"Do you remember when we were in the Arctic?"
"Dancing in the snow and ice, watching movies under a meteor shower, falling asleep surrounded by the aurora borealis."
"What a beautiful, romantic scene."
Ivy's eyes sparkled as she recalled.
How she wished time could rewind, to pause forever on that night.
Rong Jingyang was hers, exclusively hers.
On her sixteenth birthday, she gave him her heart, waiting every day for him to glance at her, waiting every day for his affection.
Rong Jingyang also remembered that night of spiritual journey.
Mom said he was too dull and rigid, so she sent him to the Arctic with a plane ticket.
She said he should travel, see the world's most beautiful scenery, and enrich his soul.
Rong Jingyang felt helpless.
It was his innate personality, and with age, coupled with his father's deliberate cultivation to make him the group's successor, he became even more taciturn as he grew older.
Often, he didn't perceive things with his eyes, but rather with his heart and mind.
This led to him speaking less and less.
"A Jing, tell me, can we replicate that night's scene at the airport?" Ivy asked with immense anticipation.
Rong Jingyang raised an eyebrow, "Hmm?"
Ivy pointed at the design draft, "I want everyone who comes to E City Airport to be amazed. I want the whole world to remember this city's unique charm."
Rong Jingyang had a grand blueprint in his heart, and Ivy's words struck a chord with him.
To let the whole world know China.
To let the whole world come to China.
To let the whole world envy China.
Rong Jingyang was doing this, so when Ivy said those words, he nodded without hesitation, "Okay."
"Do you have any ideas?" he asked again.
Ivy smiled slightly, "I have ideas, but they aren't good enough." She looked at him with a smile, "I want to hear your opinion."
Rong Jingyang looked at the design draft and fell into thought.
His mind spun and integrated rapidly. After a long while, he said, "It's not impossible, but your current design concept won't achieve that effect. It needs a major overhaul."
Ivy listened intently, "What do you mean?"
Rong Jingyang raised his hand, and Ivy, with perfect understanding, quickly handed him the laser pointer.
Rong Jingyang turned it on and gestured on the blueprint with the laser pointer, "If we use the aurora borealis as the base tone, here, here, here, and there, it needs to be changed."
"The southern approach and the control tower also need adjustments... blah blah blah..."
This was what they meant by pulling one thread and affecting the whole body.
Moreover, Ivy wanted to completely change the design concept, essentially requiring about a third of the design draft to be redone!
After listing a series of issues, Rong Jingyang looked at Ivy, "The submission deadline is the fifth of next month. Do you have enough time?"
With only a week, redesigning and reprinting the documents would likely be difficult.
"No problem, I can do it!" Listening to Rong Jingyang, Ivy became more and more excited, unable to hide the admiration and excitement in her eyes.
Of course, she didn't intend to hide it.
Ivy beamed like preserved fruit, "Even if I have to stay awake for seven days and seven nights, I'll draw it out!"
Rong Jingyang: "—"
Seven days and seven nights without sleep? You'd be dead!
Just as he was about to suggest giving up, Ivy added, "I can submit this version for the preliminary round and the revised one for the finals."
Rong Jingyang: ...Is that possible?
He hadn't read the specific rules carefully. If she said it was possible, then it was.
The two began to discuss how to make the modifications more beautiful and eye-catching.
"Do you have the guts to rip Ivy's face apart?"
Receiving the message, Qin Yunxi looked at the couple entwined together.
Although he found Ivy displeasing, it hadn't reached the point of harming a flower of the motherland.
How could this seemingly innocent and pure brat, Grace, be so bloody?
Qin Yunxi replied, "I am a gentleman. I cannot bear to see a woman bleed."
"Don't always talk about dismemberment. Come, let's talk about something practical?"
Grace scoffed, thinking to herself, "If you're useless, don't spout nonsense."
"Besides, what kind of gentleman are you, Qin Yunxi?"
"You're a filthy, lewd, and shameless scoundrel!"
Grace didn't reply to him.
But Qin Yunxi soon sent another message, "Although I don't like seeing blood, I can make Rong Jingyang come home immediately and leave Ivy in tears, spitting out three liters of blood."
"How about it, want to make a deal?"