena. Pepper and Alena are Blue's friends. They lived in the same dorm when they were in college. 'Til now, their friendship is unbreakable, and no secret was kept from each other.
Blue typed a message and clicked send.
Sorrow Blossom Qin: Hello there, friends :)
Her two friends started typing a message.
Pepper Mint: What's the gossip?
Alena Cervantes: Is this about your director or about the great king potato?
Blue wanted to clap loudly for her friends' correct guesses. They learned well.
Sorrow Blossom Qin: Director Ferrer is married :) I'm in her husband's car with her and her husband.
Pepper Mint: Stop joking, Sorrow Blossom
Alena Cervantes: Woah there... A person with stupidly high standards like her is really married? And me, a little girl who only wishes for someone to like her doesn't even have a boyfriend. What kind of sorcery is this?
Sorrow Blossom Qin: All of us are still single dogs. Don't you worry.
Alena Cervantes: You have the nerve to call yourself a single dog when you're quarreling with the great king potato everyday. People quarrel with one another when they're in love with each other
Sorrow Blossom Qin: Where did you learn that logic? If ever someone stole something from me and I quarreled with that someone, does that mean I'm in love with that someone?
Pepper Mint: Blossom, set a goal for yourself. Go and get married before your director gives birth to a child.
Alena Cervantes: Yah, we're rooting for you. Want to attend a blind date?
Sorrow Blossom Qin: NO, NEVER AGAIN! I was ridiculed by the great king potato because of the incident that happened on my previous blind date.
Alena Cervantes: Eh, how did he know the details?
Pepper Mint: What else do you expect from a foolish friend? She wrote the details of the incident in her story's update. Everyone who had read her story would see that message of hers. :)
Alena Cervantes: I'm disowning you, Blossom.
Sorrow Blossom Qin: I admit that I'm foolish T_T I promise that I would bring home some delicacies for the both of you.
Pepper Mint: Bring home three capable boys and we'll have one each. They can only be our boyfriend or our husband.
Alena Cervantes: Pepper Mint is right :)
Sorrow Blossom Qin: I'll try my best :) Ppai ppai, we're in front of the hotel already~ Will send a message to you later~
Blue kept her phone in her bag and stepped out of the car. Ms. Victoria also went out of the car and her husband gave her a kiss. Ah, they're torturing a single dog who has her eyes on both of them.
"The show is already starting. Let's go." Blue just followed Ms. Victoria, and they went to the hotel's hall. The fashion show had already started.
The project of the 1997 Sanya branch is called 'Memory Lane Collection.' The models are wearing modernized hanfu. They emphasized the historical clothing of Chinese people. The designs of the clothes are modern day clothes and hanfu crossover.
Blue watched the entire show, and she's certain that the designs are lacking something. It's lacking creativity.
The upper part of hanfu in distinct colors is just being paired with denim bottoms. It was very plain and boring. They emphasized historical clothing, but the only thing that changes is the print and color of the hanfu top.
Blue would have been more willing to watch if they stuck with their project's goal. Hah, she wanted to go home and start to draw. She already has an idea in her mind and she just needs to draw it so that she could feel at ease.
The show was finished, and everyone left the hall. Ms. Victoria glanced at Blue.
"Pass your designs to me when you come back." Ms. Victoria told Blue, and Blue nodded enthusiastically. Ms. Victoria left the hotel and Blue went to her hotel room to get her drawing materials. She'll go to the hotel lounge to draw.
Blue sat at the couch beside the glass wall and she put her materials on the top of the table. She picked up a paper and a pencil and she started to draw.
Blue drew a hanfu with short sleeves and it's like a jumpsuit. The only thing she altered in the hanfu's original structure is its sleeves and its skirt part. Instead of drawing a skirt, she drew a loose pants which is still connected to the top, just like a jumpsuit.
Blue turned the short sleeves into denim, and she also used denim as a belt.
After she finalized her drawing, she started coloring it with her watercolor. She's more comfortable in using watercolor.
She drew more designs, and she placed the sketches at the top of the table. Blue felt very tired, and she stretched her arms out. Suddenly, a guy who's typing something on his phone while drinking walked past by her and the guy suddenly threw his drinking cup towards the table where Blue placed her sketches.
Maybe luck was really testing Blue because the cup that was thrown by the man contained liquid, and the liquid poured over Blue's sketches.
Blue stood up and held the guy's right arm. The guy glanced at Blue's direction and he was confused. Blue smiled sweetly at him.
"Did you do that on purpose?" Blue pointed to the table where her ruined sketches were placed. She spoke to the man in Chinese.
"Eh, I thought it was the trashcan." The man answered in Chinese. Blue wanted to beat him up right where they are right now, but she restrained herself. Blue took a deep breath, and she gathered her materials and her ruined sketches. Then, she pulled the shameless man who had mistaken her table as a trashcan towards the elevator and she continued pulling him towards her hotel room.
They entered the room and Blue finally let go of the man, but she pushed the man towards the desk in the hotel room and made him sit in the swivel chair.
Blue placed all of her ruined sketches and her drawing materials on the top of the desk and she glared at the man.
"Redraw all of that." Blue said coldly while pointing towards her ruined sketches.