Dada dada dada...

Zhao Yingjun finished speaking, then turned and left.

The sound of her high heels on the floor created a suffocating pressure, as if stepping on ribs.

It wasn't until Zhao Yingjun entered the elevator and the elevator doors closed that everyone in the meeting room finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Phew... Chief Zhao's eyes just now scared me to death. Brother Wang, you're the only one in the whole company who dares to talk to Chief Zhao like that. You're amazing!"

"That's right, Brother Wang, you really spoke our minds. I just can't understand... why did we give up such a good plan? Professor Xu Yun hasn't reached an agreement with any other company yet, we still have a chance!"

"It's already this late. The Rhine brand launch event is just around the corner. How can we have time to develop a new product? All our previous plans were based on Professor Xu Yun's moisturizing cream formula."

"Hey, if we don't have Professor Xu Yun's authorization and can't produce that epoch-making new moisturizing cream, I estimate that this Rhine brand might really be a Waterloo. It's such a pity for that adorable Rhine cat..."

The atmosphere in the meeting room was very gloomy and heavy.

It was clear that everyone was disappointed, puzzled, and helpless.

Morale plummeted.

They sighed and left.

...

After all the attendees had left.

Lin Xian collected the Rhine cat dolls from the table one by one and put them back in his office.

Then he walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the 22nd floor.

The elevator slowly ascended.

Lin Xian didn't know what Zhao Yingjun wanted to see him about...

Most likely it was work-related.

22nd floor.

Standing in front of the familiar double-layered password door.

"Come in."

Zhao Yingjun's tired voice came from the video doorbell.

With a click, the heavy password door opened.

Lin Xian walked into the office and closed the door behind him.

The huge office was almost exactly the same as the last few times he had been there... Lin Xian even had the feeling of an infinite loop in a dream.

Passing the sofa and coffee table, Lin Xian noticed a thin layer of dust on the glass surface.

It was clear that Zhao Yingjun was truly a workaholic. Apart from the desk, everything else here was just like a painting to her, all decorations.

Zhao Yingjun was busy signing documents.

Lin Xian walked to the desk.

"Chief Zhao, did you call me here for something?"

Zhao Yingjun finished signing the document at hand.

Then she looked up at Lin Xian and motioned for him to sit down.

"Lin Xian, I've seen the 3D image of the Rhine cat that you designed, and there's no problem with it."

"But I'm not satisfied with the personality settings, voice settings, catchphrases, and lines... I feel it's a bit too childish, like a comic book for children."

Hearing this.

Lin Xian smiled helplessly in his heart.

It was originally copied from a children's picture book... how could it not be childish?

The Rhine cat was designed and developed as a children's toy in the dream world. All the books about the Rhine cat in that bookstore were either children's books or children's picture books.

As for the Rhine brand and MX company, they had long been buried in the dust of history, and no information could be found.

Even the fact that Lin Xian was the founder of the Rhine cat couldn't be found in various Rhine cat setting collections or online... Lin Xian had a big opinion about this.

"I'm not saying that this childish feeling is bad."

Zhao Yingjun explained while flipping through the documents.

"It's just that we're not selling Rhine cat dolls after all. Our main focus is to have the Rhine cat endorse Rhine cosmetics and act as a mascot for promotion. So... in terms of the target audience of the Rhine cat, we should design her personality and lines to be more youthful, lively, and beautiful."

"You must differentiate this from Kitty Cat. The customer positioning of the Rhine brand is women aged 18 to 28, so the personality and lines can be youthful, but definitely not childish."

"Do you understand what I mean?"

Lin Xian nodded.

"Understood."

Zhao Yingjun couldn't find the file she was looking for, so she flipped through another stack of files.

"I remember... I put your previous design draft here... I marked it on top..."

Whirr, whirr, whirr!

Countless sheets of paper fluttered down.

Zhao Yingjun's desk was too cluttered with too many files.

While she was searching, she accidentally touched another pile of files next to it, which instantly collapsed and scattered on the floor.

Lin Xian bent down and picked up the documents on the floor one by one, stacking them on his arm.

Suddenly.

He saw a little thing that made his heart race!

He froze for about 0.5 seconds.

Lin Xian quietly held it in his left hand, then pretended that nothing had happened and continued to tidy up the documents that had fallen on the floor.

After arranging them neatly on the floor, he put them back on the desk. Then he naturally put his left hand in his pocket and put the "stolen" thing into his pocket.

Zhao Yingjun pushed the files inward and smiled embarrassedly.

"Sorry, my desk is too messy, I haven't had time to clean it up yet."

Lin Xian shook his head.

"Chief Zhao, you can actually hire a secretary to help you with these chores."

Zhao Yingjun shook her head meaningfully, flicking her hair behind her neck.

"Forget it, I can do it myself."

"Ah, I found it, Lin Xian, here you go."

Zhao Yingjun handed Lin Xian the design draft with various annotations, corrections, and opinions written on it.

It was the one Lin Xian had given her before.

There were all kinds of comments and suggestions written on it densely, very serious and detailed.

Lin Xian nodded and took it.

"Okay, I'll go back and revise it."

Bang.

The heavy password door behind him closed.

Lin Xian stood outside the door, feeling like he and Zhao Yingjun were in two different worlds.

But now...

Lin Xian touched the round, hard object in his left pocket through his pants.

This was really a big harvest!

He glanced back at the heavy double-layered password door, then turned and walked towards the elevator.

Walking into the elevator, he pressed the button for his office floor.

The elevator creaked downwards.

Lin Xian touched the thing he had "stolen" in his pocket, and his heart gradually beat faster.

Although he basically did petty theft in dreams every day, this was the first time in reality, so it was inevitable that he was a little nervous.

Ding—

The elevator door opened, and Lin Xian quickly walked back to his office.

Click.

He locked the door.

Only then did he let out a long sigh of relief.

"Stealing something in reality for the first time is really exciting. And what I stole is still an incredible thing..."

He put his left hand into his left pocket and took out a red, flat, round wax block.

He pinched the red wax block with his index finger and let it spin on his fingertip.

This red wax block was a little larger and thicker than a one-yuan coin, and the shape was not a very standard circle.

Lin Xian had seen it before.

This was the wax block that sealed the pages of the Genius Club invitation letter.

At that time, the invitation letter only stayed in Lin Xian's hands for a few seconds before Zhao Yingjun took it away. But Lin Xian saw the details of the front and back clearly.

"There's no mistake... the pages of that invitation letter were stuck together with this wax block."

The scientific name of this kind of wax block is "sealing wax", which is generally made of rosin and paraffin wax with pigments. It melts slightly when heated and is sticky, and is used to seal letters and invitations.

When using it, first heat it, then drip a large piece on the seal of the letter, and then cover it with a seal.

The side of the wax block that Lin Xian was facing was the side that was pasted with the card paper, which was extremely smooth.

And the other side of the wax block, needless to say...

[It is the seal of the Genius Club.]

Lin Xian's heart was racing.

Perhaps this look over... was another mysterious and dark world, that giant black hand hidden in the mists of history.

This look... might be irreversible abyss, stepping into the dark forest of no return.

Lin Xian held his breath.

The words of Big Face Cat flashed in his mind.

The tragic sight of a truck crushing an old man and a young boy.

The black hand covering the sky and the sun.

The five heavy gold-plated characters on the back of the invitation letter flashed.

He gritted his teeth and flipped the entire wax block over!

...

The front of the wax block was stamped with a standard circular seal.

Inside the circle was a right hand extending its index finger and pointing straight to the sky.

And below the circle, two English words were written evenly—

Genius Club