“How could this happen?!” In Shanghai Pudong, Mu Xitong, who had completed three works, encountered the same result as Liu Ming. Eyes wide, she covered her mouth with one hand, her face full of disbelief: “This is impossible!”
“Ding ding ding…” A QQ message sounded in the bottom right corner of her desk. Mu Xitong composed herself and moved the mouse to QQ, opening the chat window. It was a message fromHua Liu Cheng Yin: Stop designing!
Accompanied by a furious emoji.
Mu Xitong gave a bitter smile, typing: You saw it too?
Hua Liu Cheng Yin quickly replied: So, you saw it too.
Mu Xitong opened her night’s hard-fought work, looking at one of her most satisfying LOGOs, her face bitter as she typed: Just saw it, the LOGO is completed.
Hua Liu Cheng Yin was silent for a moment, then sent a message: Really don’t know what this employer is up to. The project end time was 5:30. Have you seen the winning work?
Mu Xitong replied: Not yet, just about to look. Together?
Hua Liu Cheng Yin: OK.
Closing the chat window, opening the project page, refreshing once, Mu Xitong sighed softly and scrolled down. Where her work should have been, or at least left blank, someone had now taken the winning seat – a name Mu Xitong had never seen before.
“Zhuiyue Liuxing?” She repeated the name several times, taking a deep breath and moving the mouse to click the link.
“Is this Zhuiyue Liuxing even human?” Three minutes later, Hua Liu Cheng Yin’s QQ message appeared in Mu Xitong’s view. Seeing the embarrassed emoji Hua Liu Cheng Yin sent, Mu Xitong felt genuinely convinced.
Typing back: How do you feel?
Hua Liu Cheng Yin seemed to be thinking, replying after half a minute: Expert level. From creativity, meaning, aesthetics, to visual impact, it’s near-perfect and flawless.
After another moment of silence, Hua Liu Cheng Yin continued: I’m completely convinced. What about you?
Mu Xitong understood the meaning of the question, opened the webpage again to look at the winning work, and sent a heartbroken emoji, then replied: Zhuiyue Liuxing isn’t human at all. Losing to such a monster, what else can I say?
