because i'm pretty

Li Yikai successfully persuaded Feng Xin to push the DS project promised by Lao Liu to Group A. He finished the work handover meeting in the afternoon, and it was already 6:14.

Back in the office area, I happened to see Yuan Zhiming and Qin Xiaoen frowning in front of the screen.

"Finished?" Director Li floated over slowly.

Qin Xiaoen seemed to be rescued: "Kevin, come and see."

Li Yikai glanced at it, and immediately understood Lao Qin's pain. He said bluntly: "Is these two related to the sketch you drew this morning?"

Yuan Zhiming felt guilty and puzzled: "This is simplified and abstracted..."

"But you can't tell it's peach blossoms and stream water at all," Li Yikai said.

Qin Xiaoen was the least good at criticizing. Seeing Li Yikai pull up a chair, he immediately gave up his seat.

Li Yikai took the poor peach blossom first, switched between the two versions twice, pointed and asked: "The petals have been simplified and disappeared, and the color has turned green again. Who can tell that this is a peach blossom?"

"The original peach blossoms are too realistic, and the lines will be broken." Yuan Zhiming did follow Qin Xiaoen's suggestion for modification: "And the pink flowers... are a bit tacky."

"Succinctness does not conflict with recognition, and it has nothing to do with vulgarity or vulgarity." Li Yikai said mercilessly, "Is Chanel's camellia realistic? Is it highly recognizable? Simple?"

Yuan Zhiming nodded.

Li Yikai asked again: "Tacky?"

Yuan Zhiming looked at him and said nothing.

Qin Xiaoen raised his hand to cover his mouth.

Li Yikai was speechless, he understood that in the heart of a great artist, there are not many commercial elements that are not vulgar.He rarely questions whether he is incapable of communicating.

Yuan Zhiming didn't mean to raise an argument, but soon realized that he was working instead of creating, so he remedied: "I'll change it again, I, I'll look at Chanel."

"That's just an example, not to make you violate your own aesthetics." Li Yikai opened the website and searched for a few pictures, "You can see that these cases are the same. Graphic design is for the public, and people must be able to understand the meaning, and then the emotions. .”

He put the logo of Hongda Mall next to Yuan Zhiming's image, and explained: "The logo of Hongda Mall itself is already extremely abstract, we can't change it, so we need the auxiliary graphics you made to help Explain that this can not only maintain the brand accumulation of the mall for decades, but also allow consumers to feel the upgrade and change of the brand."

Yuan Zhiming flipped through a few pictures carefully, and said slowly, "I understand."

"Let's continue to change it, it will come out next Monday," Li Yikai said.

Qin Xiaoen hesitated to speak.

"What's wrong?" Li Yikai asked.

"It's too ruthless," Qin Xiaoen said to him with his mouth - Yuan Zhiming was of course convinced by the cases he found, they were all poster designs for international film festivals, and they were all the works of the top design masters...

If Yuan Zhiming really took this as the standard, he wouldn't be working in Miaojia.

But Li Yikai ignored it.

Qin Xiaoen was left alone and said to Yuan Zhiming, "Uh, this one is Gu Changfeng's. The design of this film festival cannot be compared with ours. After all, he has artistry, so it's just a reference..."

Yuan Zhiming was still like that, no matter what Qin Xiaoen said, he would obediently listen and thank him.

Until Li Yikai raised his head again and was about to leave work, he could still be seen sitting in front of the screen with his back hunched.

Everyone was unwilling to stay for a long time on Friday night, and there were not many people left in the entire office area at 7:[-].

With a coat in his arm and Luo Yiwei's splicing bag in the other, Li Yikai stood behind Yuan Zhiming and said something, but the other party was wearing big headphones and didn't hear him at all.

He stood under the light for a while, and finally left quietly without making a sound.

When Yuan Zhiming felt a shadow shaking, he raised his head, but only saw a figure leaving in the aisle.

He moved his lips, but still didn't make a sound, he lowered his head and continued to draw.

Zhao Kaisi happened to come to meet clients at the Global Building near Mujia, so the three-person team made an appointment to meet at a nearby izakaya barbecue restaurant.

Seeing Li Yikai walking over, Zhou Xing opened his mouth and asked, "You yourself? I thought I could see Yuan Zhiming near your company. The progress is not good, Mr. Li."

Li Yikai sat down to drink barley tea, and said after a while: "He's working overtime."

Zhou Xing smiled: "He works overtime, why don't you come out for dinner?"

"Otherwise?" Li Yikai asked.

Zhou Xingchang thought: "Shouldn't office romances be about working overtime together, secretly having sex in the tea room, and then going home to help each other change the PPT, and when you're tired of changing..."

Zhao Kaisi couldn't stand listening: "It's hard to imagine Li Yikai doing these things."

"So let's not let him recruit Yuan Zhiming, and don't be a subordinate when he is recruited," Zhou Xingdao said, "It's only been a few days now, and I don't know the role anymore, right? Should I treat him as a subordinate or something?"

Li Yikai cut the barbecue: "Thank you, I can handle it clearly."

"You can figure it out yourself, but the way you show it, in the eyes of ordinary people, is schizophrenia." Zhou Xing complained.

