160: Flee

For some inexplicable reason, she started overthinking again, feeling anxious about her age and how her physique might attract the opposite sex. Li Mengyao's cheeks suddenly flushed, and a wave of heat immediately rose up.

Ye Su, startled by Li Mengyao's cold sneer, could only tentatively ask:

"It's nothing. If you're not busy, I can sit for a while longer, and we can chat."

Li Mengyao was already annoyed and ashamed of her own overthinking. Seeing Ye Su probing verbally but showing no intention of sitting down again, her anger flared up even more:

"Go wherever you want! What does it have to do with me? Why ask me!"

Li Mengyao didn't even realize that she was clearly taking her anger out on Ye Su, but her tone sounded exactly like a resentful wife.

Fortunately, Ye Su didn't notice this either. Upon hearing this, he immediately raised his hands in surrender: "Then you carry on with your work, I'll head out first. If you need any help, call me anytime."

Convinced that Miss Li must be on her period today, Ye Su dared not linger any longer. After dropping that sentence, he fled in panic.

Seeing Ye Su actually leave the office without even looking back, Li Mengyao was so angry her cheeks puffed out.

But as soon as she thought of the funny way Ye Su raised his hands in surrender before leaving, Li Mengyao couldn't help but smile.

Subconsciously touching her cheeks, which had just cooled down, Li Mengyao withdrew her gaze and looked back at the design drawing on the table.

Selling jewelry isn't just about selling stones; more often, it's about selling stories and emotions.

Even Ye Su understood this principle, let alone Li Mengyao.

Clearly, by making good use of this drawing, they could definitely tell a good story with themes of 'Heritage' and 'Combining Ancient and Modern'.

As long as the promotion is done properly, they could tie Poyun and Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop together, enhancing brand power while increasing the depth of the Poyun brand.

"I should verify it first, so I don't end up disappointed later."

When it came to Poyun Group, Li Mengyao immediately transformed back into a strong career woman, showing no trace of the coquettish, resentful demeanor she had just displayed in front of Ye Su.

First, she had the finance department transfer the 250,000 payment for the jade pendant to Ye Su. Then, based on the drawing, she roughly sketched out the effect renderings of the jewelry inside.

Li Mengyao majored in management in college, but she had also studied jewelry design and had designed several pieces of jewelry herself over the years.

With the drawing as a reference and no need for the renderings to be overly detailed, Li Mengyao worked until her lunch break, by which time she had finished twenty-four sketches.

To prevent the drawing from being leaked, Li Mengyao intentionally altered some details on the jewelry.

After confirming the renderings were fine, Li Mengyao sent them out, instructing company employees to use her sketches to search online for all jewelry and foreign trade archives related to Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop to see if there were any matches.

After eating the lunch her assistant brought, Li Mengyao took a nap in her office. In the afternoon, she found a few veterans in the industry and asked them to help confirm if this drawing really did come from Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop.

After confirming the drawing was authentic, Li Mengyao drove home.

"Mom, is Dad home?"

"He's in the study practicing those lousy characters of his."

Seeing Li Mengyao return neither early nor late, and unusually asking for Li Shanhai the moment she walked in, Wang Lijuan asked curiously: "What's wrong? Did something happen at the company?"

"No, it's just something I need Dad's advice on."

Hearing that nothing was wrong, Wang Lijuan let it be and gestured for Li Mengyao to go find Li Shanhai in the study herself.

Knock, knock, knock—

"Dad."

"Come in."

Li Mengyao pushed open the study door and saw Li Shanhai with a serious expression, his brush moving wantonly as if he were completing a masterpiece.

But Li Mengyao naturally knew exactly what level her father's calligraphy was at.

It wasn't exactly ugly, but it definitely had its own unique interpretation.

After finishing a piece of 'Diligence is Rewarded' that was full of his personal style, Li Shanhai, as if finishing a major project, exhaled, put down his brush, and then looked up at Li Mengyao: "What do you want?"

"I want to show you something."

Li Mengyao stepped forward, pushed Li Shanhai's "masterpiece" to the side, and after confirming there was no wet ink on the table, placed the Fei Wen Yuan Silver Shop · Gold Diamond Emerald Jewelry Design Drawing on the desk.

"A design drawing?"

As someone from Guangdong Province, Li Shanhai could naturally read the four traditional characters on the cover: "This book must have some history, right? It's a design drawing from an old firm, isn't it?"

"Yes." Li Mengyao didn't beat around the bush: "This is the 'Gold Diamond Emerald Jewelry Design Drawing' from Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop, and it's a unique copy."

"Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop from the Nine Great Silver Shops? That is indeed a very rare collection."

"The jewelry in this drawing hasn't been made yet."

"Hasn't been made yet?!"

Li Shanhai had originally intended to pick up the drawing and flip through it casually, but upon hearing Li Mengyao's words, his outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, and he looked at Li Mengyao in shock.

Having been in business for decades, Li Shanhai's commercial acumen was naturally sharper than Li Mengyao's.

One of the Nine Great Silver Shops, Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop, a design drawing that hadn't been crafted into finished products.

With these three tags combined, Li Shanhai already had the prototype of a marketing plan in his mind before Li Mengyao even had to remind him.

"Are you sure?"

"Before coming back, I already took the drawing to Uncle Lin and the others to look at, and they confirmed it really is from Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop. Besides that, I also made similar renderings of the jewelry inside and had company employees check the market for Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop jewelry, telling them to notify me if they found anything similar. Up until now, out of the twenty-four renderings, no one has told me they found a single piece of similar jewelry on the market."

"Good!"

Hearing that Li Mengyao had already verified it, Li Shanhai's eyes instantly gleamed: "Poyun only has twenty-something years of history, but with the help of this drawing and the name of Fei Wenyuan Silver Shop, the jewelry we make will have over three hundred years of history!"

Poyun Jewelry wanted to expand out of Guangdong Province, it just lacked an opportunity.

Li Shanhai realized that if this marketing campaign was planned properly, it could very well be that opportunity!

"Where did you get this drawing?"

After the excitement subsided, Li Shanhai remembered to ask about the origin of the drawing.

"Ye Su brought it to the company this morning."

"Ye Su!" Li Shanhai hadn't expected this great gift to be from his "future son-in-law".

"He heard you mention last time that you wanted Poyun Jewelry to expand out of Guangdong Province, and he felt this drawing might be able to help. So he brought it over."

Li Mengyao explained Ye Su's marketing proposal to Li Shanhai once more.

"Ye Su's proposal is excellent. Using a bit of hunger marketing to create a sense of vanity in certain groups will definitely yield unexpected results!"

Li Shanhai's eyes were full of admiration for his "future son-in-law": "Being able to think of this marketing method of tying it to an old brand, and even finding a unique copy of the old brand's design drawing, Ye Su is truly capable!"

Seeing Li Shanhai becoming increasingly appreciative of Ye Su, Li Mengyao felt a sense of unease and immediately interrupted the topic: "Alright, stop praising him. Let's first decide how to start this marketing campaign."