Stephan turned and left the room. I was stunned for a moment and looked at the bouquet of white roses on the bedside.
Every day he would cut a few white roses from the garden and put them by his bed, saying they looked beautiful.
I lowered my eyes and threw all the white roses and the vase into the trash can.
After resting for a few days, I returned to the company.
My university major was jewelry design. After graduation, Stephan brought me into the Marshall Group and separated the jewelry product line of the Marshall Group into a branch company with the brand name “Radiant Creations”.
And I, at a young age, became the person in charge of Radiant Creations.
I told my assistant Jessica. “The summer new product launch is about to begin. Gather the planning and design drafts from each department. I want to review them one by one.”
“Okay.”
I flipped through the design draft and the more I flipped through the plan, the more my brows furrowed.
I was away during this period and didn’t monitor their work, so the content became more and more confusing.
I took a bunch of design drafts and went to the design department with Jessica and saw a middle-aged woman cracking melon seeds and chatting with people around her.
Her name was Zera. She was a veteran in the company and the one with the highest salary based on seniority in the design department, but she was also the one with the worst working ability.
I put down the design draft and said, “Zera, tell me about the concept of these designs.”
“Oh, it’s just a design, why do you have to talk about the concept?” Zera came over impatiently. “I worked day and night with everyone to draw these designs, aren’t they all pretty?”
“Pretty?” I took a deep breath and took out a few manuscripts. “This one is a copy of the new autumn product of Timeless Studio last year. And this one, wasn’t it the design I rejected last year? What does it mean to submit it again? ——”
“Wait, Miss Martin.” Zera’s voice rose. “What do you mean by plagiarism? Isn’t it normal for designers to have the same ideas occasionally? You’re going too far by saying it’s plagiarism! And the reason I submitted the design again is because I think this design is very good, but you rejected it because you don’t have the vision to appreciate it.”
Zera’s attitude was so arrogant that I became more and more depressed. Everyone else kept silent and didn’t dare to speak.
Zera sneered, “Miss Martin, you are young and don’t know as much as we do about some things. Didn’t you rely on Stephan to gain a foothold in the Marshall Group? Without him, you wouldn’t even be able to step into the threshold of the Marshall Group. You have no ability and you got everything you have now just by climbing into bed. It’s people like you that I can’t stand the most.”
Before I could respond, Jessica angrily retorted, “Watch your words. What do you mean by incompetent? Last summer, all the best-selling products were designed by Vanessa alone, but the products you designed didn’t even sell well. It’s very ugly.”
Zera choked and snorted, “You lackey!”
I looked at Zera coldly. “Then don’t do it.”
This Zera had been causing troubles since I took over the branch two years ago. Before, I never bothered with her because she was a company veteran, but now her attitude was arrogant. One bad apple spoilt the whole barrel. If we continued to keep her, there would be big problems with the new product launch of “Fiery Summer”.
Zera’s voice became sharp. “Why? I was transferred here from the headquarters. Even if they want to fire me, it should be the headquarters that fires me!”
“Then the headquarters will also fire you.”
A deep, magnetic voice sounded at the door of the office. Stephan stepped in and the air pressure in the office dropped instantly.
