HONEY, Love Me One More Time novel Chapter 80

Estelle looked at the designers in the meeting room and recognized several famous designers who had won international awards in the design industry.
Then she took a deep breath and plucked her courage, saying, “Of course not.”
“Okay. Let’s get started.” Tim pointed at the screen and asked, “Here’s a design drawing of jewellery. Tell me what you think of it.”
After calming herself down, Estelle carefully looked at the design drawing.
On the design drawing was a set of jewellery made of turquoise, including a necklace, a ring, a pair of earrings, and a brooch.
The whole set of jewellery looked very delicate and elegant. Estelle judged that they should be designed for a middle-aged rich lady.
“It’s very beautiful,” she said confidently. 
“Haha...” A designer couldn’t help laughing when hearing her comment. “Come on. You are a designer. When you are asked to comment on a design, your comment is just ‘very beautiful’? If I ask a layman to comment on it, their comment may be the same as yours. What’s your difference with a layman?”
Hearing this, the others also looked at Estelle with disdain.
And Tim also laughed. Yesterday, when Estelle dared to recommend herself to him, he thought that she might be capable, so he gave her a chance for the interview. But Estelle’s performance failed to live up to his expectations.
‘It seems that she can only work as a cleaner here,’ he thought.
Someone teased Estelle, “I’ve never seen such an average but confident person.”
“How did she get the interview in our company? Who recommended her here? It’s degrading to work with such a person.”
“Oh, I can’t accept it if she becomes my colleague.”
Tim waved his hand and said to Estelle, “You can go out...”
“I haven’t finished my words,” Estelle suddenly said. “This set of jewellery looks very luxurious and beautiful, but its style is old-fashioned. Besides, the turquoise doesn’t match the gold. Such a design will make the jewellery look too ostentatious and make others think that the owner wants to show off her wealth.” 
“I think it can be slightly modified in terms of the materials. We can choose different materials according to the age and social status of the customer. If the customer is young, we can choose obsidian or sapphire. If the customer is middle-aged and about our parents’ age, we can choose good-quality jade or emerald.”
After she said that, there was silence in the meeting room.
Tim frowned and asked, “That’s all?”
“No,” Estelle said. “Mr. Roberts, may I have a closer look at it?”
Tim hesitated for a while and nodded.
“Thank you.”
Estelle walked over and stood in front of the screen. Biting her lip, she looked at the design drawing carefully for a while.
After that, she pointed at the screen and said, “The connection of the pendant and the necklace is too complicated. And if the tassels of the earrings can be longer, it will set off the beauty of the neck of the customer. There’s a saying that a woman’s neck is her second face. The woman with a slender and beautiful neck will look more elegant.”
“...”
“As for this brooch, it is petal-shaped and looks very fashionable. But it is not in line with the elegant style of this set of jewellery and is of a totally different style. May I venture to ask a question? More than one designer, right to design this set of jewellery?”
“Yes!” Bob said with a pleasantly surprised expression. “Miss Hudson, what else can you see from it?”
Estelle continued, “I guess that the previous designer who designed the jewellery might have resigned or been dismissed. But the design hadn’t been finished when they left the company, so another designer took over the project later. If I’m not mistaken, the new designer behind should... the lady in a yellow overcoat sitting on my left.”
The designer in the yellow overcoat was surprised. “How do you know it’s me?”
Estelle chuckled and said, “I was just guessing. When I came in, I noticed that your earrings are made of turquoise and are also petal-shaped. It’s in the same style as the brooch. With all due respect, I don’t think the design of this set of jewellery is good enough. The customer might have rejected it many times, but you didn’t want to give in, so you designed the brooch into a petal shape to prove your design is excellent.” 
When the designer heard this, her face darkened at once. “You...”
“I’m sorry, Miss. I didn’t mean any offence. I learned about Only Love Jewelry before I came here. The service philosophy of Only Love Jewelry is that customers’ requirements are the top priority. As designers, the most difficult thing for us is not designing but communicating with our customers and letting them understand our design concept and know what’s good about our design. Satisfying our customers is the best way to improve a brand’s reputation. A good designer should listen to the customers’ opinions rather than still be headstrong after being rejected many times,” Estelle explained.
“Don’t talk nonsense. I’m just persistent and confident in designing!” the designer retorted.
Estelle exhaled softly and said, “It’s a good thing to be confident, but at the same time, you should be competent enough. All of you are meeting here today to discuss how to modify the jewellery design because the customer rejected it again, right?”
Bob said in a low voice, “Yes, this set of jewellery is designed for a middle-aged lady whose daughter wanted to give her a set of customised jewellery as a gift. However, their preferences are different. The daughter prefers a fashionable style, while the mother prefers a simple style. They can’t reach an agreement on the design. Every time we showed them a design drawing, only one of them was satisfied, and the other was dissatisfied. It’s been over half a year, but we still can’t provide a design that satisfies both of them.”
The designer in the yellow overcoat said indignantly to Estelle, “Since you are so insightful, why don’t you modify the design in person? Humph. I’m afraid you don’t even know how to use the designing software.”
‘I indeed don’t know how to use it,’ Estelle thought. 
She hadn’t designed jewellery for six years. The designing software on the market had been upgraded and replaced very quickly, and she had only used one designing software when she studied abroad.
‘If they ask me to use new software, I’ll be doomed.’
“What’s wrong with you? You were quite eloquent when you scolded me just now. Why did you suddenly go silent now?” the designer in a yellow overcoat said.
After calming herself down, Estelle came up with an idea and asked, “May I draw a sketch instead of using the software?”
“A sketch? Are you kidding? Can you guarantee the precision of the size and details of jewellery in your sketches?”
“I can,” Estelle said firmly. “I used to draw sketches when I designed jewellery in the past. Could you tell me the size of the jewellery?”
“Here are so many pieces of jewellery. You have to remember their sizes individually and then draw the sketches. It will take a long time! You want all of us to waste our time waiting for you?”
Estelle said in a deep voice, “Give me fifteen minutes.”
“What? Fifteen minutes? Such a short time is not even enough to remember the sizes.”
“I only need fifteen minutes. It is enough,” Estelle said. “I’m also confident and persistent in designing, just like you.”