Merlin sat in the guest seating area, frowning as he watched the models on stage.
Frankly, this year's Qinghua Fashion Week had quality but lacked any pieces that sparked surprise.
The established luxury brands continued their previous styles without significant breakthroughs or innovations.
As a professional critic, he hadn't felt the desire to put pen to paper for this season's collections.
He thought this fashion week would be just the same, perhaps only looking forward to the final showstopper, until he saw that female model appear.
Silence descended around him, followed swiftly by the incessant clicks of shutter sounds.
Gu Shengyin walked out in "Snowy Domain".
Under the stage lights, she truly resembled the Ice Snow Empress descending from the mysterious Ice Snow Goddess Temple, wearing a crown woven from broken snowflakes and holding a scepter carved from glacial ice.
Step by step, she walked into the mortal realm. From afar and near, she seemed like a dream.