So Li Yikai ignored him, and instead asked Zhao Kaisi: "What are you talking about in Nature Exploration Magazine?"

Zhao Kaisi showed joy: "They cooperated with an outdoor brand's advertisement, and they wanted to go to Kenya to shoot, so they asked me."

"Kenya?" The other two stopped their movements at the same time.

Zhou Xing asked, "How much will I give you?"

Li Yikai said: "It's too dangerous, no way."

"But opportunities are rare," Zhao Kaisi said, "and the cover of the Spring Festival issue of Nature Exploration has already been set, and the shooting time and budget are sufficient. The magazine has prepared the best equipment, and it will definitely produce good works."

This lunatic, also for the sake of his work, can never consider other lunatics, and he has never been persuaded.

Li Yikai had no choice but to ask: "If the budget is so sufficient, why did they find you?"

Others asking this kind of question will hurt the photographer's self-esteem, but when Li Yikai asks, Zhao Kaisi doesn't mind, and he doesn't need to try to save face in front of people who really care about him-he is not a famous photographer, and he won't find someone for such a big project. He is normal.

"I heard that the foreign masters I was looking for suddenly fell ill, and there are very few people who have time and are willing to pick them up. Moreover, I went to Daliang Mountain to shoot with the editor of the magazine before, so I have similar experience."

"I will definitely be vaccinated. The magazine has a lot of experience and there are local Chinese guides," Zhao Kaisi tried to reassure his friends.

Zhou Xing looked at Li Yikai's face, smiled and raised the sake glass in his hand: "Then you will be the photographer who has been on the cover of Nature Exploration?"

Zhao Kaisi fantasized for a while, and felt very beautiful in his heart.

Li Yikai said, "What date do you leave?"

Zhao Kaisi replied: "The 11th of next month."

"December 12?" Zhou Xing asked suddenly.

"Well, what happened?"

He lowered his head and continued to grill the meat: "No, it's very close."

Very close indeed.Calculating that there are only more than ten days of preparation time left, Li Yikai took out his mobile phone: "Make appointments for vaccines now, yellow fever, cholera, malaria."

Zhao Kaisi was very obedient at such a time, and said, "Tomorrow I will go buy equipment and medicine, will you come with me?"

"I can't," Zhou Xing said, "I have an audition tomorrow."

Li Yikai said he could, and he was also worried about Zhao Kaisi's own purchasing ability.

"Then go to DS, can you get a discount for your major customers?" Zhao Kaisi asked.

As we all know, DS is an internationally renowned outdoor adventure brand and Li Yikai's long-term cooperative customer.

But what everyone here doesn't know is that Li Yikai just rejected the DS client.

"No discount, I can sponsor some for you," he said.

So the two made an appointment like little sisters who went shopping together.

After Li Yikai chatted like a meeting, he called the waiter and ordered beef rice and a few dishes to take away.

"It's because of my treat," Zhou Xing was dumbfounded, "So have you ordered tomorrow's breakfast and lunch as well?"

Li Yikai smiled: "I want you to make up for the meal money owed to Yuan Zhiming, I'm leaving, you continue."

The remaining two watched Li Yikai leave with the big paper bag.

Zhao Kaisi asked: "Is he so serious this time?"

"Of course he's serious about spring on a dead tree," Zhou Xing said.

Zhao Kaisi had never met Yuan Zhiming before, so he was a little suspicious: "Do you think it can be done? How about that Yuan?"

"I don't know," Zhou Xing suddenly became heavier, "I can't tell what's wrong, but I can't figure out Yuan Zhiming, who seems to have a good temper and is friendly, but well, with whom? There is a sense of distance.”

"Then..." Zhao Kai thought for a while and said, "Isn't it just like Qi Chen?"

"Hehe, so it's Wan Wanleiqing." Zhou Xing, a film and television practitioner, wanted to perform, and said eccentrically, "But our Empress Qi is coming back, and she even asked me about Li Yikai's recent situation, which really made me embarrassed."

"That was really hard for Mr. Zhou," Zhao Kaisi said.

When the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuchs were in a hurry, Li Yikai had already taken the elevator upstairs.

The headlights in the corridor have been extinguished, and among the empty tables and chairs, only four or five workstations have their screens on. In front of the screens, a few poor people are working overtime at their desks.

In the area of ​​the KL group, only Yuan Zhiming was left, wearing headphones as if he had never moved, staring at the screen, holding a pen in his right hand, and pressing a few shortcut keys with his left hand.

The hourly time signal showed 21:00, and Yuan Zhiming finished changing the five versions of "Peach Blossom". Thinking of Li Yikai's face, he had to rename and adjust the grouping of layers.

His water glass had already bottomed out, and the opened bag of biscuits was thrown on the table.

The stomach is not hungry, it is just empty and full of gas.

After finally sorting it out, I am hesitating whether to send it now, or deliberately wait until early in the morning to send it again.

Suddenly there was a smell of barbecue.

Yuan Zhiming, who "looks good-tempered and friendly", took off his earphones and looked up, looking at Li Yikai who came over empty-handed.

He wrinkled his nose, and asked in a tone that didn't fit his identity: "Why? Come to oversee the work again when you're full?"